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Weekly Worker 841 Thursday November 11 2010

Dances with scabs

In this final article, Mike Macnair draws some conclusions from the history of Trotskyist entry into the Labour Party

The narrative given in the first two articles in this series has been bald and simplified, and has abstracted almost completely both from the political disputes on international issues within and between ... Read article

Letters
Combine or die; No to leaders; Unlikely bedfellows; Out of the box; Rights for jobs?; Denied equality;

Sanctions take their toll
Yassamine Mather calls for international solidarity with Iranian workers

Budget crisis deepens
Double standards need to be challenged, writes Anne Mc Shane

The two souls of socialism
Trade union politics was the main dish at Socialism 2010, the Socialist Party’s annual school. James Turley reports

Poll tax reminiscences
Maciej Zurowski finds that SPEW just cannot seem to get the actual Labour Party out of its head

The lying game
Yes, Phil Woolas lied through his teeth - but they all do, including the Liberal Democrats. Eddie Ford looks at the Oldham East ruling

Through the eyes of an SLP leftist
Scepticism about communist unity in The Socialist

Capitalism cracked
Andrew Coates reviews John Holloway's ‘Crack capitalism’ Pluto Press, 2010, pp320, £16

Rehabilitation, not punishment
Communists are vehemently opposed to any prisoner being disenfranchised, writes Jim Moody

Testing the link
Robbie Rix says we have to step up the pace over the next couple of weeks

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Testing the link

Robbie Rix says we have to step up the pace over the next couple of weeks

Our fund received a big boost last week in the shape of a tremendous £100 cheque from comrade TG.

After a poor couple of weeks in terms of snail mail, it was nice to get more than one donation that way. As well as TG’s big one, there were donations from GF (£25) and DS (£20), not to mention the fiver that DC added to his re-subscription.

The gifts received via our website were more modest, but just as welcome. Thanks to EJ, who wondered why I didn’t mention his £5 last week (sorry, comrade, I just forgot!), and to GJ, who stumped up precisely £1. Unlike EJ, he didn’t leave any message, so perhaps he was just testing the link to see if it worked. It does, comrade, and our November fighting fund has gone up as a result! Anyway, £6 via PayPal is definitely at the lower end of our expectations - especially as the number of visits to our website seems to be on the up again: we had 11,252 last week.

We also received some handy standing order gifts, including from RMB (£50) and CG (£20). In all our total increased by £266, pushing it up to £455. But we need £1,250 and we have to step up the pace over the next couple of weeks. Can you help?

Click here to download a standing order form - regular income is particular important in order to plan ahead. Even £5/month can help!
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