WW archive > Issue 823 - 24 June 2010
Reclaim the game
A festival of sporting genius, or an incitement to chauvinism? James Turley looks at the contradictions of the football extravaganza
Letters
Own hands; Sexist clichés; Budget attacks; Transitional; No bridge
War on the working class
The 'nasty medicine' served up by George Osborne and the coalition government will provoke resistance and pull the Labour Party to the left, predicts Eddie Ford
Tusc agrees to limp on
The Socialist Party in England and Wales still pretends its electoral coalition will spawn a new workers' party, reports Mark Fischer
Labour Party and communist strategy
Is there space within Labour to struggle for democracy and a left revival? Peter Manson reports on the CPGB debate
Socialism is a form of class struggle
Why can't the proletariat abolish capitalism immediately on taking power? The answer lies in the need for transition, argues Mike Macnair
Truth still hidden
Anne Mc Shane examines the failings of the Saville inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings
Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' in social and historical context
Chris Gray concludes his study of Homer's world-shaping epic.The full version will soon be available from the CPGB website in pamphlet form
Voting - present and future
The electoral system we demand under bourgeois rule is not connected to the forms of democratic decision-making we advocate for the future communist society, argues Moshé Machover
Fantastic start
Howard Roak looks ahead as we square up for two months of hard work