14.05.2008

Fighting fund

Ambitious

Last week 727 copies of our French-language supplement were downloaded from our website, and getting on for that number of the print version were distributed at the Lutte Ouvrière fete outside Paris over the weekend.

As I pointed out last week, this is an excellent example of the Weekly Worker undertaking bolder and more ambitious initiatives, thanks to the additional funds that have been coming in, not least through new standing orders. I have just received an SO from comrade RK, who pledges £10 a month - which means that the extra cash coming in each month via standing orders has now reached £531.

This underlines once again how right we were in trusting our readers to come up with the necessary money when we launched our appeal for an extra £500 a month to meet our increased printing costs back in January. But the appeal runs till the end July, and we are confident that there is still significantly more to come. And there needs to be, if we are to continue such undertakings as the French supplement.

This week I have also received one-off donations from comrades GJ (£35), HD and SL (£20 each), plus a fiver from comrade AH. That takes our May fighting fund total to £616. But we are halfway through the month and we need £1,000.

In addition to the supplement, 2,342 readers out of the 31,864 who visited our site downloaded last week’s paper.