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