Workers' Liberty 18, February 1995

Forum - March 1995

Robin Blick, author of The Seeds of Evil: Lenin and the origins of Bolshevik elitism , replies to Al Richardson's review of his book in Socialist Organiser no. 615, and Martin Thomas replies to Alan Johnson on the issue of Marxists, parliamentary democracy and workers' councils. Click here to download article as pdf .

Editorials - February 1995

Editorial comments on Blair's "modernisation" project in the Labour Party and the peace process in Northern Ireland. Click here to download article as pdf . Article continues on page 5 .

Master of the absurd

A look at the life and work of comedian Peter Cook. Click here to download article as pdf .

As we were saying: British Trotskyists and the beginnings of the welfare state in the 1940's

For fifteen years now, the Tories have been chopping away at the Welfare State constructed after 1945 on the basis of the 1942 Beveridge report. Back in 1942, the Marxists of the Workers’ International League [WIL] were already pointing out that any capitalist Welfare State would be unviable, likely to break down with mass unemployment. A WIL circular of 31 December 1942 called on WIL members to put the following motion to their trade union branches. "This branch… condemns the National Council of Labour for its acceptance of the Beveridge plan. These proposals leave the whole root of the...

"The Class war in the Blitz" by Raymond Challinor

On September 7 1940, the Conway Hall in London was packed. John McGovern MP had just started to speak. He told his audience that the war was not a struggle between Democracy and Dictatorship. It was a capitalist-imperialist war, a fight of have-empires against have-not-empires. At that moment, the air-raid sirens wailed. Then the anti-aircraft guns opened up. German bombs started dropping. Click here to download article as pdf . For fifty-three days, virtually continuously, day and night, the Luftwaffe pounded London. Ordinary people’s lives were suddenly disrupted. The normal difficulties...

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