Iran: misogynist torturers cling to power

Workers are growing in confidence, reports Yassamine Mather

Over the last few weeks, following the show trials of ‘reformist’ personalities and the imposition of even more severe forms of repression in Iran, the nature of protests has changed considerably. ... more

Letters
Not a nation; Zionist string; Sectarian; Polarisers; Neutralisers; Shock-horror; Old battles; Debatable; Defend benefits; Why he left; Cop-out; Vestas fights on

Most successful school yet
Peter Manson reports on a week of debate, learning and comradeship

Outstanding success
This year a number of comrades from our broader periphery contributed, writes Howard Roake

What sort of party and how to get it
The final session of Communist University featured a roundtable discussion entitled ‘Capitalism’s crisis and how we should organise’. There were four introductory speakers

Ideological pigeonholes
Dave Osler reviews Ervand Abrahamian’s A history of modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp224, £14.99) and Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiri’s Iran and the rise of its neoconservatives (IB Tauris, 2007, pp215, £20)

Obama’s reforms - inadequate and unfair
Healthcare is a long-running sore on the US body politic, writes Eddie Ford

Richard Hunt was not just a statistic
John Sidwell recalls a well intentioned and honest young man

Polling day quagmire
James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now

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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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