30.03.2011

Supporting us

Robbie Rix is sure some reading the paper for the first time will want more

The big TUC demo really showed me what genuine support there is for our paper. Although we decided to give away our anti-cuts special to those at the march and rally who wanted a copy, several dozen people insisted on giving us (at least) £1 anyway.

From what I have been able to work out so far, £135 was donated in this way, including one £20 and three £10 notes. It could be I’ve underestimated the total in fact - donations may have got mixed in with sales money in one or two cases. Anyhow, it was good to meet a number of our online readers, who (usually!) told us how much they appreciated the Weekly Worker. We printed an extra 1,500 copies, by the way - they were all taken - and I am sure a proportion of those who read the paper for the first time will have been impressed and want more.

This week’s donations to the fighting fund more than covered the extra printing costs. As well as the contributions handed to us on the 26th, we received £143 in regular standing orders (thanks to DS, PM, JT, RC, CC, SB, RL and WD), plus two cheques in the post - £20 from PL and £10 added to JK’s resubscription. Then there was the handsome £50 contribution from BD, who made use of our online PayPal facility. He was one of 12,357 internet readers last week.

The extra £358 that came in over the last seven days has taken our total to £1,332, with one more day to go. So we have exceeded our £1,250 monthly target by over £100. A welcome change!

If you are one of those newcomers who read us for the first time on the journey home from the demo, why not help get our April fund off to a good start?