Solutions
After last month’s disappointing total, which left us with a shortfall of some £175, we desperately need a bumper May. And I am pleased to say that we have got off to an excellent start with a magnificent donation of £100 from comrade MM.
The last three or four weeks have seen a lull - not only in contributions to the fund, but in subscriptions and renewals too. While I am sure it is just a passing phase, for the moment at least we are having to be a little creative in order to meet our running costs.
Thanks also this week to comrades KL, GN and RF (£10 each), as well as a total of £65 in standing orders. We have £195, but that leaves us a long way to go if we are to reach our £450 target - and then go on to make up April’s deficit.
Robbie Rix
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Number 431
Thursday May 9 2002
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For a social third round
The crisis of the Fifth Republic has not been resolved with the election
of Chirac, argues Peter Manson
Letters
Argentina debate; Fascist Le Pen; Israel CP; Upper case; Blushes; Evil;
May Day to forget
British left and French elections
Socialist Alliance member John Bulaitis defends the ‘Vote Chirac’ position
adopted by the reformist left and the Ligue
Communiste Révolutionnaire
May 2 saw local elections in many parts of England, and seven ballots for newly created mayors. The British National Party may have grabbed all the post-election headlines, but there was also a significant left challenge at the council ballot box. James Mallory analyses the results
Tories still in the cold
Maurice Bernal dissects the Conservatives' performance at the ballot box
Doorstep politicians
Mark Fischer talked to the four CPGB May 2 local election candidates in
London and asked them for their impressions of the Socialist Alliance
campaign
Socialist Party member Matt Wrack, author of the Socialist Alliance pamphlet Whose money is it anyway?, addressed the May 5 Weekly Worker open forum on the trade union political funds and the nature of the Labour Party. The comrade argues that the left needs to take a serious approach to both the trade unions and the Labour Party’s historical mass base
Revolutionary history: Lenin and the United
States of Europe
Jack Conrad looks at communist theory and Europe
Class reassertion
Martyn Hudson reviews James Kelman's And the judges said …
Jon Anderson of the International Socialists of Ireland looks at Sinn Féin and left challenges to the established parties in this month’s election
May Day 2002
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