Weekly Worker 913 (10/05/2012) now available at www.cpgb.org.uk

Weekly Worker 913 - Thursday May 10 2012

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available online at
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/edition.php?issue_id=913

In this week’s issue:

ELECTORS IN FRANCE AND GREECE STRIKE A BLOW AGAINST AUSTERITY
But, writes Eddie Ford, the call must be to resist the temptation of
office. The working class ought to constitute itself as a party of
extreme opposition until it is ready to carry out its full programme

LETTERS
Denigration; Get serious; Small rooms; Liquidationist?; Fantasy thesis;

SAME OLD FAILINGS
With the Tory-Lib Dem coalition on the ropes and Labour proposing no
positive alternative, the left seems incapable of taking advantage.
Peter Manson reports

ROUND ONE TO MILIBAND
Labour is obviously pleased with the outcome of last week's local
elections - but the government is not as weak as it looks, writes Paul
Demarty

SCANDALS, AUSTERITY AND COMIC DIVERSION
While rightwing parties were the big losers, there is no sign of a
move to the left, writes Toby Abse

A DEAD END AND DISHONEST INITIATIVE
James Turley and Ben Lewis argue that there can be no short cuts to
building the mass, Marxist student movement we need

A WEAPON FOR THE MOVEMENT
Comrades in London are beginning their collective study of Marx's
Capital. Jack Conrad introduces what is still an unequalled work

CONVERGENCE AND QUESTIONS
What did Lenin expect to arise from the 1912 Prague conference? Paul
Le Blanc responds to Lars T Lih on Bolshevism and party-building

IMPERIALISM FINDS NEW PRETEXT FOR THREATS
As Iranian workers went out in remarkable numbers for May Day, a new
dispute over some small islands in the Gulf shows that despite
apparent progress on the nuclear question a new source of tension has
been found. Yassamine Mather reports.

VITAL FUNCTION
Fiscal solidarity, why not give it a try? Robbie Rix asks.

Weekly Worker 913 is available for download as a PDF at
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/pdf/ww913.pdf


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"[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt."
--Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31