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Summer Offensive 
Tenterhooks
With the Christmas rush now upon
us, it is touch and go whether we can reach our £500 monthly target.
This week’s post has brought in a disappointing £95, but this
has been boosted by some regular standing order payments, amounting
to a further £145. Our total stands at £415 - thank you, comrades
DO, RW, PG, BN, LK and SD.
Rather than leave me on tenterhooks, relying
on the vagaries of Royal Mail, there is, as readers know by now,
a more speedy and certain method of donating to your paper. Log
on to www.cpgb.org.uk and take advantage of our PayPal facility
- if only more of our internet readers would do that.
It so happens that comrade SD is a long-standing
member of the Socialist Worker Party. After reading SWP national
organiser Chris Bambery’s remarks in ‘Party notes’ that looking
at the Weekly Worker could turn you into a “cross-eyed
sectarian”, he decided to visit our website to check it out. Far
from damaging his vision, it cleared his mind. “Your paper helps
me understand what is actually going on in my own party”. He was
so pleased, he sent us an initial £10.
Talking of web readers, last week we recorded
8,580 visits to the web site - a figure which compares well to
our recent average. How many of you are in the SWP we do not know.
All in all though, 2003 has seen a slow but steady increase in
hits and overall circulation and we certainly intend to do what
we can to build upon that in 2004.
But, as always, we need your help - not
least financial. We can still end the year with a bang, setting
us up for the new year. By the way, our next edition will be January
8 2004 .
Robbie Rix
Send cheques, payable to CPGB, BCM
Box 928, London WC1N 3XX or donate online:
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