03.09.2015

Feel free

Robbie Rix returns

Our September fighting fund has got off to an excellent start, with no less than £414 received towards our £1,750 target in the first couple of days of the month.

That includes £75 from both EW and JT, £40 from MS, £35 from DS, and £30 each from ST, TB and SD. A lot of generosity, some of it in the form of the usual start-of-the-month standing orders. Comrade EW was very disappointed to have missed the CPGB’s Communist University in August - there’s always next year, comrade - but, as he says, “the struggle must go on”, and he knows as well as anyone that this requires hard cash.

To remind comrades, the weeks before CU saw the CPGB going all out to raise £30K for our annual Summer Offensive drive (see Mark Fischer’s report, p11). During that time, all donations to the Weekly Worker were included in the combined total for the SO - but obviously they were still used for the purpose intended: ie, the funding of your paper.

But the end of the SO also sees the end of my summer break from writing this column! So, as Mark says, from now on I’ll be nagging you, week in, week out, for the rest of the year, to remind you that the Weekly Worker can’t survive without your donations.

Some of them come as one-off cheques or as PayPal gifts, but among the contributions appreciated the most are those regular standing orders, however small - we know they’ll land in our bank account every month, whether I nag or not!

Please feel free to add your name to our list of donors, whatever form of payment you choose.

Robbie Rix