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Fighting Fund

Barely begun
After last month’s magnificent effort April is looking a bit thin. We started with £25 and a week later that has only crept up by £37. In other words for the moment our £500 fighting fund is in a rather sorry state. Nevertheless thanks are due where thanks are due. Comrade LR from London sent in £10 as did AS of Waterford. From GS in Burnley came £5. The balance came from donations received at CPGB forums.

Meeting our monthly target is vital. The paper relies on this extra income to cover numerous items of expenditure. And, of course, in this period of heightened political activity those costs have not gone down. In fact they have gone up. A lot.

Sales of the print version of the Weekly Worker have recorded a generally steady increase over the duration of the war. At national demonstrations additional sales have been in the many hundreds and approaching the thousand mark. For example on March 22 CPGB members and supporters notched up a total sale of nearly 900 papers (swaps with sellers of other papers included).

Extra costs have been incurred sending out readers-into-sellers bundles on an impressive scale, and we have been building up truly massive phone bills. So your support is essential. The fund must once again finish in the black.

Incidentally, for those who are interested in Weekly Worker circulation statistics - and I know many are - by the midnight of April 9 7,540 individual sessions for the last issue were recorded. Taken together with what has to be an estimate for the print version, that takes total readership to just under 10,000. Compared with much of the left press, a very impressive figure. But not one that satisfies us. A huge new audience has come into existence and we have barely begun to win readers amongst them.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 475 Thursday April 10 2003.

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.

Build second People's Assembly
A second People's Assembly could provide a vital forum for the left to rewin the anti-war majority on a broader political basis, writes Marcus Strom

Letters
Stateside focus; British party; Silliness; Fallacious; Walking away; Appeasement; Into the trees; Advice

Beyond the fog of war
Phil Hamilton searches the web for alternative news sources

What to do now
Information and activitu for anti-war activists

Labour's Scottish rebel
The Scottish Socialist Party has stood down in favour of Labour leftwinger, John McAllion. Ronnie Mejka reports

Consistent democracy after Saddam Hussein
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty does not have much time for Arabs, argues Ian Donovan

American power and the Bush project for the 21st century
A leading clique within the US administration have a programme to subdue the world in the interest of American capital. Jack Conrad reports on the work of the Project for a New American Century

Take the anti-war fight to New Labour
Trade union activists should exploit the link with Blair's party, argues Martin Blum

Lawyers launch civil liberties campaign
Anne Mc Shane reports on the initiate of 30 leftwing lawyers

Ballots the the war
David Green reports on High Peak Socialist Alliance's electoral challenge to the war against Iraq

Organise anti-war party youth wing
Young people have played a leading role in the anti-war movement. They need an organisation of their own, argues Tina Becker

One brick from the house
Sarah McDonald review Peter Mullen's The Magdalen Sisters

Next in US sights?
Iran might be the next country due for a ‘pre-emptive’ regime change. Mehdi Kia of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran discusses the fragmented state of the opposition and poses a solution

Weekly Worker 475 is available in pdf format as zipped (4.73MB) or unzipped (5.33MB) files

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