08.12.2016

Back in the black

At last, Robbie Rix feels buoyed up on a sea of solidarity

After November’s failure - by some distance - to reach our £1,750 fighting fund target, I was hoping we would get off to a good start in December. And we have! After the first week we have already raised £611!

The biggest batch of donations came in the shape of all those start-of-the-month standing orders (why is it that almost half of our monthly SOs land in our account during the first week of each month?). There were 22 of them, totalling £362, the most generous being those from EW and MS (£40 each), ST, SW and CG (£30), GD (£25), and DL and TG (£20).

Then there were three bank transfers - thanks in particular to comrade JC for his tremendous £75, and to RK (£25) and JP (£20) - plus one single PayPal donation: £15 from PM. Strange we only had one, since the number of online readers over the last seven days (3,224) was a few hundred up, compared to the last couple of weeks.

There were also two cheques - from KN (£30) and FD (£20 added to her subscription) and, last but not least, £74 worth of stationery donated by comrade PM. So, all in all, an excellent start.

But now for the bad news: we really need to make up for that £282 deficit last month, so for December only we’ve decided to set a higher target of (at least) £2,000. But, after that first week, why not? Don’t forget the usual £1,750 only just covers our running costs, so if we fall short, as we did in November, that gives us big problems.

Please do your bit for the only paper that fights for a single, united Marxist party! Help put us back in the black.