WW archive > Issue 732 - 31 July 2008
Letters
John for Leader; Challenge; Checkable; Illegitimate; Third camp; Ultra-leftism; Aghast; Desiccant
Prisoner B26380's dilemma
Brian Keenan died on May 21 2008. For many he was a revolutionary hero. Some compare him to James Connolly, Vo Nguyen Giap, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, and Joe Slovo. Not just because of his role in the Irish Republican Army's armed struggle, but his lifelong commitment to the working class. Jack Conrad writes an appreciation
After New Labour
Following Glasgow East and against the background of likely economic recession, Mike Macnair weighs up the possibility of a Labour wipe-out, Scottish independence, and a revival of the organised left
New party purged before its launch
LCR's move to bring together "all anti-capitalists and revolutionaries" in a "democratic, pluralist anti-capitalist party" has been called into question by an attempt to exclude from the process a small Trotskyist group - for daring to criticise the LCR. Peter Manson reports
Sons of Imam Matgamna
Yassamine Mather demolishes the AWL leader's falsehoods. ... and Ben Lewis was present when the AWL's set up yet another posing front group
Convention: Mistake repeated
Organisers of the Convention of the Left claim it will be very different from most left events. Chris Strafford begs to differ
Excusing nuclear Armageddon
There should be no place for Sean Matgamna in any principled Marxist organisation, write James Turley and Mark Fischer
Another nail in the coffin
After Glasgow East, Jim Moody looks at Scotland's marginalised left nationalist twins