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Fighting Fund 
Last week
We are now entering the last week
of April. Thankfully there has been something akin to a small
flood of donations. Our £500 fund - which stood at £162 - has
now soared to a much more healthy £348. So the target is in sight.
Thanks this week go to comrades MM (£20),
TT (£20), JP (£15), DL (£10) and the shrapnel collected from Weekly
Worker street sales. Our comrades are routinely asking
for a £1 ‘solidarity’ price.
In particular though I must single out
comrade VB for her splendid £100 cheque. The comrade writes that
she has been reading the paper for exactly a year now. She is
“deeply impressed” by its “honesty” and commitment to the “principled
unity of the left”. The comrade has also ordered an extra four
copies to sell and distribute to contacts and friends.
Frankly we need more a lot more readers
of this type. Selling the Weekly Worker has never
been easier. Nor has it ever been more necessary. The war against
Iraq is over. The next US invasion is only a matter of time.
Our movement needs solid organisation.
It also needs a source of honest information and a platform for
serious debate and clarification. Only the Weekly Worker
is really attempting to do that. And no doubt that is why, compared
to other, rival, papers on the left, we have such a relatively
big readership.
Last week only 5,213 people read the electronic
version. This puts our total circulation well down. Doubtless
this rather sharp decrease was due in part to the easter holiday.
Mainly though, the drop is explained by the fact that our web
host was down for a whole 24 hours during the week.
Our readership has from the beginning had
a global dimension. For those interested in obscure statistics
we had, for example, 343 readers in Australia over the last seven
days. Which I suppose comes as no surprise, given the Socialist
Alliance, etc. But we also registered one reader in Togo and another
in New Caledonia. Greetings to these and all our many other overseas
comrades. Get in touch and let us know what you think.
Robbie Rix
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send cheques, payable to Weekly Worker, BCM Box 928, London WC1N
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