WW archive > Issue 750 - 18 December 2008
Letters
Sharpe pupil; Reconciliation; Greek power; Third period; Their solution; Revolution, yes; Poles; Futile
Rediscovering Lenin
Lars T Lih is an acclaimed scholar living in Canada. Ben Lewis spoke to him about his book, Lenin rediscovered: 'What is to be done?' in context (2006) and some of the questions it raises for the left in understanding its own history and tradition
Assessing, debating and forward planning
On Saturday December 13 some 70 members and supporters of Hands Off the People of Iran met in London for the campaign's second annual conference. Chris Strafford reports
Workers in the front line
Bail-out of big three stymied - for now, writes James Turley
Fighting Fund
Highly valued
Facing up to the challenge
Mary Godwin reports the last CPGB aggregate of 2008
Gambling on the world revolution
Hillel Ticktin reviews Simon Pirani's 'The Russian Revolution in retreat, 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite' Basees/Routledge series, Russian and east European studies, 2008, pp312, �80
Spanish civil war and the left
David Douglass reviews Lewis H Mates's 'Political activism and the popular front' Taurus, 2007, pp304, �52.50
War threat remains real
This is an edited version of the speech by Torab Saleth given to the December 13 annual general meeting of Hands Off the People of Iran
All that was once certain now melts
As John Rees launches his long awaited war on the central committee, both factions of the SWP leadership are coming under fire from sections of the membership. Peter Manson reports
750
Peter Manson assesses the road travelled in reaching issue 750 of the Weekly Worker
And the winner is liquidationism
Factions at the recent 'factionless' Parti Communiste Francais congress provided little hope. Jean-Michel Edwin reports