Iranian workers gain new courage

Iranian demonstrations have given a real boost to working class opponents of the regime, writes Yassamine Mather

Even the bourgeois media had to admit that the radicalisation of the demonstrations has marked a new phase in the life of the opposition. The main slogans that dominated the day were directed at the supreme leader himself ... more

Letters
Monotonic; Confused CS; Got it in one; Political road

We won’t pay for their crisis
Anne Mc Shane reports on a meeting that could be a spark

Confident and boasting of growth
The Socialist Party in England and Wales held its annual school, Socialism 2009, on November 7-8. Tina Becker reports on the opening rally

Marxist party or Labour Party mark two?
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on young people. Laurie McCauley reports and asks what politics the working class needs

Nationalist common sense
Nick Rogers attended the No2EU session at SPEW’s Socialism event

Soviet ‘planning’ and bolt-on democracy
SPEW’s Socialism event had a session on Stalinism’s collapse. Mark Fischer points out what it represents for Marxists

Towards an election coalition
November 7 saw the latest in what now seems to be an annual conference on working class political representation, organised by the RMT union. Peter Manson reports

The working class intellectual and the apparat
James Turley offers an appreciation of the life of Chris Harman, 1942-2009

Get the troops out now
Eddie Ford examines why UK politics now questions troops being in Afghanistan

Regime’s most persistent opposition
Ali Pichgah is a veteran of the Iranian oil strikes of 1979-81, when he was a representative of the Tehran refinery workers shora (council) on the National Shora of Oil Workers. He spoke to Yassamine Mather about the current situation in Iran

Militants condemn sell-out
Abandoning postal strikes in the run-up to Christmas is at best mistaken, writes Jim Moody

Go for it
Robbie Rix was a bit surprised not to receive more cash

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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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