22.03.2012

Top bracket

Why not help out the paper that challenges left-wing dogma, and give a donation today? Robbie Rix cajoles.

I see that those in the big-money income bracket have done pretty well out of the budget, thanks to George Osborne slashing the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p. ‘What’s 5p?’ you might ask. Well, it comes to a cool £40,000 a year if you ‘earn’ a million.

Unfortunately not many Weekly Worker readers take home that kind of money. Instead of being handed a nice little annual bonus from the chancellor, most have been hit by cuts, pay freezes and redundancies. Which is why it’s not exactly easy to ensure our £1,500 target is reached every month.

Take March. With three weeks gone, we haven’t yet passed £1,000. We did receive £403 this week - most of it from regular standing order donors. But that takes our total for the month to only £952, leaving us £548 to raise in nine days. That can be done, of course, but it needs a good few readers to get out either their credit/debit card and click on ‘Make a donation’ on our website (we had 14,942 online readers last week, by the way); or their cheque book and pop a donation in the post.

Comrade RB did just that last week, adding £25 to his resubscription. Tongue in cheek, he writes that the extra amount is to “encourage your further evolution towards Second International Marxism!” Very droll, RB. But at least you’re paying attention to the current debate about Lenin and his so-called ‘epistemological break’. Actually it’s the sort of debate that keeps readers coming back. One that challenges leftwing dogma and makes you think.

But if you’re one of those who appreciates such challenges, you ought to consider helping us raise the money needed to keep the Weekly Worker up and running. Even if you haven’t just been awarded a £40,000 handout.