15.03.2018

Crucial

A crucial time, says Robbie Rix

“Thanks for offering a consistent platform for debate,” writes JG. “One thing you can say about the Weekly Worker is that it’s got the liveliest letters page anywhere on the left.” And, to show her appreciation, the comrade enclosed a magnificent cheque for £100!

Two other, rather more modest, cheques also came our way. RT filled in a standing order form for his subscription, but decided we shouldn’t have to wait for the first instalment and wrote us a £10 cheque too! As for IH, he also added a tenner to his annual subscription, but in his case there may well have been an error: I feel he circled €70 by mistake instead of £60, since his cheque was for pounds, not euros. If you want a refund, comrade ...

There were two PayPal donations: DB’s usual monthly £7 and a rather more generous one-off from TF for £50. Thanks to both. I’m afraid the standing orders actually received in our account weren’t up to much though - there were just the two: from NH (£30) and DV (£20). But that’s always the way in the second week of the month - in contrast to the first, of course.

Nevertheless, the £227 received this week takes our total for March to £786, which means we have exactly two weeks and three days to raise the remaining £964. Don’t forget, we need £1,750 each and every month, so those extra three days could be crucial.