Remarkable

After a month of encouraging returns and exceeding targets, last week has been a bit of a disappointment. Just £63 received towards our monthly target of £450. That takes the total up to £248 for May.

Of course Weekly Worker readers have been pulled in all sorts of different directions in this period. Not only our fighting fund, but the CPGB’s successful Spring Offensive, and obviously the general election campaign itself. It’s quite remarkable that our paper has not suffered, when you come to think about it.

Thanks this week to comrades GL, BJ, VD and PM for their donations - which leave us with just over £200 to raise in exactly two weeks.

Robbie Rix

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Number 384

Thursday May 17 2001

Terry Rogers

It is with great sadness that I have to tell you that our candidate in Tyne Bridge, Terry Rodgers, died suddenly last Thursday. Terry was a lifelong socialist and fighter for the working class. He will be sadly missed.

We believe Terry would have wanted to see his fight to raise the socialist banner in Tyne Bridge continue and therefore the Socialist Alliance will still be standing a candidate in the Tyne Bridge constituency.

Rob Hoveman
SA national office

A full obituary to Terry Rogers is available on the Socialist Worker website.

Operation Red Flag
Jack Conrad issues a call to arms in the final weeks of the election campaign

Letters
Wales matters; Contradictions

Sectarian childishness
The London borough of Hackney has been in crisis ever since the formation of the Labour-Tory coalition - massive cuts, occupations, demonstrations, strikes and prosecutions for huge electoral fraud. If the left were to unite an immediate breakthrough is possible. Unfortunately - though part of the Socialist Alliance - the Socialist Party in England and Wales insists on pursuing its own narrow interests. Hackney SA officers Will McMahon and Mike Marqusee, presented this letter to the Socialist Alliance executive meeting of Saturday May 12 exposing SPEW’s decision to stand in a council by-election in opposition to the SA

Nationalism and tactics
Peter Manson interviews Bob Goupillot, a member of the Republican Communist Network, who is the Scottish Socialist Party candidate for the Midlothian constituency

Socialist Alliance reports

• Manifesto launch - Bold approach pays off
• Executive meets - Moving forward together
• A candidate's diary
• Hackney - SA fights SP wrecking
• Nottingham - Blair ambushed
• Hartlepool - Scargill launches campaign
• Greater Manchester - Salford twin challenge
• Teesside - Links
• Greenwich and Woolwich - Enthusiasm and amateurism

Northern Ireland - Stunt threatens crisis
Trimbles ultimatum could backfire. Michael Malkin investigates

CPGB members' aggregate - Campaign for an SA party
Mary Godwin reports on the recent Party aggregate

Party Offensive tops £22,000
Mark Fischer reports on the successful conclusion of the Party's Spring Offensive

And
Airbrush - 1; Airbrush - 2; Airbrush - 3; Fairweather friend

Dissent in Wonderland
Bill Smith reviews Liz Davies' Through the looking glass

Belief in workers' unity
Bob Paul reviews Ken Loach's Bread and roses