Eurogifts
Our intervention in Florence gave us the opportunity to meet with some of our regular European readers face to face, as well as getting the Weekly Worker into the hands of comrades from across the continent who had never seen it before. No doubt as a result this week our e-readership increased to 7,131 and our total circulation to something over 8,000.
As reported elsewhere in these pages, our paper was very well received by a European left that rightly sees the hammer and sickle and communism as their own. Comrades tell me that hardly anyone paid the exact cover price of 85 cents, but told us to keep the change from a euro (or on occasion a larger coin or note).
Pride of place must go to one American comrade who was pleased to donate €40 - but, I must say, all those extra 15 cents add up and I have so far received donations amounting to £77 from comrades returning from Italy. That is over and above money from sales, of course.
But British-based donors have not let us down this week either. Thanks go to comrades LT, DS and RE (£20 each) and another European reader - comrade YI, now in Germany, who sent us a (sterling) cheque for £25. With some regular standing orders thrown in for good measure, my balance has gone up by a bumper £227 this week, taking our total for November to £262.
We are on target for the £450 we need each and every month. But, comrades, please don’t forget the shortfall of £134 built up since January. Let’s make it good this month!
Robbie Rix
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Number 456
Thursday November 14 2002
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.
One million say no war on Iraq
The workers of Florence took to the street to protest Blair's and Bush's
war plans. Sarah McDonald and darrell Goodliffe joined them
Letters
European CP; Workers' Europe; Failed Leninism; Kautsky mole; Stick with
Labour; Economistic; Wild invention; Iran protests; Web protests; Web
junk
European Social Forum
Around 40,000 people - double what was initially
expected - converged on the city of Florence, Italy, last week to attend
the hundreds of workshops, debates, seminars and cultural events that
was the first European Social Forum. Our team of reporters give their
impression of this significant development for the European left
Welsh Socialist Alliance door open
Last month we reported the decision of the Socialist Party to leave the
WSA. This is the WSA reply, sent to Alec Thraves of the SP Wales
Same horses, new riders
Aziz Demir analyses the mounting contradictions behind the November 3
elections in Turkey
Butler triggers royal crisis
What lies behind the trial of Paul Burrell and its collapse? Dave Craig
of the Revolutionary Democratic Group describes the death agony of
the British constitutional monarchy system
IDS into the abyss
Can the Tories ever recover, asks Maurice Bernal
Monumental historical study
Ian Donovan reviews Alan Woods' Bolshevism: the road to power
Prepare for major struggle
Firefighters have begun their first strike in 25 years, but Blair is determined
to make a stand on the Bain report and inflict a defeat. Fire Brigades
Union militant and Socialist Alliance partisan Matt Wrack talked to Peter
Manson about the aims and prospects of this strategically important strike
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