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Complacent

Another poor week for January’s fund - perhaps comrades haven’t got back into their stride yet after the Christmas break. Whatever the reason, all I know is we could do with a serious burst of donations.
We need the full £500 each and every month just to meet our running costs, yet we are still nowhere near £200 with only 10 days to go. Last week’s total was a mere £42 (£10 each from JG and SA, plus £12 from KB). That takes us to just £152.
What is particularly disappointing is that, for a second week in a row, we received no donations via our website. Yet the number of our e-readers is still up there at 12,567 (including 345 who downloaded the whole of last week’s paper). Not a little complacency among some people, I fear. I know this may seem obvious, but it’s worth saying anyway: if our income were to dry up, there would eventually be no Weekly Worker to download.
So, please, comrades, don’t take us for granted
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Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 560 Thursday January 20 2005

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Letters
Apologist for opportunism; Kosova and self-determination; Iraq crucial; Russia 1905 and anarchists; Pro-immigrant; AWL and Galloway; Livingstone and Qaradawl; Draft programme

For a republican Socialist Alliance
How should we fight for unity, as the SWP attempts at last to formally close down the Socialist Alliance? Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group calls for the SA to be defended

Also on the Socialist Alliance:

Too few to be divided
At long last, after three months of technical difficulties, the Socialist Unity Network website is back up and running, reports Salman Shaheen

Giving leadership to the movement
Around 50 representatives from across Europe met over the weekend of January 15-16 in Brussels to discuss the future of the European Social Forum. The debate on left unity beyond the ESF in particular revealed increasing tensions, reports Tina Becker. Interestingly, the Socialist Workers Party was nowhere to be seen

Other reports on the January 15-16 meeting:

Boycott imperialist elections
A Statement of the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq

For independent unions in Iraq
An urgent appeal for financial support for an upcoming workers’ conference in Baghdad

Anti-war fightback and the Blair-Brown leadership battle
Labour party activist Graham Bash examines the state of Labour Against The War, the leadership wrangling between Brown and Blair, and calls on communists and socialists to join and fight within the Labour Party

Mutual admiration
Hitler wanted to emulate the British empire; the British ruling class welcomed Hitler as a blunt instrument to destroy the communist menace. Eddie Ford looks back at the bourgeousie's initial approach to the swastika and reflects on the recent brouhaha caused by Harry Windsor's suspect fashion sense


Food for thought

Jack Conrad reviews Kay Adshead's Bites, now showing at the Bush Theatre in London

Two vie to replace Prentis
Alan Stevens reports on the plight of the Unison left to overthrow career bureaucract Dave Prentis in the upcoming leadership elections

 


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