Dig deep

My remarks in last week's paper about (the lack of) dot-com donors has elicited a response from "Digger", who e-mailed me as soon as he read my appeal on our website.

"OK," he writes (I assume it's a 'he'), "I suppose people like me have got into a routine - checking you out every week and taking you for granted. It's like a habit for me to visit the CPGB/Weekly Worker website every Friday evening." But "Digger" undertakes to do what he has not done for as long as he can remember: use "snail mail", in order to send me a cheque.

The comrade also adds that perhaps it would be more rewarding to read all our articles as they come out, rather than having to wait a week for most of them. Perhaps taking out a subscription has something to be said for it after all? Even better, why not pay us by standing order, which is not only more convenient, but cheaper?

That is what comrades DO, AS, PN and EC do - but all of them have opted to pay their subscription fee monthly, not quarterly: i.e., paying at least three times more than the rate. It's not a fortune actually - £6 a month works out at £2 for the sub and a £4 donation. Any more readers fancy helping us out in this way?

Our February fund starts off with £86 towards our monthly £400 target.

Robbie Rix

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

Number 370

Thursday February 8 2001

Tube strikers defy injunction   —   Peter Manson declares the key element in the fight for safety, a decent service, and working conditions is workers' own self-activity

SSP: Fight for unity   —   Martin Blum calls on comrades Sheridan and McCombes to break with Scottish nationalism

Welcome move   —   Mark Fischer greets the statement on revolutionary unity issued by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty

Call for a single party   —   An appeal by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty for the unity of the working class socialist left

Letters   —   Emails and SWP sabotage; Marx and the Jewish question; Dialectical parting shot

CWI crisis: Changing the world   —   A comrade from the Militant tradition reflects on the parting of the ways

Rescuing Lenin and Trotsky from 'Trotskyism'   —   Jack Conrad sees a distinct chance of uniting all serious revolutionaries in Britain in a single organisation

No immigration controls   —   Jim Gilbert and Tina Becker were among those adopting Louise Christian as SA parliamentary candidate for Hornsey & Wood Green

Full throttle   —   Marcus Larsen reports on the February 3 Socialist Alliance executive meeting

Organs for sale: The real grave-robbers   —   Ian Donovan opposes the Blairite and Tory witchhunt against doctors