16.02.2012

Not ungrateful

Robbie Rix is happy to see the paypal button is getting some use, but the Weekly Worker needs more regular funding, why not take out a standing order?

Are comrades actually starting to take my advice? I mean, for as long as I can remember, I’ve been bemoaning the fact that hardly anyone is using our PayPal facility to make a donation to the Weekly Worker. But suddenly, within the space of two days, five people have contributed to our fighting fund via our website.

The total of £85 that this produced has made a difference this week - so thank you, comrades GC, BD, RL, PO and FT. They were among 23,143 online readers over the last seven days - that’s one figure that’s been going up consistently over the past few months, so perhaps we are doing something right. However, while I don’t want to sound ungrateful, five out of 23,143 is not a high proportion.

I also received a total of £118 in standing orders - thanks to MKS, JD, SP, DW, AM and JM - plus three cheques in the post amounting to £65, the donors being HJ, DR and SW. All that means that this week’s receipts total £268 and February’s fighting fund has reached £694.

But that is still less than halfway to our £1,500 monthly target and we are two days into the second half of the month. Let’s see a bit of smooth acceleration now, comrades. We don’t want to miss out for two months in a row, do we? After all, this week’s Weekly Worker shows why we need the extra cash: we want to publish more and better supplements carrying articles like Lars Lih’s well researched piece.

Won’t you help us do that?