We're aiming at six sales per member, 5,000 distributed to branches every week. If the branches who are not selling their full quota would pull their socks up and sell the extra 414 papers we would reach our target.
If you're in a branch that's slacking PULL YOUR SOCKS UP!
target. Who would Bill, distributed you enable of our overall total so far. comrades? Just two weeks to go to reach our £2,500 have thought when we launched our fund drive that the steelworkers would still be out on strike at the end of the appeal? Their determination hardened as the strike progressed and the cynical role of the Tories was exposed. But to stay out that long with no pay has meant a tremendous sacrifice, sustained by determination to call the Tories' bluff and show them that the steelworkers are not the easy target they thought they were.
We're not asking our other readers to make such a massive sacrifice. All we're asking is that us to keep getting across the steelworkers' case with the best reportage on the left. To do that we want your Fivers to Fight the Tories. That's not much to ask. Exactly 250 supporters have sent us a fiver, making £1,250 Just as the steelworkers are making a last sustained effort to win their struggle let's make a final push over the next two weeks to reach our fund drive target of £2,500. We still have hundreds, indeed a few thousand readers who have not sent us a fiver. We could smash right through our target if just a small proportion respond to this last appeal. How about it
I WOULD like to take up one of the points in your article on black liberation (21 February), which stated the need to 'unite black peoples as a whole in action'.
While it is perfectly true, of course, that there are objective tactors leadine to unitv between the various black minorities, the article seems to ignore the very much stronger forces at present pushing them apart.
State racism oppresses all black people, but it does so in a selective way. Asians are not normally picked up in the street tor bus' and wes Indian houses are not normally raided by police searching for illegal immigrants.
Furthermore, the media exploit state racism in a divisive way. Asians are convinced that all West Indians are thieves and muggers. Many West Indians believe the Asians are 'spoiling things for black people by continuing to come to Britain.' Although there are individual friendships between West Indians with terrorism?'. The picket is the first step, but it has taken ten years. You are on very dangerous ground to dismiss 'them' Many religious divide was fostered by the British state; the enemy is the British and in Britain, the Loyalist paraTHE CRACKS ARE BEGINNING He sought the facts without despair From information stored with care: ns empty desk is sell ensured n stacks of papers left behind Meteyard acilvues.l MARTIN METEYARD MOVES ON • N. Racine-Jaques, 198| and Socialist up with mass struggles, but that it had no idea what to do with them. A marked feature of the Manchester speeches of Cripps, Maxton (ILP), and Pollitt (CP) was that none of them mentioned the need to challenge the right wing for leadership of the movement as a whole. Cripps summed up their approach perfectly when replying to criticisms of the campaign 'as.. designed to create splits or disunity'. His answer was: "It takes two to make a quarrel and we do not intend to be one of the two!' ••LET US REDUCE IT RUBBLE!
Manchester, which is a few miles down the road.
Black people have to stand firm just to survive the day-to-day harassment meted out by the British stale. Alu Licy stood wrm In support of the Anwar Ditta demonstration, with a large contingent from the Bradford Asian Youth Movement, and black organisations from Bolton and London.
Socialist Challenge has to realise that it's practical support which sorts out anti-racists from liberal do-
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