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WW archive > Issue 174 - 16 January 1997

For a federal republic

The size of the vote against the monarchy after last week’s television debate shows the potential for a mass republican movement

Letters

Too much to ask?; Lame polemic; Do it now

Glacier workers win

One lump

Party notes

IRSP statement

Unison leaders dump Hillingdon strikers

Another lost opportunity

Burst of life

SL Kenning looks at latest developments in the Socialist Labour Party

Workers’ alternative to New Labour

John Ireland is the Communication Workers Union assistant divisional officer for North Wales and the North-West. He spoke in a personal capacity to Peter Manson of the Weekly Worker about his decision to join the Socialist Labour Party

Capitalism’s predominant power

From 'The Call', paper of the British Socialist Party, January 11 1917

Painful conclusions

Around the left

Siege shatters Peruvian ‘peace’

The MRTA holding of the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima poses specific tasks for of the working class, says a member of Poder Obrero in Lima

Bosses’ clampdown reaches Korea

Sovereign Scottish assembly or federal republic?

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) comments on the welcome shift in the policy of Workers Power

I know what I like

Tom Ball reviews 'Art', directed by Matthew Warchus (Wyndham’s Theatre, London - £9.50-£25)

Shallow affair

Dave Douglass reviews 'Evita', directed by Alan Parker

Internationalism or social-imperialism?

An exchange on immigration controls took place in early 1917 in the pages of 'The Call', the weekly paper of the British Socialist Party. The BSP was to become the largest component of the Communist Party of Great Britain on its formation in 1920. BSP executive committee member Tom Quelch wrote an article opposing, in outrageous terms, the immigration of black labourers. He was answered in restrained but decisive tones by Georg Chicherin, the future head of the Soviet diplomatic service, who was in London at that time

A vision beyond capitalism

As the Liverpool dockers prepared for an international day of action on Monday January 20, Lee-Anne Bates spoke to Jimmy Nolan, chair of the Liverpool Dockers Shops Stewards’ Committee and Socialist Labour Party member, about the need for working class political organisation

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