05.06.2025

Very close indeed!

Would you believe it? In May we fell short of the Weekly Worker fighting fund monthly target of £2,750 - by exactly £3. Not quite a success, but not really a failure either!

Thanks to some excellent contributions in the last three days of the month, an extra £180 came our way, taking our total for May to £2,747. Thanks go to comrades BK (£50), JF (£20), IS, JD and MD (£10 each) for their bank transfers/standing orders, as well as our four PayPal donors - JS (£35), MS (£25), TR and EG (£5). And, of course, comrade Hassan wasn’t going to let us down, was he? He handed his usual banknote (this time a tenner) to one of our team.

A good few of the above had responded to my last-minute appeal last week and we couldn’t have got much closer, could we? Thanks very much, everyone!

But can we do just a bit better in June and actually break through that £2,750 barrier? Well, in the first four days of the month a useful £481 has come our way. First prize for generosity goes to comrade AC for his brilliant £100, while other SOs and transfers came from EW (£55), LC (£50), MM (£31), ST and CT (£30), RG (£25), DL, MS and MT (£20 each), CP £16), AN (£15), MR (£13), MM (£11), CH and DI (£10). Finally RT used PayPal to donate a handy £25.

Not bad for four days - if we continued at the same pace for the rest of June, we’d pass that £2,750 target by over £800! Not that I’m banking on it, of course, but I know how much the Weekly Worker is appreciated by comrades fighting for what the working class sorely needs - a principled, united and genuinely democratic Marxist party.

Please make sure we get the cash we need to continue playing that role!