Weekly Worker issue 953 - March 14 2013

international | anti-capitalism | other press Friday March 15, 2013 11:48 by Elric

Weekly Worker issue 953 - March 14 2013

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB
website at http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/953

In this week's issue:

SWP SPECIAL CONFERENCE: APPARATUS USES FAIR MEANS AND FOUL
Peter Manson asks what can still be saved from the SWP

LETTERS
Into the void; Nonsense; Not worth it; Alpha-rule; Off the cuff;
Special offer; Unreloaded; Mixed bag; Praise indeed; Reinstate Lee

WOMEN AND LIBERATION: IS FEMINISM A DIRTY WORD?
What would Marx and Engels think of recent events in the SWP, RMT and
across the British left? Camilla Power of the Radical Anthropology
Group takes to task ‘dinosaur Marxists’ for refusing to treat rape as
a deeply political issue

Red-baiting and feminist attacks on the SWP must be resisted, in spite
of everything, argues Paul Demarty

SWP FACTIONS: TWO ERRORS OF THE OPPOSITION
SWP lynchers were emboldened by a weak opposition, argues Eddie Ford

APPEAL FROM THE EDITOR
Peter manson gives the latest update

SPEW: PETER TAAFFE AND HIS OWN SCANDAL
Ben Lewis discusses SPEW’s version of ‘democratic centralism’

FIGHTING FUND: MEMBERS ONLY
Robbie Rix says the popularity of the Weekly Worker is proof of its
value to left-wingers everywhere

ANTI-WAR ANNIVERSARY: PARTY WITH ALL-ROUND STRATEGY NEEDED
Moshé Machover looks back at a decade of anti-war protest. This is an
edited version of his speech to the March 9 ‘Ten wasted years?’
school, organised by the CPGB

CHÁVEZ OBITUARY: MAN, MYTH AND LEGACY
Nick Rogers looks at the Bolivarian revolution of Hugo Chávez

STUDENT MANIFESTO: TAKING A STAND FOR COMMUNISM
Manifesto of Callum Williamson for University of Westminster Student Union

Weekly Worker 953 is also available in PDF format at
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/assets/files/wwpdf/ww953.pdf