Weekly Worker issue 956 - April 04 2013

Weekly Worker issue 956 - April 04 2013

Welfare cuts: Housing should be a basic human right
The cuts to housing benefit are cruel and irrational, says Michael Copestake

Anti-cuts movement: Frontism produces no lasting gains
What can we expect from the People’s Assembly? Dave Isaacson looks at the June 22 build-up

South African left: Attempt to go round already existing mass organisations
Wasp might be able to sting the SACP/Cosatu bureaucracy. But, asks Peter Manson, can it become a mass party capable of leading a socialist revolution?

Feminism: The world of women, like the world of men, is divided
Paul Demarty calls for the unity of men and women in the fight for the self-liberation of the working class

"So this is the little lady who started this great war,” Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have quipped to Mary Beecher Stowe. I seem to have started a rather lesser war all of my own and frankly I see every reason to continue the fight. Hence, in this article, I shall reply to my critics and in passing make a stab at answering a highly controversial question, a question that has tortured the far left since at least the 1970s: what is to be the relationship between Marxism and feminism? Is it to be a happy and equal union, a no-holds-barred battle of irreconcilable enemies, or perhaps a group marriage with ideological representatives of all other oppressed groups?

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Letters
Just names; Masculinism; Bogey Bowler; Lenin’s levity; Solid feet; SWP, SWP, SWP; Anti-imperialism; Greens left me; Joined up;

Welfare cuts: Housing should be a basic human right
The cuts to housing benefit are cruel and irrational, says Michael Copestake

Anti-cuts movement: Frontism produces no lasting gains
What can we expect from the People’s Assembly? Dave Isaacson looks at the June 22 build-up

Appeal from the editor
Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson provides an update

South African left: Attempt to go round already existing mass organisations
Wasp might be able to sting the SACP/Cosatu bureaucracy. But, asks Peter Manson, can it become a mass party capable of leading a socialist revolution?

Every little
Last months target was missed, but Robbie Rix knows we can make up the difference

North Korea stand-off: Obama raises the stakes
US provocation in the Korean peninsular has the potential to destabilise the entire region, argues Eddie Ford

Scottish independence: Those wanting a break-up will be disappointed, whatever outcome
What position should communists take on next year’s referendum? Sarah McDonald urges a boycott

Sex review: Left feeling unfulfilled
Janice Sheldon reviews: Kate Gould, 'Exposing phallacy: flashing in contemporary culture', Zero Books, 2012, pp74, £9.99

Left unity appeal: Realise potential, avoid pitfalls
The Left Unity appeal has gathered a promising level of support, but runs the risk of repeating past mistakes, argues Harley Filben

Weekly Worker 956 is also available in PDF format. http://www.cpgb.org.uk/assets/files/wwpdf/ww956.pdf