Think again

Robbie Rix wants to see some plastic

I can report an excellent start to October’s fighting fund, with £285 received in the first seven days.

That is, of course, a little up on where we need to be in order to reach our £1,000 monthly target. However, bare statistics can be misleading. That figure is mostly made up by the raft of standing order donations that tend to be concentrated at the beginning of each month, and so that element will be somewhat reduced in weeks two, three, and four.

I will mention the most generous of our SO donors: SM (£40), PM (£30), DB (£25), SD, FK and CG (£20 each). Thanks to all of them, not forgetting the other comrades whose contributions, though more modest, account for a considerable amount extra every month.

Amongst the postal donations was a handy £20 cheque from comrade KL, who writes: “Thanks for the excellent insight into the far right. Your articles have really made me think again.” Good to hear it, comrade - that’s the role our paper often plays: one of challenging accepted truths. Usually those of the left.

There were just two PayPal donations this week - a rather small proportion when you consider we had 13,661 online readers. But we are grateful to LW and to CPGB activist CS, who gave a tenner each.

Since I cannot count on such a high amount from standing orders for the rest of October, let me make a polite request: please, comrades, just get out that bit of plastic and pop onto our website. Last month we went well over target and we could do with a repeat performance.

Fighting Fund

Keep you posted!

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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