03.08.2023

You did it!

Congratulations and thanks very much to everyone who chipped in to ensure we made our £2,250 fighting fund target for July. A total of £277 came our way in the last few days of the month, taking the total amount raised to £2,303. Well done, everyone!

Thanks in particular to comrade PM, who made a crucial bank transfer of £75 on the very last day of the month, while comrades JT and BK (£25 each), VP and MD (£10) used the same method - most of those payments being standing orders.

Then there were the comrades who used PayPal: DB with his monthly £50 and JM with his one-off payment of a rather unusual donation (£47), TB (£20) and AR (£5) - along with his monthly standing order for the same amount. Finally, comrade Hassan handed his usual cash contribution to one of our comrades, this time for a fiver. Not bad at all - and in sharp contrast to the previous three months, when we failed to reach our target.

Now let’s see if we can do the necessary once again in August. As usual, the start of the month saw the usual flurry of transfers/standing orders - our thanks to EW (£50), BK (£20), MT and BG (£15 each), TM (£13), GB and MM (£11), CP, AN, TM and DI (£10), and finally DC and JS (£6 each). That means we start the month with £187 in the kitty after just two days.

So now let’s make sure we do the necessary once again - I can’t stress enough how much we rely on our readers and supporters to ensure we keep up our consistent, principled call for a single, democratic, Marxist party.

But remember, this month you’ll have a break from me nagging you - in a couple of weeks we’re going to have our annual fortnight August break coinciding with the CPGB’s Communist University. That means that next week will be the last issue until August 31 - so no Weekly Worker on the 17th or 24th.

I’ll tell you what - help to ease my worries by sending me your donations in the next day or two, and hopefully I’ll report the good news on how we’re doing next week!