Bonus

Having chalked up the biggest losses in UK corporate history, Vodafone chief executive Sir Christopher Gent is due to collect the final part of his £10 million bonus. Performance-related, one presumes. And a job well done.

What they would have paid him had he actually succeeded in making a profit one can only guess. When you reward someone so richly for performing so poorly, you - or more accurately your shareholders - must surely have money to burn. Not something that is true of the Weekly Worker. Nor of our supporters.

With the Communist Party’s Summer Offensive in full swing, those who have remembered to keep some cash aside for the Weekly Worker deserve an extra pat on the back.

Special thanks, therefore, are due this week to comrades TR (£30), CM (£25), PD (£20), DF and MC (£15 apiece) and SA (£10). This week’s £115 leaves us with £275 collected towards our monthly target of £450.

Still a fair distance to go, but, after last week’s disappointment, we are at least within sight of ending this month in the black ... so long as there’s more of the same, comrades.

Robbie Rix

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Number 437

Thursday June 20 2002

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Dirty bombs and dirty tricks
The indefinite detention without trial of Abdullah al-Muhajir - also known as Jose Padilla - in the US, represents a massive further attack on civil rights by the Bush administration, writes Ian Donovan

Letters
Two states; Iraq blockade; Green socialist; Election challenge; Awful vote; Swazi solidarity; Death fast; Satpal Ram free; Housing bubble

STWC: Mobilising for September 28
The Stop the War Coalition held a successful event in London on Sunday June 16. John Walsh was there

A reply to comrades
Last week’s paper carried a letter from the Communist Struggle group in the Ukraine, suggesting that our two organisations have the possibility of “fruitful cooperation”. Mark Fischer responds

Summer Offensive 2002: Step up the pace
John Galt reports on progress

Chirac consolidates: Golden opportunity missed
Peter Manson castigates the left for its role in the recent French presidential and parliamentary elections

Permanent coup d'etat
Maurice Beral analysies the Fifth Republic

Scottish Socialist Party: Debating the euro referendum
Jack Conrad calls for an active boycott

Socialist Alliance

• Coup in Wales
  Cameron Richards reports on the SWP antics
• For a socialist Europe
  The Socialist Alliance will decide its attitude to the euro at its conference in October. The following motion is backed by a number of individuals and organisations, including the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, Communist Party of Great Britain and Workers Power
• Neither EMU or ostrich
  Dave Parks expalins his position on Europe

End all immigration controls
Sarah McDonald explains why the workers movement should be unequivical in its demand for open borders