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Summer Offensive 
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It really has been a week: another
Mars landing, the foundation of Respect, Blair’s narrow escape
over tuition fees, the Hutton whitewash and, to cap it all, the
transport chaos in the south of England that came with this year’s
first flurry of snow showers across the country. As things turned
out, January has been an interesting month for our fighting fund
too. To begin with, we were moving slow: far too slow … and now
suddenly here we are in surplus. We have £520 in hand - and still
with a couple of days left to go.
We got an excellent boost from PF, one
of our many web readers, who paid through PayPal. The comrade
says that the Weekly Worker, “for all its one-sidedness”,
is the “best source of information about what is going on in the
left today - especially with the SWP and Respect and all that.”
Thanks for the compliment, comrade, and thanks for the £60 donation
too. And can I assure you that none of us in the Weekly
Worker team are complacent. We are well aware that the
range of issues we cover needs expanding. Nevertheless, what we
do we try and do well. That was shown by our healthy sales at
the Respect conference on January 25.
Another £50 came from ES, who calls himself
a “lazy” supporter, and this week’s fund was rounded off with
£15 from comrade OG. She hopes her “little” contribution will
help and adds that the flow of funds is “sure to pick up once
January is over!” Naturally I share that optimism. But, as always,
we do not rely on fate, luck or anything mystical … we rely, as
ever, on you, our readers.
As is customary, just a few words on last
week’s circulation. We notched up 9,165 e-readers and that, plus
our estimate of print-readers, keeps us just over the 10,000 mark.
No fewer than 1,114 copies of Weekly Worker 512 were downloaded.
Robbie Rix
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