Tony Greenstein's second polemic on "Perdition"
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I would be the last person to complain that the reply to my letter in Workers' Liberty 7 was more than four times the length of the original.
Workers' Liberty 8, October 1987
Sean Matgamna's second reply on "Perdition"
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As always, Tony Greenstein doesn't debate the issue in dispute. He worries around the edges of it, quibbling over secondary details and evading the questions he is supposed to be dealing with.
Reviews from Workers' Liberty 8, October 1987
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A collection of book and essay reviews from October 1987. Titles and Authors:
'If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Abolish It', Ken Livingstone
'Terrible Beauty: a life of Constance Markievicz', Diana Norman
'Prison Letters of Constance Markievicz' ed. Esther Roper
'The Profit System: The Economics of Capitalism', Francis Green; Bob Sutcliffe
'A Social History of Housing 1815-1985', John Burnett
'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Marxism, Part One', R S Bhagavan
'Red Petrograd', Steve Smith
'Political Change in Greece before and after the Colonels' ed. Kelvin Featherstone; Dimitrios Katsoudas
Articles concerning the national question: Scotland, Ireland and Israel. From Workers' Liberty 8, October 1987
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A collection of articles and responses from Workers' Liberty 8, October 1987. Including Scottish devolution, the question of banning the Orange Order and a letter on Zionism and Israel by Tony Greenstein with a response from John O'Mahony.
Articles concerning the national question: Scotland, Ireland and Israel. From Workers' Liberty 8, October 1987
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A collection of articles and responses from Workers' Liberty 8, October 1987. Including Scottish devolution, the question of banning the Orange Order and a letter on Zionism and Israel by Tony Greenstein with a response from John O'Mahony.
Rosa Luxemburg on Britian
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'Reform and Revolution' is one of Rosa Luxemburg's best-known works, her major contribution to the debate between Marxists and 'revisionists' at the turn of the century in Germany. In this previously untranslated article, which is effect an appandix to 'Reform and Revolution', she takes issue with the praise of old-style British trade unionism by the leading German revisionist Eduard Bernstien. Bernstien had lived in Britian for some years, and based many of his ideas on the experience of the British labour movement at the end of the 19th century...
Poland: A Polish Petrograd
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Zbigniew Kowalewski, a former leader of the left-wing in Solidarnosc, describes how Solidarnosc fought for workers' control in Lodz in 1980-1. This is an abridged translation of a chapter from his book, 'Rendez-nous nos usines'.
Big screen blues: What's wrong with movies?
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If most films made in the West today are bad, it's becuase they are made to a formula. The formula is simple - big name stars, exotic locations, a hit song to promote the film, simple stories, directors who have clocked up a number of hits, and massive advertising campaigns. These days the stories don't even have to be new, we're in the age of sequelitis...
South Africa: Socialists face violence from state and Stalinists
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A South African socialist active in the trade unions talked to Workers' Liberty about the obstacles in the way of building a workers' party to give direction to the struggle for liberation during Apartied.
Tony Benn's Socialist Manifesto 1987
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In 1987 Tony Benn submitted a draft Socialist Manifesto to the Labour Party's National Exacutive Committee with the aim that it be discussed and voted on at the 1987 Conference. We republish that document here.