Formation of Rees faction means SWP is on the verge of a split

Peter Manson witnesses an SWP leadership still smarting from the Respect disaster

Taking advantage of the Socialist Workers Party’s pre-conference discussion period, deposed leader John Rees has launched an officially recognised oppositional faction, the so-called Left Platform. ... more

Letters
Flagging up; Agitated; Chasing his tail; Advantage BNP; Kids know; Don't deport Sheida

Space for questions and arguments
Dave McAllister attended a day school that drew out differences

Obama cannot win in Afghanistan
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have conclusively demonstrated a single, simple proposition, writes James Turley: imperialism has no progressive role to play

Green road to nowhere
The sham presidential election of June 2009 has unleashed a rainbow of political forces, writes Yassamine Mather, including an increasingly strong red component

For unity in anti-war movement
Mark Fischer calls on the Stop the War Coalition leadership to end the bar on the affiliation of Hands Off the People of Iran

Earthly core of misty creations
Camilla Power addressed the CPGB’s Communist University on the origins and evolution of religion. This is an edited version of her speech

Who’s afraid of Griffin?
No-platforming is not a principle but one of many tactics. As a strategy it has failed miserably, says Eddie Ford

Callinicos rattled over no-platforming
Things did not go according to plan for the SWP, writes Huw Sheridan

Form strike committees, build strong picket lines
Today it is the jobs and conditions of postal workers that is on the line, writes Jim Moody. But if New Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have their way, it will be all of us on the chopping block tomorrow

Serious hardware
Robbie Rix appreciates all the donated tenners

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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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