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Summer Offensive 
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As I write this column, comrade
SM from Dundee is completing this year’s most unusual and certainly
most painful task for the Summer Offensive: She is walking the
22 miles from Dundee to Perth. On the hottest day of the year.
The comrade has approached 50 or so people
to sponsor her walk and, while most agreed to help her, the level
of their support varied considerably: “I expect a total of about
£150 to £200. In general I got a lot more money from non-political
people, friends and other students than my comrades in the Scottish
Socialist Party”, she says. A sign of the poor political culture
on today’s left.
Other comrades, too, have answered my calls
for some serious last-minute pushes for this year’s fundraising
drive. Comrade TR, a veteran communist from the North East, has
donated £70 for the Summer Offensive this week, comrade EK has
taken out a £10 monthly standing order, while comrade SO from
Wales, who is taking part for the first time as a full party member,
has sold “various old knick knacks” on the internet auction site,
www.ebay.co.uk. “It is incredible, but there are people out there
who buy any old rubbish,” she says about her precious possessions:
“half-used nail varnish, old porcelain figures, books - in a couple
of days I sold stuff for over £200.”
At our halfway social on July 12, we raised
another £75 for the Summer Offensive - special thanks to comrades
JB, BL and JB.
These examples show what the Summer Offensive
is all about: a special period in the CPGB’s political calendar,
where comrades make an extra effort to raise money for the organisation.
We do not want comrades to slave away in a McDonalds kitchen or
stop eating for two months - but with a bit of courage and initiative
it is actually rather easy to raise money for the organisation.
This week we have received cheques and
cash for £4,553 - thanks especially to comrade SM, a longstanding
supporter of ours, who donated £20 via our newly installed card
payment service on the CPGB website. Our total now stands at £12,588
with two weeks to go.
The circulation figures for the Weekly
Worker demonstrate that the readership of our paper goes far
beyond our immediate circle. Our paper has become an indispensable
voice for openness, democracy and partyism. Now is the time to
show your appreciation for the Weekly Worker and the people
who produce it, even if you do not always agree with all the politics.
Tina Becker
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Box 928, London WC1N 3XX or donate online:
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