Fighting Fund
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Robbie Rix praises partisan readers
Another month, another target reached. Once more we have broken through the £1,000 barrier, as our November fighting fund reaches an excellent £1,249.
In my mailbag this week I found a handy £60 cheque from TR, £15 from FJ (added to his resubscription), plus an early Christmas card from comrade SB, who encloses a tenner and writes: “Thank you for a wonderful paper - it’s the best read of the week.”
I also received three donations via our website, totalling £80. There was a more than useful £50 from TG, £20 from LR, who thanks us for the Weekly Worker online, and £10 from JS, who is more specific: “Just a thank you for SWP bulletin No2.” Yes, what a pity the SWP itself doesn’t realise how interesting and useful their internal debates are for the whole left. These three comrades were among 14,989 visitors to our site, almost all of whom are online readers.
This figure remains impressive because our paper is not intended to be an easy read. We treat readers seriously, as we do developments on the left. Where some lightmindedly dismiss the debates, splits and halfway house projects of the organised left as mere gossip, the Weekly Worker recognises that the existing left is not only part of what stops the advance of the working class to socialism, but is also part of the solution. That is why the paper not only has so many readers, but so many partisan readers.
Hence the third component part of this month’s fighting fund total, those who have taken out standing orders of various sizes, which amounted to an excellent £265 over the last seven days. Thanks once again to SK, RP, DO and GD - and to all contributors to our fighting fund for helping us beyond our target.
