Not bullying
I have highlighted on more than one occasion the large number of web readers who do not contribute financially to the paper they obviously value so much (the last issue of the Weekly Worker was accessed by 16,545 individual sessions). But, as OG points out, surfers are not the only ones who do not always put their hands in their pocket:
“Re your appeal in the December 19 issue,” writes the comrade, “I realise now that I am another sort of ‘freeloader’, in that I always read a copy of the Weekly Worker passed on to me by a friend. I enclose £10 to cover some ‘freebie issues’ so far. I will endeavour to do so regularly in future!”
Thanks for the cheque, comrade. It helped to push up our final fund of 2002 to £424. But, whatever my persuasive skills, they just don’t seem to be quite good enough - our total deficit for the year went up to £117. Admittedly, this is not disastrous, but in a situation where we are faced with increasing costs still serious.
Even though we fell short last year, we have decided to raise our monthly target to £500 for 2003. If we did not do so, there really would be problems ahead. However, if the first week of January is anything to go by, our confidence in our readers will be rewarded. Already I have received sizable donations from TR (£30), AM (£25), PJ and FC (£20 each). Thanks also to GR (£10) and RT (£5), all of which takes our January total to £110 - just short of the going rate to meet the new £500 target.
Let’s hope many more readers will respond as OG has this year!
Robbie Rix
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Number 462
Thursday January 9 2003
The Weekly Worker is available from bookshops across the United Kingdom or can be delivered direct to your door by completing our online subscription form.
Legalise all drugs
Too many arms in Britain? In fact, a ‘gun culture’ is just what
the working class needs, argues Mark Fischer
Letters
Eternal nations?; Wrong path; Age of consent; Gay children; Darwinism;
Punctuated hogwash; Glorious islam; Vicious islam; SWP mistakes; War hysteria;
Red herring; Wind or sun?; AWL joint school; Misadministration
Insular bubble
Phil Hamilton review the Socialist Party's website
STWC gravediggers
Birmingham’s anti-war movement is split between the Stop the War
Coalition and the Birmingham Stop The War Network (Bust). There have been
accusations that secularists have been bureaucratically excluded from
STWC in favour of muslim fundamentalists and counterclaims of islamophobia.
Steve Davies of Bust gives his view of last month’s STWC Birmingham
AGM
Europe against the war
Statement from the European Social Forum
Stop war drive
Tina Becker attempts to draw some hard lines of principle for the anti-war
movement
Matgamna’s platonic republic - part 5
Jack Conrad continues his response to recent attacks by Sean Matgamna,
patriarch of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
Piercing the Luton fog
Dave Craig unfolds events at Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance
Firefighter selected
Tottenham Socialist Alliance has selected local firefighter Steve Cracknell
to fight Hale ward by-election. Tina Becker reports
SA organisation needed
The Socialist Alliance rail caucus has never met. However things are
set to change, an Aslef driver reports
Marxist analysis or crying wolf?
Ian Donovan continues the debate over the attitude of the left to islamists
and the general muslim community
Unity for two states
Only on the basis of mutual recognition of eachother's national rights
can there be a coming together of the two peoples, argues Peter Manson
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