Don’t worry

Another good week has left me confident that November will see us exceed our £450 target and eat into that worrying shortfall for 2002.

Thanks to gifts from GF (£30), KV (£25), RT, TO and SW (£20 each), our total has gone up by £135 and now stands at £397. With over a week to go we really should aim to go well over £500, which would leave us with a good chance of ending the year in the black. At present the deficit for 2002 stands at £134.

Comrade KV’s cheque was accompanied by an admission that he is one of those ‘freeloaders’ who continually read us on the web. Rather guiltily, KV owns up to his sins.

Don’t worry about it, comrade: a standing order form is in the post - all you have to do is fill it in and send it back!

Robbie Rix

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Number 457

Thursday November 21 2002

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No sellout
Firefighters could deliver a blow to Blair's anti-working class agenda if they stand firm, writes Peter Manson

Letters
ESF not radical; No sweat; Different SA; Pitiful result; Tories; Turkey; Lenin wrong; Sloppy polemics; Mark's mates; Stalinist?; Spendthrift firefighters; Berger

Glimpse of what is possible
Tina Becker critically examines the experience of Florence and looks at the prospects for the ESF

Call of the European social movements
Statement presented on the final day of the European Social Forum in Florence

Symbols
Tina Becker assesses the British left's discomfort with the hammer and sickle

Which way for the PRC?
Should Rifondazione Comunista continue to hide its light under a bushell? asks Tina Becker

Towards a European party
Rifondazione Comunista organised a seminar to discuss the reality of a European politial party. Tina Becker reports

Bitter taste of SWP arrogance sours day
Socialist Worker Party clowning was not appreciated by the organisers of the anti-war demo in Florence

No witch-hunts, no expulsions
Danny Thompson of Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance puts his side of recent events

Support firefighters, oppose war
Marcus Strom reports on this weekend's meeting of the Socialist Alliance executive

Building Chris Bambery's 'new' SWP sect
Report of the Socialist Workers Party's recent conference

Where members cannot reach
Sarah McDonald missed the SSP's national council meeting last Sunday. She explains why

Food control
In a situation of economic freefall and rampant Zanu-PF corruption, Zimbabwe is facing hunger on a mass scale. Rosa Zulu of the International Socialist Organisation reports on the first steps towards workers’ self-organisation

Capitalist characteristics
Maurice Bernal casts an eye over recent changes in the upper echelons of the Communist Party of China

Politicising or opting out?
Martyn Hudson reviews Harry Cleaver's Reading Capital politically

Growth of instability
The 'Growth abd stability pact' is in danger. Ian Donovan takes a look at capitalism's 'super-weapon'