Backbone

The developing world financial crisis is producing record suicide rates in such places as Seoul, among those who lost their faith in life along with their money. We place our faith in the collective power of the workers to overpower the money system. But the gathering storm by no means guarantees victory to our class. Our paper, with its method of bringing differences out into the open, has a crucial role to play in reforging the Communist Party our class needs. Giving our money to the struggle for human self-liberation only strengthens our faith in our communist future. Thanks to comrades CA, MC, JM, MJ, AN, MS and JS for giving backbone to the fund with bankers orders totalling £182 monthly, pushing this month’s fund to £237. A brilliant week. Keep it coming, comrades.

Ian Farrell

Number 259

Thursday October 8 1998

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