21.11.2013

Week after week

Robbie Rix on this weeks Labour Party Marxists supplement, the upcoming Left Unity special, and the importance of donating

We are pleased to carry a bulletin from Labour Party Marxists in this week’s paper (also available to download as a pdf here) - published to coincide with the November 23 conference of the Labour Representation Committee.

It’s a service we are happy to perform for the comrades, but it goes without saying that extra pages mean extra postage costs - another reason why we need our readers and supporters to keep contributing to our fighting fund.

Of course, for our thousands of internet readers talk of such extra costs is pretty meaningless. They just click on the page they want to read and don’t have to pay anything. But they should pay if they value the Weekly Worker: it’s only those regular and one-off donations that allow us to keep publishing. Last week there were 10,806 online readers, for example, and, while no doubt some are representatives of the class enemy, the majority will be partisans of the working class movement.

They should follow the example of GK, who donated £25 via our PayPal facility, as did BC, who chipped in with £10. But, of course, two out of almost 11,000 is a very small proportion indeed. Perhaps a bigger percentage will be moved to donate next week, when they see the six-page supplement we are planning, aimed at the November 30 founding conference of Left Unity.

Talking of which, our LU coverage has inspired TR to give us an extra £10 with his subscription - “Thanks for keeping us up to speed,” he writes. Others contributing to our November fund were DW, SP, MKS, JD, SP, MM and SK, whose standing orders of hugely varying sizes helped increase our running total by £375. All in all, we received £420 this week, which takes the fighting fund tally up to £1,211.

With over a week to go to meet our £1,500 target, we are on course - but that doesn’t take into account the extra costs we will have incurred this week and next. How I would love to see that total climb towards £2,000! And why not? It would help ensure we can carry on doing the same week after week.