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Weekly Worker 566 Thursday March 3 2005
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Letters
Abortion choice; Pariarchal spin; AWL and
charity; Sub-standard; Imperialism; Military phantom;
STWC vote; SWP and theatre; Closure; Good stuff; Bad stuff;
Workers' unity; Good samaritan; Iraq women
European Social Forum
 Regrettably,
the European left continues to subordinate itself to the
most conservative forces involved in the European Social
Forum. At the February 25-27 preparatory assembly in Athens,
only minute and largely cosmetic changes to the organisation
of our forces were accepted as 'consensus' - none of which
will facilitate the dramatic step forward we need to effectively
combat the Europe of the bosses, bankers and bureaucrats.
In that sense, our rather hyped-up 'renewal process' is
as vacuous as Tony Blair's election slogan. Ben
Lewis and Tina Becker report:
Where is the republican
party?
 The
problems and difficulties of the monarchy points to a
glaring absence on the left, argues Dave Craig
of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Don't trust them
 Blair's
new 'anti-terrorism'legislation cannot be defeated using
'human rights' arguments, writes Peter Manson.
The establishment cannot be trusted with powers that could
just as soon be used against us
Militant
and uncompromising
 Falah
Alwan is president of the Federation of Workers
Councils and Unions in Iraq and a member of the Worker-communist
Party. He spoke to Mark Fischer during
a recent visit to London
Dave Nellist, interrupted
Is the new Socialist Green Unity Coalition a retro Socialist
Alliance circa 1990s? If so, wonders Mark Fischer,
what's the point?
Rowan's respect problem
Real communists should have no problem to demand the
secular division of church and state, says Cameron
Richards - particularly as an answer to the current
crisis in the Anglican church, which keeps tearing itself
apart over the sexuality of some of its bishops and
priests.
Miners: this was
our strike
 Dave
Douglass reviews William Ivory's Faith,
shown on BBC1, Monday February 28
Fight for what
we need
 The
government's increase in the minimum wage has been hailed
as progress by many unions and the TUC. But communists
should fight for what is necessary, not accept paltry
increases, argues Alan Stevens
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Not so grand
February’s £500
fighting fund finished well. But still slightly short. Thanks
to comrades MJ and MM and their most welcome £100 cheque,
we ended the month with £475.
However, March has begun slowly … painfully slowly. So
far we are in receipt of just one donation from comrade OB and
that was for just the cover price of the print version of the
paper … £1. He paid using our PayPal facility on
the web. What a pity there were not more, but there were not.
Anyway, we start March with the not so grand total of £1.
Last week we recorded 13,215 e-readers of the paper. Down on
the last issue, but still not bad. Another statistic worth commenting
on is the increasing number of complete downloads of Jack Conrad’s
book Remaking Europe. There has been a good deal of interest
and as of today there have been 878 downloads … obviously
limited in general to those who have broadband. There has also
been a steady sale of the hard copy … and there are plans
afoot to publish the book in Turkish
Robbie Rix
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