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

Ask for a bankers order form, or send cheques, payable to Weekly Worker, BCM Box 928, London WC1N 3XX

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Number 427

Thursday April 11 2002

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Oppose Sharon and Hamas: Twins of terrorism
James Mallory opposes the anti-semitism of Hamas and their call for the destruction of Israel

Letters
Two-state nonsense; One-state nonsense; Anarchy in Hove; AWL red herrings; SWP not to blame; Gib protest; Jim on decline

• Official Britain on parade
  Maurice Bernal castigates the left for its philistine attitude to constitutional questions
• No militancy from left
  James Mallory calls on the left to ensure that the current monarch goes down in history as Elizabeth the last
  
• Two funerals and the red republicans
  Tery Liddle argues that revolutionaries must organise against the monarchy

• From refoundation to innovation
  Marcus Ström reports on last week’s congress of Rifondazione Comunista
• PRC factions
  Break down of forces at the recent PRC congress
• General strike: For a Third Republic
  The Second Republic is in crisis. The main classes of Italy are set for a strategic confrontation. Rifondazione Comunista needs to fight for a Third Republic and take the lead of reshaping the European left, argues Marcus Ström

Euro referendum: Three tactics and the challenge of continental unity
The Socialist Alliance movement needs to have a full, no-holds-barred debate on the European Union and the euro. More than that, a lead needs to be given in establishing an EU Socialist Alliance. Jack Conrad opens the debate

• Teesside: Campaigns and debate
• Nottingham: Putting people off
• East London: Newham fights back

Party notes: Support the Party
National organiser Mark Fischer announces the Party's campaign to sign up supporters

Workers’ challenge
Peter Manson reports on Trotskyist Arlette Laguiller's challenge in the French presidential elections