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At last we have passed the half way mark in the £3,000 received a total of £1,560.08, of which £236.87 has arrived sin Among the latest donations are ES £10; Oxford £21.81 ; Hull £2; Birmingham £19; Newcastle £20; South London £25; Winsford £10; Coventry £10; CC £2; SM £4; Liverpool £20.05; Leeds £33; VG, Hackney, £2;

With the end of Phase 2 of the Social Contract and whole sections of workers preparing to fight for substantial pay increases there are clearly big class battles looming. In this situation, the fight against the union bureaucracy who intend to do all in their power to hold back, head off and defeat such struggles assumes crucial importance. If we are to be in a position to take up that struggle and pose before sections of workers in struggle a programme to defend living standards against the attacks of the Liberal-Labour coalition government a weekly paper is essential. It will mark a qualitative development for the Workers Socialist League and our ability to Central to the fight for the weekly is the raising of the £3,000 fund. At the summer school a number of piedges were made which we hope to report on as they are paid. At the same time a number of fund raising activities have been organised, one of which is advertised elsewhere on this page. But readers are still urged to send in every penny they can afford to help us raise the necessary finance to successfully transform Socialist Press' into a weekly paper in October. There is no time to lose. Send a donation today to: Summer School collection £58.08. intervene in the class struggle.

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