Looking forward

Last week I appealed for “a sustained bout of giving”. Unfortunately, my plea has largely fallen on deaf ears.

However, some among you did respond. Thanks this week are due to comrades LK (£20), PH (£15) - not forgetting PM and MD with £10 apiece. That gives us just £350 towards our £450 monthly total - a shortfall of precisely £100 for May’s fund with just one day left to go. Achieving our target for May is possible (if, of course, comrades act). Unless you do we are left looking forward to next month’s fund.

Traditionally the summer months are lean. However, our likely shortfall for May makes it especially urgent that comrades remember their paper in June.

Robbie Rix

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Number 434

Thursday May 30 2002

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Mobilise the members: Coup in the PCSU
The attack on union democracy by rightwing forces around Barry Reamsbottom must be met with a mobilisation of the membership, argues Peter Manson

Letters
Anti-SP spite; SSP outrage; SWP mushrooms; Palestine; Right to speak

Confident of our ideas
Martyn Hudson reports on the CPGB's successful school, 'Rebuilding working class politics'

Welsh Socialist Alliance: What kind of nationalism?
Cameron Richards reports on the first day school held by the WSA

Different language
Cymru Goch letter of resignation from the Welsh Socialist Alliance

Forever slaves
Sam Metcalf reports from Nottinghamshire Socialist Alliance

Golden Jubilee frippery
Mark Fischer spoke for the CPGB at the recent WSA day school. He Takes issue with the SWP's Charlie Kimber on the monarchy

Teesside Socialist Alliance: Assessing mayoral elections
SA comrades in the northeast discussed their recent electoral intervention. James Bull was there

Swindon
Andy Newman gives a brief sketch of last Saturday's anti-jubill concert

'Militant' economism and the Middle East
Ian Donovan takes the Grantite tradition to task

Scottish Socialist Party: SSP maverick ruffles feathers
Scottish Socialist Voice's 'Rebel Ink' columnist Kevin Williamson has caused consternation. Sarah MacDonald and James mallory investigate

Dysfunctional system
With socialism no longer appearing a viable alternative, many place their hopes in an ‘internal revolution of the self’. Liz Hoskings looks at the ‘recovery movement’

Sound and mystery
Martyn Hudson reviews John Berger's Selected essays

Lifting the lid on MI5
Michael Malkin reviews the BBC's spy drama, Spooks

Church quits exec
Dave Church of the Walsall Democratic Labour Party has resigned from the Socialist Alliance executive committee. Marcus Ström asked him where he thinks the project is headed