Large or small
A good Summer Offensive is central, writes Howard Roake
In the seven days since my last column, just £767 has come in to our fund drive, the Summer Offensive, increasing the running total to £10,319.50.
So, although our pace has slowed over the past few weeks, we are still well placed to hit our £25k minimum target and - fingers crossed - go beyond it this year. With just over a month to end of the campaign, lots of promises from comrades yet to be redeemed and plans for various benefit events in the pipeline, I am confident that this year’s SO will be one of the best.
Deserving of special mention this week are WD (another £10 - her fourth this year, in fact); £150 from YM; TB, who has stumped up £90, as has JME from France; and new associate member, GS, who has paid the full whack for a week’s residence at this year’s Communist University - £160.
Speaking of which, the details of this year’s school will be up on the CPGB’s website early next week. It will be good event, with challenging ideas and sharp debates between different trends in the workers’ movement. In particular, Canadian political author Lars T Lih will be joining us to present three openings over the course of the week.
Some of the persistent myths that continue to pass as Leninist ‘orthodoxy’ on the revolutionary left will be picked apart in these sessions and we will get closer to the real, historical Lenin and his true relationship with the political centre of the Second International. The third session, in particular, will be useful in identifying the elements of continuity and change in Lenin’s ideological development post-1917.
A good Summer Offensive is central to building events like the Communist University, to promoting our paper and to building (and protecting!) our website.
So don’t wait to be asked, comrades! Donations, large and small, are urgently required, including from the 10,694 who logged on to read the paper online this week!
