Real need

Though submerged by the saturation coverage  of the imperialists’ drive to war, snippets of other news occasionally surfaced this week. One item that caught my eye was the ballot for strike action by the Professional Footballers Association.

Given that the PFA has some of richest members of any ‘union’, its cry for alms has a slightly hollow ring to it. Our call is, however, born of a real and urgent need. Thanks go out to those who answered that call this week - YI with a £20 donation, MD and PM, who weighed in with £10 apiece, and JB (£5).

However, that was all that landed in my in-tray. So we are left with a total of £261, with the clock ticking on. There are only three days to go, yet our monthly £450 target is not even within sight. Now is not the time to be frugal, comrades. Rush me your donations to ensure that we don’t end September with a serious shortfall.

Robbie Rix

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War against war
Where the TUC and the Labour Party NEC have bowed before the war hysteria, the Socialist Alliance must fight for peace through taking up the weapons of class war, argues Eddie Ford

Party notes: 'Correct' us
Mark Fischer urges the left to have thicker skin

Letters
CPGB wild talk; United left; Proceed urgently; Open letter; Mea culpa; Clever scholars; Multiculturalism

SA executive: Put alliance in forefront
SA executive committee member Marcus Larsen calls for the alliance to give the anti-war movement direction

The main enemy is at home
Only the working class can end war for good, writes Anne Mc Shane

Stop The War launched
The SWP insists that the anti-war coalition should be established along the lines it determines. Tina Becker reports

Manipulation and chaos
Tina Becker describes SWP anti-democratic shenanigans at the launch of Stop The War

Countering war propaganda
Carly Walker reports on the launch of Media Workers Against War

War raises Tory hopes
The Buch-Blair war front may provide the beleagured Tories with a shot in the arm

Working class approach
Anne Mc Shane reports on the September 21 anti-war rally

Socialist Alliance reports

• Welsh Socialist Alliance: Overcome hesitancy
• Scottish Socialist Party: Mobilising against war
• Teesside: Poor substitutes
• Southwark: Combatting war drive

Alliance's futile sectarianism
Labour Party member Bob Pitt, editor of What Next?, dismissed the Socialist Alliance in his address to last month’s Communist University as ‘serving no purpose’. This is an edited version of his remarks

Minority rights
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group criticises the slogan, ‘For a democratic and effective Socialist Alliance’

Our history
Labour Party affiliation: For and against

Adams feels pressure
‘War on terrorism’ puts heat on Sinn Féin, writes Peter Manson