WW archive > Issue 619 - 06 April 2006
Merger opportunity
Ben Lewis, a member of the CPGB and the German left party WASG, reports on the result of the Urabstimmung (membership ballot) within the WASG, which highlights widespread discontent over the leadership's bureaucratic manoeuvres in pursuing the merger with the Linkspartei.PDS ballot
Letters
Opening time; Dictum; With interest; Freedom fight; Ignorance; Green man; No compromise; Boom and bust; Sinking; Fluff; Brutal images; Mistake; Insulting
Powerful symbol
Liam O Ruairc reviews Denis O Hearn's book Bobby Sands: Nothing but an unfinished song, Pluto Press, 2006, £12.99, pp448
Greenism and neo-Malthusian pseudo-science
In the first of three articles Jack Conrad argues that the global ecological crisis cannot be explained by crude overpopulation theories. Each social formation has its own laws, including laws of population
Rights and wrongs
Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, newly elected to the leadership of the National Union of Students on the Education Not for Sale ticket, takes issue with David Isaacson and the anti-economist emphasis of the CPGB
Ticked off and many headed
Eddie Ford reviews The insurgency, BBC2 April 2 Sunday 9-10pm
Intransigently brave
Mark Fischer remembers Paul Whetton, a former member of the CPGB and an outstanding rank and file miners' leader during the Great Strike of 1984-85, who died on March 3
What kind of new workers' party?
The question of a new party is appearing on the agenda of the workers' movement over and over again. But few are fighting for one based on a Marxist programme - including most of the Marxists, paradoxically. Nick Rogers gives an overview of this crucial debate