International deal
At last weekend’s Paris conference of the European Social Forum, our comrades at times seemed to be fighting a lone battle for working class democratic representation within the ESF. They were amongst a tiny minority who insisted the European movement needed an elected and accountable leadership.
But their stand did not go unnoticed. At least one French comrade appreciated their efforts: “Pour l’internationalisme,” he said as he walked past the CPGB stall, taking a copy of the Weekly Worker and carefully placing a €10 note on the table in exchange. Not a bad deal.
Nearer home, things are looking up in the battle not only to achieve our £450 target for December, but to make the extra £91 we need on top to end 2002 in the black. Special thanks go to comrade TH, who wrote us a cheque for £50. Thanks also to PR, KP and DC (£20 each), FG (£10) and JD (£5). Sadly the regular 7,500-plus web surfers who take the e-paper for free each week have yet to dip into their pockets.
Using my calculator, I find that our internationalist French sympathiser’s donation gives us around £6, and that the total so far is £166.
Next week’s 16-pager will be the final Weekly Worker of 2002. I would love to be able to inform you then that all those Christmas presents I am expecting have arrived, with two weeks to spare. Comrades, please post early to beat the rush. We need your help.
Robbie Rix
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Number 460
Thursday December 12 2002
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Socialist Alliance at the crossroads
The Socialist Workers Party is smothering the SA project, warns Marcus
Strom
Letters
CPGB problems; And proud of it; Abuse of space; Changing Beds; WCPI congress;
Jo'burg victory; DHKC arrests
Airing differences
Martyn Hudson reports on the recent day school for CPGB members and supporters
in the North East
Falling out in Scotland
Relations between the leadership of the Scottish Socialist Party and the
Socialist Worker Platform have fallen even lower. We reprint correspondence
between the two anagonists
- Letter to the Socialist Worker platform from the SSP executive committee: Serious concerns
- Letter from the SW platform steering committee: Reply to Allan Green
National questions and the AWL patriarch - part three
Jack Conrad continues his reply to the recent disunity offensive mounted
by the leadership of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
Preparing for Paris ESF
The first organisational meeting for the second European Social Forum
took place in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis over the weekend of December
7-8. The CPGB’s Anne Mc Shane and Peter Manson were there
Which way for Russian workers’ movement?
Ilya B is an executive member of Socialist Resistance, the Russian section
of the Committee for a Workers’ International led by Peter Taaffe’s Socialist
Party. In Paris for last weekend’s ESF conference, he spoke to Peter Manson
Inaccurate conception
Sarah McDonald and Ronnie Mejka take a look at the Turner Prize
ISO ultimatum stalls left unity
Moves to closer unity in the Australian Socialist Alliance have been scuppered
by the SWP's 'mini-me' clone
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