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WE'VE had f112 worth of response to last week's appeal for donations, including some contributions sent specially to help us in the election £112 is an improvement on the first 2 weeks in May, but it has only brancht the total in f1R0 75 -a lone was chant of an 59 MON aneane fas We need a flood of donations now to boost the May fund. Meanwhile, Coventry SO group has set the pace for fund-raising in June. Veteran Social organisers (their last social raised over €75), they've planned a social to take place immediately after an SO public meeting on June 17, organised to discuss the way forward after the elections. Other groups should follow their lead, and make their own plans now, I too. It'll be too late if you wait till after the election.

Thanks this week to: Dai and Sarah Stephens, £50 to help with work around the election; a donor in York, who sent £10 to 'aid the struggle • for a Labour victory'; for £10 donations to Cheung Siu Ming, a supportel in Putney, and Alan Clinton; for £5 donations to Jo Thwaites, Bob Sugden, a supporter in East London and Stephen Corbishley; and this week's contributions from Brent supporters, Christine McKimmie, £1, and Matt The Treasurer, 214, Sickert Court, London N1 2SY.

COREROOL OCCUS period.

May.

Hanlon, £1.

Send donations to. should not personalise the issue, but make a call to all governments!

Between here and Birkenhead, the only sign of life on the march comes from the supporters who are chanting anti-Tory, anti-nuclear slogans. There were banners from the Wirral support march -Labour Party, Trades Council, CND, and NALGO.

At Birkenhead we heard that the CP marshals were furious because one of the speakers at the rally raised the question of women and unemployment. I made a speech of thanks, and then we were bussed to Liverpool Students' Union. I was looking forward to hearing the Au Pairs, but they're not on because apparently they've split up.

9.5.83: Breakfast was good, the student union accommodation the best so far. On the way to the rally, stopped at a picket line at 'Lady at Lord John', where the Party, dockers, etc. all started chanting their own slogans like "Occupy, Organise, Kick the Tories Out"

It didn't take the CP long to bring their megaphone over to where we were chanting to try to drown us out with 'official' and 'non-political' slogans. After a while we simply added our slogan onto the end of the CP's. This really wound them up, and one of the marshals started ranting about what we'd done in the class struggle compared to his record. The replies he got from some of the Liverpool miliiants soon shut him up.

We arrived in St Helens (about 22 miles from Liverpool) and were received at the town hall. Here we were. told where we'd be staying. Me, my mate John and a CP branch secretary ended up staying at the very large house of two Tribunite teachers. For the first time since the march began I had a bed to sleep in! from people in the streets. Even the little kids in an infants school were singing "Maggie Out" pockets of a wealthy few. possible and against anti-Tory slogans. Thinly veiled threats to throw us off if we continued to chant "Maggie Out"