04.12.2025

End year with a bang!

W hat a contrast between the last four days of November and the first three of December! Let’s start with November, when we still needed an awesome £755 to reach our monthly £2,750 fighting fund target after last week’s issue.

That was always going to be problematic with just four days to go, but we got nowhere near it! We received just £210 between November 27 and 30, taking us up to only £2,205. In other words, we were £545 short. But our thanks still go to those who helped us out - comrades DB and PS (£50 each) and DI and AC (a fiver each). Those four used PayPal, while comrades JT and BK (£25), AB (£20), JM (£15) and MD (£10) contributed by bank transfer or standing order. Finally, comrade Hassan handed his usual £5 note to one of our team.

I have to say it’s been quite some time since we failed so dismally to get anywhere near our target, so now the question is: can we make up for last month’s failure, as we approach Christmas? Let’s hope so. And, as I said at the beginning, the start of December has been totally different: no less than £698 came our way in the first three days!

Thanks go to JC, AC and TT, who each donated exactly £100, while EW chipped in with £55, LC (£50), BO (£35), MM (£31), ST (£30), MS and BH (£25), DL and MT (£20), CP (£16), AN and BG (£15), RM (£13), RP (£12), MM (£11), DI and JD (£10 each) each used standing order or bank transfer, while comrade TM (£5) was the only one to use PayPal.

So now we need to build on that brilliant start to December and make sure the Weekly Worker ends 2025 with a bang! Let’s not only raise the £2,052 still needed, but get enough extra to make up for November’s shortfall.

You can do it!