Virtual morality

Upgrading our paper from eight to 12 pages from April 12 was a bold decision. Comrades responsible for writing, editing, proofing and production were already overstretched. But the approaching general election, the rapid growth of the Socialist Alliance and rising tempo of its campaigning demanded a stepping up of our fight to raise the level of left unity from alliance to party.

Already our boldness has been rewarded. More comrades are writing, sales have risen, so have subscriptions - and donations. The last days of April took us to £507, surpassing our new £450 monthly target and knocking £57 off the £150 deficit from lean winter months.

And the May fund began with a fine piece of socialist morality - £5 cash given on the London May Day action by an SWPer who reads the Weekly Worker free on the web. Such real support from our virtual readers - who now outnumber our paper readers - is vital.

Robbie Rix

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

Number 382

Thursday May 3 2001

They won the streets ... We're winning the battle of ideas
Andy Hannah gives the view from inside the police ring of steel around Oxford Circus

Letters
SA inaction; Celebrate May Day; Plea for politics; SA swamp; Moralising; Welsh weakness

Unison mimimum wage demo - Bureaucracy confronted
Derek Hunter reports on the less than friendly attitude of Unison stewards on the recent low pay march in Manchester

May Day - 'Officials' march
Michael Malkin surveys the modest size of the official May Day celebrations

Our history special supplement - From war to aborted general strike
The first of two special supplements marking the 75th anniversary of the General Strike

Socialist Alliance news and reports

• Fight racism, build the alliance
  Peter Manson speaks to SA candidate for Bradford South, Ateeq Siddique
  
• Nottingham - Global issues
• A candidate's diary
• Hackney - Socialist Party snubs united fightback
• Brent and Harrow - Racism of chauvinism?
• Salford - Oldham in our sights
• Greenwich and Woolwich - Left unity 'one day'
• Teesside - Scargill challenged
• Welsh Alliance steps up challenge
  

And
Troubled Waterson; Red devil; It must be the uniform; Abracadabra

East London fighting back
Darrell Goodliffe reports on the struggle over cuts and redundancies at Hackney council

SWP enters SSP - May Day unity
Sarah McDonald reports on the ramifications and potential of recent events in Scotland