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Summer Offensive

In with a chance
Last week I was able to report that our £500 monthly fighting fund had already reached £409 and that this put us in a good position to finish with a surplus. We are not there yet and there are only a few days to go before the end of February. Despite that we are surely still in with a chance.

Three readers sent in donations. JP and LW each gave £10 and JS £20. Thank you, comrades. Your help is much appreciated. Together you lifted our fund to a total of £449. But we still need a minimum of £51 in just three days.

It cannot be emphasised too strongly that our fighting fund is vital. Like the rest of the leftwing press we have no rich backers; nor do we sell valuable space for advertising the products of big business. Apart from bookshops, subscriptions and sales at meetings, demonstrations, etc, we have no other source of revenue. That is why week after week I am forced to make my heartfelt appeals.

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Our success is no mystery. The Weekly Worker consistently provides news of events, honest analysis and the polemics and arguments that cannot be found elsewhere. And on that basis, if no other, it deserves wide and generous support.

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Weekly Worker 517 Thursday February 26 2004.

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.

Opportunist wrongs
Jack Conrad argues the communist position on religious belief and Party membership

Letters
Democracy platform; Draft query; Bin Laden found; Reformist PRC; Greek CP; Open borders; Bible on marriage; Libertarian; Defend Yanar

Weak at the knees
The Muslim Association of Britain receives a visit from Phil Hamilton

French left looks away
While thousands marched against the banning of muslim headscarves, the French left was absent. Peter Manson argues this was a mistake

New Tories take on BNP
Michael Howard has converted to multiculturalism. Eddie Ford assesses the implications for Respect

Border controls - essential weapon
Paul Greenaway reports on Blunkett's capitulation to tabloid hysteria

Stakes are high
The Association of University Teachers started a rolling programme of industrial action this week. Mike Macnair reports on the implications.

Movement to resist
Student action in support of striking lecturers was small scale but could provide the basis for further action, writes Ben Lewis

Show electors some respect
Marcus Ström reports on the February 21 meeting of the Socialist Alliance executive committee

Moving to split away
Members of the SA Democracy Platform are on a trajectory which will take them outside the Socialist Alliance, argues Steve Cooke

You don’t steer a wheelbarrow by sitting in it
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group gives his view of the decisions of the SA Democracy Platform

Donation 'sets ball rolling'
Tina Becker reports on the February 25 meeting of the ESF coordinating committee

Reds and the greens
Phil Kent reports on the open warfare that has opened up between Respect and the Green Party

Unkindest cut of all
Though TV programmes and women's magazines normalise plastic surgery, it is a form of self-harm, argues Zoë Simon

Drawing a class line
This Saturday’s conference of the Stop the War Coalition meets in conditions where Blair and Bush, and indeed their ‘war on terrorism’, are in considerable trouble, writes Ian Donovan

Weekly Worker 517Weekly Worker 517 is available in pdf format as zipped (1.84MB) or unzipped (2.22MB) files

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