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Summer Offensive

Smashing through
For October we set ourselves a special target of £750. Last week I was able to report that our fighting fund stood at £680 - tantalisingly close. However, the unofficial strikes by postal workers stopped dead the flow of letters into our offices. As a result October’s fund ended lower than I had expected and hoped. We had just one donation through our PayPal facility on the CPGB’s website - £25 from comrade SP - and many thanks. So that left us with a total of £705.

Now with the partial climbdown by management we have enjoyed a resumption of deliveries which we have decided to backdate. Not that we were flooded. A £10 postal order came from IF in south London - which is good. But it was the cheque from KG from Hertfordshire that did indeed “make a sizeable dent” in October’s special target. The comrade sent us £150! So that gives us a grand total of £865 for last month. I think we can say that we not only dented the target - we smashed through it.

More than that. Comrade KG has increased his monthly standing order to the paper to a tremendous £100 - which, as it came into effect on November 1, puts this month’s £500 fund on solid foundations. Other readers should follow this excellent example: give the paper special one-off donations, but take out a standing order to ensure we are kept afloat through a regular guaranteed income. We will supply you with the necessary form.

Last week our web readership, as recorded by Matrix stats, stood at 9,288. Naturally the bulk of them come from Britain and Ireland. However, we are read worldwide, including by 2,259 people in the USA and two in Albania. They, plus our print readership, took last week’s circulation figure to over 10,000. Of course, we shall carry on putting the paper up on the web for you, our e-readers, as quickly as our human resources permit. We shall also carry on asking you to help out with our hard pressed finances.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 503 Thursday November 6 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.

Letters
Illusions; London SF; Aussie SA; Sydney coalition; Pominterns; Messenger; Zionism; Anarcho record; Typo

Lacking a web profile
Phil Hamilton takes a look at George Galloway proxy web presence

In the full glare of secrecy
Former Labour Party Welsh assembly member John Marek intends to launch his new party on November 8. Cameron Richards asks why there is so much secrecy

An utter mess
In June a rotten settlement gave management carte blanche to impose ‘modernisation’ on firefighters’ working conditions. Now the promised seven percent rise is to be phased in. Fire Brigades Union London regional officer Matt Wrack spoke to Peter Manson about the background to the latest wave of unofficial action

Temporary climbdown
John Keys warns against celebrating too soon over the postal strike

Poor tactics, useless strategy
Unison members are being used as pawns in a programme of militant posturing over the London weighting campaign

New project, same old sectarianism
SW Kenning reports of the secret weekend national conference of the Socialist Workers Party

Rattled Tories crown Howard
The desparate Conservative Party's latest change of leader should not lull class militants. New Labour remains our main enemy, writes Michael Malkin

Preventing domination
Tina Becker reports on latest developments in the bid to bring the ESF to London

Communist Party ducks  the question
The SA's 2001 general election manifesto, People before profit, is a republican socialist programme, argues the RDG's Dave Craig. Militant republicanism should be the basis of the alliance's opposition pro-party democracy platform

Holding the line
Marcus Strom looks forward the the SA democracy platform meeting, November 8

Alien culture
Jim Gilbert reviews two productions from the London Film Festival 2003

Iraqi working class must lead resistance
Recent set-backs for coalition forces in Iraq raise the question of who must take the fight to US-UK troops, argues Ian Donovan

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