21.07.2004

Summer Offensive 2004: Get cracking

Not a bad week for the Summer Offensive - but we need a final push to reach our £30,000 target, reports Ian Mahoney

Much better week for our annual fundraising drive, the Summer Offensive. A welcome £3,728 came in during the last seven days, bringing our total to £17,728 towards our target of £30,000 by the end of July. I’m hoping that this doubling of the pace of donations from the previous week heralds the traditional leap forward in the number of comrades finally realising the urgency of the situation and getting the cheques in the post for the final leg of the campaign.

So, just to put this week’s good postbag in context, we still need over £12,000 from members, readers and supporters of the Party and its paper. So, comrades, get cracking! Even if you have to postdate cheques, get them sent now so we know what we have achieved.

Well done to comrades who attended the July 17 anti-racist Respect festival (no relation) in London’s Victoria Park. Our team were rewarded with over £300 raised for a hard day’s work of petitioning, selling papers and badges. Also many thanks to comrade RB for the £20 donation enclosed with his subscription to the Weekly Worker. SW, a long-time supporter of our organisation now based in Norway, again remembers this year’s Offensive with a £40 donation, while comrade MM (his third bite of the cherry, by my reckoning!) deserves praise for his outstanding £180.

Thanks to all who have made donations small and large this week. None via our website, though, despite the fact that 7,164 logged on. Nevertheless, we are in sight of the finishing line, comrades!