Quality read
The new year has started well for the Socialist Alliance. Thanks primarily to the rail disputes, the SA finds itself in the media spotlight - and, as the old saying goes, any publicity is good publicity. The likes of the BBC, Evening Standard, The Times, The Sun, etc, have been working hard trying to alert the ‘general public’ to the new leftwing menace hell-bent on undermining civilisation.
It is our job to make sure that we give the mainstream media plenty to talk about - ie, to increase the SA’s political impact, ideally in the form of a new SA paper. In the meantime, we need to make sure the Weekly Worker - the best partisan publication of the Socialist Alliance - remains on a firm financial footing.
So we were delighted to receive the following letter from comrade OG: “Congratulations on your extended Christmas edition, especially the articles on Blake, Proudhon and also the ‘Origins of islam’ - a quality read. Enclosed is £10, my old age pension Christmas bonus from the government. I cannot think of a better use for it! All the best to you at the Weekly Worker for 2002.”
Special thanks also goes to comrade AC for his excellent £40 donation. Not to mention comrades LK (£20), DH (£15), VH and JK (£10), together with GH, YT and WR (£5 each). This means we have now reached £210. Not a bad effort, comrades, but it leaves us less than halfway to our £450 monthly target. Considering that we ended 2001 with a shortfall, readers and supporters will have to step up their efforts over the next two weeks.
Robbie Rix
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Number 415
Thursday January 17 2002
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Socialist Alliance needs a paper
Lindsey German of the SWP thinks the SA needs a paper “like a hole
in the head”. Tina Becker agrees
Letters
Lies; Vote no to euro; Workers Power, innit?
No witch hunt on the rails!
The attacks on leading rail militants like Bob Crow and Greg Tucker illustrates
a certain unease amongst the rail bosses and the media, writes Eddie Ford
Controversial debates
The Welsh Socialist Alliance will be debating the war in Afghanistan at
its upcoming conference. Cameron Richards surveys the field
Clarity on Labour needed
Marcus Larsen reports on the recent meeting of the Socialist Alliance
executive
Separate church and state
The Church of England is at the heart of the anti-democratic constitutional
monarchy system of the UK state. Challenging it falls to communists and
the working class, writes Michael Malkin
Abolish the second chamber
James Mallory takes a communist view on the recent controversy of the
House of Lords
Puff, piss and princes
In the jubilee year, the Socialist Alliance would do well to pay close
attention to efforts to rebrand the British monarchy. It would be too
easy simply to dismiss developments such as the fuss around young Harry’s
little faux pas as irrelevant to the class struggle. A profound mistake,
argues Ian Mahoney
Crisis in Zimbabwe: No to dictatorship!
No to neo-liberalism!
Statement of the International Socialist Organisation
Teesside gets going
Lawrie Coombs reports
Call for rival SA
This motion, in the name of the Socialist Party, is to be moved at a meeting
of Notts Socialist Alliance next week
Obituaries
Paper commitment
The recent aggregate of CPGB members discussed the future of the Weekly
Worker
Who’s dumbing down?
Ian Donovan defends the CPGB’s consistent democracy over Afghanistan,
Israel and Palestine
Our history
National liberation and workers’ revolution
Zimbabwe 'anti-imperialism’
Interview with Tafadzwa Choto of the International Socialist Organisation
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