Weekly Worker Issue 971 - July 18 2013

international | anti-capitalism | other press Sunday July 21, 2013 00:51 by John Cornford

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/971

In this week's issue:

SWP: HOW DID THIS BLOODY MESS COME TO PASS? Marxism, the annual school of the SWP, saw a revamped opposition, reports Mark Fischer

DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM: THE GENIE AND THE BOTTLE If you can loosen SWP restrictions on free debate on one occasion, asks Peter Manson, why not do so permanently?

LETTERS
Straw man; Mangling Marx; Golden age; Slovenly; Gratuitous; Nasty
things; Nazis; Labour not; Echo;

ALEX IN WONDERLAND
Attempts by the leadership to portray the SWP as the only ‘Leninist’
organisation in town are totally at odds with reality, argues Ben
Lewis

ON THE FRINGE
Michael Copestake reports from the CPGB and HOPI's fringe meetings

OPPRESSION AND OPPORTUNISM
Peter Manson looks at questions of race, sex and nation raised by SWP
speakers at Marxism

NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
Another session on Leninism, another show-down. Sarah McDonald was there

SUMMER OFFENSIVE: MAKE OR BREAK
Money raised at a reduced Marxism was down, reports Mark Fischer, and
the Summer Offensive deadline begins to loom...

IS NETWORK: ENTROPY, THERAPY AND ECLECTICISM
The International Socialist Network is still trapped by SWP politics,
argues Harley Filben

BERLUSCONI: JUDGEMENT DAY LOOMS
Toby Abse reports on an unexpected setback for Silvio Berlusconi

CROCODILE TEARS OVER SALARY RECOMMENDATION
Eddie Ford thinks MPs should be accountable, recallable and live on a
wage close to those they represent

Weekly Worker 971 is also available in PDF format at
www.cpgb.org.uk/assets/files/wwpdf/ww971.pdf