Seasonal shift

February's fund seems to have been a case of the winter blues. Our total has crept up to a paltry £247, leaving us well short of our monthly £400 target.

Comrades can perhaps take a glimmer of inspiration from the coming seasonal shift. Spring is, after all, the time when the trees are breaking into bud, daffodil bulbs surge upward through replenished soil and the air sings with hope.

Readers will forgive the clumsy metaphor, but this is precisely the process we see in the sapling Socialist Alliances. A thousand flowers bloom and we want the Weekly Worker to engage with every single one. To do this though we need our readers to be similarly inspired. Don't just watch the flowers, comrades: help us pick them with your donations to our fighting fund.

Thanks this week to TR (£10), DC (£10) and CG (£20) for their gifts.

Robbie Rix

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Thursday March 1 2001

Prioritise democracy   -   Jack Conrad finds the 'priority pledge' submissions to the SA's Birmingham conference sadly instructive

Imagine no nationalism   -   Peter Manson examines national divisions amongst the British left

Letters   -   Animal rights; All perverts; Respect

AWL contradictions   -   Phil Watson attended the February 22 AWL-hosted round-table discussion on revolutionary unity

Haringey SA: No politics, please   -   Tina Becker reports on a minority resolution

Karl Marx and religion, part 3   -   Michael Malkin continues his study

Myths, half-truths, and a moderate climate   -   Anne McShane reviews Imagine

Ironic genius?   -   Tom Pearson ponders the rapper's impact

SA roundup   -   Cambridgeshire; Greenwich & Lewisham; Teesside; Tyneside