01.09.2016

Back to normal?

Robbie Rix has high hopes that we can keep on a roll

No less than £3,115 swelled the Weekly Worker’s coffers during August, easily surpassing our usual monthly fighting fund target of £1,750.

The explanation for this excellent result lies in the fact that up to August 12 the CPGB was campaigning to raise £30,000 for its annual Summer Offensive and, of course, all monies donated to our paper were included in the overall target for the SO period - a time when many supporters make a special effort to help us out. In the first part of the month £2,340 came our way as part of the SO, while since then a rather more modest £775 was donated to the paper.

Amongst the contributors was comrade SG, who writes: “Glad to see you’re back. Where have you been?” I think he was being ironic - last week’s paper was the first following our annual fortnight break every August (we had 2,936 online readers, by the way). Anyway, his £50 cheque was very welcome.

But most of the donations over the last two weeks were made up by our standing order stalwarts - thanks in particular to SK (£230), PM (£100), MM (£75), TB (£50), JT (£30) and DT (£25). And no doubt they will continue to deliver the goods in September, when our normal fighting fund will be back with us for the full month!

But please don’t leave it to the standing order merchants. Write us a cheque, click on our PayPal button or, best of all, make a bank transfer (sort code 30-99-64; account number 00744310). Help support the only paper that fights for both a single, united Marxist party and the transformation of Labour into a united front for all working class organisations.