18.12.2008

Fighting Fund

Highly valued

I have received a couple of more than useful donations this week - £60 from TR and £50 from WS - which provided us with a useful boost, as we move towards the end of our 2008 financial campaign.

I also got a handy £30 cheque from Socialist Workers Party comrade FG, who writes: “I don’t often agree with you, but I can’t argue with the information you provide.” Here’s to the day when SWP members can access all the information they need from within their own organisation.

There were also a number of smaller cheques plus two online donations, which provided a further £45 in total, plus £21 in new standing order contributions over the last seven days. All in all, I can report an extra £206 to take our December fighting fund to £448.

To be honest, this is a bit behind where we need to be, especially as I won’t be here next week to egg you on (don’t forget, the next Weekly Worker doesn’t come out until January 8). So let me urge you now, comrades: please, please, help us end 2009 in the black - and certainly avoid running up a bigger deficit than the current £238. We must reach our £1,000 target as a very minimum.

There was a healthy increase in web readers last week - up to 20,766. I expect, once our site is upgraded and relaunched, we will see a permanent rise. It goes to show how highly we are valued. But this needs to be translated much more often into hard cash.

Robbie Rix

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