11.05.2023

Optimism!

I’m not normally known as a pessimist, but, to be honest, that’s how I feel right now, in view of the state of play with the Weekly Worker fighting fund.

Just to remind you, the monthly target we aim for - based on what we need in the long term not only to keep publishing, but to improve and expand the paper’s content - is £2,250. And, of course, scores of our readers are only too happy to play their part by making donations.

But things haven’t been going as well as in the past for the last couple of months - in April we were £168 short of target, while in March the deficit was £253. So what about May? Well, after 10 days, as I write, the running total stands at £455. In other words, with a third of the month gone, we are only about a fifth of the way there!

That’s despite a number of very useful contributions that came our way over the last seven days. First there were either standing orders or one-off bank transfers from BO (£35), CG and HN (£30 each), DV, GD and NR (£25), RG (£15) and SM (£10). In addition, comrades NW (£25) and MH (£10) made their donations via PayPal, while LM handed a £20 note to our editor. All that amounted to exactly £250 in addition to the £205 we received in the first three days of the month.

But now we really do need to step up the pace. Our aim must be not only to reach that £2,250 target, but to go crashing through it, so as to make up for the poor showing in the last two months. So, please, do your bit if you can. Send us a cheque, click on that PayPal button on our website, make a bank transfer or - best of all - set up a monthly standing order! For either of the last two, you’ll need sort code 30-99-64 and account number 00744310.

Please help me return to my usual optimism!