20.10.2010

No time like now

Robbie Rix says we need to make up ground

Our fighting fund had a big boost last week with the transfer of three large donations into our account: thank you, comrades AM (£100), MM (£70) and especially SK (a magnificent £230). To them were added more modest standing order donations from JD, RP, DW, SP and MKS totalling £45.

Meanwhile, I was sent two handy cheques from RG (whose £25 came without any covering note) and new reader RI, who sent us £20, having come across the Weekly Worker for the first time in a Liverpool bookshop: “Let’s spread it around a bit more: eg, in more shops, in more destinations,” he writes.

A nice sentiment, comrade, but the trouble is, there are very few bookshops willing to display leftwing publications. That’s because there are very few leftwing bookshops, compared to a couple of decades ago. Mind you, if you come across a possible outlet where our paper is not sold, please do let us know. We can always give it a try if the shop itself is prepared to take the Weekly Worker.

We received no online donations over the last seven days, despite the fact that our recent increase in readership to over 10,000 was maintained (we had 10,268 internet readers, to be precise). However, with over a week to go before the end of our October fund we have £1,141 already towards our £1,250 target. Good. We need to make up ground following some near misses earlier in the year.

If, like RI, you appreciate what you read in our pages but have not yet done as he has, there is never a better time than the present!