25.03.1999

Challenging

Robert Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund

“Unlike the SWP, Workers Power, etc, the CPGB realises that the average worker does not want to be bored to death when they invest in a left publication. Therefore, please find enclosed a donation of £10.”

These are the words of a comrade from Stoke-on-Trent. Apart from the comrade’s belief that he is an average, not an advanced worker, who can argue with him? Frankly, most socialist papers consist of dull, turgid, economistic hack pieces with no room left for debate and the clash of contrary views. They are all written according to the fantasy that there are a mass of average workers out there just waiting to snap them up. If only it were true.

We know who our readers are - and so we intend the Weekly Worker to be both informative and challenging. How heretical.  But to enable us to provide such reading matter we must have funds.

That is why the donations from comrades BT (£20), GH (£15), FD (£15), ML (£10) are more than welcome - and of course the gift from comrade PC from Stoke-on-Trent. This takes our £400 monthly fighting fund total to a rather limp £270. Comrades, it is looking pretty close. Do not let us down - especially when we are facing daunting legal expenses at the moment.

Robert Rix