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Summer Offensive

A little help from our friends
Another rather thin week. Our £500 monthly fighting fund stood at a not very grand £180 seven days ago. Since then we received just four more donations … and unfortunately one of them does not count. Comrade KG opened this month’s fund with a magnificent £100. However, he tells me that his direct debit payments begin next month, not this. So although he encloses a £100 cheque, we have, of course, already included this sum. As they say, one step forward, one step back.

Our other three donations are somewhat smaller, though nonetheless welcome. Comrade DD sent us £20 via the CPGB’s website PayPal facility, and £10 came in the post from comrades FJ and SD. They take November’s fund to £220 … but with only 10 days to go before the end of the month.

Thankfully, that is not the end of the story. Over November 12-16 we had a small team of CPGB members and supporters working hard at the European Social Forum in Paris. The CPGB raised money selling badges, handed out propaganda in English, French and German and sold literature and a healthy number of papers.

The recognition factor was particularly pleasing. Comrades from all over Europe know of the Weekly Worker and read it regularly on the web. Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire members were particularly keen to take our leaflets and buy the paper.

Around €2,200 worth of material was sold. Not only that, but we got a steady stream of donations. Though usually no more than one or two euros, they add up to €95, which at the present rate of exchange means we have upped this month’s fighting fund to £293. Many thanks to our friends in Europe.

For the circulation watchers amongst you, our web hits last week stood at 8,537 - with 101 of them from France. This puts last week’s overall readership at around 10,000.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 505 Thursday November 20 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.

America versus Europe
The task facing the European workers' movement is not to line up with our rulers against the US but to map out a positive programme for our continent, writes Jack Conrad

Letters
SSP inaccuracies; Rewin Labour; State cap EU; Active boycott?; ZCTU protest; Anarcho record; Eclectic errors; On Zafari

Globalisation from below?
Phil Hamilton takes a look at the web presence of Attac

One forum - four centres
Tina Becker rues the lack of militancy at the European Social Forum 2003

PCF attacked
Anarchists threw bottles and fireworks at comrades from the French Communist Party, alibiing police intervention in the demonstration

ESF soundbites
A selection of telling remarks and incidents from ESF2003

'Anti-semitism' smear flops
Attempts to brand the ESF as pandering to anti-semitism failed to tarnish the event, writes Alan Fox

Multitude or working class?
David Moran reports on the debate between the SWP's Alex Callinicos and Antonio Negri, author of Empire

Lutte Ouvrière stays away
Peter Manson notes the vacant place at the ESF table

Political horse-trading
Anne Mc Shane reports on the closing 'Assembly of the social movements' meeting at ESF2003

Rhetoric and hot air
The ESF's commitment to democracy and openness is less than convincing, writes Jon Carroll

Global revolution
Bob Davies heard George Monbiot speak at the debate on 'Europe with liberal globalisation'

Frightening Tony Blair
Bob Paul spoke to George Monbiot at the European Social Forum

Combating religious hatred and chauvinism
Jim Gilbert attended the November 8 Awaaz South Asia Watch conference at Camden Town Hall, London

Republican slogans and the CPGB
Dave Craig sees a reluctance in the Communist Party's commitment to republicanism

Resource for the movement
Ted Crawford reviews the Marxist Internet Archive website

Confusion reigns over union bosses' pay
SWP members voted against their organisation public position at a recent meeting of PCS Left Unity

Stop the US-UK warmongers
Stop the War becomes Stop the Occupation, writes Ian Donovan

Weekly Worker 505Weekly Worker 505 is available in pdf format as zipped (2.15MB) or unzipped (2.58MB) files

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