Phone it through

Well, with two days still to go, we have passed our £450 target for the month. Thanks go out to comrades JK, BJ, CF, DR and SW for their donations, which have taken our total up to £464.

But now we really do need to eat into that £150 shortfall built up in the early months of the year. The July fund starts on Monday next, so that allows at least a couple of clear days for comrades to boost our total. Post your cheque or postal order first class as soon as you read this and it will reach us in time. Failing that, if you miss Saturday’s post, why not phone through your pledge? So long as we know your letter is on its way, we can add it to the June figure.

Keep the Weekly Worker on a firm financial footing and help us in our fight for the single working class party we need.

Robbie Rix

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Thursday June 28 2001

A sick society
Mark Fischer looks at the Bulger controversy and argues for a communist morality

Letters
Future party; Bulger; Transitional; Six years too late; SLP competition

Towards a republican socialist party
Position paper by Chris Jones, chair of Merseyside SA and a member of the Revolutionary Democratic Group

End division
Letter, dated June 21, sent to Arthur Scargill’s SLP following a unanimous decision of the Socialist Alliance executive

Socialist Alliance reports

• Hackney: Fight for democracy
  The antics of the Socialist Party damage unity but the Socialist Workers Party must learn new ways. The chair of Hackney Socialist Alliance, Anne Mc Shane, writing in a personal capacity, calls for a commitment to democracy and unity
• Greenwich and Woolwich: Call for party grows
• Waltham Forest: Clumsy control-freakery

Trotsky and Lenin's 'Testament'
Paul Flewers examines indications of a changed outlook

Union fire warning shot
Ian Donovan looks at continuing rumblings within the trade union movement and its relationship with New Labour

FBU political fund
Matt Wrack clarifies the recent vote at the Fire Brigades Union conference

Racism and corruption
Mary Godwin discusses cricket and the 'Tebbit test'

Debating reactionary anti-capitalisms
JIm Gilbert looks forward the the forthcoming CPGB weekend school

Europe and the left
Does the Socialist Alliance have a euro fault line? Darrell Goodliffe investigates