WW archive > Issue 221 - 18 December 1997
Three men, 3,000 votes
Delegates at the December 13-14 congress of the Socialist Labour Party in London's Conway Hall were stunned to learn that they were powerless to change the party’s policies or constitution. The block vote of a single trade union affiliate swamped those of 114 Constituency SLPs
Letters
Political inventions; No substitute
Message to SLP members
Agreed statement of 57 congress delegates and observers
For a revolution in the SLP!
Party notes
Settlement in sight
Ireland’s ‘peace’ process
The Russian Revolution and ourselves
From 'The Call', paper of the British Socialist Party, December 20 1917
A delegate’s view
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Fight on all fronts
Tatchell outraged at homophobia in SLP
Royston’s day fails to dawn
Black section uproar
Peter Manson reports on the SLP congress
Breathtaking hypocrisy
Jesus: man and Myth
Christian doctrine portrays Jesus as a creepy, other-worldly figure; a man-god utterly indifferent to the savage occupation of the Jewish homeland by imperial Rome. But Jesus did not die in order to fulfil some divine plan. Nor was he betrayed by the Jewish people. Jesus was no ‘Christian’, writes Jack Conrad, but an apocalyptic revolutionary whose message was universal human liberation
SLP balance of forces
SLP National Executive Committee - election results
No alternative?
Around the left
SLP Democratic Platform
Statement issued prior to the congress
From witch hunt to block vote
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) believes that the SLP left has no cause for despair
Scargill constitution enshrined
Capitalism and slavery
This article is based on a speech given at Communist University ’97 by Robin Blackburn, author of ‘The making of New World slavery’
Scottish Tories try to limp back
It can only get better?
Labour backbenchers rebel as Blair steps up anti-worker offensive