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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 comr...

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 Trum...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/11428 "CPGB": Time to tell the truth Posted in PaulHamptons 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 l...

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Printing soon Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund Unfortunately it’s been another slightly disappointing week for the fighting fund. We received £340 over the last seven days, but that takes our running total to only £934 towards our £2,000 target. And, of course, 19 out of the 31 days in May are now behind us. This is particularly disconcerting in view of the fact that in just two weeks time we’ll be printing again, which obviously means that our costs will be shooting...

Letters Diane Abbott made a particularly stupid comment when interviewed on the Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme on Sky News (May 9). She has taken to trying to talk very slowly - either in a vain attempt to add ‘gravitas’ or, more likely, to try and enable her brain to keep pace with her mouth. Asked whether Labour could ever win a general election again, Abbott replied that Eric Hobsbawm had written a widely circulated article in 1978 entitled ‘The forward march of Labour halted?’ and...

Good news! Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund I’m sure that a large number of comrades reading this will be delighted to hear the good news: yes, many of you will have guessed - we’re just about to resume printing! It’s going to happen in exactly three weeks time, on June 3 - provided there’s no last-minute hitch, of course (unlikely, but you never know). As comrade TH told me this week, “I just can’t wait to get the Weekly Worker in my hands once more!” Just a...

Weekly Worker Print edition Please note that, because of the Coronavirus pandemic, we have had to suspend printing the Weekly Worker, which will remain online-only until the end of the crisis. Unfortunately, in view of the coronavirus crisis and the physical problems posed, we have had no alternative but to suspend printing the Weekly Worker until further notice. Once the crisis is over, we will extend the subscription of everyone who is sent the print edition, unless they advise us otherwise....