Money worries
In a fundraising - though not, of course, a meteorological - sense, the summer drought has well and truly started. Comrades no doubt have numerous additional pressures on their finances. Our Summer Offensive may be just about to finish, but I am sure that, among other things, comrades are hoping for a well deserved break from it all.
However, it is imperative that you don’t forget your paper - especially as we finished last month with a shortfall of £45. Two consecutive months in the red, while not doing irreparable damage to our finances, is hardly desirable - not least because it increases the expenditure of yours truly on headache tablets.
Thanks go out to comrades KL (£20), OG (£15) and RD (£5) this week. The meagre total of £40 towards our £450 target speaks for itself. Rush us your donations now.
Robbie Rix
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Number 440
Thursday July 11 2002
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Organise to win
Alan Stevens looks forward to the largest local government workers' strike
in 23 years
Letters
AWL economism; Union link; Hopeless; SA independents; Kiwi alliance; Support
England; House prices; US and al Qa'eda; State socialism; Rail sabotage
End of an era
Dave Douglass of Yorkshire NUM looks back at the reign of Arthur Scargill,
who has recently retired as union president
PCS democrats fight back
Lawrie Coombs reports on one of the many meetings around the country in
support of Mark Serwotka
Marxism
2002
The Socialist Workers Party’s annual Marxism school has been taking place all this week. It is one of the major events of the left in Britain - over 1,000 attended the launch rally - and has an impressive range of SWP and non-SWP speakers. As is the norm though, the SWP mainly debates with those to the right of it - debate is therefore a means of confirmation rather than exploration. Moreover the top dominates. SWP leaders and selected platform speakers are given 30 to 40 minutes to expand on their themes - and ample time to reply. In contrast other participants are given a pinched three minutes. Of course, not only do the SWP chairs carefully select floor speakers - but when SWP cadre and rank and file comrades intervene, they often do so simply in order to repeat the existing orthodoxy handed down from above. Because of the importance of Marxism 2002 and the SWP’s bureaucratic approach to debate, this year saw a significant initiative. The CPGB, Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and the Revolutionary Democratic Group sponsored the launch of the Marxism Fringe - something that will be a prominent and growing feature in future years
- SWP and its alternatives
Mark Fischer reports on the ‘Anti-capitalism and party organisation’ course - National or global socialism?
'Internationalism and the new left' was debated at the SWP's Marxism 2002. Sarah McDonald reports - Marx and Sparks
The SWP has launched an arms-length youth organisation. Ian Mahoney takes a look - Debate of a different kind
Susan Whiting looks forward to Communist University 2002
Marxism Fringe
- Political will for SA paper
Mary Godwin reports on the debate at the fringe meeting 'Do we need a Socialist Alliance paper?' - Withdrawal from reality
The case for an active boycott of a future euro referendum was discussed. Peter Manson was there
Crisis of capital, not policies
Maurice Bernal looks at the continuing crisis in corporate America
For genuine democratic centralism
John Pearson of Manchester CPGB believes mistakes were made in redrafting
our 'What we fight for' statement. He explains why
Summer Offensice closes
John Galt marks the end of SO2002
Housmans £14 'libel'
Albert Beale calls for financial support
Left unity in Europe
The European Anti-Capitalist Left held its fourth conference in Madrid
on June 18-19. This is the statement put out afterwards
Entitled to resist
Ian Donovan calls on the workers' movement to oppose identity cards
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