15.10.2015

Remember 19.17!

Robbie Rix never forgets

After last week’s fantastic donation - £1,000 from two comrades in Hong Kong - comrade DB, a Weekly Worker subscriber in Italy, is getting in on the act.

In a blatant attempt to get a mention in this column, DB has made a PayPal payment, on top of his regular subscription, of precisely £19.17p! Not quite so generous as our friends in China, but every bit as eye-catching! Comrade BK was more conventional - his PayPal gift was a nice, round £25 - while MD decided to make two donations on the same day (for £15 and £5), using the same method (they were among 3,241 online readers last week).

As you might expect, DB was the only one to throw in an odd number of pence - both DF (£20) and TH (£10) went for a whole number of pounds. Finally, there were four standing orders - from TB (£25), DV and DW (£20 each) and AN (£10). All that comes to £169 (and 17p!) and it takes our October fighting fund up to £1,994 (plus you know what).

That’s not bad at all, when our monthly target is a mere £1,750 - and there are still over two weeks to go before our October fund ends. But I think it reflects the positivity that more people are now feeling towards the paper that fights for a single, united Marxist party, based on the principles of genuine democratic centralism: ‘Unity of action, freedom of criticism’.