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Summer Offensive

 

 

 

Weekly Worker 593 Thursday September 22 2005


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Letters
E is for environment; Unprincipled; Ignorant; Connolly; World pride; Wishful thinking; Burt Whittle

Broaden the anti-war struggle into a class struggle
Anything less than the demand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of UK forces weakens the argument that they have no right to be in Iraq in the first place, says David Isaacson

US-UK troops out now! Hands off Iran!
Mike Macnair disccuses the likelihood of the US using nuclear weapons against Iran and the tasks for the anti-war movement in Britain and the US

Sabre-rattling threats
The victims of the conflict between US-UK imperialism and Iran’s reactionary clerical regime are ordinary Iranians, says Yassamine Mather, a member of the editorial team of Critique

Opportunity for left to rebuild
Sunday’s election had only one clear winner: the newly established Linkspartei, which polled 8.7% and will have 54 MPs - by far the best result for a left party since World War II. This result is particularly impressive, says Tina Becker, when one considers that the social democratic government looked in danger of outright defeat at the hands of the conservatives. People were not intimidated by the threat of the right

New Orleans comes to Britain?
Communists have always argued that multiculturalist ideology and implementation has introduced retrogressive divisions and are not surprised by Trevor Phillips u-turn, says Eddie Ford

Glimmer of hope
What are the prospects for this year’s Labour Party conference? How should revolutionary socialists unite theory and practice in this period? Graham Bash (Labour Left Briefing) gives his views

Labour and revolutionary strategy
The role of revolutionaries is to understand and connect with the living mass movement, argues Graham Bash in this edited version of his speech to this year’s Communist University. But what do we do when that movement is at a low ebb?

Minuscule vote for Socialist Alliance
The Australian SA is in a sorry state, report Marcus Ström and Greg Adler


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Smashing!

With over a week to go before the end of our September fund, I am pleased to announce that we have already smashed through our £500 target.

This unexpected success has resulted mainly from one large donation - no less than £240 from our comrades of the Revolutionary Democratic Group. Originally intended for the CPGB’s Summer Offensive, this gift is just as welcome in the autumn!

I can also report a number of smaller, but no less valued contributions which have helped push up our total to a more than useful £610. Special thanks also this week go to comrade GJ for her £30 cheque, PR for the extra tenner to go with his resub and CR, who contributed another £10 via our website.

Talking of which, it does bear repeating that this facility is very much underused - especially when you consider the thousands of readers who regularly look through the Weekly Worker online (over the last seven days there were 14,068 visitors to our website, for example). If each week just five or six comrades did the same as CR, our finances would be on a much firmer footing.

Now that we have passed not only the £500 barrier but £600 too, how about setting our sights on a total of £750 this month? That would go some way to make up for the overall shortfall we have run up so far in 2005.

Robbie Rix

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