04.02.2010

New target success

Robbie Rix has some good news on January's Fighting Fund

I am pleased to report that we just succeeded in making our new £1,250 target in January, the first fighting fund of 2010.

In the last three days of the month five comrades ensured they got their donations to us by making use of our PayPal facility. Pride of place goes to BD, who writes: “Just wanted to contribute, as I read the paper online.” For his part, JF’s message accompanying his £30 gift was: “Nice supplement” (I think he means the ‘Kautsky, Lenin and the April theses’ feature - January 14). Thanks also to TB and WD (£10 each), as well as to BS for his fiver.

In addition there was an extra £91 transferred into the Weekly Worker account by 12 noon last Monday, the cut-off time for January’s fund, which ended £1,273 to the good.

But in the afternoon a further batch of standing order donations landed in our account - the first of the month is always our best day. These, plus one or two more that came in on the Tuesday and Wednesday, saw our February fund get off to a good start with £161 received after three days.

The five online gifts we received last week represent quite an improvement on the average, by the way. But five donors out of 14,246 internet readers is still a small proportion!