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Weekly Worker 623 Thursday May 4 2006 Subscribe to the Weekly Worker

Communist University North

May 4 2006
Fighting Fund

Record hits

Last week saw a record number of online readers - no fewer than 25,805 all told. Incredibly this beats the previous week’s total - itself a record - by over 6,600 hits.

This most encouraging, although perhaps not totally unexpected, upsurge was not quite matched by an increase in those willing to contribute to our fighting fund, but I can report that we did receive three donations via our website, the most notable of which being a £50 gift from comrade LN. Excellent! Thanks also to RF and SM, who both chipped in with a fiver.

Together with four cheques received in my mailbag - from AB and SF (£20 each), KC (£10) and TG (£5), they helped ensure we surpassed our £600 monthly target. Our total for April was £633 - thank you all.

Another plus was the number of sales of our paper at various May Day events - we all but sold out at the London rally. Now we need to transform some of these one-off sales into subscriptions - and the most convenient (not to mention inexpensive) way of ensuring your Weekly Worker arrives on your doormat every week is by taking out a standing order.

Let’s make May a month to remember for increased subs!

Robbie Rix

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Carey Davies reports from Communist University North, which took place on April 29-30 in Sheffield

Last weekend’s Communist University North was a useful and clarifying event. Five sessions were held over the two days on a range of topics. The high point in terms of attendance was the Saturday evening session, which saw 20-25 people - including speakers from the Socialist Party and Workers Power, in addition to Emily Bransom of the CPGB - tackle the crucial question thrown up by the Socialist Party’s Campaign for a New Workers’ Party initiative: exactly what kind of workers’ party do we need?

Elsewhere, Matthew Caygill spoke on ‘Marxism and history’, Alan Stevens of the CPGB outlined the approach the left must take to trade union struggles, Mark Fischer drew upon the lessons we can learn from Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and Jack Conrad elucidated his thesis on ‘Ireland and the British-Irish’. This latter session attracted the most vigorous debate of the weekend - it seems the question of Ireland and the approach communists should take to it is a constant source of controversy.

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