Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

Frontline No. 8 is now available!

Socialist Resistance pilot issue October 2002  |  page 19-20

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

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The Scottish Socilist Voice's coverage of the war in Afghanistan and its more recent coverage of the threatened war in Iraq stands comparison with any socialist paper in the world.

On both the anti-war movement and the anti-corporate movement our approach has been shaped by the old green slogan, Think Global, Act Local.

We have put more emphasis on getting the message across and in getting people involved right here in Scotland, where we can have the biggest effect.

People in London sometimes forget that it's cheaper and quicker for them to travel to Paris or Brussels than it is for someone in Glasgow or Edinburgh to travel to London. The membership of the Frontline is the journal of the International Socialist Movement, a Marxist Platform of the Scottish Socialist Party Features in the new issue include: the prospects for the trade unions in the coming period. The United Front Today - Nick MeKerril origins of the SWP and the political direction it is taking within the SSP, the Socialist Alliance and internationally. Hekmat, who died recently

http://www.redflag.org.uk Trade Unions - Richie Venton, trade union organiser for the 55P, looks at Where is the SWP going? - Murray Smith takes a detailed look at the The Rise of Political Islam - an article by Iranian communist Manzoor Science -The great Darwinism debate, A Marxist view by Steve Arnort

You can see all the above articles and subscription details at

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October 2002