OUR FUND DRIVE | IMGpapers 1976

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£1,000 short of our fund drive target and the effects of this are beginning to tell on us.

Wework on about a month's credit, but this shortfall will have to be made up by the end of January if we are to avoid problems paying our bills.

Our printers will give us a few weeks grace before they refuse to print us. But British Rail will not be so understanding and nor will the Post Office fact they won't give us credit at all. Either we pay or they won't take our letters.

And I doubt if all our Domestic: 6 months, £5; 12 months, £10 Abroad: Airmail, £16.50. Surface, £10 per annum. Multi-reader institutions: double individual rate Name Address I-enclose a donation for the Fighting Fund of r • "Socialist Challenge'. Complete and return to: Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1. IN THE LAST quarter we fell subscribers would like being told they had to pay for postage on delivery. urgently need all lM branches Over the and all our other supporters to take emergency collections to help make up the shortfall. This is the only way we can avoid a major crisis in the coming weeks.

Now is the time to dig deep into your pockets, • in collections at all your meetings.

Keep on with the long term fund-raising plans, but we do need a big cash boost now The bills are coming in thick SUBSCRIBE!

Cheques, POs and Money Orders should be made payable to and fast so we need you to get the money in to us as quickly as you can. week We have made a good start in catching up with the situation over the last week. fund drive total of £467 is considerably better than any total that we've seen in recent WEEKS.

However this is largely made up of f260 take emergency supporters at school on Eurocommunism in London last weekend.

coupled anonymous donation of £100 have ensured our healthy total. We need to do the same, if not better, next week.

In the post this week we had EWO readers enclosing donations. RESOLUTION Mike Davis made a New Year resolution to win us at least five new LA subscribers -hasn't got them beginning of March he wants to be billed for the difference.

Mike's contribution to the fund drive was given in memory of Neil Williamson whom he knew for a year in Scotland -*a most remarkable and gifted young comrade.