Old themes, good fun

Last chance to donate to this year’s Summer Offensive, comrades! This annual fundraising drive of the Communist Party officially ends on August 14. We are hoping for a rush of cheques and cash at next week’s Communist University. Many comrades hand over their last contributions just before our ‘Offensive meal’, which marks the end of this hard period and where we honour comrades who have done particularly well.

Our total has risen to £24,311 this week. Many thanks to EB for her new standing order to the party for £5 per month. Standing orders are particular vital to the functioning of the party: be it the production of the Weekly Worker, sending off comrades to cover meetings of the European Social Forum, publishing new pamphlets or just the day-to-day organisational tasks: without regular, predictable income, it is almost impossible to organise anything.

So we are grateful to the many supporters and friends of the organisation who have either taken up standing orders, increased them or topped them up with additional contributions, like comrade MM. You can download a standing order form from our website. Alternatively, call us and we will send you one.

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Click here to find out how you can donate to the Summer Offensive 2004, our annual fundraising drive.

Of course, we do not want to give the impression of being snobbish about one-off donations. The PayPal facility on our website has proven very successful indeed. So far, online donations have made up about one tenth of the overall contributions. In particular, thanks this week to DB of York for his £20 and our Parisian comrade, OF, for his £10. Mind you, last week, 7,956 visitors read us online, so a few more web donors would not go amiss!

I must also mention comrade PJ, a former (and future?) member of the party, who does his bit with £100. He has helped to take us towards a respectable total. Our guesstimate is that after comrades get their cheque books out at the SO meal, and not forgetting the donation from comrades in the Communist Party of Turkey in the pipeline (comrades who set us an example with their own SO in the 1970s and 80s), we look set to easily top £25K for this year’s campaign.

Given the difficulties faced by the organisation over the period of this year’s campaign, this is an achievement we should all be very proud of.
Tina Becker

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