Iran: Our solidarity and theirs

Yassamine Mather examines a regime in crisis and looks to working class forces for a solution

The continuation of demonstrations and protests against the Islamic republic of Iran, albeit on a smaller scale than two weeks ago, have fuelled further divisions at every level of the religious state ... more

Letters
Bolshevik tactics; Just resolution; Zeroing in; Moralistic; Peaceful; Perilous; Class action; Falsification; Ignored

Unremarkable volte-face
The SWP has raised more than a few eyebrows on the left with its coverage of the recent protests in Iran, writes Jim Grant

Anti-imperialism of fools
Phil Kent reports on the most recent Hopi meeting

Assessing Iran, debating the nature of the Labour Party
Jim Moody reports on discussions among CPGB members

Election confounds pundits
Assaf Kfoury looks at the confusion in the US on right and left

Still on course
Good, but no complacency, writes Howard Roake

Misunderstanding the miners’ strike
David Douglass reviews Francis Beckett and David Hencke's Marching to the fault line: The 1984 miners’ strike and the death of industrial Britain Constable, 2009, pp420, £18.99

One year of the miners’ strike
This article by Jack Conrad was first published in The Leninist March 1985. Also, Prepare for a general strike: A personal appeal issued by Jack Collins, secretary Kent Area NUM, to the Mineworkers’ Defence Committee conference on February 9 1985, and distributed in leaflet form by supporters of The Leninist

The pros and cons of internet power
James Turley looks at the role of new media in politics

Workers must not pay the price
No-one can doubt what the future has in store if the ruling class is allowed to get away with it, writes Eddie Ford

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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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