Internal bulletin

Our November fund has got off to a reasonable start with £85 received in the first week. This provides a good base from which to build a substantial total over and above our £400 monthly target.

Special thanks this week to that old stalwart, TR, for his £20 donation, along with two other long-standing sympathisers, II (£20) and LC (£10). But a couple of newer supporters have thrown their oar in too - AS has sent us £10 as a first-time donor, while JG has added a fiver.

All these comrades have recognised the Weekly Worker for what it is - an essential tool in the battle of ideas, or, in the words of one reader, "a sort of internal bulletin for all the left". Well, not quite. We aim to make what up to now has been regarded as "internal" the property of the entire working class.

If you agree with the necessity of open ideological debate with the purpose of forging a united, revolutionary, democratic centralist party, then help ensure that we continue to put the first into practice so that the second becomes a reality!

Robbie Rix

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Thursday November 9 2000

London Socialist Alliance and Nader   —   Marcus Larsen, LSA chair, gives no cheers for Ralph

Rain, floods, global warming, and platitudes   —   Tom May gives his opinion

Hands off our territory   —   SP EC's sectarian, hostile report on the September 30 SA conference

Sectarian hypocrisy   —   Harry Paterson condemns SP counterposing 'new mass workers' party' to the real SA

Taking ourselves seriously   —   Jack Conrad's speaking tour

Letters   —   Guilty silence; Tick sheets; Dissolve UK; Voting reform; You bastards; corrections

CPGB and revolutionary defeatism   —   Phil Sharpe tackles Mark Fischer's dogmatism

Socialist Alliance roundup   —   East London; Hackney; Lewisham; Newport; Preston