Dot-com donors

We received an unusual donation this week. Not that there was anything strange about the £20 cheque from comrade DG in and of itself.

What was different is that he does not subscribe to the Weekly Worker. Nor does he buy it from a bookshop, nor from his local CPGB contact.

Like hundreds of others, DG reads it on our website. He writes: "This is in appreciation for you not being afraid to print views you don't agree with." He is one of around 1,000 who read us on the web each and every week, so perhaps our open publication is appreciated by others as well. However, not too many of them have as yet demonstrated their approval in the same way. Most remain singularly anonymous.

True, dot-com readers see only two articles from the current issue and have to wait a week for the rest. Nevertheless they are clearly voting with their mouse when they click onto www.cpgb.org.uk So, comrades, can we have a few more following the example of DG? His gift helped make up the £140 we received this week. That left us £45 short of our £400 monthly target for January - £45 we should aim to make up next month. How about it, all you red internet freaks?

Robbie Rix

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Thursday February 1 2001

Defy the injunction   —   Derek Goodliffe calls for a Socialist Alliance challenge on London Underground

Socialist Alliance: Programme and the misreading of history   —   Jack Conrad explains how Trotskyism - Cliff included - degenerates Leninism and espouses economism

Join, join now   —   CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer urges support for a mass, democratic, and centralised party

Letters   —   Main problem; State racism; Dead end

Establishment steals Nazi holocaust   —   Eddie Ford lambasts the Blair government's official anti-racism

Karl Marx and religion - part two   —   Michael Malkin discusses Marx's critique of religion in the early 1840s

Taaffe's hypocrisy   —   Harry Paterson finds contrasting the cases of Lawrie Coombs and Tommy Sheridan a revealing exercise

Socialist Alliance roundup   —   Hackney SA takes lead; candidate selection in Manchester; uplifting launch in Exeter