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Summer Offensive

Good news & bad

Valiant last-minute efforts from a number of readers have enabled us to edge over our £500 target for January’s fighting fund.
Pride of place this week goes to a couple of comrades who used the PayPal facility on our website: II, who donated £30, and LW (£20). Comrade DH also dropped us a fiver online. But I suppose three fund contributors out of a total of 11,456 visitors isn’t much to write home about.
Talking about writing, my postbag also brought in a good number of gifts. Special mention must go to comrade NP, who not only popped in an extra £10 with his £25 resubscription, but also filled in a standing order form for £30 a quarter. Your generosity is very much appreciated, comrade. There were also contributions from TY and FC (£20 each), HD (£15), along with a number of smaller donations. The total at noon on February 1 was precisely £507. Thanks to all. And we start our February fund with £10 from AG.

While all this is good news, unfortunately there was also some bad news today: we learnt that a keen reader and close supporter, comrade John Savage from Newcastle, passed away on January 29 after a long illness. He is someone whose initials have featured in this column on numerous occasions over the years. Our condolences to his family, friends and comrades.
Robbie Rix

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Weekly Worker 562 Thursday February 3 2005

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Letters
Military support; Two stages; CIA front; Keep 'em out; EU ban?; Ultra-left; Academic-speak; Blanquist; Labour losers; Bring your kids; Slave holocaust; Ludicrous

Socialist Alliance

  • Sectarian killers at the funeral
    The Socialist Workers Party will finally bury the Socialist Alliance on February 5. Ian Mahoney draws some lessons
  • Phoenix from the ashes
    Dave Craig argues for a democratic conference and a new Socialist Alliance that unites revolutionaries and reformists
  • Disunity amid a plethora of unity projects
    The Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform, meeting in Birmingham on Saturday January 29, debated the demise of the SA, the prospects for left unity and the attitude of socialists to the occupation of Iraq. Nick Rogers reports

Don't mention open borders
Tina Becker reports from the strange London Respect meeting on January 30, which did not want to have politics on the agenda

From Belmarsh to Rangoon
Mike Macnair takes a closer look at the newly proposed 'terror legislation' of the Labour government

Slow death of the old left
This year’s World Social Forum, which has just closed in Brazil, has highlighted the fact that the left is still struggling to come to terms with the end of the Soviet Union. A new generation is reacting against capitalism’s triumphalism, says Tina Becker - and instead of revolutionary answers the left serves them the rotten crap of the past

Embellishing the holocaust
Bob Potter recalls the support of US capital and the UK monarchy for the Nazis, and discusses the marketing of Auschwitz

Expression of decline
The marking of Holocaust Day is highly contradictory, argues Hillel Ticktin



Exploit every legal opportunity
Was it right to boycott the Iraqi elections? Eddie Ford doubts it.


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