20.09.2012

Step up the pace

The fighting fund is lagging says Robbie Rix, so please help now comrades

With two-thirds of the month already gone, we are barely halfway to making our £1,500 target for September’s fighting fund. Which means that we really need to step up the pace over the next 10 days. We rely on our readers and supporters to ensure the Weekly Worker comes out every week, and a shortfall for even one month can represent a big blow.

Thanks mainly to four hefty donations, exactly £300 came in this week. Regular donors MM and AM came up with their usual standing orders of £75 and £50 respectively, while there was a nice cheque for £50 from TL, who writes: “Congrats on an excellent issue - fascinating analysis on everything from South Africa to Kurdistan!” NC gave the same amount using the PayPal facility on our website, but she was the only one of 11,208 online readers to get out their credit or debit card over the last seven days.

Those four comrades, plus a half dozen others who made more modest (but still essential) donations, helped take our total up to £777. That leaves us with another £723 to raise in little more than a week. Please do what you can to make sure we get it!