EDL: a symptom of capitalist decay, not the main enemy

Eddie Ford sees the SWP and those that follow its example on a disastrous and self-defeating course

Following the English Defence League’s October 10 ‘no more mosques’ demonstration in Manchester ... we have had the usual flurry of excitable and often downright irrational responses from the left. ... more

Rhetoric, stunts, and divisions
Chris Brandler assesses the left’s mobilisation in Manchester against the English Defence League

Letters
‘Bolivarian’ EU; Bubbling; Sex tests; Militant

Open letter to the Socialist Workers Party
Mark Fischer, the CPGB’s national organiser, questions the worth of calls for unity

The Iranian coup four months on
Mehdi Kia examines the state of the movement against the clerical regime

BNP contradictions
James Turley reviews Nigel Copsey’s Contemporary British fascism Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp264, £19.99

Terror in a tank
Jim Moody previews some of the offerings at this year’s London Film Festival

Mapping a viable future
Debating Israel/Palestine. Peter Manson reports

Sum of its parts
Many students are completely inexperienced politically, but are beginning to question the system, write Ted North and Dave Isaacson in Oxford; plus, Making headway in London : Dave McAllister reports capital progress

Joining a rogues’ gallery
Barack Obama is presiding over an escalation of military action in Afghanistan. Despite that he is a hero for the liberal bourgeoisie, writes James Turley

Upgrade uplift
Robbie Rix hopes to bring matters forward

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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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