18.06.2015

Keep them coming

Robbie Rix will be gone but not forgotten

This coming weekend sees the start of the CPGB’s annual fundraising drive, the Summer Offensive. So, as from June 21, all donations to the Weekly Worker will also be counted towards the SO target of £30,000 until the campaign ends in late August. I say ‘also’, because money donated to the paper will of course be used for that purpose.

However, from next week, instead of my column you’ll be able to read a weekly update (see p6 for CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer’s introduction to the SO campaign). So, for the last time for quite a while, let me give you the state of play with this month’s fighting fund.

After a good start, it seems to have slowed a little. We need £1,750 every month, but only £240 came in over the last seven days. Which means that, with well over half of June gone, our running total stands at less than half of the target, at £879.

Thanks in particular goes to RL for her £50 cheque, while BN added £20 to his subscription. There were also two PayPal donations - £25 from KT and £10 from DS. Much appreciated, comrades (those two were among the 3,226 online readers we had last week). Last but not least are the standing orders that landed in our account this week - thank you, MM (£75), and AD, DW and KB (£20 each).

Anyway, you will keep you posted on donations for the paper over the next two months - please keep them coming in. As for me, I’ll be back in September!

Robbie Rix