March success

When I wrote last week’s column, we were on the cusp of our monthly target. However, thanks to one reader, comrade JS, we were able to surge into the black the very next day. JS sent us a cheque for £100, helping us to overshoot our target by a total of £95 for March.

Despite the generosity of the comrade there is absolutely no room for complacency. We need £450 each and every month. Though we say it time and time again, it remains eternally true that we depend on you to continue. Yet following the success of last month, April has got off to a slow start.

Nonetheless thanks are due to comrades DB and GH with £20 apiece, TP (£15) and PO and RP (£10 each). Which leaves us with a rather paltry £55. To ensure that we build on March’s success, why not send off your cheque today or take out a standing order. Ask us for a form  .

Robbie Rix

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Number 426

Thursday April 4 2002

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Transform apathy into anger
The death of the queen mother has been met with widespread apathy. Peter Manson calls for the left to actively campaign against the monarchy

Letters
SA paper; Uncommitted; Jesus blueprint; My book

Berlin red-red coalition: Partners in cuts
The Party of Democratic Socialism has linked up with the Social Democrat to attack workers in the German capital. Tina Becker reports

Postal workers withhold funds
Maurice Bernal welcomes the decison of the CWU to cut funding to the Labour Party

Boycott in Bedfordshire
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group gives his version of events which have seen a new leadership elected in Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance

NUT conference: Left makes gains
Cameron Richards castigates SWP complacency

Extreme democracy and the limits of capital
There can be no revolution without the masses first educating and empowering themselves through the struggle for extreme democracy, argues Jack Conrad

George Harney and the dialectics of equality
Britain has two traditions. One is officially promoted in the media, the church and schools. The other lies hidden. One is the tradition of kings and queens, pomp and deference. The other tradition is republican, revolutionary and democratic. Hence, as we approach the establishment’s well crafted celebrations of the royal jubilee, Chris Ford of the London Corresponding Committee begins our series of counterblasts with a discussion of physical-force Chartism

We are all terrorists
Fahim Ahmed, a prominent campaigner for Palestinian rights and a member of the Stalinite wing of the Socialist Labour Party, was held under Blair’s draconian anti-terrorist legislation. This is an edited account of his treatment at the hands of the state’s forces

For two states
As the Israeli right prepare for a final solution James Mallory calls for a Palestinian state