SWP: The fight gets ugly

What does the SWP majority think democracy looks like? asks James Turley

In the first stages of the dispute, the CC suspended the membership of two comrades from the School of Oriental and African Studies, James Meadway and Claire Solomon. These comrades had the temerity to organise a series of meetings on their own initiative, under the title ‘Mutiny’. ... more

Letters
Misunderstood; Bedroom guardians; Collaborators; Can't miss it; Catholic jihad; Mock shock; Who's confused?'; One country; No letter; No to cuts

Is it the oil, stupid?
Noted US-based academic Cyrus Bina, author of The economics of the oil crisis, has developed a sophisticated Marxist theory of the oil crisis, oil rent, and monopoly and competition in the oil industry. Here he makes a convincing case that the US under George W Bush was not concerned with obtaining direct control over oilfields.

Workers organise against regime
More than 300 workers in the Abadan oil refinery gathered on Thursday November 12 to protest against non-payment of wages and bonuses, saying they had not been paid for more than three months. Yassamine Mather reports

Rival CNWP launched
Another month and yet another call for a halfway-house working class party - this time by the Trotskyist group, Workers Power. Peter Manson is not impressed

Waiting and hoping: LRC
The Labour left is hoping just to maintain its foothold in the party and in parliament, writes Dave McAllister

No coalition with ‘son of No2EU’
Issues of left and right are not so clear-cut when it comes to Respect. Mike Macnair reports on its annual conference, held in Birmingham on Saturday November 14

Bring Loftus to account
Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation

Nats and left take a beating
Sarah McDonald assesses the result of the Glasgow North East by-election

Looking good
Robbie Rix asks for shows of appreciation

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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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