Welcome, Bertrand Russell!

The Week is delighted to report that Earl Russell has agreed to join our board of sponsorse We have in past months been proud to publish his fearless articles, He has with ruthless honesty pillorised Imperialisn as the enemy of peace and freedom, and with great courage aligned himself with the hungry peoples of the Third World against their tormentors, As the most eminent living liberal thinker, it is of symbolic importance that Bertrand Russell has become one of the world's foremost spokesmen against Imperialism. To have his support for our paper is an encouragement of very great value indeed, Perhaps, also, it signals something elses the beginning of the end of t e fragmentation of the British left, and the start of a regroupment in which substantial forces will be gathered to stand firm for principled, socialist, humanist politics. It is now up to our readers: if we are to develop the kind of journal worthy of such aspirations, we must secure the circulation and resources which can carry us firmly into print and on to a mass readership.