16.01.2014

Incisive

Our 1000th edition is coming soon! Robbie Rix counts the pennies...

Comrade RT has written to thank all involved in the production of our “incisive and instructive” paper - and, putting his money where his mouth is, has added £30 to his subscription. Thank you too, comrade. And thanks also to RD - another one who threw in something extra when resubscribing, this time £20.

But the biggest ‘thank you’ this week goes to TM, who travelled into London from Surrey last week so he could personally hand me £140 in cash! That certainly helped boost our January fighting fund - we now have £676 towards our £1,500 target. But mathematicians amongst you will realise that we are around £100 short of where we ought to be at this stage, seeing as we are now halfway through the month.

There was also £105 in standing order donations last week, plus a total of £40 received via PayPal from three comrades. They were among the 12,424 people who read us online. I ought to point out, by the way, that over the previous three weeks (between issues 991 and 992) we had a total of 33,054 visitors, even though, obviously, for the two weeks of our Christmas/new year break there was no new Weekly Worker to read. But comrades were ‘tuning in’ to keep up with the latest on the Socialist Workers Party crisis - the rise in readership is marked whenever some new item goes up on our carousel.

So now we have reached issue 993 - which means we are only seven weeks away from our 1,000th edition (March 6). That will be a partly colour 16-pager to celebrate the occasion! As I said last week, we are hoping to publish quite a few supplements this year - but that depends on finance, of course.

And that’s where you come in. Help us to maintain and increase our incisiveness.