17.03.2011

In it together

Our monthly fighting fund total creeps up far too slowly for Robbie Rix's liking

We really will have to tighten our belts when it comes to pensions. We are all in this together, after all.

Including chief executives of the big companies, of course. In 2000 they ‘earned’ a mere 47 times median earnings, but thankfully by 2010 that had gone up to a more respectable 88 times. We all know how much restraint these people insist on showing in regard to their own remuneration. And I won’t bore you again with details of those bankers’ bonuses.

The kind of money we’re talking about here dwarfs the sums that I’m trying to raise for our paper. The £1,250 we need to bring in every month is what goes into those CIOs’ personal bank accounts every couple of hours. But not many of them are Weekly Worker readers. We rely instead on the generosity of our paper’s working class supporters, who aren’t quite so well off.

Which is why our monthly fighting fund total always creeps up far too slowly for my liking. Last week I received £86 in cheques from comrades TH, LP, SC and IR, plus £110 in all in standing orders. So that’s another £196 to add to the running total, taking us to £536 with more than half the month gone. But once again we got nothing via our website - not one of our 11,913 readers last week thought to get out their credit or debit card.

So now we need to step up the pace. Anyone know any transnational company executives?