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Summer Offensive

It can be fun
A few days into our 19th Summer Offensive we have more positive news. Yet more supporters and sympathisers of the Party have submitted pledges, which brings the total promised to £20,500. This is excellent news - and unprecedented! Never before has so much been pledged at the very start of the SO.

Now the task begins of actually getting the money to us. And here things are no different from previous years: the start is always a little slow. So far, Party centre has received £752 - £550 from Party members, the rest donations from CPGB supporters and readers of the Weekly Worker. Thanks this week go to GE, KO, WP, NP and FR.

Proof that raising money for the Summer Offensive does not have to be one long, hard slog is given by two students from Wales (one a member, the other a sympathiser of the Party). Like all students they are not exactly wealthy. However, they are planning to organise a big bash - or, in their words, a “commie party” - in order to raise money for the organisation. “We don’t just want to work overtime. We’re knackered after our exams and want to have some fun,” they explain. Quite right too. In previous years, comrades have organised SO socials around the World Cup, the Eurovision Song Contest and their own birthday. They have charged an entrance fee, sold drinks and often made a healthy amount of money.

Don’t forget to let us know of your own money-making ideas. Perhaps they will serve as inspiration for others.

Tina Becker

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Weekly Worker 483 Thursday June 5 2003.

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