03.07.1997

Fighting fund

Linda Addison reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund

With just one week to go to the end of the CPGB’s 14th Summer Offensive we are some way off our ambitious but much needed target of £25,000.

This is not unusual. We have had a much improved response this year from readers of the Weekly Worker to our financial call. However, the bulk of the fundraising is still carried out by the most active supporters of the CPGB, organised in branches and committees of the organisation.

Therefore a dash to the finish is an ongoing feature of the offensive as supporters rush to achieve their individual pledges and usually to raise them to meet the collective target.

To date we have just over £16,000 pledged and £10,000 actually received. The money pledged will be coming in from around the country in the next week before the celebration meal on July 12. But there is still a shortfall. We need an extra effort from Weekly Worker readers to ensure that we reach the target and can continue to develop and spread the influence of the paper and the struggle for open discussion and Partyism within the workers’ movement.

Congratulations to those who have made a donation or already fulfilled their pledge. But we will need an extra effort from these comrades too to raise over and above the amounts already pledged. This will be essential, not only to ensure we reach the minimum target of £25,000 in the next week, but hopefully to smash through it.

Dig deep and fight hard to win finance from others for the Party project in the next week. Send cheques to the CPGB. Tickets for the celebration meal on Saturday July 12 in central London are available now at £20 or £50 solidarity price. The meal is followed on Sunday by a meeting to mark the end of the Offensive at 5pm, also in central London. We hope to see comrades who have taken part or will take part in this year’s fundraising drive.

Linda Addison