Weekly Worker issue 943 - December 20 2012
SWP: Expelled before conference begins
Once more the SWP central committee has acted to silence critics and cut off debate, reports Peter Manson
Commenting on the contributions from a minority of Socialist Workers Party comrades in the second of this year’s Pre-conference Bulletins, I wrote: “It is most encouraging that these … comrades … are clear-sighted and courageous enough to make such far-reaching proposals - proposals aimed at transforming the SWP into a genuinely democratic-centralist force, capable of playing a leading role in the struggle for the mass party we so desperately need”. I concluded: “It remains to be seen for how long they would be tolerated if their ideas began to make headway” (‘An anatomical investigation’, November 8).
Letters
Dream on; Angel of history; Youth welder; Quote; No contest; Bourgeois right; Prize letter; Armless; Motionless; No lie;
Drugs: Irrational war continues
Nick Clegg is calling for a royal commission. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, demands immediate legalisation
Italy: The end of Mario Monti?
Toby Abse reports on the latest manoeuvres in Rome
Iran tribunal: What a legalistic shambles
The ‘resolutions’ of the Iran Tribunal have proved Hopi right, argues Yassamine Mather
HOPI: We stand by our principles
Hands off the People of Iran re-iterates its core principles
Zionism review: How Zionist McCarthyism devours its own
Tony Greenstein reviews: Antony Lerman -'The making and unmaking of a Zionist: a personal and political journey', Pluto Press, 2012, pp240, £20
Ireland and abortion: ULA chickens out
It is a disgrace that the left refuses to campaign openly for abortion on demand, says Anne Mc Shane
Film reviews: Artistic branding iron
Jim Moody reviews: Kjell Sundvall (director) The hunters (1996); False trail (2011)
Gay marriage: Compromising with bigots
The marriage equality law is now a shambles - because David Cameron’s government is hostage to incorrigible reactionaries, argues Paul Demarty
Fighting fund
In the last paper of 2012 we still have a way to go to hit our fighting fund target, reports a festive Robbie Rix
