Our victory

Tony Blair, has been busy this week drumming up support among Labour Party members and various ‘dignitaries’ for imperialism’s war in Afghanistan.

Speaking at the Labour Party conference, sounding like a mimic of the mullahs whose fanaticism he supposedly deplores, Blair intones: “Out of the shadow of this evil should emerge lasting good.” While he has been setting forth his tawdry wares for the British working class, the Weekly Worker is determined to provide a principled voice of opposition to Blair’s war.

We may echo Blair when he says, “This is a battle with only one outcome: our victory, not theirs.” But we mean something totally different.

Unfortunately we failed to make the September  monthly target of £450 by a considerable margin. Thanks go to comrades PG and DS with £20 and £10 respectively but the contributions only take our total to £291: an abysmal deficit, given the pressing demands placed on the paper by the current political climate. Comrades, we urgently need to make up the shortfall this month by not just reaching our target, but surpassing it.

Robbie Rix     

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Fight on two fronts
Eddie Ford calls for struggle against Blair-Bush and the Taliban

Letters
Arming our struggle; Afghanistan; Stop war now

Anti-war coalition: SWP retreats
Tina Becker reports on Tuesday's meeting of the Stop The War Coalition

London: Pacifism rules the roost down south
Andrew Gunton reports on the launch meeting of South London Stop The War

Mickey Mouse politics
Darrell Goodliffe slates the SWP for its behaviour at the Globalise Resistance conference

Hackney SA: Clear answers needs
We have a long way to go to win the working class to the anti-war movement, argues Phil Kent

Workers Power confusion
James Mallory assesses the latest twists and turns of an orthodox Trotskyite sect

Reactionary anti-imperialism
For communists there can be no question of ‘defending’ the Taliban, writes Ian Donovan

Unison United Left: On hold
Lawrie Coombes urges there be no postponement of the October 13 conference

Welsh Socialist Alliance: Lagging behind
Cameron Richards surveys the state of the WSA following the Swansea East by-election

Which way forward for the Welsh Socialist Alliance?
Dave Warren, Socialist Party member and treasurer of the WSA, replies to Cymru Goch’s ‘For a Welsh Socialist Party’ (see Weekly Worker September 6)

Revealing nothing
Maurice Bernal reviews Stella Rimington's Open secret: the autobiography of the former director general of MI5

Our history
Assessment and tasks

Rally against Blair
Peter Manson reports on the Brighton demonstration and the SWP's pacifist deplay