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Summer Offensive

Hard won right

After September 30 Royal Mail is threatening to withdraw its special service for registered newspapers. At present we pay a second class stamp and you get first class delivery.

This has been the case since the early 19th century, when the radical press succeeded in sweeping aside the hated tax on printed matter, which made newspapers prohibitively expensive for most workers.

This move is a brazen attack on a hard won democratic right and must be resisted. We fully back the National Union of Journalists’ fight to get the it rescinded.

Protest to Royal Mail and raise the issue with your trade union, local MP, etc. That includes those who read us online ( we notched up 8,189 web readers last week). Otherwise we will either have to increase our subscription prices or you will receive the paper much later.

Anyway the flow of donations towards our £500 monthly fighting fund has slowed. We stood at £310 last week, and now have £365. Thanks to comrades DR, RS, TY and PM.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 525 Thursday April 22 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.

Votes of conscience and women’s rights
Marcus Ström argues that George Galloway's opposition to a woman's right to choose are no grounds for withdrawing support for Respect.

Letters
Popular front; Subjectivism; Like a shot; Twitchy; Foredoomed; BNP nationalism; Liqudationist; Witch road

Action
Weekly Worker's regular activists' diary

Behind closed doors
Phil Hamilton visits the web site of the troubled trade union Aslef.

The right to know
Dean Hooper reports on the open warfare which has broken out in Aslef, and calls for the trade union's rank and file to demand that the leadership conduct their business openly and democratically, and not as if Aslef was their private property.

Towards a party of the left
Socialist filmmaker Ken Loach is a Respect candidate for the European Union list in London. Peter Manson spoke to him about the coalition’s prospects.

Jesus: a revolutionary and a communist
Jack Conrad presents a communist analysis of Jesus.

Truer than fact
Manny Neira reviews the recent BBC 2 dramatisation of the life of the young Stephen Hawking.

Find answers in Labour, not Respect
Graham Bash of Labour Left Briefing discusses the way forward for the Labour left, and criticises the Weekly Worker being distracted from this fight by Respect.

Plaid Cymru conference: monolithic stage show
Bob Davies reports on the Plaid Cymru conference of April 17.

Bad methods slammed
Over 250 people were in Istanbul for the latest assembly to prepare for the European Social Forum 2004, which will take place from October 14-17 in London. Tina Becker reports from a meeting which saw the Socialist Workers Party and their allies take a beating.

Uniting our movements
Tina Becker interviews Piero Bernocchi, representative of the leftwing Italian trade union, Cobas, at the ESF

Iraq and Palestine: linked struggles for liberation
Ian Donovan analyses the fight for liberation in the Middle East

 

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