22.12.2011

Essential task

Robbie Rix sends season's greetings to all our readers - we will be back on January 12!

I hope readers enjoy this final edition of the Weekly Worker for 2011. We thought we might give you something to remember with the addition not only of four extra pages, but hopefully a more attractive appearance for the print issue, thanks to the colour cover.

We are intending to make colour more of a feature in 2012, but, to be honest, we are not yet in a position to do so regularly. Not for any technical reason, of course, but because of the extra costs involved. So, in order to make the paper bigger, better and more attractive, we have decided to raise our fighting fund target to £1,500 from next month. Although that is an increase of £250, we have in fact mostly been exceeding the current target, if not quite by that amount.

This week’s post has given me confidence - two brilliant cheques from AP (£100) and RI (£50), plus a £25 gift from CM. Thanks go to all three. Then we received a total of standing order transfers amounting to £378 (SP, RP, SK, MM, SP, JD, SP and MKS were the donors). Finally two £10 contributions were received via our website - thank you, LK and DF. All in all, our total increased by £557 this week, taking us to £1,013 with over a week to go.

Talking of our website, over the last week our readership has exceeded 20,000 for the first time this year (what better time than the very last week of 2011!). It is true that our 20,667 web readers have long been able to view images in the paper in colour, but that is no reason not to help us improve our paper. We need a few more of them to contribute - not just to help enhance the Weekly Worker’s presentation, but, most of all, to make sure we are able to keep putting out our paper’s unique message - the crying need for a united Marxist approach to organisation and political intervention.

We will be resuming this essential task on Thursday January 12. In the meantime, we have another task to fulfil - we need £212 by January 1. Can you help? In order to beat the Christmas post, please use our online PayPal facility.

We hope our readers have a restful holiday. See you in 2012.