Weekly Worker 581 Thursday June 16 2005

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Personal services
Howard Roake reports on some of the more unusual methods comrades around the country are employing to raise money for our Summer Offensive
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Letters
SSP jury out; Smear?; Slogans; SP and Labour; SWP in Respect; IBT popular front; Anti-Bolshevik; Disgusting; Save paper; Climate ignored; No sympathy

Historic con trick
The G7’s ‘historic deal’ to cancel the debt of some of the poorest countries is a fine example of what happens when genuine mass sentiment is taken over by the ruling elite - and turned into its opposite. Tina Becker says that communists must reject the politics of charity

• Aid, debt and fair trade
  The three demands of Make Poverty History (parroted by Gordon Brown) do not even come close to challenging the structures that keep Africa - and much of the rest of the world - in poverty, says Tina Becker
• Six months after the tsunami
  Michelle Euston examines why millions of the victims of the tsunami still live in temporary camps - and looks at where all the money has gone
• What's wrong with Live8?
  How can you not shudder at the thought of a bunch of pampered multi-millionaire airheads like Kate Moss and Mariah Carey lecturing us about the plight of the poor, asks Kelly Scott
• What's wrong with Make Poverty History?
  Tina Becker looks at the reasons as to why the charity-based MPH campaign has been completely incorporated by the government.

Put up or shut up
Mark Fischer has penned this open letter to the SSP executive, in which he challenges the comrades to repudiate the smears against the CPGB made by the SSP press officer Eddie Truman

• Truman smears
  We reprint the SSP press officer’s accusations against the CPGB

For a South American continental federation
Eddie Ford reports about the situation in Bolivia - a country between revolution and counterrevolution

Council challenge in Leytonstone
Michelle Euston reports on the launch of the by-election campaign and plans for a "East End charter"

Victory for pope
Emily Bransom reports on last week's referendum on fertility rights

Ditching republicanism
Has criticism of the Good Friday agreement been “one-sided”? Liam O Ruairc responds to Sean MacGabhain of Sinn Féin

Fighting talk but no action
Lee Rock, national secretary of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports on the annual conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union

Ultimatism and learning from history
Martin Ralph of the International Socialist League replies to Alan Stevens over the question of the United Socialist Party

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