Lagging

Ordinarily, this column highlights the generosity of readers who support their paper through the medium of cheque/PO, stamp and envelope.

However, an equally valuable contribution is made by those who have taken out a standing order. The regular gifts of comrades like MM (£60), DO (£50) and RW (£10), who all contribute monthly, become even more important when, as has most definitely been the case in recent times, my post bag is a little on the light side.

We ended July once again in the red, hoping to make up the shortfall in August. So far our hopes have failed to materialise. Comrades PT (£40), TG (£25), AP (£25), KJ (£15), DS (£10), LH (£10), CH (£10), TD (£10) and, last but no means least, comrade NM (£5) deserve our thanks. But their £140 still leaves us a considerable distance from our £450 monthly target. With only one and a bit weeks left our total is £260. Rush me your donations now at the usual addressl

Robbie Rix

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Number 444

Thursday August 22 2002

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Two peoples, two states
Marwan Barghouti is right when he states that both Palestinians and Israelis suffer the consequences of Zionist butchery, writes Maurice Bernal

Letters
Anti-semitic attitudes; Bordering excuses; Mind-blowing; Link solidarity; Christian Taliban; Rotten SSP; Liberating SSP; Irish Pilsudski; Greater Northumbria; Middle class SA; Fischer mode; Dear Leader; Mass strike; 'Regime change' colonialism

Why we're launching a new paper
Statement from International Socialist Group and Socialist Solidarity Network, August 2002

• Paper thin unity
  Marcus Ström responds to the ISG-SSN statement

Controversy and clarification
Mary Godwin gives an overview of this year's Communist University

Summer Offensive 2002
Strengths and weaknesses were highlighted by this year’s campaign, argues Mark Fischer

The fight for unity in action
Mark Fischer opened an important discussion on democratic centralism at this year’s Communist University. This is an edited version of his speech

First British Marxist
David Black of the London Corresponding Committee describes the role and work of Helen Macfarlane, the translator of the Communist manifesto

Bloody revolution
David Moran takes the Party to task for ambiguous formulations in the What we stand for column

Simon Harvey of the SLP: Weird and wonderful
Comrade Harvey looks forward to Socialist Labour's 4th Congress