25.08.2010

Wishing and hoping

Robbie Rix wants help in making his wish reality

Following the CPGB’s Summer Offensive fundraising drive and the Weekly Worker’s August break, we have a very much curtailed August fighting fund with a target of £650 by noon on Wednesday September 1.  However, a number of standing orders have come in over the last week, already amounting to £370 - outstanding amongst them is MM’s monthly £70. Which means that the same again over the next seven days would be very handy indeed. We were recently faced with an increase in our printing costs of £200 a month - which, believe me, has eaten a large chunk out of any budget surplus we might have been able to build. We could do with both a flurry of one-off donations and, of course, some new standing orders.

The most convenient place to arrange both is via our website (scroll down on the right-hand side of our home page). But not many comrades have been doing that this month - in fact nobody has donated to the Weekly Worker that way. No doubt that is because we are just emerging out of our usual summer lull - the number of visits to our website inevitably falls when our paper is not being published.  Since the last issue came out on August 5 we have had 29,173 visits to cpgb.org.uk - not even 10,000 readers a week, which is quite a bit down on our all-year average. So now I’m expecting a substantial pick-up - and hoping for a marked increase in donations! Can you help make that wish a reality?