09.06.2016

Refreshing

Help refresh the funds, recommends Robbie Rix

According to comrade ME, the Weekly Worker “refreshes the parts other left publications can’t reach” (don’t ask me which parts they are). In fact he obviously feels so refreshed himself that he added an extra £15 to his subscription!

Well, whatever effects this paper produces on our readers, I’m pleased that one of them is to offer a donation. We need to raise £1,750 every month to cover our costs, and this week ME’s increased cheque was part of the £385 received for our fighting fund. Another cheque - for £50, this time all of it for the fund - came from KC, who didn’t bother writing a note. But his generosity speaks for itself.

In addition to those cheques we received a total of £185 in the shape of standing orders and bank transfers. There were 10 of those, for sums ranging from £10 to £30, so thank you, DV, SM, GD, RK, CG, RK, DG, SM, AC and SD! Finally, there were two PayPal donations, for £20 and £5 - both from comrade NW, who is very adept at clicking on that button on our website. He was one of 2,877 online readers last week.

Anyway, our June total now stands at £599 - not bad for just over a week, you may think, but don’t forget that by far the biggest number of standing orders land in our account on the first of the month, which tends to create the illusion that we are doing better than is actually the case.

Will you help to bring reality into line with the illusion?

Robbie Rix