New year, new start

Congratulations to all comrades who contributed to our fighting fund throughout 2000. I am pleased to announce that with the final flurry of donations we not only made the £400 monthly target once again in December, but ended in the black for the year as a whole.

That is no mean achievement, especially since that includes the additional £2,200 raised in our special appeal during the spring. In total your generous gifts totalled £6,012. Amongst those received in the final postbag of the year were £30 from JB, £25 from KL, £15 from DS and £10 from TL.

There is no better time than the beginning of a new year to remind readers who wish to donate of the advantage, both for your paper and yourself, of contributing by standing order. A small monthly gift taken automatically from your account will not be missed by most comrades, yet, when multiplied many times over, translates into a very considerable monthly sum for the Weekly Worker. A good portion of the fund is already received in this form.

Why not start 2001 as you mean to continue?

Robbie Rix

Number 366

Thursday January 11 2001

Democracy v anarchism, not SWP v SPEW
"At stake is our democratically decided election protocol, as agreed at the Socialist Alliance national conference on September 30 in Coventry ..."

Letters
Errors about Welsh SA, Misunderstood revolutionary, Cyberspace thought police, Recording Shostakovich, Exposing blue murder, No religion too, Cult-bashing for beginners, Miserable art snobbery, Farewell TUG, hello Healy

Socialist Alliance reports
Lewisham and Greenwich - Five campaigns or one?
Cambridgeshire - Vote against localism
Haringey - Towards a Socialist Alliance party
SWP and SP - Unity on programme, disagreement over seats

Simon Harvey of the Socialist Labour Party
Carry on Scargill
"Arthur Scargill is still maintaining that the Socialist Labour Party will stand 100 candidates in the forthcoming general election ..."

Ways, means and destinations
In the first of a series of strategic articles Jack Conrad discusses the future of the Socialist Alliance

'A breath of fresh air'?
"The Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain condemns the implied and direct threats of violence issued against Workers Unity tendency/Scottish Socialist Party members by the supporters of the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement ..."

Political prisoners in Turkey - Class struggle and rhetoric
"It was under these conditions that the decision to hold hunger strikes was taken by some of the revolutionary organisations and their political prisoners last autumn ..."

PCC statement - "The Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain unequivocally stands in solidarity with the political prisoners being attacked by the Turkish state. The brutality of the state in its attempt to break down political organisation in its prisons is to be condemned and resisted. The PCC, however, holds that revolutionary suicide lies outside the tradition of Marxism and an orientation to the mass of the working class."