Jim Blackstock
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Seize the moment
Livingstone set for independent challenge
Not one bullet
Sinn Féin joins unionism
Back Livingstone
The contest for London mayor will open up possibilities for the left
Politics of openness
Jim Blackstock replies
RUC storm
Ireland: weak link
Blair’s entire strategy at risk - Sinn Féin stands to gain
SLP wreckers fail in Coventry
After Super Thursday ... Communist Euro challenge to Blair
The left is weak, but Scargill is no answer
Minority rights and the CPGB
Democratic centralism
Unity crumbles before Scargill
Socialist Alliances in crisis
Arms compromise
Irish peace process
Irish peace in deadlock
As Trimble and Adams go to the brink, anti-imperialists need a new strategy
Abolish the second chamber
While Blair pushes for a ‘modernised’ House of Lords, the working class must go further and champion the fullest democracy
Israel-Palestine peace accord: Imperialism calls the tune
As Arafat is forced to step up repression, there are signs of a split in Fatah
Tory English nationalism
Out of touch with big capital, the Tories are seeking support through redefining British chauvinism, adding an extra reactionary twist
TUC on its knees
Blair may have sent a batch of his ministers to last week’s TUC. But his plans for the realignment of British politics include the complete marginalisation of the unions
Anti-imperialists marginalised
As the British and Irish states take on yet more draconian powers, the momentum of the peace process continues to accelerate
New strategy: INLA calls ‘complete ceasefire’
The peace bandwagon is gaining momentum. The response of communists and revolutionaries will be crucial
Turning point - Omagh bomb boosts Sinn Féin
Last Saturday’s Real IRA bomb, despite outward appearances, marked a definitive break with the republican strategy of armed resistance to the British imperialist occupation of the Six Counties
250th issue
Party notes
Loyalist split
The arson attack on a Ballymoney council house, leading to the deaths of three boys, has driven a wedge between pro- and anti-agreement unionists
Loyalists rebel
As Orangemen continue to camp out at Drumcree, insisting they will stay “as long as it takes”, their loyalist supporters have attempted to launch a rebellion against the Good Friday deal
Drumcree threat to peace deal
Northern Ireland Assembly
Tory split on Ireland
Assembly elections
World Cup chauvinism
Rioting England fans have set back Labour’s ‘Cool Britannia’ project
Irish consensus
Prisoners out but RUC stays
Peace strike threat
State targets Irish republicans
Tories wait in wings
Peace process fragile despite referendum success
SACP holds the line
Senior ANC officials implicated in corruption and gun-running
Imperialists ‘optimistic’
Ireland
‘Peace’ process settlement near
Despite the bombs Sinn Fein will be back in the talks in time to hear the final proposals
Love and Mr Lewisham
Sinn Fein seeks court judgement
Bloody Sunday hypocrisy
Blair’s announcement of a new judicial enquiry has already provoked tensions within the British ruling class
Loyalist killings fail to derail ‘peace’ process
UDP ‘suspended’ from Ireland talks
‘Peace’ train back on track
Blair hopes that a ‘council of the isles’ will secure a new imperialist stability
‘Peace process’ thrown into crisis
The killings in Ireland over the Christmas period threw the establishment into turmoil. But does that mean the whole ‘peace process’ will collapse?
Settlement in sight
Ireland’s ‘peace’ process
Winnie fills SACP vacuum
Blair pushes New Monarchy
IRA split shakes ‘peace process’
The resignation of several IRA and Sinn Fein members has demonstrated the fragility of the imperialist-sponsored negotiations
‘British’ candidate wins Irish election
Blair’s project offers new opportunities
Remaking Britain
High-risk British ‘peace’
New ‘peace’ stage reached
Edging towards an imperialist peace
Left moves forward in Irish election
Sinn Féin shakes British arrogance
‘Peace’ train back on track
Renault workers show the way
For a workers' Europe!
Making the bosses pay in France
French lorry drivers’ victory raises the need for European-wide unions
Bosses turn to god
Inhuman denial
Unite against imperialist schemes
IRA propaganda setback for Tories
For a genuinely human morality
Jim Blackstock takes up the debate around child abuse
Kiss and make up
Jump start for ‘peace’ process
Another ‘peace’ blip
The ‘luxury’ of openness
The Weekly Worker this week publishes in its entirety a document received via the offices of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The document, from republican socialist political prisoners in Portlaoise Jail, ‘instructs’ us to apologise for printing an article (‘Historical reality’, Weekly Worker May 30) of which they disapprove. They allege that we were duped by British intelligence into publishing ‘disinformation’
Defence through open debate
‘Peace process’ on track
Irish elections
ANC runs capitalism alone
No fool’s Gold
Irish feud wastes revolutionary lives
Devastating hypocrisy
The IRA demonised
Loyal servants of imperialism
Tory and Labour speak with one voice
No short cuts
Against imperialism, for the working class
Workers are the real target
Clinton boosts imperialist peace
US establishment embraces Farrakhan
Farrakhan claims a million black men are their own enemy
Whose peace in Ireland?
‘Concession' condemned
The British state remains armed to the teeth while its victims rot in jail
Dead-end explosions
'Impartial' imperialism
Tories face disaster
‘Middle England’ moves centre stage
Major makes his appeal to middle England
Arafat today, Adams tomorrow
Benn gives Labour left excuse to stay
Mandela warns of ‘anarchy’
South African rulers need new Slovo
Loyalist socialist?
Obituary: Mourn the revolutionary
Joe Slovo, 23 May 1926 - 6 January 1995