WW archive > Issue 703 - 10 January 2008
Battle of the soul of SACP
Whether or not newly elected ANC president Jacob Zuma is a criminal, just what is the South African Communist Party playing at in supporting him? Peter Manson reports from South Africa
Letters
Up yours; Jesus Christ; Shit-stirrers; No beer halls?; Outstanding man; Cargo cults; Bedside manner; Spot on; Extremists; Nostalgic; Marxist art; Sophistry; Utterly foul; Bananarama; Nuclear option
Back to the future
How do Stalinist and Trotskyist traditions influence our views about a national alternative to the Labour Party? Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group returns to the debate with the CPGB's Mike Macnair
Anti-migrant repression and the John Garcia case
James Turley comments on asbos and the logic of immigration controls
Firm in principle, flexible in tactics
Benjamin Klein argues that the working class movement must lead the struggle for democracy and free speech, and not leave it to the posturing of the Tories and the Liberals
Should the left manage capitalism?
Uli Franke, a candidate for Die Linke in the Hessian city of Darmstadt, spoke to Tina Becker about the pressure to govern, the new tendencies emerging in the organisation and the need for more debate