14.02.2013

Up the pace

We need to up the pace if we are to meet our minimum targets, says Robbie Rix

Our coverage of the crisis in the Socialist Workers Party is continuing to translate into a larger Weekly Worker web readership. Last week over 3,000 people visited our site on both Thursday and Friday and the overall total for the week was 16,581.

As I have previously pointed out, this gives the lie to the claim that advanced workers are ‘not interested’ in the affairs of the left, and it is also an obvious nonsense to say that we are just dealing in ‘gossip’. In reality, how we revolutionary Marxists organise is of vital importance to our class - only the ignorant, the dishonest or the philistine will claim otherwise.

Unfortunately though, only two of those web readers made use of our online PayPal facility last week - thank you, KM and MD. In fact it wasn’t much of a week for our fighting fund, with a below-average £150 coming in via standing orders (thanks in particular to comrade AM for her usual £50), a couple of cheques (£25 from KY and £30 from DT), plus £10 added to comrade BB’s annual subscription, made by bank transfer.

All that only comes to £218, meaning that we have now fallen well below the going rate, as our running total stands at just £634, with exactly half the month gone and £1,500 needed.

Time to pick up the pace, comrades.