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Weekly Worker 570 Thursday March 31 2005
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Letters
Class posers; Objective need; No longer comrades;
Invidious; Autonomy; Right to choose; Coincidence; Support
Basra students
Networks of resistance
 Peace
activist Sarah Young, author of the pamphlet
Thinking allowed, replies to Mike Macnair
Communists and the
popular front
How should we respond to unprincipled alliances? Neither
by prettifying popular front-type projects nor by sectarian
abstention, argues Mike Macnair
Solidarity, not charity!
Genuine Marxists want to make charity history, not constitute
its left wing. Mark Fischer explains
why
Right
to choose, right to die
Communists must stand firm against right-wing moralism
and support the right of human beings to make an informed
choice at every stage of life, argues Eddie Ford
Supplement: The spectre of communism
and the relevance of the Communist manifesto
The spectre of
communism
On December 12 of last year, the Communist Party of
Great Britain (CPGB) and the Communist Party of Turkey
(TKP) organised a joint day school on the significance
of the Communist manifesto of Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels. Here's a brief summary of how the debate unfolded.
Perspectives on the Communist
Manifesto:
A primary programmatic
document
Mercan Koklu of the Communist Party
of Turkey
Strikingly Modern
Jack Conrad of the Communist Party
of Great Britain
Declining capitalism
Hillel Ticktin, Editor of Critique
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Frustrations
Technical problems have
played havoc not only with our online service, but also, it
seems, with the final week of our March fund.
We were unable to upload the html version of last week’s
paper to our website - a failing which has undoubtedly produced
a large number of very frustrated readers (or, in many cases,
non-readers). This is certainly the cause of the high number
of hits we recorded over the last seven days - 14,405 - and
the unusually large number of downloads (we were able to make
the pdf version available, and no fewer than 3,939 visitors
took a copy).
I can well understand why we received no online donations under
the circumstances. Perhaps when you’ve just come onto
the site for the second or third time and once again haven’t
been able to access individual articles, you won’t be
very much inclined to show your appreciation.
Then there was the small matter of the two bank holidays, which
reduced our mail by about two-thirds. It contained just two
contributions - £25 from ML and £20 from JLV. Thanks
to both comrades, and to all those who helped bring in a total
of £396 for March. But obviously this is well short of
the £500 we need each and every month just to meet our
running costs.
It could be that all those cheques and postal orders that were
delayed by Royal Mail over Easter will be delivered over the
next couple of days. But I’m not counting on that wiping
out the entire deficit. I’m counting on you, our readers,
to make it up (with some to spare) during April. Please help
us out, comrades.
Robbie Rix
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