Weekly Worker 895 now available at www.cpgb.org.uk

Weekly Worker 895 - Thursday December 22 2011

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB
website at www.cpgb.org.uk/edition.php?issue_id=895

In this week's issue:

THE OTHER WORLDS OF SCI-FI AND FANTASY
How do science-fiction and fantasy help us understand reality? James
Turley investigates

LETTERS
Left and EEC; Play the ball; Bad treaty; Lesser evil; Dirty hands; Go
to war; Dumb legalism; No socialist; Murder worship; How much?; Subtle

SIGNS OF AN AWAKENING
Calls for internal democracy within the Socialist Workers Party can
only be welcomed. Peter Manson reports on the third and final
'Pre-conference Bulletin'

PLAYING THE BLAME GAME
With hundreds of billions of debt due to be repaid in the first
quarter of next year, writes Eddie Ford, the euro zone crisis has not
gone away

WHAT KIND OF COMMITMENT?
Mike Belbin takes a look at the life of Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

LENIN, KAUTSKY AND THE 'NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONS'
Lenin's vision of world revolution at the turn of the 20th century was
inspired by Karl Kautsky, writes Canada-based scholar Lars T Lih

ADAM SMITH'S PROFOUNDEST READER
Karl Marx built on and developed bourgeois revolutionary
consciousness, contends Spencer A Leonard of the US Platypus group

WHAT MADE US HUMAN
Simon Wells reviews Chris Stringer 'The origin of our species' Allen
Lane, 2011, pp333, £20

CAMERON IN THE COURT OF KING JAMES
The prime minister's speech on the King James Bible ticks every
reactionary box going, argues James Turley

ESSENTIAL TASK
Robbie Rix sends season's greetings to all our readers - we will be
back on January 12!

A PDF version of the paper can be downloaded at www.cpgb.org.uk/pdf/ww895.pdf


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