Crucial

Success one month always seems to be followed by disappointment the next. After we bust through our £500 target in February, it seems that readers’ donations have all but dried up in the first week of March. We received just £25 through the post (thank you, comrades GK and FC).

Fortunately however, we have our regular standing order donors to fall back upon - £46 has come through in the first few days of the month. Not marvellous, but the total of £71 at least puts us on our way.

But we need to do better - much better. We cannot afford to be left short in this crucial period, full of all sorts of possibilities. So let me appeal to our web readers in particular - the 7,783 comrades who last week surfed over 16,000 pages on the Communist Party website and downloaded 1,345 copies of Weekly Worker 469.

Please help us ensure our continued presence in cyberspace, as well as in the bookshops and on the streets.

While every little helps, the huge challenges and possibilities thrown up by Bush and Blair’s criminal adventure in Iraq demand finances to match.

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Number 470

Thursday March 6 2003

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Our democracy against their war
Only the working class can consistently champion the anti-war movement, argues Jack Conrad

Letters
Military support; Cross-class; Sad jibber; Weak link; AWL sect; AWL website; Norway; Sexuality; Consent; Jumble

Call to comrades
CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer for activists to up the tempo of their work

Real life inertia
Phil Hamilton reviews the website of the International Socialist Group

Scargill moves against Brar
King Arthur has fallen out with his last loyal courtier. Simon Harvey tells all

Left of Labour
Martin Blum reports on the Socialist Alliance-organised meeting, 'Where is New Labour going?'

Stalin's system of terror
Jack Conrad marks the 50th anniversary of the death of a labour dictator

Part of the movement
Anne Mc Shane interviews Zoe Simon of Artists of Against the War

Whose democracy
Tina Becker reports on an anti-war meeting in Swansea

Low turnout as dispute falters
Peter Manson attended the rank and file firefighters' meeting

Revolutionary guide
Mike Macnair marks the passing of Christopher Hill

Critique is not enough
The Critique conference took place on Saturday. Phil Kent was there

Socialist Alliance AGM 'postponed'
The Socialsit Alliance is dead. Long live the Socialist Alliance, writes Marcus Strom