27.04.2011

Up our game

Robbie Rix is looking at an ominous shortfall

As the end of the month looms, we are looking at an ominous shortfall in our April fund. With just three days to go and only £915 in the kitty, we are well short of our £1,250 target.

What makes matters worse is the fact it’s a double bank holiday weekend, so there’s no chance I’ll get your cheque or postal order in time unless you’ve already posted it. So please go to our website and get out your credit or debit card! We will include any contributions received that way up to 5pm on Sunday May 1, so we can still do it. We will also accept IOUs if you give us a ring.

To be honest, I could do with a good number of comrades using our PayPal facility. Over the last seven days not one out of the 11,339 visitors to our site left a donation. But I can’t believe none of them appreciated what they had read. That none of them found any of our analysis thought-provoking or any of the debate stimulating. That none of them thought our consistent campaigning message - we need class unity around a Marxist programme - correct, non-sectarian and principled.

Well, if you were one of them and you did, how about doing something about it? We really do need to meet our target every month - the Weekly Worker is, after all, produced on a shoestring. And yet we also have plans to expand and improve the depth and quality of the paper’s content: we need to up our game.

I did get three donations via snail mail this week - thank you, SS (£25), KT (£20) and PT (£10). And there were four standing order gifts that landed in our account - thanks go to JT (£50), DO (£20), DS (£20) and GD (£5). But that only came to an extra £150.

We need £335 in just three days. Please go online or phone to say you have posted us your contribution.