01.06.2023

Difficult times

As I write, on the very last day of May’s fighting fund appeal, I’m afraid I have to inform readers that once again we’ve fallen quite a bit short of our monthly target of £2,250.

In fact, in spite of what we received over the last week, the total for this month has once again not even reached£2K. That means that our supporters really do need to help us out over the immediate period - otherwise we could be falling into some very difficult times.

But let me start by thanking all this week’s donors - not least RG (£100) and BK (£50) for their bank transfers/standing orders. Also contributing in that way were GT (£35), JT (£25), DG (£20), another DG (£14), plus VP and MD (£10 each). Then there were those regular PayPal donations from TB (£60), DB (£50) and AR (£5), while comrades LM (£20) and Hassan (£5) made their usual cash donations.

But all that only came to £404, taking the final total for May to just £1,959 - in other words, almost exactly £300 short of target.

So now, both collectively and individually, we really have to think about what we can do to rectify things. First, I would ask all current supporters to consider upping their contributions, but - more importantly - to contact all Weekly Worker readers and sympathisers they know to make a donation or - better still - take out a standing order (sort code 30-99-64, account number 00744310). Just a dozen or so comrades responding positively would make a huge difference.

Do your best to make sure that over the rest of the year we regularly break through that £2,250 barrier. Please do your best to get more comrades to help us out, starting with our June fighting fund.