WW archive > Issue 630 - 22 June 2006
Pushing ahead
Howard Roak
Letters
Rotten answers; True equality; Rotten bloc; Unity call; Climate change; Tool of Tehran; No apology
Bonapartist demagogy in barbed financial appeal
Tommy Sheridan's no-holds-barred letter to Scottish Socialist Party members and below the official diplomatic response distributed by national secretary Allan Green
Battle lines drawn
Tommy Sheridan has launched a Bonapartist power-grab. This weekend's national council looks set to ratchet up tensions even further, writes Peter Manson
Not fit for purpose
In the panic over sex crimes, communists emphasise the need for treatment, not revenge. Eddie Ford comments
Unity and the SSP
Is working class unity helped by a separate Scottish Socialist Party and the strategy for an 'independent socialist Scotland'? The following exchange took place recently on the Socialist Alliance internet discussion list between Bob Goupillot - a member of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland), one of the SSP's smaller platforms - and Jack Conrad. Things kicked off when comrade Goupillot defended the SSP after a posting by Jim Gilbert
Unholy alliance
What is the link between Zionism and anti-semitism? Tony Greenstein explains that there is a closer connection than many modern Zionists would care to admit
Diminished horizons, modern-day echoes
Lawrence Parker reviews John Callaghan: Cold War, crisis and conflict: the CPGB 1951-68 (Lawrence and Wishart, 2003, pp256, £15.99)
Pushing ahead
Howard Roak