With a bang

The final fund of 2000 has got off to a bit of a slow start. Just £40 has come in after the first week. Thank you, comrades PC, MN, DW and RF.

Last month we moved into the black for the first time this year, finishing November with the princely sum of £7 to the good. Let's now see if we can end this millennium year with a bang. We should aim not just to maintain that tiny surplus, but to go into 2001 with at least £100 in the bank over and above our monthly £400 target.

This will not be easy, since the holiday period is almost upon us. Unless comrades make their donations to the paper an immediate priority, the vagaries of the post may mean that we do not receive your gifts until January. Please send them in this week.

The last Weekly Worker of 2000 is just two issues away. Make sure neither you nor your paper are caught out.

Robbie Rix

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

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Thursday December 7 2000

SA Liaison Committee   —   John Bridge assesses the December 2 meeting as we look forward to the General Election

Terry Liddle: No case to answer   —   Peter Manson exposes the smears - Terry Liddle and the CPGB's PCC present their statements

Socialist Alliance roundup   —   Birmingham; Cambridge; Hackney

Letters   —   Renationalise; Revolutionary Cheka; Billy Elliot; IBT buzz

ISO Zimbabwe: Defend worker MP   —   Jim Blackstock calls for workers to rally to the support of Munyaradzi Gwisai, the socialist MP for Highfield, Harare

European unity   —   Statement of the European conference of the anti-capitalist left, held in Paris on December 5 and attended by organisations from France, Denmark, Norway, Luxemburg, Portugal, Cyprus and Britain (Socialist Alliance, Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Party, Scottish Socialist Party)

Scotland and working class unity   —   Neil Davidson, SWP member and author of The origins of Scottish nationhood, argues that the Scottish nation is a reality, but socialists should not make a principle out of arguing for its separation from Britain

Socialist Alliance, RCN and the fight for a workers' party   —   Dave Craig (RDG) asks if the CPGB is fighting to lead the RCN forward and demonstrate to the non-CPGB members the superiority of its leadership