12.02.2009

Fighting Fund

Fill the breach

There was a slight dip in the number of online Weekly Worker readers last week - down below 20,000 again to 19,374. But more serious was the rather larger decrease in contributions to the fund itself. We only received £119 over the last seven days - way down on where we need to be.

Thanks go to AR (£20) and RM (£10) for their PayPal donations. I am also grateful to GH for his £30 cheque, PL (£25) and FC (£10).Then there are the extra standing order donations paid into our account - thank you, RK (£10), GD (£9) and JS (£5).

That gives us a total of £393 for February, with just over a fortnight left to reach the full £1,000 we need. That means we are looking at a shortfall of a couple of hundred pounds - unless more of our readers and supporters can fill the breach.

There are so many reasons why the Weekly Worker must be supported - but top of the list must be our commitment to openness in the search for the truth. Just look at our letters column each and every week if you want proof. We are not afraid of either criticism or opposing ideas - everything serious deserves an airing, subject only to the limitations of space.

That is why I am appealing especially to those who might tend to take their paper, and its openness, for granted. We need to consistently reach our target, month after month. Indeed, as Mark Fischer explained last week, we need now to further increase our regular income (‘Upping our game’, February 5).

The best way to help out is by taking out a standing order - use the form on the back page or download one from our website.