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{88.50 this week brings our July total to £237.15. this week brings our July total to £237.15. That's less than a quarter of our target.- with three-quarters of July behind us.

This week we thank two Oxford supporters for donations of £20 and £10; Rob Strinati, £20; Glasgow SO supporters, £15; Jeff Slee, £1.50; and Sheffield supporters for £22 they Eleven groups have sent in money towards their targets, and here are the percentages they have so far achieved: Islington leads with 123% (the only group to exceed their target), then come: Southwark/Lambeth, 92%; Glasgow, 55%; Sheffield, 55%; York, 50%; Liverpool 28%; Oxford 27%; Hounslow, 25%; North-West London, 19%; Coventry 14%; Hackney 4%.

We're still waiting for donations from the other groups. They are: Edinburgh, Rochdale, Manchester, Stockport, Wirral, Stoke, Huddersfield, Durham, Leeds, Hull, Halifax, Harrogate, Birmingham, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Basingstoke, Cardiff, Haringey, South All money which arrives in the office by July 31 will be recorded in the July Fund.

There'll be a full list of targets reached - or otherwise - after the break, on August 4. In the meantime send your donations to: The Treasurer, 214 Sickert Court, Essex Rd., London N8. Printed by Fast End Offsed (TU). Rogistered as a newspaper at the GPO. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the SOA.

Yet when the poison comes from the Stalinist state-controlled media, you are prepared to spread it. You swallow some of their most transparent lies and peddle them to the British Labour movement.

Elementary class sympathy should suggest to you that Polish miners did not sit-in NEXT ISSUE: out Thürsday August 4, with more on the fight to save the Common Market, and full coverage of the struggles in the unions and the Iahour Partv. behind the gun-barrels of the military and the "invited" invading armies of the Russian bureaucracy.

We know where our class allegiance lies - with the workers who fought to hold the mines and shipyards against the tanks and troops in Gdansk'and Katowice, who occupied factories in Prague and Budapest against Russian troops, who will rise yet in the very heart of "Soviet" tyranny, the USSR itself.

Socialists will identify with these - the real working class in the Stalinist states who are oppressed, leeched upon by the bureaucracy and denied-rights the British labour movement won a century and a half ago.

But you, Arthur Scargill, identify with the parasitic bureaucrats in the Stalinist states. You align yourself with those who have erected their power on the ruins of free trade unions and independent labour movements and on the bones of many thousands of workers, who hold on to that power at a tremendous cost in working class blood and degradation. Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London One might discuss whether or not the parasitic ruling Stalinist bureaucracies are a fully formed Kinnock: candidate of the lefitalking assure us is in the post.

East London and East London:

ten days to go - and £762.85 to raise!

NI. than a quarter of our £1,000 That's

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