23.01.2014

Commitment

Robbie Rix on the commitment of our readers to our paper, and of the paper to Marxist unity

Clearly the approach of our 1,000th issue on March 6 has caused a positive reaction among our readers. PM, who donated £25 via bank transfer, said he welcomed it, while KT, who sent in a £10 cheque, was “inspired” and hoped to donate something more substantial next month.

Also pleased were AN and DS, who availed themselves of our PayPal facility to donate £25 and £20 respectively (they were two among 11,155 online readers last week, by the way). Meanwhile our regular standing order stalwarts, who collectively raised £345 over the last seven days, let their money do the talking - thanks in particular go to SP, MM, SK, SEP and PM. Finally there was another cheque from FC, this time for £30, taking the amount raised this week to £455 and the total for January to £1,131.

That means we are just £369 short of our £1,500 fighting fund target - the sum we need to raise each and every month just to meet our running costs. I’m confident we can do it easily in the remaining eight days. But we want to do much more than meet our running costs - the full-colour 16-pager we are planning for issue 1,000 is just one example, and we expect to publish several extra supplements during 2014.

With your help we know we will succeed - there are so many who appreciate our commitment to open debate and share our aim of being part of strong, new party based on principled Marxist unity. That’s the message the Weekly Worker has been pushing since issue one.