Busting through

Thanks to a posse of regular contributors - most by standing order - our £400 monthly fighting fund not only stands in surplus, but we have already begun to eat into the £160 shortfall built up during the thin summer period. In fact we have received £437 ... and that with a week to go before the end of the month. In particular I would like to thank comrades HP, MM, AS, EK, DO and MG for their dogged support. They set a wonderful example for others to follow - especially those thousands who now read the Weekly Worker on our website. Whether you take the printed or electronic version we urge you to give us your much needed financial support.

Robbie Rix

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Thursday October 26 2000

SWP purged in Leeds   —   Peter Manson denounces Nellist and Taaffe for their failure to condemn

Hatfield: Rail safety demands workers' control   —   Peter Grant and Derek Goodliffe lambast Railtrack and privatisation

Chameleon Ken's union-basher   —   Ian Donovan finds the London mayor's left credentials wanting

Dishonest reports   —   Mark Fischer contrasts WW, SW, and The Socialist coverage of the SA Coventry conference

Letters   —   Nato line; Nato echo; Transient; Hidden agenda; Multiculturalism; Bad tactics; Joy to read; Leeds vice

Period of growth   —   Mary Godwin reports last Sunday's CPGB members' aggregate

Petty bourgeois revolt and the politics of Blairism   —   Michael Malkin examines the political character of the fuel revolt

Socialist Alliances roundup   —   Reports from SAs in Greater Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham, Hackney, Lambeth, and East London