Is Labour dead and buried as a bourgeois workers party?

Is Labour still a bourgeois workers’ party? What, if anything, does this expression mean? Mike Macnair continues the debate

What follows is a write-up of the author's opening at the last CPGB aggregate, partially revised in the light both of the discussion there and his afterthoughts ... more

Letters
False premise; Israel's mask; Resourceful; Hopi and Hopa; Constitution fight; Sterile project; Transcendent; Unreflecting; Save our steel; Rule of matter

How not to stop the BNP
The continued rise of the British National Party raises key questions about the left’s strategy. Ben Lewis takes a look at the Socialist Workers Party’s analysis and argues for a root-and-branch rethink

Left nats lose out to SNP nats
Sarah McDonald assesses the effects of deep divisions and ill feelings within the left in Scotland

Too little, too late
Sex education must be comprehensive, clear, and compulsory, writes James Turley

Further into the depths
The recent history of Afghanistan has not only seen the defeat of secularist Kabul by counterrevolution from the countryside. Outside intervention has exacerbated every problem, writes Eddie Ford

CWU militants demand national strike action
A rank and file organisation is needed, writes Jim Moody

Howzat!
Solidarity cricket is good in several ways, writes Howard Roake

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Fighting Fund

Keep you posted!

Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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