donations and IOUs we have raised another £3,000.
for their donations:
Norwich IMG S.W. London IMG ow. London teachers 6. birchall S.W. London reader Central London IMG S.E. London IMG Cardiff steelworkers 1. Chadwick Oxford IMG sudan readers Lancaster reader Newcastle IMG Header Sheffield IMG Preston IMG Manchester IMG Bath IMG Bath reader Bristol IMG converted rapidly into hard cash.
IMG made 87 per cent of their target.
ward to the Scottish centre! amounted to over £780, and together with last minute branch We would like to thank the following individuals and branches A. Balzar L. Holley Reader Hackney IMG Birmingham IMG N. London Whittington Hospital workers Reader Sale of IMG material Scottish and Newcastle comrades collection on coach to FI educational school IMG Scotland Comrade JB 42.50 Rally collection IOUS.
Comrade H.
Comrade S. (London)
West London IMG Dr Bruce Comrade A. (Herts)
As the final target was reduced from £15,000 to £10,000, we have adjusted the area targets accordingly on the accompanying graph. We have included the IOUs in the final figures as we are confident that these will be Our especial congratulations to the North East and Scotland - these areas are some of the worst hit by unemployment and cuts in the standard of living, but with the drive for a Scottish centre behind them the North East comrades went nearly 50 per cent over their quota, while the Scottish Since Scotland set itself the largest target of any area (including London), we must say that of all the regions Scotland was the most successful. ForUnfortunately, we also have to say a word about those regions which A plenary session of the Internationa Executive Committee (IEC) of the Fourin anternational was held in Europe in mid-February 1976. Members of the IEC and observers from sympathising sections from some 30 countries were PresCHE The political discussion at the IEC centred aroune ine oroblems of the Portuguese revolution and the civil wal In Angola. Ihree tendencies emerged on the first question, two on the second.
Ineses on an iner necary oalance sneet or ine rortuguese revolution and a resolution supporting the MPLA militarv camp acainsi is ooponents in ine civil war were adopted by large majorINTERNATIONAL cess of being published in the press o These documents are in the prothe Fourth International (the text of the Theses on the Portuquese Revolu tion appears in the 4 March issue of AREA 1170 244.50 YORKS LANCS 1.SS E. MIDLANDS WALES E. ANGLIA 1011.30 LONDON S. EAST 16.3 OTHERS 7011.28 9U two main branches -weeks.
London N1.
Inprecor, the resolution on Angola will be published in the 18 March issue of Inprecor).
tional reports on current developments i opain, as well as on the civil war in Lebanon. It commemorated the death of Comrade George Junglas, a founding member of the Fourth International and its German section who had been a member of the IEC for 25 years. The Plenum voted motions honouring two Angolan comrades killed in the civil war. ar Arab comrade killed in the Oarantina massacre i benut, and the Aroemie comrades killed by reactionary murderers.
The IEC Plenum resolved some org anisational disputes that had arisen in the ranks of the Fourth International in various countries; a new and large United Secretariat was elected; a call AMOUNT contributed least to the Fund Drive. We can only hope that those comrades will try to make up for it over the next weeks by sending especially large donations to the Red Weekly Fighting Fund. In the East Midlands we have Leicester and Nottingham. Only Leicester, which is a small branch, donated money to the fund drive - £20. We wait to hear from Nottingham's fund-raising activity this weekend!
Our thanks also to London IMG who made their new target of £1,000; many areas in London have promised 'more to come' over the next few Although the fund drive has now officially ended, many comrades have informed the IMG Centre of further money in the pipeline. We ask all our readers and members to send in every last penny to the Red Weekly Fighting Fund. The Fund Drive must be the start of a regular fund-raising effort to ensure that the Fighting Fund hits its £500 target every month if the plans to expand and improve the paper's coverage are to become a reality. Send your donations to: Red Weekly Fighting Fund, 97 Caledonian Road, The IEC Plenum also heard informaUnanimous ot ine movernen OWS:
NEW 18779 1333 574% 1bE 1000 5100% 100% 4,000 was issued convening the Eleventh World Congress of the Fourth Internationa (Fifth Congress since reunification), and a provisional agenda for that Cong ress and ine modalities of the pre-con gress written discussion were set.
Ail Inese questions were decicee Du unaninous voles. Unce acain the rour th International has shown that it has learned 1o combine lively and frank political debate, even when conducted in public, with the maintenance of organisational unity and the strengthening of ine comnon orcanisationa framework The proposed provisional agenda for The Elevenin word Congress is as toll 1. World political situation
*10 Portugal/Brazil Red Weekly 18 March 1976
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11th WORLD CONGRESS OF FOURTH PLANNED Last week our total stood at only just over £8,000, but many readers and supporters saved their donations until the Fourth International rally in London on 5 March. Individual donations