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The high level of support for our fighting fund in recent weeks has continued over the last seven days - despite postal delays sparked by numerous management-provoked strikes in Royal Mail. We do apologise to our readers for the late delivery of the Weekly Worker, but be warned - it’s far from over.
Pride of place goes to comrade SW, who donated a tremendous £100 via PayPal (mea culpa: I forgot to mention this last week). Another PayPal donor is LR, who commends us for our “great” coverage of the Tory Party conference: “… it was refreshing to read opinions in the Weekly Worker that actually follow through with criticisms only hinted at in the mainstream press,” writes the comrade. “Capitalism is the problem, yet The Guardian et al prefer to skim over this obvious issue.”
LR is also impressed by the style of our articles: “In-depth and informative, they give credit to the reader by assuming he or she has more than one brain cell.” And the conclusion is: “Please keep up the good work. It’s much needed at the moment.” Thanks for the kind words comrades, not to mention the £20.
Another one of the 12,861 internet readers who donated online was WD (£5), and a couple of cheques did get through, courtesy of Royal Mail - a nice £60 from TR and £20 added to DT’s resubscription. It was also a good week for standing order donations: no less than £207 was transferred into the Weekly Worker account.
It all adds up to an extra £412, taking the total for October to £697, with more than half the month to go. There is no reason why we can’t smash through our £1,000 target once more. Which is all very useful - we really need to upgrade our office computers and now it seems we may be able to do so earlier than planned.
But only if the cash keeps coming in at the same rate. Can you help? Please make a donation online or, better still, download a standing order form.
