09.06.2010

Shout it out!

Robbie Rix regrets plain thoughtlessness

We have just over a week to go before the end of our very much curtailed June fighting fund and the start of the CPGB’s 2010 Summer Offensive fundraising drive on June 19.

Thanks to donations amounting to £220 received over the last week, we now have £315 towards our one-off target of £850. But we still need to raise £535 by the weekend after next. The last seven days saw cheques for £60 from TR, £40 from PL, £20 from MN and £10 from TS, plus £90 in standing orders (thank you, SM, CG, JS, RK and ST).

But once again I have to point out the disturbing lack of donations received via our website. Not a single one despite 14,240 readers at www.cpgb.org.uk. I am convinced it is not through hostility or even apathy that most of these thousands overlook us. Rather it is plain thoughtlessness. The majority routinely log on each week and never even think of contributing. They don’t tend to read this column much either!

So let me try to attract their attention and, metaphorically speaking, shout it out loud and clear: we need the financial support of our readers just to survive. Instead of taking us for granted, how about getting out that little piece of plastic once in a while?