Weekly Worker 583 Thursday June 30 2005

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Not good, not bad
Howard Roake gives an update on the Communist Party's fundraising drive - more help from party supporters and Weekly Worker readers is urgently needed!
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Letters
Dutch 'no'; Bolivia; Anti-semitism; SP and Respect; USP egos; Abortion facts; Police demands; Turkey massacre; Iran

• Solidarity, not charity
  In order to make poverty history, we need to make capitalism history, says Tina Becker
  
  
• Political economy of aid
  What lies behind the establishment’s ‘campaign for Africa’? Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, looks beneath the hype
  
  
• Well, yes, but …
  Emily Bransom celebrates the fact that the BBC2 film If … we stop giving aid to Africa (Sunday June 27, 7pm) turned not out to be another Geldofesque exercise in simplistic thinking, but a thought-provoking insight into aid and charity work in Africa
  
  
• Democracy, not charity-mongering
  Eddie Ford reviews Richard Curtis' socalled 'G8 film', The girl in the café (Saturday June 25)

• Behind the smokescreen
  Does the World Bank aid the development of poor countries? José López examines its workings
  
  
• The poverty of fair trade
  Mark Fischer argues that Proudhon is the unacknowledged theoretical daddy of many of today’s campaigners who want to see the end of poverty and international justice through ‘fair trade’

Gorgeous gigging
An audience with George Galloway South Shields, Thursday June 23

Breaking out of the ghetto
Ben Lewis reports from an impressive Respect rally in Sheffield University

Going ‘left’, going ‘broad’
Liam O Ruairc examines Sinn Féin’s turn to the left in the late 1970s from the point of view of republican socialism

 

Keep the working class out of it
At a conference on June 24-25 in Paris, over 250 representatives of the European left discussed how we should move forward after the French 'non' vote to the European constitution. Anne Mc Shane reports

 

Fearing for the worst
Yassemine Mather takes a look at Iran after the elections

 

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