Paper responsibilities

Naturally, Weekly Worker readers will be shocked by the revelation that British companies - in the words of The Guardian - are “failing in their corporate social responsibility”.

According to its survey the 100 biggest companies in the UK are contributing just 0.4% of their pre-tax profits to charity and “community projects” - apparently less than half the average set by American businesses. Digby Jones, director general of the CBI, commented: “I will be calling on my members to get better engaged in society, not just here in Britain, but wherever they operate.”           

We too in the Weekly Worker would appeal to all our readers to give a definite percentage of your income. Comrades, remember your pro-party responsibilities! Yes, we want your donations, and we are sure you can manage better than the CBI bosses - at least in terms of proportion.

Last month we met our £450 monthly target with relative ease - leaving us £27.50 in the black. So we have high expectations for this month. And we are on track. Thanks go to comrades TR and CM (£25 each), AE (£20), FG and JK (£15), TL and MD (£10), and ER (£5) 

This brings our total so far to an encouraging £125. Comrades, let’s make sure we bust through our target again to compensate for the deficit built up in the early part of the year.

Robbie Rix

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Number 407

Thursday November 8 2001

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SLP split
Simon Harvey's reports on schisms at the top of Scargill's Little Party

Letters
Afghanistan problem; Reactionary peace; Church against war; Drugs

Scottish Socialist Party: CWI's Stott resigns
Taaffe's man in Scotland stands down. Sarah McDonald takes a look

CPGB aggregate: Politics of growth
Mary Godwin reports on the recent members' meeting

Greenwich SA: Strengths and weaknesses
We need a united working class party to lead the anti-war movement, argues Alan Stevens

Socialists tail islamic reaction
Eddie Ford looks at the SWP's fiasco in Birmingham

• SWP collaborators
  An account by Iranian comrade, Arash, of the October 29 Birmingham anti-war meeting

Taliban bloc
Bob Pitt replies to criticism of his support for reactionary anti-imperialists

Class struggle fightback
Alan McArthur, one of the organisers of last weekend’s Unions Fightback conference, reports for the Weekly Worker. Comrade McArthur is a member of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and the industrial editor of Action for Solidarity

Unison United Left: Significant advance
Eryk Karas and Lawrie Coombs were at the founding conference.

Sectarianism and a binary constitution
Jack Conrad argues that there are right and wrong ways of fighting sectarianism and achieving unity

Follow the SSP example
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that the December 1 conference of the Socialist Alliance should agree on the eventual aim of transforming the SA into a party

Our history
Women and the revolution, 1921

Sectarian patch-up
The events of recent days have only served to underline the need for a genuine democratic solution in Ireland, writes Michael Malkin