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Summer Offensive

Delayed
It has been a good news-bad news week. First the good. In the last edition I made another appeal for web readers to help out with our £500 monthly fighting fund through the use of our PayPal facility. And I am glad to say we got a couple of responses. MR and GT donated £10 each. Thanks, comrades: you have set an example I am confident more and more will follow.

That was the good news, so what about the bad? This week we got nothing through the post. This was not because of industrial action by London postal workers, nor, I presume, lack of interest or solidarity.

So here we are editing the paper as usual late into Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, but without our usual batch of letters. Hence the paucity of correspondence which we normally carry over pages two and three of the paper … and lack of money.

As a consequence, our fund stands at a rather miserable £20 total so far this month. Still I suppose there will be a bumper post to report next week - anyway, here’s hoping!

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 519 Thursday March 11 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.

New Greens pose left
Jack Conrad points to the well-trodden slippery slope awaiting the SWP as they dash to "make a difference"

Letters
Splitter!; Smears; Tactical BNP vote; Highest form

Democracy and two minorities
Dave Craig claims the Revolutionary Democratic Group is the moderate wing of the lunatic fringe

Out of the pits
minersadvice.co.uk receives a visit from Phil Hamilton

Good pictures, wrong conclusions
David Douglass, Doncaster NUM panel picket coordinator and area executive member during the Great Strike, reviews Socialist Worker’s special issue, ‘The miners’ strike 1984-85’

Recharging the batteries
Phil Hamilton attended the first showing of Banner Theatre's national tour commemorating the miners' Great Strike

Strategic confrontation in the making
In the first of a series of articles Ian Donovan examines the background to the miners’ Great Strike

Control-freaks criticised
Around 150  people attended the March 6-7 assembly to prepare for the European Social Forum in London - and witnessed some rather inelegant twists and turns by the Socialist Workers Party, reports Tina Becker

  • Support in principle
    Letter from TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber to general secretaries of affiliated unions, March 1 2004

Free the prisoners
Iratxe Urizar works for Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights which highlights the plight of the 700 or so political prisoners currently being held in France, Spain, Mexico, the UK and Argentina. The organisation also campaigns against Spanish legislation introduced last year aimed at banning the nationalist Batasuna (Basque for ‘unity’). Comrade Urizar, in London for the ESF assembly, spoke to the Weekly Worker

Questioning our times
Zoë Simon reviews Andy de la Tour's 'Question time' currently at The Arcola (Dalston Kingsland, Silverlink)

Fighting shy of principles
Peter Manson reports on the March 7 meeting which chose Respect's candidates for the Greater London Authority and the capital's European seats

Respect roundup

Reject SWP control-freakery
This weekend’s special conference of the Socialist Alliance looks like being something of a sad affair, suggests Marcus Ström

Fight inside Respect
Marcus Ström calls on Socialist Alliance activists to work inside the Unity Coalition

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