SPECIAL FUND Back to 12 pages: help us to restore all the cuts

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2nd Internationa If you have a bank account why not consider filling in the Standing Order form printed below.

Bank, Northampton Branch, Code No. Sessions on: Crisis of Imperialism; off.. ... (in words.... ..) world economic crisis; Stalinist account of the Workers Socialist League 5023090153 and make similar payments Reconstruct the Fourth International ing. charging such payments to my/our For more details write to: WSL, BM Box This week marks the return to a 12-page Socialist Press and with it a partial restoration of the cuts we were forced to make at the beginning of the year.

The extra two pages a week mean that in particular we can increase our coverage of industrial news and the struggles against local councils implementing Tory cuts and massive rent and rate increases-coverage which has been unavoidably curtailed since we cut back to 10 pages last January.

So we've made a start. But unfortunately we are not yet in a position to publish Red Youth and h'sman W'orker as completeIy separate papers.

So whenever these publications appear they will as lake four of our twelve see dar aim must cheredimplete the res • 20- x sul made by rai papers *022I x° more.

Bai I • = are to succeed = in r92n... Inc cuts we have been forced to make we depend two things.

Firstly, on top of our monthly fund of £850 we need to raise the £2,500 Special Fund launched last week. The continual rapid rise in inflation hits us two ways. It confronts us with continually rising costs • in producing and distributing Socialist Press: and it reduces the living standards of our supporters and their ability to contribute to our fund.

Expand work

Yet we make no apology in appealing to our readers and supporters to come forward with the money necessary to complete this fund which will. apart from warding off our creditors, ensure the successful return to 12page production and. we hope. leave some cash spare to help expand our international work within the Trotsky ist International Liaison Committer.

The other factor wich can help guaranter the vicess of our return to 12 pages is the fight to sell the We are determined to hold the price down to 20p and with our change to a new printer and a slightly larger page size, you'll be getting more for your money. So we hope this will make it easier for our readers and supporters to sell Socialist Press With hostility to the Tories growing all the time and a major debate about to begin within the Labour Party on the policies the next Labour government should implement. there will be every opportunity in the coming weeks and months to sell Socialist Press at work. at trade union meetings. Labour Party branches, 10 the unemployed and On demonstrations.

Extra copies

We appeal to our readers and supporters to take the opportunities presented and help us increase the circulation and influence Socialis: Prers within the labour movement.'' Take a few extra copies each week to sell. Contact your local Socialist Press seller or write to us at the address below if you would like to receive a few extra copies.

Meanwhile, we urgently need to raise the first £750 of our Special Fund. So far we have £457.00 leaving us £293.00 to raise within the next few days.

Why not send To (your Branch.

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tion today-however large or small. The Special Fund runs until July 18-the beginning of the WSL Summer School -so you can send us a donation each month if you like! Donations should be sent to:

Socialist Press Special Fund BM BOx 5277 London WCIN 3XX Standing Order .....ldate of Ist payment) .... until this order is until this Charging such payments to numbered Since then we have seen Healy's savage retaliation.

In Lambeth the WRP has scandalously attempted to equate the SWP with the National Front because they took the correct stand during the week of action' of opposing rate increases.

Suspended Since then WRP members and supporters on Lambeth Trades Council have fought to remove Vanessa Wiseman from her position as Trades Council President-arguing that since her victimisation by the NUT leadership means that she is suspended from union membership, she is not entitled to be a delegate! This outrageous WRP position has . even been opposed by local members of the Communist Party.

19-26 July 198 crisis: Central America; and the kind of scabbing, sabotaging role that any provocateur would be proud of?

The Newsline is just completing yet another appeal fund, in which no doubt unsuspecting militants attracted by WRP propaganda gave hard-earned cash to "build the party"

Did they know that such funds are being used alongside Redgrave's wealth to muzzle and suppress the labour movement press?

It is high time they were told. We pledge ourselves to fight alongside other Trotskyists to expose the real politics of the WRP to its members and supporters, and to defeat Healy's attempts to sabotage the building of a revolutionary leadership in the British labour movement. 5277, London WCIN 3XX

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SOCIALIST PRES vat day 9 April, 1981