The SSP is now split after a bitter, dog-eat-dog faction fight involving the supporters of Sheridan and McCombes. There are no principled differences between these camps. This is a battle of personalities over the leadership of the party. Yet beneath these clashes the root causes of the crisis are indeed to be found in politics. They spring, above all, from the abandonment of Marxism. Once they had set off down this path, making concessions to nationalism and reformism, there was never any other final destination than crisis.
Yesterday, August 24, a meeting was held in Walthamstow, North London, by the Pakistan Trade Union Defence
Campaign to discuss the recent arrests in the area and the renewed attacks on
both democracy and Muslim workers. Some twenty people turned up to hear Zakir
lead off on the subject.
British airports were in a state of chaos yesterday
after it was revealed that a terrorist plot involving liquid explosives had
been foiled. However, it would be a great mistake to abandon our ability for
critical thinking in this period of hysteria and media frenzy.
On Tuesday the eighth
of August at a quarter past one, the mortal remains of comrade Ted Grant were
cremated in a simple but dignified ceremony at the East
Essex crematorium. Almost a hundred of Ted's old comrades and friends gathered to see
him off on his last journey.