------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 24, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
EDITORIAL: HELP! HELP!
Dear Readers:
A couple of months ago we put an ad asking for funds in this newspaper and got a gratifying response. Thanks so much to those who sent in contributions.
This is addressed to all our subscribers and to the many tens of thousands who read Workers World online. We need your help again, just as you need our facts and analysis again and again. It takes a lot of time, work and resources to put out a well-researched, -written and - edited newspaper every week. You know how the commercial, pro-capitalist news media do it. Their news stories are just the wrapping around the real stuff: ads. They pay their bills that way, and it makes them dependent on the corporate system.
We often hear from you that you think WW is the best paper on the left. It's not that we're the most professional or have the most journalistic training. Most of our writers are not journalists but activists in the many areas of struggle we cover. But what makes us different is our total independence from the capitalist establishment, including its liberal institutions.
We don't survive on foundation grants or paid advertising. We're too radical for them, anyway. We're the folks who are constantly being attacked by the right and even some liberals, because we won't join in with the demonizing of whatever country or leader is in U.S. imperialism's sights. We think the social movements that are developing right now need to be more militant, not less. And we won't bow down to capitalism as an eternal system, one that just needs a little fixing. We promote the struggle of the multinational working class for socialism, because it's the only way out of the hell capitalism has created.
How do we get by? Partly on the donated labor of our staff, from editors and writers to the hard-working people who every week enter names into the computer, put on the address labels and take the bundles to the post office. That doesn't cover the printing, however, or the rent or phones or web site or all the expenses that go with running an office. Our subscription price is low--the paper is actually mailed free to prisoners--so workers can afford it. So covering most of our expenses depends on the contributions of our supporters.
So it's time again to ask you to dig in your pockets or write a check. And we'll probably be after you again in the not too distant future-- because the bills always keep coming. One way you could help keep us on an even keel is to join the WW Supporter Program, listed below. That way you can rather painlessly make a contribution each month. You can even do it with your credit card. That helps us to budget, too.
Thanks for your help.
Deirdre Griswold, Editor
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