Against imperialist war, against theocratic rule

Mike Macnair explains why it is now more urgent than ever to fight on two fronts

Hands off the People of Iran has been arguing since its formation for opposition to US imperialism’s threats to Iran has to be placed together with solidarity with workers’ and democratic movements in Iran. ... more

Letters
Clumsy CPGB; Kill dogmatism; PR job; Oppressor rights; Zionist; Ragamuffin; Well regulated; Not for Britain; Gross; Cruel

Solidarity protests
Anne Mc Shane reports from the Hopi Ireland demo in the capital

Evolution’s revolution
Mike Belbin looks at the emergence of human culture and the vital role of symbolism

Unity for what?
In the latest ‘broad left’ initiatives, Marxist politics are once more being forgotten, argues Peter Manson

Fantasy liberation
Michael Jackson’s death serves to remind us of the amorality of the pop and entertainment industry, writes Eddie Ford

Meat and money
Howard Roake gives the lowdown on Hopi and why we need the Summer Offensive

Worker-intellectual who fell prey to the right
David Douglass looks back at the life of Lawrence Daly: October 20 1924-May 23 2009

Back to the futurists
Dani Thomas reviews Futurism at Tate Modern

Political fight to make the gains permanent
James Turley draws lessons from the Lindsey workers’ victory

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Fighting Fund

Keep you posted!

Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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