Job in hand

Unfortunately, despite the extension of August’s fund by a couple of days, we fell well short of our monthly target of £450. We received another £55, taking our total up to £347.

This shortfall of more than £100 doubles our deficit for the year - worrying in view of the urgent tasks facing our organisation and its paper over the coming period, not least the vital role the Weekly Worker will play in the run-up to the Socialist Alliance conference in December.

Now that the holiday period is over, we really need to make up lost ground. In that respect September has got off to a good start with a £30 donation from comrade GL. Thanks also to PL, MN and ST for their gifts, which take us to just over the £60 mark. But please, comrades, do what you can. Help ensure your paper is up to the job in hand.

Robbie Rix

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Thursday September 6 2001

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Fighting for unity
Socialist Alliance executive committe member Marcus Larsen calls for closer, more effective unity

• For a democratic and effective Socialist Alliance
  Statement of members' rights

Letters
Multiculturalism; Anarcho-apologia; Anarcho-elitism; Nazi plot; SA programme; Renewing

Welsh Socialist Alliance: Gearing up for assembly contest
Cameron Richards reports on developments in the WSA

For a Welsh Socialist Party
Cymru Goch calls for WSA members to set up a left nationalist party committed to independence

SWP knuckles rapped
The Socialist Worker Platform gets into trouble for reluanching the ANL in Scotland without consulting comrades in the Scottish Socialist Party

Democracy or anarchism
Eddie Ford looks at the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin

Which way for the Socialist Alliance?
The CPGB’s Communist University hosted a roundtable discussion between three leading figures in the Socialist Alliance - Rob Hoveman (Socialist Workers Party), John Bridge (CPGB) and Dave Church (Walsall Democratic Labour Party). These are edited extracts from their initial comments and are followed by responses to the subsequent discussion

Towards a republican socialist party
Dave Craig introduces the Revolutionary Democratic Group’s proposals for the December 1 conference

Prisoners' struggle: Refusing to surrender
The London section of the Turkish left group, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front (DHKC), replies to criticisms of the death fast tactic, contained in ‘Marxists and the politics of suicide’ (Weekly Worker August 23)

Our history
Parliament debate: The amendments

Socialist Alliance: Cementing unity
Marcus Larsen reports on the September 1 executive committee meeting