WW archive > Issue 690 - 27 September 2007
Unions capitulate to Gordon Brown
Graham Bash of Labour Briefing comments on the closing down of the remaining vestiges of Labour Party democracy at the Bournemouth conference
Letters
Preaching; Shocked; Sloganising; Defend Iran; Support CWU; New Model Army; Unmitigated; Weakest link; Sharpe arguments
Pots calling the kettle black
CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer was right to appear on Newsnight to comment on the Respect crisis, says Cameron Richards
Now it must be counted amongst the living dead
Respect's national council solves nothing. The rot cannot be hidden, says Peter Manson
Sober up or spiral down further into irrationality
The CMP's national committee clearly lacks legitimacy. Despite that, because of that, it decided to pre-empt our national conference and appoint a Bonapartist chair. A panic measure. John Bridge reports
Not in front of the children
In private, behind the backs of the voting public and the working class, the SWP is said to have been circulating an 'information pack', which supposedly exposes the truth about George Galloway. Jim Moody demands politics
Solidarity with the oppressed
Tony Greenstein calls on socialists to support a boycott of Israel
Time to unite our fractured ranks
Dave Vincent (secretary of the Greater Manchester DCA branch of the PCS and is writing in a personal capacity) looks at the divided left in the PCS
Challenging the commodity form
The intermediary terrain that Wieland Hoban claims musicians should inhabit in order to "engage with the world" does not exist, argues Gordon Downie
Respect national council statement
Under the carpet
Mike Macnair reports from the September 25 AGM of Respect Oxford