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Back on course? Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund After the first week of our April fighting fund we have received exactly £350 towards our £2,000 monthly target. Most of that results from the usual batch of standing orders received at the start of each month - there were 16 of them, ranging from £5 to £50 - thank you, comrade AC, for that last one. Also worth a mention are the SOs from FK (£35), CG (£30), II and SJ (£20 each). On top of that there were three PayPal c...

How to be gaslit Anger is an insufficient response to the Sewell report, argues Paul Demarty. The left needs its own critique of liberal anti-racism Among the many evils of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, there is the trivial matter that it released its report as the Weekly Worker was going to press last week, leaving me with my name against an article on anti-racism which barely mentioned it. But that may be a blessing in disguise, since ours is a society obsessed with hot take...

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....

Playing into imperialist hands Foppe de Haan seems to have been taken in by the campaign to demonise China, argues Daniel Lazare In his article last week 1 Foppe de Haan has a problem with what I wrote last month 2 about US charges that China is engaged in genocide against 12 million members of the Turkic Uyghur minority in its western province of Xinjiang. Curiously, it has nothing to do with my argument that the charges are overblown nonsense based on dubious sources and “shifting and in...

Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund

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Letters Lie-down In 2017 I wrote a critical review of Domenico Losurdo’s book on western Marxism for New Left Review, in response to which Gerry Downing posted a rambling, 11,000-word long blog post calling me a Stalinist. Decorated with a photo of him and me together at a demonstration, Gerry’s article systematically failed to tell the difference between quotes from Losurdo’s book, claims which I attributed to Losurdo, and my own comments. Thus, each of Losurdo’s claims for Togliatti�...