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Summer Offensive 
Shortfall
Last week I reported that our £500 monthly target was within
sight. We had exactly £415 in hand. Unfortunately we did
not make it. By the close of May we received an additional £30
- taking our grand total to £445. Still, not a bad effort
and our thanks go to comrades RF, JG and CG.
More than that, comrade JS from Cambridgeshire has joined the
ranks of those readers who donate through a bankers order. While
in itself £10 a month hardly constitutes a fortune, it is
another valued brick in the guaranteed financial base we need.
The more solid our income, the better placed we are to go forward
with ambitious projects like the Daily Worker for the European
Social Forum in October.
Incidentally, comrade JS, a former member of Militant, writes
that he finds the articles in the Weekly Worker both “an
education and a breath of fresh air”. Agreeing with our position
on Respect, he has committed himself to do some hard work for
it during the final days of the election campaign. Quite right.
Last week our overall circulation edged up somewhat, not least
due to the 8,176 readers notched up on the website. Though down
on the best we were achieving late last year, nonetheless this
gives us one of the biggest readerships on the left in Britain.
The CPGB’s annual fundraising drive, the Summer Offensive,
has just begun. Until it ends on July 31 my column will be discontinued.
While all cash donated to the Weekly Worker will be used only
for our paper, we will nevertheless be including money raised
for the Weekly Worker in our overall SO total.
Robbie Rix
Send cheques, payable to CPGB, BCM
Box 928, London WC1N 3XX or donate online:
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