WW archive > Issue 677 - 14 June 2007
Letters
Naked ambition; Unqualified; Vanguardism; Open borders; Optimistic; Postmodern cliché; Women behind the wire; Section 28; Marxist party
The usable past of left republicanism
Far from pursuing a coherent strategy, writes Jim Creegan, James Connolly ended up believing that perhaps other forces could act in the workers' place
Compromised 'opposition'
Mark Fischer comments on the imperial economism of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, which is most crassly expressed in the organisation's refusal to call for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq
So many Kuomintangs
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group continues to push for a halfway house party in opposition to the CPGB's 'ultra-leftism'
Well-meaning but inchoate
As well as the platitudes and compromises from bourgeois politicians, the G8 featured protests from thousands who want 'another world'. Carey Davies reports
Origins of fortress west
What is the connection between the development of capitalism and restrictions on the movement of labour? In the first of two articles Mike Macnair traces such restrictions back to feudalism
Campaigning with Marxist teeth
Oppose all halfway houses, says Peter Manson. We need to be absolutely clear on our principles
Uncontrollable system
Simon Wells on the 'compromise' on climate change agreed at the G8 summit
More poverty, more missiles
Ostentatious and pompous as ever, the 33rd G8 summit took place from June 6 to June 8 at the Kempinski Grand Hotel in Heiligendamm on the Baltic. Jim Moody reports
From Halifax to Fiji
Steve Cooke reports on the latest news from the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign