Poor month

As we go press, it seems that we will fail by a considerable margin to reach our £400 target for August. Despite a better week, with £135 received, our total has only just crept over £300 - we have £301, to be precise.

Well, that is the bad news, but the good news is that the slack months of July and August are now behind us. If previous years are anything to go by, we can more than make up the deficit in the autumn - perhaps in September alone. But we have to raise an extra £163 to do it.

So I am appealing directly to comrades who have perhaps let the Weekly Worker fall off their agenda over the summer - now is the time to make up for it. That was no doubt the reasoning of DC and DO, who both sent in a tenner. Special mention must also be made of comrade MM for his splendid £60 paid by standing order.

Robbie Rix

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

Number 349

Thursday August 31 2000

Socialist Alliances: The next steps   —   Jack Conrad looks forward to the SA network meeting in Coventry on September 30

Renewing the struggle   —   Peter Manson interviews recently expelled SACP member Dale McKinley

Letters   —   SSP diktat; Lone 'Voice'; Childish; Asylum seekers; Fair cop; Intellectuals

Fighting Blairism and left unity   —   national secretary of the SWP Chris Bambery's address to Communist University 2000

Marx and ecology   —   In the first of three articles, Michael Malkin examines the relationship between humanity and nature in the thought of Karl Marx

Factional mindsets ... and new realities   —   Allan Armstrong, co-editor of Republican Communist and member of the left nationalist Communist Tendency, debates political bias with Peter Manson