Appreciation

Despite a last-minute flurry of donations, we just failed to reach our new £500 monthly target in January. Thanks to gifts from FK (£25), PC and PL (£20 each) and a number of standing order transfers, our first fund of 2003 ended tantalisingly short with a total of £485.

OK, we are already up on last year’s average, but we really do need to make the full £500 each and every month. Part of the problem, I believe, is that comrades are so busy with various meetings and campaigns - Socialist Alliance, Stop the War Coalition, firefighters’ support groups, etc - that they simply neglect ‘minor’ tasks like putting that cheque in the post.

I know that what we do is appreciated - for example, 7,355 people logged onto www.cpgb.org.uk last week - but too few comrades show their appreciation in concrete form. So, if it is a question of simply forgetting to send a donation to the paper, you know the answer: arrange for a monthly standing order. Just a few extra reliable and regular SOs would actually make a big difference.

Made that new year’s resolution yet?

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 465

Thursday January 30 2003

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Imperialism split over Bush's war
Divisions above offer opportunities below, if the left has the correct programme, argues Ian Donovan

Letters
Paedophilia; Odd bunch; Worst way; STWC muslims; Objective allies; Stageist; Bedfellows; Democracy; Class not race; Welcome here?; Tribunal hearing; Liverpool

Tweaking required
Phil Hamilton continues his journey around the web with a look at the website of the Scottish Socialist Party

Stuck in limbo
Cameron Richards reports on the recent 5th conference of the Welsh Socialist Alliance

Covering fire
The joint Communist Party-Alliance for Workers’ Liberty school took place on Saturday January 25. At least, we think it did … writes Mark Fischer

From attack to defence
Chris Jones, former Merseyside FBU brigade chair and a member of the Revolutionary Democratic Group, looks at the questions of leadership raised by the firefighters’ dispute

Welcome political fluidity
CPGB members met to discuss the imminent war on Iraq at the January 26 aggregate

Left need answers
Renee Marsden looks at the latest BNP election success

Galloway exposes weakness
Alan Stevens welcomes Labour MP George Galloway's championing of democratic questions at the recent anti-war meeting in Woolwich

Death agony of ‘old Labourism’
Neither localism nor Labourism but revolutionary republicanism, demands the RDG’s Dave Craig

Chasing votes: two wrong approaches
Tina Becker looks at recent results for leftwing candidates in local elections and finds both wanting

No surrender
John Prescott has thrown down a gauntlet to the firefighters. Peter Manson calls for a political response