08.09.2016

‘Modest tax’

Robbie Rix celebrates a flying start

“I’ve finally decided to put a fair proportion of my money where my ideology is,” writes ST. “I’ve set up a monthly standing order for £40 for the Weekly Worker.”

ST says he regards this as a “modest tax” and adds: “Imagine where independent working class media could be - à la Yassamine Mather’s article, ‘An independent voice’ (Weekly Worker August 4) - if every partisan of the working class did the same!”

Excellent news, comrade! And it comes at a time when our September fighting fund has got off to a flying start, thanks mainly to a healthy batch of monthly standing orders, totalling £370. They include £40 each from MS and EW, £30 from ST, SD and CG, and £25 from RK and GD. In addition NW came up with his usual two PayPal donations (for £20 and £5), while GH and FP both sent in cheques for £25. Finally comrades at the joint CPGB/Labour Party Marxists aggregate meeting at the weekend donated £38.

Last week’s paper registered 2,866 online readers - a figure which shows there is a lot of potential out there. But we need a few more of them to donate to our fighting fund to help us reach our £1,750 target each and every month. So far we have £488.

Anyone want to emulate ST?