Anti-Marxist myth of our time

Chris Knight examines Noam Chomsky’s ‘scientific’ fairy tales about language and its origins

“If Marx were alive today, he would reject a good deal of the corpus of work that we call Marxism.”[1] Noam Chomsky’s words recall Marx’s own rueful verdict, as ... Read article

Letters
Sex hypocrisy; Paper round; No religion; Good guy; Kit off; Smear; Big brain;

Honesty and narcissism
James Turley looks at Tony Blair’s performance before the Chilcot enquiry and the futile search for a smoking gun. Britain’s alliance with the United States is the real culprit

Why we should not call for jailing of Tony Blair
To effectively oppose imperialist wars we must avoid the trap of legalism, argues Ben Lewis

Latest ‘united front’ launched
Chris Strafford reports on the 'Right to Work' conference

Us and them Britain
Two recently published reports have served to expose the true nature of Britain today, writes Eddie Ford

Sacked workers step up protest
Workers are resisting attempts to make them pay for dismantling the state’s tobacco monopoly. Esen Uslu reports

Iran: prospects for the left
Anne Mc Shane reports on a successful meeting in Cork, and looks forward to the February 13-20 Week of Action called by Hands Off the People of Iran

Socialist Action and the PSC
Ahead of this Saturday's Palestine Solidarity Campaign AGM, Tony Greenstein of Brighton PSC argues that Socialist Action is leading the movement nowhere

Sects and fronts go round in ever diminishing circles
Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation

New target success
Robbie Rix has some good news on January's Fighting Fund

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New target success

Robbie Rix has some good news on January's Fighting Fund

I am pleased to report that we just succeeded in making our new £1,250 target in January, the first fighting fund of 2010.

In the last three days of the month five comrades ensured they got their donations to us by making use of our PayPal facility. Pride of place goes to BD, who writes: “Just wanted to contribute, as I read the paper online.” For his part, JF’s message accompanying his £30 gift was: “Nice supplement” (I think he means the ‘Kautsky, Lenin and the April theses’ feature - January 14). Thanks also to TB and WD (£10 each), as well as to BS for his fiver.

In addition there was an extra £91 transferred into the Weekly Worker account by 12 noon last Monday, the cut-off time for January’s fund, which ended £1,273 to the good.

But in the afternoon a further batch of standing order donations landed in our account - the first of the month is always our best day. These, plus one or two more that came in on the Tuesday and Wednesday, saw our February fund get off to a good start with £161 received after three days.

The five online gifts we received last week represent quite an improvement on the average, by the way. But five donors out of 14,246 internet readers is still a small proportion!

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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