Quintin Hoare, the director of the Bosnian Institute, talked to Workers' Liberty about the fight for freedom in Kosova. |
Stan Crooke looks at the new Scottish Socialist Party
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A recall conference of the Scottish Socialist Alliance (SSA) held in Glasgow last month agreed almost unanimously to vote the SSA out of existence and replace it with a Scottish Socialist Party (SSP). The background to the launch of the new party gives its supporters only limited grounds for optimism.
A postal worker reports on a dinner engagement with Tony Cliff of the SWP
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I happened to meet Tony Cliff and partner Chanie Rosenberg of the Socialist Workers’ Party recently and they invited me to dinner. Why? To recruit me to the SWP! I accepted. Dinner that is, not membership.
In WL 49, Mark Sandell criticised the pamphlet What’s Happening? The Truth About Work... And the Myth of Partnership, edited by Sheila Cohen, for downgrading politics in industrial struggle.
Sheila Cohen replies. |
Ken Coates MEP sets out the platform of the new
Independent Labour Network |
Pablo Velasco reviews the long and difficult fight for independent working class politics in Mexico since the Tlatelolco square massacre of 1968.
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It was reported in the Daily Telegraph last month that a hospital in Beijing has signed a contract with the Chinese state for the delivery of a regular supply of kidneys harvested from victims of the state’s executioners. Patrick Avaakum denounces the trade in human lives.
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In the second part of his consideration of the reality and theories of globalisation, Martin Thomas analyses the changes in the global economy and the practical conclusions for Marxists.
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1. There is a real increase in the global interconnectedness of capitalism, but much that is called “globalisation” has dimensions and causes outside that increase.
Pat Murphy recounts the story of the United Irishmen, and the uprising of 1798.
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Who fears to speak of ‘98?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriot’s fate
Who hangs his head for shame?
The Memory of the Dead
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