01.05.2025

Brilliant stuff!

What a fantastic week for the Weekly Worker fighting fund. Last week I reported that we still needed to raise over £1,000 in exactly seven days to reach our £2,750 target for April and - would you believe it? - no less than £1,148 came our way!

In all my years of writing this column, I don’t remember ever receiving more than a thousand pounds in a single week. Brilliant stuff! And, just as incredibly, no fewer than six of this week’s donors contributed £100 or more! Thank you so much, comrades LM, JC, AS, FK, IB and RG. The first four of those paid by bank transfer or standing order, while comrade RG was something of a rarity nowadays - he sent us a cheque!

Other SOs/bank transfers came from LR (£60), IS and AG (£50 each), JT (£25), AB and MM (£20), DD (£18), IS, JD and MD (£10 each). Then there were eight comrades who clicked on that PayPal button on our website: thank you, KS, JB and DB (£50), AG, SS and NS (£11), PE (£7) and ESJ (£5). Four of those PayPal donors, by the way, were subscribers who were reminded they needed to increase their monthly payment in line with the new sub charges that came into effect this month, and all of them did so and said we could keep the old price they had already paid as a donation!

All that meant that a brilliant £2,867 was donated to the Weekly Worker in April. But now we have to make sure that it wasn’t a one-off. This paper relies so much on our readers and supporters to help us meet the increased charges we’ve been facing, and they’re not letting us down.

Please make sure you keep that up in May, comrades!

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