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Letters Robin My big brother, Robin, passed away on December 19, aged 80. After a fall at home he was taken into hospital, where he caught Coronavirus and died of it three weeks later. Robin was always six years older than me, and five years older than our brother, Ken. I count myself lucky to have been the youngest, as parents always seem to be stressed about the eldest - and Robin was the eldest son of an eldest son, so I think he got a double dose of parent pressure - and, despite living a l...

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Letters Abolish gender Comrade Paul Demarty’s article was a welcome breath of fresh air (‘Getting out of the culture wars’, December 10). As a 19-year-old communist, my entire political life has existed under the shadow of identity politics and the question of gender. It was therefore extremely uplifting to read an analysis identical to the one I have been putting forward to various comrades at the last two Communist Universities: destroy the social construct of gender. It has always sur...

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Final issue Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund Despite some excellent contributions this week to our final fighting fund of 2020, we are still some way behind where we need to be, if we’re going to make that £2,000 target for December. Pride of place goes to comrade KB for his magnificent £170 donation, while other bank transfers came in the shape of monthly standing orders from PB (£60) and TR (£40). On top of that, regular donors MF and RL each chipped in with £50 vi...

Rising tide of resistance Oversubscribed and eager to fight. Clive Dean of Labour Party Marxists reports on a successful launch Promoted by Labour Against the Witchhunt and Labour Left Alliance, the newly formed Campaign for Free Speech held an online launch rally on Saturday December 12. It was oversubscribed on Zoom and hundreds more watched the live stream on Facebook. So the organisers will certainly be pleased by the attendance. With 14 speakers packed into four hours it was a very busy ev...

Attack on right to report Bernard Mattson investigates the charges against Julian Assange and finds them wanting Julian Assange is fast approaching yet another date with the British courts, as they try and do their duty to their American master. He is alleged to be guilty of at least five charges: exposing US war crimes; endangering US agents and friends all over the world; conspiring with a journalistic source; and rape - or at least sexual assault. The US government - and thereby the UK gover...

Letters Pretty pathetic Priti Patel just loves to send planeloads of impoverished people off to Jamaica. They’re all murderers and rapists of course, though there may be the odd car parking offender sent in error. Anyone who objects is either a “lefty lawyer” or a “do-gooding celebrity”. Many of the passengers have been in the UK for decades, have no home to go to in Jamaica and face living, or dying, on the streets. Why is she so keen? On the face of it, she comes across as an extrem...

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