Weekly Worker 554 Thursday November 25 2004

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Good news
ith just under a week to go in November, our £500 monthly fighting fund is looking more than okay. Last issue I was able to report a welcome spurt of donations that took us to a healthy £380. Since then the flow has moderated somewhat; in fact we were down to something like a trickle. Nevertheless every little helps.

Thanks go to the following comrades: LW (£20), FJ (£10), PC (£10), PM (£5) and NB (£4). Our fund now stands at £429. That puts us well on target. Not that we can afford to be complacent.

Let me in particular appeal to those members of the Socialist Workers Party who are regularly reading us on the net. Your organisation is galloping to the right and the only worthwhile coverage comes from this publication. So, comrades, please make a donation via the post or our PayPal facility.

A handful already have, but I want to urge more of you to help out.

As always, a quick mention of circulation. Last week saw a small increase in e-readers - from 10,039 to 10,642. Quite frankly, given our coverage of the crises affecting both the SWP and the Scottish Socialist Party, I would have expected more.

Then the left in Britain, though it does not always recognise it, still inhabits something of a stagnant ghetto. Despite that, over the last year our total circulation (including the print issue) has steadily edged upwards and now seems permanently established at or beyond the 11,000 mark every week. Definitely good news.

Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 554 Thursday November 25 2004.

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Letters
SWP democracy; Loyal opposition; Support Molyneux; SA forgeries; Green politics; Big oil; Why feminism?; Irritated; Punch the wall; Copyright; Vote John Rogers; No front

The genuine article
Why did the SWP vote down a motion on secularism at last month’s Respect conference? Peter Manson debunks some false definitions and explains why a secular approach is essential in our engagement with religious believers

Promote this secularism
Anas Altikriti of the Muslim Association of Britain was a Respect candidate for Yorkshire and Humberside in the June 10 EU elections. He spoke to Peter Manson

Mutiny stirs against east London potentates
In the run-up to the SWP’s November 27-28 conference, more critical voices are being raised over the nature of the internal regime. But, reports Mark Fischer, these are couched in terms that accept the basic premises of SWP ‘wisdom’ and are therefore incapable of getting to grips with the problem

Socialist or welfare state party?
Over the weekend of November 20-21, the first national delegate conference of the German left alliance, Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit, decided unanimously to begin the process of setting up a party. Tina Becker reports from Nuremberg

Of the left, not far left
Klaus Ernst, a leading comrade in the Wahlalternative, spoke to the Weekly Worker

For a socialist party
Joachim Bischoff, for many years one of the few West German members of the national executive of the Party of Democratic Socialism, explains why he has joined the WASG instead

The membership decides
Christine Lehnert, a member of the Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), the German section of the Socialist Party's Committee for a new International (CWI), explains what her organisation wants to achieve in the WASG - despite some of the democratic deficits

Bring back Tommy
The Weekly Worker has argued that the executive of the Scottish Socialist Party has succumbed to “presbyterian moralism” in forcing Tommy Sheridan to resign following ‘revelations’ about his sex life. SSP member Tom Delargy believes there is more to it than that

Get well Leanne, but sod off
Cameron Richards reports on the November 19th meeting of the Cardiff Stop the War Coalition

Fox hunting is a class issue
Last week the rarely used Parliament Act was invoked in order to force through the Protection of Wild Mammals Bill and ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales. But only a working class programme can restore the countryside for the benefit of all, argues Eddie Ford

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