01.08.2024

What a month!

Last week I reported that we were just £138 short of our monthly £2,250 target for July, with a week still to go. Well, what a response there’s been!

First of all, comrade AC took it upon himself to make sure we reached that target by making a PayPal transfer for exactly £138! He was followed by FK, BK and MF, who each made bank transfers of exactly £100! Other transfers/standing orders came from LM (£80), GT (£35), JT (£25), AB (£20), MD (£10), DD (£8) and DS (a more modest, but still very welcome £2).

And there were other PayPal donors apart from AC. One was from comrade PS, who contributed £50 and then emailed us to say he’d been reading the Weekly Worker over the last year and he found that its “content is invariably well-researched and well-written” and “provides a welcome antidote to the usual fare served up by mainstream media”. He particularly appreciated “the editorial policy of inviting contributions from other groups and individuals on the left, thereby providing a space for debate”.

Having made that payment, he went on to explain: “I wanted to donate something, as I can imagine a lot of time and effort goes into writing, editing and publishing the material that I read.” Quite right, comrade, but it’s readers like yourself who make us aware how much our effort is appreciated!

Other PayPal donations were made from DB (another £50) and JS (£7), while comrade Hassan handed his usual banknote to one of our team, this time for £10.

I can’t say how delighted I am that all that came to £735, taking the final total for July up to a tremendous £2,847 - almost exactly £600 over the target! Just what we needed after the various extra expenses recently incurred.

And what a way for the Weekly Worker to go out before our usual two-week summer break. Next week is the CPGB’s Communist University, of course, and our next issue will appear in three weeks time on August 21.

See you at CU!

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