We need your help

Our May fund has been badly hit by the postal strike. I know that many comrades have only just received last week’s copy of the Weekly Worker containing my appeal for a big final effort, and hopefully others will have sent off their cheques.

All the same, our shortfall as we go into June is worrying: just £383 raised in May - a deficit of over £100. But one comrade who was determined we would get his donation was PL. Knowing exactly what the situation would be regarding our mail, he thoughtfully handed over his cheque to a CPGB comrade in his local Socialist Alliance. And for good measure he doubled what he was originally intending to send us. Your £20 is gratefully received, comrade.

But now we need others to do their bit. We cannot rely on getting delayed contributions now the postal dispute is over. Nor can we afford to carry the shortfall - especially in this hectic election period.

We need your help.

Robbie Rix

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

Number 386

Thursday May 31 2001

Canvass, canvass, canvass!
Mark Fischer issues a call to get talking to our class

Letters
SA party impossible; Canvas!; Simon says

Simon Harvey of the SLP - Missing candidates
Simon Harvey continues to chart the 'progress' of Scargill's little party

Towards an SA party
John Pearson interviews Peter Grant, CPGB member and Socialist Alliance candidate for Salford

New England fights back
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group presents his views on Oldham, Britishness and race

Opening up the Star
Stan Keable reports on tensions within the 'daily paper of the left'

Leaving behind the ghost of Cliff
Documents recording changing attitudes within the SWP leadership towards left regroupment

• Letter to International Socialist Tendency
• Introduction to discussion with Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire
• Notes on regroupment

And
Forget canvassing; Its good to talk; Read all about it; And finally

Our history
Overcoming division

MI6 and UK Independence Party - Tories' desperate throw
Michael malkin looks at Tebbit's paranoid attack on UKIP

Socialist Alliance reports

• A candidate's diary
• Greater Manchester - Weakness revealed
• Ipswich - Another defection
• Greenwich and Woolwich - Looking to the future
• Teesside - Labour scared
• Latino support

Anti-left witch-hunt - Prelude to Blair's second term
Darrell Goodliffe warns that smear campaigns against tube militants mark the beginning of a concerted attack