05.09.2013

Generosity

Robbie Rix is back to remind you to stop sipping your coffee and give money!

Following the excitement of the CPGB’s annual Summer Offensive, when comrades, friends and supporters succeeded in raising almost £27,000 in a two-month period, we are back to the routine of bringing in the regular cash to sustain our weekly paper.

Every month the Weekly Worker needs £1,500 over and above what we get through sales and subscriptions - and, of course, dozens of our readers continually rise to the occasion. Not least those stalwarts who pay us a monthly (or sometimes quarterly) standing order, varying from a humble fiver to, in one case, no less than £230!

Seventeen such standing orders have landed in our bank account since last week, the most generous of which being from AD (£36), SD and CG (£30 each) and TG (£20). (I notice, by the way, that AD has upped her payment by £6. Likewise comrade SW has more than doubled his standing order. Thanks to both.)

Apart from those familiar names, there is the £20 monthly donation we have been getting for most of the year from a mysterious Mr A, who has obviously made this arrangement with his bank without telling us. It’s really good of you, comrade, but why don’t you reveal your identity?

Mr A is, I assume, one of our internet readers - there were 8,043 of them last week. Mind you, I expect an increase in readership, now that the holiday period has ended. And hopefully a good number of them will add to our fighting fund.

There were also two PayPal donors this week - EJ (£50) and MD (£10).Thanks to the generosity of all these comrades, we start September with £306.