Go for it

Robbie Rix was a bit surprised not to receive more cash

As I predicted, the last seven days saw a considerable slowdown in donations to the Weekly Worker compared to the week before. But, there again, it wasn’t a difficult prediction to make, as the biggest proportion of standing orders are paid at the beginning of the month.

Nevertheless another £97 paid directly into our account was added and there were also two other donations - a £25 cheque from MW “towards the cost of publishing the Weekly Worker” (MW has also applied for CPGB membership), plus an online payment of £10 from WD (who is too modest to say anything about her PayPal donation - I think maybe she would prefer not to be mentioned in this column at all!).

I must say I was a bit surprised not to receive more cash in the post. As things start to pick up following the CWU action, I was expecting a bit of a flurry of items held in storage by Royal Mail. Perhaps next week! And just the one internet donor out of the 15,357 online readers of our paper is also a bit on the low side.

However, the £132 I got this week brings our total for November to £519. So we are still on target for another much needed surplus over and above the £1,000 we must get as a minimum each and every month. Let’s go for it, comrades.

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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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