Anti-BNP class-collaboration

The left’s spluttering response to Nick Griffin’s invitation to appear on Question time reveals a floundering political strategy, argues James Turley

Yet it should be noted that the basic error here is one of class analysis - that is, the UAF perspective flows perfectly naturally from the axiom that anti-fascist activity is a persistent and overriding duty of the workers’ movement. ... more

Letters
Confused?; Sex security; Vetting vaccine; Quiet life; Eco-obsession; Left out; Illuminating; Afghanistan; Language tool

You couldn’t make it up
With the general election now, at most, seven months away, what is happening with left unity projects? Peter Manson surveys recent developments

Lions led by donkeys
Matthew Cobb, dubbed an anti-communist by the Morning Star, examines the contradictory role of the French Communist Party during World War II

Assassination as a political weapon
Matthew Cobb describes an ultra-loyal PCF squad that killed imagined 'traitors'

Threats over uranium enrichment aid regime
Ahmadinejad uses the ‘enemy without’ to justify increased repression, arrests and the torture of the ‘enemy within’, writes Yassamine Mather

Success poses new questions
With an astonishing 11.9% of the vote at the September 27 national elections, the German left party Die Linke now has 76 members of parliament. Tina Becker reports

The ‘new Indian’ tiger
On October 6, the winner of the Man Booker prize will be announced. All but one of the shortlisted works are ‘historical fiction’. Last year, however, the winning novel was set in present-day India - The white tiger by 34-year-old Aravind Adiga. Mike Belbin weighs up its appeal to UK judges and asks whether or not it does credit to the ‘new India’ of technological and cultural advance

Rooted on campus
Communist Students have been winning supporters at freshers fairs Chris Brandler reports from Manchester

Writing on wall for Brown
Brown’s primary objective at Brighton was to present himself as the saviour of capitalism, writes Eddie Ford

Tremendous
Robbie Rix gives thanks for payments, even guilty ones

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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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