Paradox

Unlike Russia, the Weekly Worker is not selling its soul to satisfy IMF demands for ‘market reform’ to obtain multi-billion dollar loans. But unlike Russia, we are likely to get our cash on time. Communism may not be in fashion just now, but we are not seeking to maximise sales by watering down our ideas. On the contrary, our struggle is funded by comrades who recognise the paradoxical necessity to reforge the Communist Party our class needs to free itself and all humanity from the rule of money.

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Ian Farrell

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Thursday December 3 1998

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Jail Pinochet
Straw agonises - workers must act, writes Eddie Ford

Party notes: Splitting the pack
Mark Foscher questions the motives behind the SWP's announcement that it will contest the London mayoral elections

• Socialist voice
  Socialist Worker of November 28 urged its readers to campaign for the resolution below in “trade union branches, student unions, community organisations and campaign groups”. We should all back this resolution, but with the amendments suggested (text to be amended in heavy type; suggested replacement in square brackets).

Letters
Is honesty harmful?; Critical support; Left unity

Fisc in a quandary
The election of homophobe Roy Bull places the Heron/Sikorski project in jeopardy, writes Socialist Labour's Simon Harvey

Caste of millions
Katrina Haynes reviews Steven Spielberg's 'Antz'

Stalin and socialism
Phil Sharpe replies to Harpal Brar of the Socialist Labour party

Call for open debate
The Communist Party of Great Britain and the Democratic Socialist Party (Australia) have exchanged the following correspondence

• No constructive purpose
  Letter from Doug Lorimer on behalf of the national executive of Australia' s Democratic Socialist Party
• Air our differences
  Letter from Marcus Larsen on behalf of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB

Outrageous exclusion
The Network of Socialist Alliances is excluding the majority of affilliated organisations from the constitutional discussions,. Peter Manson reports

Unity rejected
John Pearson reports on developments in the Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance

Abandon nationalism
Statement by the Revolutionary Democratic Group on the Scottish Socialist Party

US adopts wild west diplomacy
The end of the Cold War leaves the remaining superpower free to call the tune