Unsung heroes
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This week £60 was donated in this way. And, apart from the obvious financial benefits, the regularity of the donation ensures that we can plan our expenditure in advance. I would ask comrades to seriously consider taking out a standing order. Forms are available from the CPGB address.
Indeed, if it wasn’t for standing orders, then weeks like this would be much harder for us to absorb. Apart from these stalwarts, there was only £40 in my mail bag. Thanks are due to comrades EP (£20), PD (£15) and SN (£5). However, our final total is only £405 - £45 in the red.
This does not augur well for the summer - usually a thin time for the fighting fund. What we need is a couple of hefty donations to tide us over. Any offers?.
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Number 439
Thursday July 4 2002
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Bad apples, rotten system
The world's mightiest country is living on 'tick'. Maurice Bernal assesses
the possible impact of financial scandals in the USA
Letters
What we fight for; More fool you; Eyewash; Sectarian SA; SWPEW; Support
England?; Breakthrough
Disaffiliate of democratise
Marcus Strom calls for an intelligent attitude to the union-Labour Party
link
Europe versus America
With the collapse of bureaucratic socialism the relationship of the former
Cold War allies has cooled. Jack Conrad looks at the changing dynamic
between the US and the EU
'Independents' meet
The second conference of Socialist Alliance ‘independents’ was
a small affair with large numbers staying away - it seems that the flotsam
have fallen out with the jetsam. It was also politically confused. Battered
and bruised from their bad experiences in the sects, the comrades carry
with them all the problems of the past and precious few of its virtues.
The approach remains bottom-up and decidedly localist. When it comes to
big politics - ie, fighting fascism - the comrades appear to want to give
out vainglorious orders to an army that they do not lead. Their vision
of the Scottish Socialist Party is rose-tinted, while in the Socialist
Alliance they have no perspectives other than moaning about the SWP being
a majority. The hard factions in the Socialist Alliance would be ill-advised
to look to these ‘independents’ for answers. Only by taking
the lead - making an SA paper a reality by launching one ourselves - can
we turn such comrades from being part of the problem into part of the
answer
Socialist Party excluded from Euro conference
Last month’s conference of the European anti-capitalist left, sponsored
by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, was held in Madrid.
The Socialist Party was not invited. This is the revealing correspondence
between the SP and a member of the conference preparatory committee
Reality and dogma
Ian Donovan review John Rose's Israel: the hijack state
Imperialism, oil and the House of Saud
James Mallory reviews Saïd Aburish's The rise, corruption and
coming fall of the House of Saud
Paper, plain and simple
Andy Gunton of Streatham SA adds his name to a growing list of
those calling for a Socialist Alliance paper and gives his reasons why
it is so urgent
For those who will come after us
Martyn Hudson reviews Susan Weissman Victor Serge: the course is set
on hope
SWP drags its feet
The SA union conference voted to set up union networks. Peter Manson reports
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