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After last week’s disappointment the last seven days represent a dramatic improvement. Especially heartening was the fact that one of our e-readers responded to my plea of last week - comrade SE sent us a £15 gift.

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Robbie Rix

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Number 452

Thursday October 17 2002

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Put Lula to test
This is not a candidacy that socialists and communists should welcome and recommend to the masses to support. However a victory for the Workers' Party candidate could give an impulse to the struggles of the working class and the landless peasants, argues Ian Donovan

Letters
Stoke SPEW; Snap out of it!; Identity support; Fragmented left; Show example; By-election fight

Obituary: Jim Higgins
From right hand man to opposition

Lesser evil wins euro conferrence
As expected, the Socialist Alliance has voted to campaign for a ‘no’ in any euro referendum. Peter Manson reports on the October 12 decision

Protection from a kicking
Cameron Richards reports on the meeting for supporters of the active boycott position which took place immediately after the end of the Socialist Alliance euro conference

Proletarian dictatorship as theory and practice
In the fifth part of his series of articles Jack Conrad discusses the contradictory impact of the October Revolution

On the form and content of debate
Workers' Liberty's Sean Matgamna lazily ascribes political positions to the CPGB without foundation in fact, complains Mark Fischer

Growing tensions
Beneath the surface not everything is well between the Scottish Socialist Party leadership and the Socialist Worker platfom. In this controversial and closed document, presented to the SW platform’s October 5 aggregate, Mark Brown discusses what he calls the “risk” of a shift by the SSP leadership “in the direction of a left-nationalist, reformist politics”, the leadership’s anti-Labour sectarianism and the need to increase the circulation of Socialist Worker. While we pose the necessity of an all-Britain democratic centralist party, the SW comrades still suffer from a narrow, sect-building perspective

Peacefully if we can
Mary Godwin reports on the recent CPGB day school on the nature of socialist revolution

Action, not words
James Bull reports on the Manchester organising meeting for the European Social Forum in Florence

Threat to sabotage ESF
Urgent appeal from Italian coordinators of the European Social Forum

Rank and file workers' organisation needed
Electing left union leaders is not enough, argues Derek Hunter