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Over the last two weeks our £500 monthly fighting fund was looking a bit thin. This week I can report a slight improvement. Thanks to comrades TR (£50) and WR (£20 each), comrade MG (£10) and a total of £55 collected for us on CPGB stalls at the April 12 demonstration against the occupation of Iraq our total has risen to £162. Still nowhere near enough, but at least we are nearer the right trajectory to hit our target.

As we have said before and will no doubt say again meeting our £500 target is vital if our mounting expenses are to be met. Lifting ourselves during the war period has been exhilarating. But is has also been hugely costly. Phone, print and post bills have soared. So comrades we really do depend on you to keep going.

One particularly positive feature of the April 12 demonstration was the number of email readers who bought the print version of the paper. Sellers report that they also accounted for the bulk of donations on the day. So a big thanks this week to our e-readers.

With the extra sales on the two legs of the London march and in Hyde Park plus 7,189 e-readers recorded by the midnight of April 16 our total circulation this week stands at around 9,500. As we have said, this is good. But much more can and needs to be done.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 476 Thursday April 17 2003.

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Balance sheet
With the audience for leftwing ideas multiplied many times over, Jack Conrad has every reason to be confident

Letters
Return home; Unwarranted; Excellent; Defeatism; Non-sectarian SWP; Aaronovitch; After Saddam; Helen Dawit; Canada gaffe

Debating the next move
Phil Hamilton checks out debating spaces on the web

Anti-war party remains defiant
80,000 marched last weekend but where is their political expression? Ian Mahoney makes some suggestions

Esher gets taste of war protest
Rae Hancock reports on anti-war activity in leafy Surrey

Defending Galloway and Dalyell
Phil Kent attended the recent meeting of Hackney STWC

Authentic and fake anti-imperialism
Regime change begins at home, writes Manny Neira

Iraq could never have been another Vietnam
Mike Macnair responds to the wishful thinking of many on the left

Pearl Harbour moment
Dr Glen Rangwala is the Cambridge academic who discovered that the Blair dossier on Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ was drawn largely from a decade-old plargiarised source. He is also a member of Labour Against the War. Here he outlines his analysis of US motivations behind the conquering of Iraq

End of Gulf War II and our tasks
Mary Godwin reports on the weekend meeting of Communist Party members and supporters

May elections

FBU votes for action
Two hundred and fifty Fire Brigades Union delegates unanimously voted to reject the employers’ “final offer” on pay and conditions at their recall conference on April 15 in Brighton. Delegates accepted proposals to renew industrial action after “the end of hostilities” in Iraq. Tina Becker spoke to Mark Skelton, a rank and file militant from Finchley in London, and Ian Foulkes, chair of the Merseyside branch

Struggle and acceptance
Ethan Grech looks to the Unison United Left to provide leadership

US neo-colonialism and democracy
Ian Donovan raises the demand of Kurdish self-determination

Weekly Worker 476 is available in pdf format as zipped (1.53MB) or unzipped (2.07MB) files

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