Fair exchange

With the ‘Garbagegate’ scandal in full swing, the recent findings of an opinion poll were a little surprising. Labour has actually increased its standing to 47% despite the revelations that the party received £120,000 from a billionaire who just happened to benefit from a key recommendation for a lucrative deal with the Romanian government.

Unfortunately, I can’t report donations of a similar size to our fighting fund. However, we did have something of a bumper week. Many thanks go to TR (£30), GH and FG (£20 each), DT (£15) and KP with £5. Our readers too believe they will get something in exchange for their donations - a regular fighting voice for the working class party we need.

With one week to go, our total stands at £305, still well short of our monthly target of £450, but with your assistance it is eminently achievable.

Robbie Rix

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Number 420

Thursday February 21 2002

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Zimbabwe fightback: Gwisai arrested - stayaway planned
Peter Manson reports on latest events in Zimbabwe

Letters
Sectarian manipulation; Union politics; Offensive CPGB; Field day; SWP favour

Yarls Wood

• End asylum system
  Abolition of the system of detention centres must be set within the context of a broadeer programme for change, argues James mallory
• Call for action
  Eryk Karas of Bedforshire Socialist Alliance demands a world without frontiers

Brazen arrogance
'Garbagegate' exposes Blair's big business agenda

Crow win boost
Tina Becker welcome the news of Bob Crow's victory

Rembering Chartist Harney
Terry Liddle reports on the February 16 public meeting

Fox-hunting: Humanising our environment
Do communists support a ban on fox-hunting or do we defend the rights of fox-hunters? Danny Hammill examines the issues

Ogmore by-election: SLP vote rocks Welsh SA
Cameron Richards assays the aftermath of the WSA's recent intervention

SSP conference: PC tokenism
The Scottish Socialist Party is tying itself up in bureaucratic knots. Sarah McDonald reports

Advanced and backward
Danny Thompson of Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance and the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that events in the BSA reflect national divisions

Socialist Alliance and the euro: Unsound programme and unsound tactics
Jack Conrad hammers the International Socialist Group over Europe

Struggles for freedom
Andrew Coates reviews Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire

Second wave Trotskyists
Ian Donovan reviews Trotsky and the origins of Trotskyism

Socialist Alliance agrees manifesto
Executive committee member Marcus Larsen reports on the February 16 national council meeting