11.06.1998

Do the right thing

Summer Offensive ’98

Comrades directly involved in producing the Weekly Worker raised a magnificent £583 in week five of the CPGB’s eight-week Summer Offensive fundraising campaign, bringing them up to 40% of the £3,900 they have pledged collectively.

This beats the £430 in from the Party printshop comrades - a pretty good figure for a below average week, bringing them to the 52% mark. But even that falls short of what is needed, as only three weeks remain until the June 29 deadline to meet our overall target of £20,000. So far we total £6,036 in, just 30% of what is needed. Pledges still only amount to £14,100, leaving £5,900 to find. Most of this will depend on steeled campaigners pulling out the stops and beating their original pledges by around 50%. That would do the trick.

Readers who appreciate the Weekly Worker’s invaluable role in fighting for a culture of Partyism to unite revolutionaries (presently divided into sects of co-thinkers) should do the right thing and throw their own weight into the campaign. We have no Moscow gold, comrades. No one will build our Party for us.

On July 11 comrades, family and friends will come together to celebrate the achievements of the 15th Summer Offensive at a prize-giving dinner in London. Seats are £20 or £50 solidarity price. Cheques to CPGB, please.

Stan Kelsey