Solidarity 057, 2 September 2004

This report by Chris Jones on the discussions on Merseyside about launching a new "United Socialist Party" is abridged from the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform email list. The sub-committee formed by the "Campaign for a Mass Workers' Party" [initiated by some of the former locked-out Liverpool dockers and Liverpool Labour councillors] to discuss the name and constitution for a new organisation met for a second time on Saturday 21 August. The meeting had been circulated prior to the meeting with three sets of amendments to the “dockers' constitution”. [Some amendments from a Liverpool...

On 18 August the Guardian published a letter from Abdullah Muhsin, British representative of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, welcoming Tony Blair's reported plan to invite Iyad Allawi, prime minister of Iraq's US-appointed "interim government", to Britain's Labour Party conference at the end of September. [This is a longer version of this article than appears in the printed edition on of Solidarity]. As we understand it, the Guardian had cut the letter, possibly changing its tone and balance. Regardless, the letter won't have helped the IFTU at all with trade-union, Labour, and anti-war...