No complacency

Our March fund has been boosted by a couple of useful donations that will hopefully go some way towards making up the sizeable deficit we suffered in February. Comrade PM has sent us gifts totalling £30, while comrade SL has come up with a splendid £50. With a little help also from KP, BV and SW, our total has now climbed to £229.

With half of the month still to go, this gives me confidence that we can eat into last month's shortfall of over £150. But there is no time for complacency: we need comrades to treat this matter with some urgency. The Weekly Worker is read by scores of Socialist Alliance activists every week - last weekend's Birmingham conference was a good example, as sales of the paper demonstrated.

We must ensure that it not only continues to get into the hands of SA activists, but that the quality of our coverage improves steadily. And for that we need hard cash. If you value the Weekly Worker's role, please make sure that we get it.

Robbie Rix

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Number 375

Thursday March 15 2001

Sect primitivism and a Socialist Alliance party   -   Jack Conrad criticises a narrow approach to the priorities of the Socialist Alliance

New step to unity   -   Peter Manson reports on Saturday's overwhelmingly positive SA conference in Birmingham

Wise up   -   Mark Fisher argues that without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary party

Letters   -   Rebel rebel; Rat executions; Misleading

Socialist Alliance roundup   -   Dudley; Lewisham; Cambridgeshire;

Auto-Labourism lives on   -   Ian Donovan examines the SWP and Socialist Alliance

Minimum wage: Calculated insult   -   Phil Watson decries the half-hearted reformist culture that leads to reformist politics

SSP-SWP talks: Moving closer   -   Carol Newson notes Chris Bambery's final attempt at overcoming organisational obstacles

PCS Left Unity   -   Kevin Kelly reports Mark Serwotka will be keynote speaker at the Left Unity conference

Eradicated from history   -   Harry Paterson reviews a CD of Nikolai Roslavets's Piano trios Nos 2-4

Breaking off links   -   US International Socialist Organization's Steering Committee document circulated to all affiliates of the SWP's 'international', the International Socialist Tendency