WW archive > Issue 209 - 25 September 1997
Unity against the bureaucrats
As thousands of workers march through Liverpool to show their solidarity with the sacked dockers, most trade union leaders stay away. But does that mean that militants should aim to form an alternative TUC?
Letters
Dialectics of insult; Dismissing anger; Culture of wind
‘Fight to transform TUC’
Prominent members of the Socialist Labour Party give their reactions to Arthur Scargill’s ‘alternative trade union centre’
Trotsky’s ‘slur’
Party notes
Blair still on course for ‘new Britain’
Close call in Wales
No profits in safety
Obituary: Barbara Lewis
May 31 1931 - September 19 1997
Cardiff calls for open debate
This letter has been sent to the editor of Socialist News, the Socialist Labour Party’s paper, by one of the most active SLP branches
One group, two lines
‘Socialism’ in China: Mammon’s new apostles
Beijing was host last week to the 15th congress of the Chinese Communist Party - and all the talk was of “downsizing” and “merging”, not revolution and socialism. Eddie Ford examines the true nature of Chinese communism
The Kornilovs at home and abroad
From ‘The Call’, paper of the British Socialist Party, September 20 1917
Getting embarrassing
Around the left
Fear but no expulsion ... and no gagging
Sharp exchanges at SSA National Council