WW archive > Issue 605 - 15 December 2005
Losing the plot
The latest meeting of Respect Hackney underlined the profound crisis of the comrades in the Socialist Workers Party over their role in Respect - they either ignore oppositional voices or they shout them down. Tina Becker reports
One-dimensional Marxism and proposition one
Why does the CPGB accuse the Socialist Workers Party of economism? Jack Conrad explains with a look at the 'where we stand column' in Socialist Worker and the comrades' attitude to nature, ecology and global warming
Two-ward timid token
Stan Keable attended the latest meeting of Respect West London - and was surprised by the pessimistic mood of the comrades
Building the new
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the newly established Socialist Alliance
Being in Respect and going through the SWP
Mary Godwin reports from the latest CPGB members' aggregate, which saw lively debates on Respect, the finances of the organisation and Ireland
We are better than them!
Peter Manson reports from last Saturday's 'international peace confernce' in London, which was more of a rally - and gave no answers as to what the anti-war movement should be doing next
Chávez and the AWL
Nick Rogers replies to Paul Hampton from the Alliance of Workers' Liberty
Optimism and escape
Jeremy Butler reviews The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, which has led to the opening of a new front in the war of words between christianity and its critics
Booze and moral panics
How should communists view the new '24-hour-drinking'-legislation? Eddie Ford says that alcohol and drugs are class questions