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Summer Offensive

Shortfall
Last week I reported that our £500 monthly target was within sight. We had exactly £415 in hand. Unfortunately we did not make it. By the close of May we received an additional £30 - taking our grand total to £445. Still, not a bad effort and our thanks go to comrades RF, JG and CG.

More than that, comrade JS from Cambridgeshire has joined the ranks of those readers who donate through a bankers order. While in itself £10 a month hardly constitutes a fortune, it is another valued brick in the guaranteed financial base we need. The more solid our income, the better placed we are to go forward with ambitious projects like the Daily Worker for the European Social Forum in October.

Incidentally, comrade JS, a former member of Militant, writes that he finds the articles in the Weekly Worker both “an education and a breath of fresh air”. Agreeing with our position on Respect, he has committed himself to do some hard work for it during the final days of the election campaign. Quite right.
Last week our overall circulation edged up somewhat, not least due to the 8,176 readers notched up on the website. Though down on the best we were achieving late last year, nonetheless this gives us one of the biggest readerships on the left in Britain.

The CPGB’s annual fundraising drive, the Summer Offensive, has just begun. Until it ends on July 31 my column will be discontinued. While all cash donated to the Weekly Worker will be used only for our paper, we will nevertheless be including money raised for the Weekly Worker in our overall SO total.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 533 Thursday June 17 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.

Summer Offensive 2004
Ian Mahoney appeals for support from web-readers for the CPGB's annual Summer Offensive

Letters
Vote Labour; Vote socialist; Vote UKIP; PLO homophobia; Aslef truth; True Aslef; Korean utopia

100 years of solitude
Phil Hamilton reviews the SPGB's website.

Respect: site for struggle
Peter Manson analyses the 'Super Thursday election results.

SP retains two, loses one
Alan Fox evalutates the remainder of the Thursday's left results

Exasperated voices raised in protest
Anne Mc Shane and Tina Becker report on the latest developments in the organisation of the European Social Forum, to be held in London over October 15-17.

ESF: British provincialism
Criticism of the high-handed, secretive and undemocratic methods of the main organisers of the London ESF are not restricted to the democratic opposition in Britain. A report to the Italian mobilising committee, of which we publish extracts here, has been translated and posted on ESF discussion sites. Written by Gianfranco Benzi, Piero Bernocchi, Maurizio Biosa, Alessandra Mecozzi and Franco Russo, it is also highly critical of the 'provincialism' of the British organisers. Although intended only for Italian consumption, its release provoked a terse response from Alex Callinicos of the SWP and a further public elaboration from the Italians

Political islam and surrogate nationalism
Ian Donovan replies to Mike McNair on why communists should support the insurgency in Iraq.

Taking our class nowhere
Martin Blum looks at the results of the Euro-elections on a European scale.

Socialist Party stung by opposition
Lee Rock looks at the behaviour of the left in the PCSU

The people's flag is deepest red … and white
Jem Jones gives a communist view of the nationalism around Euro 2004

 

Weekly Worker 533 is also available in zipped and unzipped PDF format

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