07.05.1998

Make your pledge

Summer Offensive ’98

The first weekend of the CPGB’s 15th Summer Offensive fundraising drive has brought individual pledges totalling £11,500. This leaves us a long way to go to reach the collective target of £20,000 by June 29. Initial pledges must be met - and overfulfilled - and a wider circle of supporters and sympathisers drawn into the campaign.

Experienced comrades with proven fundraising skills, it seems to me, are being a little too backward in coming forward with appropriately challenging pledges. The legendary abilities of ‘Bolsheviks’ to conquer ‘fortresses’, I must remind you, depends on the application of courage, boldness, initiative and hard work, not on the careful rationing of commitment.

 Caution to the wind, comrades - targets must be stormed! A fighting start to the Offensive is the way to put our initial pledges behind us and break through the £20,000 target. Exemplary action and fighting spirit is the precondition for inspiring others to join in - and to surpass us.

Reports of pledges, initiatives and achievements - as well as cheques, payable to the CPGB - should reach me by phone, fax, e-mail or letter every Monday.

Stan Kelsey