Wobbling to the right

Jim Creegan examines the first six months of Barack Obama’s administration

All of the reformist illusions that accompanied the election of Barack Obama may be punctured during the second half of 2009 ... more

Letters
Hands off Hopi; Space Luddite; Be sensible; Airbrushed; IBT botch; Petty; UK obstacle; Growing force

Solidarity with occupation
Jim Moody calls for nationalisation under workers' control

Hope and anticipation
Afshin is a student at Tehran University who was involved in the protests following the presidential elections. He spoke to the Weekly Worker

Out of step with the masses
With the crisis-ridden Islamic regime wracked by divisions, what is the state of Iran’s opposition? Yassamine Mather surveys the sorry scene

Making and unmaking Labour
An alternative to the Labour Party will only ever grip masses of workers if it is an alternative to Labourism, writes Mike Macnair

BNP 2, Republic 0
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the meaning of ‘Yes to Democracy’

Our aspirations and theirs
For everyone who rises to the top, there is someone who sinks to the bottom. Eddie Ford takes a look at Alan Milburn’s meritocracy fraud

Islam and Rushdie
James Turley reviews Kenan Malik’s From fatwa to jihad: The Rushdie affair and its legacy Atlantic, 2009, pp266, £16.99

No complacency
Howard Roake addresses how we fund our priorities

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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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