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Summer Offensive


Fighting Fund

After our successful Summer Offensive, it’s back to the routine of financing the Weekly Worker.
During the SO period from June to mid-August, £1,790 out of the £28,000-plus collected overall was donated by readers and supporters specifically for the paper. Thanks to all for their generosity - by comparison the £500 target for September’s fund ought to be no problem.
This is particularly so in view of the surge in our online readership in August: 36,008 hits were recorded on our website last month, including 8,629 over the final week. Not bad for the height of the holiday period. A few of these readers (though not nearly enough) contributed to the SO, but now we need to drastically increase the number of our web donors.
In contrast to other sites, we do not charge visitors for the privilege of reading us online. For example, the Morning Star has since April been charging £1 a day (for access to that day’s edition only). If you want to take a look at the archive, you have to pay a minimum of £30 for three months.
Our policy is to encourage the greatest number of readers and that is why our site is completely free. We realised from the beginning that we could rely on a proportion of those who visit www.cpgb.org.uk to make a donation, using our PayPal facility. And so it has turned out.
It has to be said, though, that the proportion has usually been small, with far too many readers taking us for granted and forgetting to show their appreciation. Hopefully that is about to change. Will you help to make a difference? (You can, of course, still send your gift by snail mail too.)
Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 542 Thursday September 2 2004.

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Final tally £28,793
Ian Mahoney says thanks to everybody who has helped us make this year's Summer Offensive a real succes

Letters
Imperialism; Free trade; Internationalism; Testing times; Millwall election; IWCA potential; Livingstone; Red Party; Stalin; Farcical; Tsarist abuse; Smoking bans; Postpone; Secular Iran; Keith Frogson; FBU nightmare; Impressed

ESF chooses Ken’s police apologist
The contradictions surrounding this year’s European Social Forum in London are taking their toll, reports Tina Becker

Cult on non-personality
Phil Hamilton reviews the website of the George Bush campaign - and takes a dig at the Republican Party's convention

Women's rights under attack
While the Republican Party tries to present its moderate face, nobody can be in any doubt as to George W Bush’s real agenda. He represents plutocratic, conservative America and the politics of social control. But what of John Kerry? As Anne Mc Shane makes clear, he is on the retreat and now simply markets himself to women as the lesser evil

An insult to intelligence
Martin Schreader reports from America on the Republican's convention and the election campaign

Yet another bloody non-sectarian sect
Mike Macnair is not impressed with the newly formed Red Party

Socialist-Labourism or republican socialism?
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues for one step at a time

Ending chaos and avoiding civil war
Mohsen Karim, a member of the central committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, addressed the CPGB’s Communist University 2004

BNP infiltrates SWP
How could it have happened that two young members of the British National Party were promoted to celebrated 'student activists' in the Socialist Workers Party, asks Sam Davies

Learning from difference
Mary Godwin
reports from this year's Communist University, which - although slightly smaller than last year - was a festival of ideas

    • Enriching
      Siraj Mohamed
      shares his impressions of his first Communist University

Familiar arguments and getting rooted
Mark Fischer
reports from the recent Respect activists meeting in Hackney

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