Penelope Leach: "I say put children first!"
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Penelope Leach, best-selling author of books on parenting, talks to Janet Burstall and Belinda Weaver of Workers' Liberty.
Workers' Liberty 18, February 1995
Reforms and the revolutionaries
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In the context of the fight for the welfare state, how do struggles for reforms intersect with the goal of revolutionary socialism?
The "IS-SWP Tradition": A symposium
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A variety of socialist activists examine and discuss the IS-SWP tradition led by Tony Cliff.
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The Monthly Survey - February 1995
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- "Yeltsin's dirty war in Chechenia" by Dale Street
- "80,000 new Labour Party members: where are they?" by Colin Foster
"The battle is just beginning"
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The fight to defend Clause Four and halt the "New Labour" project.
Labour youth organise
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A Young Labour activist writes about the left's attempts to fight Blairite influence within Labour's youth wing. Also included is a review of Roy Porter's London: A social history.
150 "days of peace" in Northern Ireland
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The Chair of Sinn Fein in the Six Counties comments on the then-ongoing "peace process".
Who can't afford it? - Funding the welfare state
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How is the welfare state funded? Do arguments about its "affordability" make sense?
Forum - March 1995
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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.
Editorials - February 1995
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Editorial comments on Blair's "modernisation" project in the Labour Party and the peace process in Northern Ireland.