Party News from the March 1921 issue of the Socialist Standard
This being our Special Holiday Number we take the opportunity of issuing a reminder on the subject of our £1,000 Fund. Money is as urgently needed as ever, notwithstanding that we do not make a great splash about it in these pages. Any sympathiser who has a spare shot in the locker should send it to our Head Office, where it will be put to good use in the Class Struggle.
5 comments:
No idea why I give special precedence to the 1920s £1000 fund on the blog. There are other notices from past Socialist Standards that I never include. I guess it's nothing more than an ongoing snapshot on the SPGB in the immediate aftermath of WW1. Skint but still angry and defiant.
I wonder what members back then would say about the Party's rather comfortable present financial state
I don't think they'd waste it on elections.
I mean, I hope they wouldn't.
"I don't think they'd waste it on elections."
Actually I think only a small portion of our cash is being used for elections. Some is to subsidise the hardcopy print issue of the Standard but most is sitting dormant in bank accounts and the interest accrued probably intended to pay the bills for the up-keep our overly-expensive Head Office.
Even back then there was a desire to have paid full-time speakers and organisers. And we can't agree on paying someone to spend time cleaning the premises and keeping it tidy.
Every election contested is a waste of money and energy. It serves no purpose what so ever at the moment.
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