Dramatic

Our paper’s weekly income registers some dramatic peaks and troughs. Not as dramatic as the shares in some failing US giants, but enough to make this writer a little edgy. However, after a worrying trough last week we have now once again hit an upward trajectory. Not only are we within striking distance of our monthly target, but we have a serious opportunity to begin 2002 in the black.

Thanks go to comrades TR (£40), GH and PT (both £20), HG and BA with £15, BR (£10) and - last but by no means least - comrade GE with £5. That leaves us with £335, just £115 short of our £450 monthly total - eminently achievable, but only with your continued assistance, comrades.

Robbie Rix

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Number 416

Thursday January 24 2002

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Israeli workers key to progress
The unequal conflict between Palestinians and the mighty Israeli state need the intervention of Jewish workers

Party notes: Perspectives 2002
National organiser surveys the state of the Party

Letters
Hypocrisy; Rail opportunity; Not guilty; Stop the world; Be realistic

Backing the working class
Peter Manson warns the International Socialist Organisation against giving unconditional support to the Movement for Democratic change

A couple of years?
Mike Marqusee's suggestion that the SA needs more campaigning material instead of a paper is not serious, writes Mark Fischer

Where alliance priorities lie
Should we have a Socialist Alliance paper? Leading Socialist Alliance activist Mike Marqusee was asked for his view after the SA independents conference

An independent success
Dave Osler was one of the main organisers of the January 19 Socialist Alliance independents’ conference. Afterwards he spoke to Mark Fischer

Independents set up network
Will McMahon of Hackney Socialist Alliance reports on the 'SA Indy' conference

Coy comrades
SA members attending the independents’ meeting in Birmingham were not keen to reveal their identities. Mark Fischer asks why

Media red scare shows alliance potential
Michael Malkin argues that the current media hysteria points the the logic of party

WSA journal launched
Cameron Richards reports on the fourth annual conference of the Welsh Socialist Alliance

• Key resolutions
  Socialism in Wales; Closer links with SA; WSA publication

Socialist Party fails to split Nottingham SA
SPEW's cynical attempt to create an alternative national alliance have floundered at the first hurdle. Liam Hughes reports

Impatient sectarians slink away
Alan Fox reports on the 'departure' of Red Action from the Socialist Alliance - an organisation it never joined

DSS staff strike for safety
After two days of strike action in December the dispute between PCS members and management has reached a critical juncture. Mark Fischer spoke to Lee Rock, the PCS London regional organiser and CPGB member, about the origins of the dispute and the way forward

Learn the lessons
Derek Hunter reviews Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday

Our history: Communists unite
Articles from The Communist on the second communist unity congress

US exacts revenge
Taliban prisoners in Camp X-Ray are experiencing first-hand Bush's new world order, writes Eddie Ford