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Weekly Worker 579 Thursday June 2 2005
Summer Offensive
Cunning plans
Howard Roake reports on the opening days of this year’s annual
fundraising drive, the Summer Offensive. With £30,000 to get together
during June and July, establishing early momentum is vital
No, we don't finance our organisation by selling our livers; wo
don't have a T-shirt sweatshop in Turkey and we certainly don't have
the heir to a nationwide chain of dry cleaners in our midst - these
are only some of the weird explanations others on the left have made
up to explain how we can raise £30,000 in two months (this year:
June and July). In fact, we rely to 100% on party members, supporters,
sympathisers and readers of the Weekly Worker. If you appreciate
our open and democratic press, now is the time to show us! Rush your
donations to us today.
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We
need your help!A fine donation of £250 helped get the first two days of the Summer
Offensive off to a solid start. Comrade JS tells us that he did plan to
spend the money on a holiday, but was swayed by Ian Mahoney’s article
on the Summer Offensive in last week’s paper. Also, comrade DS is
the first of what will hopefully be a flood of readers using the Pay Pal
facility on our website - many thanks for your £20, comrade.
Total pledges for this year’s Summer Offensive stand at £17,350,
as the campaign gets underway. This is a decent start, but we need to
push this total up over the next week or so. At the end of the first week
of last year’s campaign, we had over £22,000 promised and we
need to get near or beyond that within a few days. We have a launch meeting
on Saturday June 4 that will give it a boost - readers should get donations
or details of pledges to us for that date.
Comrades around the country are busy concocting cunning plans to raise
their personal targets. These include a two-day fast, a number of ‘pub
quizzes’ (not necessarily in pubs, though), busking sessions in a
city centre, featuring famous protest songs (as well as “a few originals”,
we are told) and a benefit gig. We will have a fuller picture of how the
start of this year’s campaign has gone for next week’s column.
Use the website or send your donations to BCM Box 928, London WC1N 3SXX
- mark the back of cheques and postal orders ‘SO’.
Robbie Rix writes:
My Weekly Worker fighting fund column will be discontinued for the period
of the CPGB’s Summer Offensive. It has been decided that fundraising
will be concentrated on a single appeal for cash - the SO - until the
end of July. Cash donated to the Weekly Worker will count towards the
overall total, although money intended for the paper will be used exclusively
for that purpose - please continue to make cheques and postal orders payable
to ‘Weekly Worker’.
I am pleased to report that the May fighting fund just made our £500
target, with a total of £507, to be exact. Thanks go to comrades
GK for his excellent £50, LH, BF and DS (£20 each), and to
BC, UL and ST, who each gave a tenner. A minor flurry.
I will pass on weekly readership figures from our website to comrade Roake
for inclusion in his column from next week. But I can report that last
week we had 12,878 readers.
See you in August!
