Good start

After last month's disappointing shortfall, July's fighting fund has got off to a good start with an excellent £50 donation from comrade HR.

He writes: "Having just received an unexpected tax rebate, I thought I'd better make the most of it - it just so happens I was feeling rather guilty, as I haven't given anything since January." The comrade matches his gift to the Weekly Worker with another £50 towards the CPGB's Summer Offensive.

Comrade JG sends in a more modest, but very much appreciated, £10. However, she asks for a standing order form, promising to make this a regular donation from September. It's in the post, comrade!

Despite the onset of the holiday season the first week of July has proved to be a good one - £96 in the bag. But we need to keep up the momentum in order to reach our full £400 target. Any more for a standing order form?

Ask for a bankers order form, or send cheques, payable to Weekly Worker, BCM Box 928, London WC1N 3XX

Number 343

Thursday July 6 2000

For a communist party   —   Mark Fischer takes up Tony Cliff's call for open debate in front of the class

Worker-peasant alliance   —   Munyaradzi Gwisai, a member of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe and recently elected to the Harare parliament, spoke to Peter Manson

Letters   —   Internationalism; Cuba faith; Zimbabwe; Bankrupt; Israel; RCN truths; Technical breach; Fascinating; Racism; Red letter

SP: Turning the tables   —   Harry Paterson offers Socialist Party comrades an update

Straw's new clampdown   —   Jim Gilbert comments on some new legislation

RDG to rejoin SWP?   —   Dave Craig feels he has gone full circle

LSA: Mountain to climb   —   Marcus Larsen reports the first meeting of the new and expanded steering committee, July 4

Stalin's terror and orthodox Trotskyism   —   Phil Sharpe reviews Vadim Z Rogovin's 1937: Stalin's year of terror

Human science   —   Mary Godwin explains the latest advance in the Human Genome Project