Resolving to pay

The fight to reach our increased monthly target of £500 got a much needed boost this week with a couple of regular pledges in the shape of two new standing orders.

HK writes: “I kept meaning to send you a cheque but I kept forgetting last year. My new year resolution is to remember the Weekly Worker.” And to make sure he sticks to it, the standing order form on the back of his renewed subscription is duly completed - and for a very useful sum of £20 per month.

Then there is FT whose standing order is for a monthly £10 - which means that these two comrades between them have already accounted for more than half of the extra £50 we need to raise. Thanks this week also go to PU (a one-off £20), together with a number of smaller donations from comrades GT, LN, BC, PO and DS. Our January total stands at £237.

While these donations are all gratefully received, once again I have all those anonymous web readers of the Weekly Worker in my sights. Last week 8,059 logged on - and then for the most part logged off without entering comments at the end of any of the articles they read.

Comrades, let us know what you think and who you are. Even better, why not put your money where your mouse is?

Robbie Rix

Ask for a bankers order form, or send cheques, payable to Weekly Worker, BCM Box 928, London WC1N 3XX

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Number 463

Thursday January 16 2003

The Weekly Worker is available from bookshops across the United Kingdom or can be delivered direct to your door by completing our online subscription form.

Blair promotes panic mongering
We must pursue an independent working class agenda which links the fight against war to the fight for socialism, argue Tina Becker and Mark Fischer

Letters
War on islam?; Popular fronts; Childish; Correction 1; Correction 2; Diversion; Not so bad; Forced Welsh; Lernu!; Snow White; New editor;

Online scaffolding - 200,000 hits
Phil Hamilton continues his survey of the left on the web with an assessments of the Communist Party's website

Rail action hushed
Two Aslef members refused to transport arms equipment to the Glen Douglas Nato depot. Only The Guardian and the Morning Star have reported it. Ronnie Mejka asks why

‘Focus, everyone. Focus’
The Stop The War Coalition conference on January 11 was a step forward. However, as Mark Fischer reports, some political time bombs are ticking away inside the movement

Open up dialogue
Jemal, a young supporter of the Muslim Association of Britain, spoke at the Stop the War Coalition conference against the AWL’s call to sever relations with his group. Mark Fischer spoke to him afterwards

Chance for a better world
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is the leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain. He talked to the Weekly Worker

ANC moves further right
Expelled member of the South African Communist Party Dale McKinley looks back at the December 16-21 congress of the ruling party

No to Blair's boycott
Mary Godwin looks at the current furore over the English cricket tour of Zimbabwe

Bourgeois revolution and Walter Mitty polemics - part 6
In his penultimate article in response to Sean Matgamna's rambling 'Tour de CPGB' Jack Conrad looks at the AWL's republicanism

Licensed to kill
Stan Keable attended a vigil outside Tottenham police station protesting at deaths in custody

Due for a victory
At the end of the Stop the War Coalition conference, Mark Fischer spoke to Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn about the situation in the Labour Party