Printing next week
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund
I must admit that last week I was feeling a little pessimistic about the May fighting fund - with just a week and a half to go to reach our £2,000 target, we were less than halfway there. And it’s really important we get all the way now, with the printing of the
Weekly Worker about to resume and our costs shooting up as a result.
But now I feel rather more optimistic - thanks largely to one fantastic donation from comrade SK for no less than £393! Other donations received via bank transfer were more modest, but still very useful - thanks go to JF (£20) and GB (£15). There were also a number of monthly standing orders that totalled £390 - my thanks to all those comrades too. Finally LC sent us £50 using PayPal, which meant our running total shot up by £868 to £1,802. Brilliant!
Misusing the F-word
To effectively combat today’s far right we must begin by rejecting lazy analogies. Jack Conrad calls for clear historical thinking
Liberal and left opinion has been in part horrified, in part dumbfounded by the repeated electoral successes of the far right: Narendra Modi and the BJP in India, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil; Russia, Japan, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Israel can also be mentioned. Above all, though, there was and remains Donald J Trump. Although soundly beaten in the electoral college and in the popular vote on November 3 2020, he still got 74 million votes. This surpassed the previous record set by Barack Obama by more than seven million, giving him the highest vote of any sitting president in US history.
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/11428 CPGB : Time to tell the truth
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PaulHampton s blog on Fri, 17/10/2008 - 08:08,
The pathetic intervention of the CPGB at the AWL-Machover on Sunday has been followed by an even more pathetic write up in its paper, the Weekly Worker (16 October). Interestingly, it does not print what its own comrades said – as we have in Solidarity – since to do so would expose the apolitical poverty of their contributions.
The CPGB gave out a leaflet headed “time for politics” at the debate – yet none of its speakers said anything substantial about either Israel-Palestine or about Iran. Instead, the tone was set by the hysterical Ben Lewis, and reiterated by editor Peter Manson and “guru” John Bridge – lying about Sean Matgamna in order to whip up left public opinion against the AWL.
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