WW archive > Issue 771 - 28 May 2009
Letters
Volte-face; Workers' designs; Transparent party; Spoiler; Surprise; Class criteria; Door stepper; Revo-fantasy
Concentration camp hell and Tamil rights
Jim Moody finds incoherence and obfuscation on the Sri Lankan left over self-determination
Left under threat
Dave Vincent reports on the left-dominated PCS annual conference, but warns of a possible rightwing revival
No2EU fails the test
Peter Manson calls for a Labour vote on June 4
I'm against it, but
Peter Manson spoke to two leading No2EU candidates who were prominent in the Lindsey oil refinery dispute.
Self-determination is not an abstract principle
Tony Greenstein responds to Jack Conrad and calls for a public debate
An 'industrial campaign'
John Moloney is a member of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and the Independent Left group within the civil servants' union, the PCS. He won 11,547 votes in the deputy general secretary election, and was only narrowly beaten by Hugh Lanning (13,755). This healthy vote was won despite the fact that his opponent had a wide range of support from more influential trends in the union, from the soft left over to the Socialist Party and Socialist Workers Party. Mark Fischer spoke to comrade Moloney about this result and how communists should operate in the trade union movement
Our flag is not red, white and blue
Jack Conrad surveys the confusion over No2EU and flipping from auto-Labourism to auto-anti-Labourism
Strategy and tactics
Jack Conrad shows that tactics must constantly vary if strategy is to advance