Appreciation

Robbie Rix urges you to use the now-working button to show it

I am happy to say that five people responded to my request to “hit the button” last week - they clicked on ‘Make a donation’ on our website, even though it was accidentally ‘disappeared’ for a while over the weekend!

So thank you, PP, OI, NJ, DT and DR for your modest but, collectively, more than useful gifts amounting to £30. I also had a cheque for twice that amount from our most regular and longstanding fighting fund supporter, TR, plus two smaller ones from comrades TF (£20) and SL (£10).

Then there were standing order donations amounting to £102, with pride of place going to RG (£50) and GD (£17). All that boosts our total by £222, to £582. But we need the full £1,000 by the end of the month, and I would prefer to have it in my hands a good few days before the 30th!

Comrade TF put in a little note with his cheque: “In appreciation of the Lars T Lih articles - keep it up!” Well, this week’s paper carries the last in the series, but I’m sure we’ll be publishing more pieces in the future arising from the comrade’s original research.

Anyone else want to show their appreciation?

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Fighting Fund

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Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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