Final push
Over the weekend Weekly Worker sellers went out on the streets of London protesting, along with thousands of others, against imperialism’s Afghan sortie.
While the demonstration itself was larger than on October 13, unfortunately this was not reflected in increased sales of the paper. However, though we only sold around 200 papers this time around, compared with over 400 last time, this to a degree was a reflection of confusion in the anti-war movement. The US-UK coalition is winning. The armchair generals were wrong and talk of turning Afghanistan into another Vietnam for the US now appears silly.
On the money front the last week has seen our coffers receive a welcome and timely boost. Not just from donations on the demonstration, which came to £30, but also from a bumper postbag.
Thanks are due to comrades FM (£25), CP (£20), DS (£15) and, last but by no means least, comrade PM with £5. That leaves the total for this month standing at an encouraging £315 with the monthly total of £450 not just achievable but easily surpassable. Crucial, as next month we enter the traditionally lean holiday period.
All we need is one final push, comrades. Your paper is relying on you.
Robbie Rix
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Number 409
Thursday November 22 2001
The Weekly Worker is available from bookshops across the United Kingdom or can be delivered direct to your door by completing our online subscription form.
Where now for the anti-war movement
'Stop the war' is no longer enough. We must raise up democratic demands
for Afghanistan, argues Peter Manson
Letters
Victory over homophobia; To sign or not; Web design
United fightback needed
Bill Jeannes asks whether sectarianism or amateurism is hampering trade
union work
After Kabul's fall
Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, discusses
the situation in Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban. This is
an edited version of his article
Socialist Alliance reports
- Executice committee: Pre-conference tension
- Coalition of Socialist Alliance Minority Organisations
- Teesside: Stagecoach robbery
- Streatham: Reluctant speaker
Socialism and esperanto
Alberto Fernández, socialist and writer on the workers’ Esperanto movement,
gave this presentation at a recent symposium in Belgium. According to
the comrade, the negative attitude of leading socialist theorists towards
an international language can be traced back to Karl Marx
Republican Communist Network
Socialist Labour Party: Celebrating September
11
Danny Hammill reports on the recent gathering of SLP factionalists to
celebrate the Russian Revolution
Our history
CPGB supports Irish liberation
Socialist Alliance must take the lead
James Mallory calls for the SA to take a stronger role in the anti-war
movement
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