We saw an inevitable slowdown yesterday after a stomping few days and received just £222 for the Fund.

All donations were memorable though, with £100 coming again from one of our most regular donors who never tells me from whence he comes.

I received £20 in memory of another fine comrade from my earlier years, Ivor Segal.

From London came £25 in memory of the Rosenbergs, about whom Frosty wrote so movingly yesterday. Obama can waffle on at the Brandenburg Gate but how about delivering a posthumous pardon for this innocent couple - and of course releasing the Miami Five and closing Guantanamo, Mr President? Fat chance.

The tallest Morning Star seller in Sheffield sent in £15 and Comrade Standing Orders £57. Another Londoner sent in a fiver with a request that I write a book.

He will be pleased to know that I am producing a two-volume autobiography.

Volume I is Path To Maturity and Volume II is Slide Into Senility.

However before I take leave of my senses can I urge all of you to send in some readies to keep the wheels of struggle turning. We have a big job to do and a big total left to raise.

Your generosity in these last days will take us over the finishing line and render the coalition not fit for purpose.