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Vol. 79/No. 34 September 28, 2015
‘First payments on their way’
in SWP $100,000 fund drive
BY JOHN STUDER
“The first payment of $3,200 toward our quota of $13,500 is on its way,”
Joel Britton, organizer of the Oakland, California, branch of the
Socialist Workers Party, wrote Sept. 14. “More to come.”
Contributions towards the Socialist Workers Party drive to raise
$100,000 over the next eight weeks to help cover the party’s political
work have begun to come in. Just days after the announcement of the
effort, a check for $300 arrived from a long-time supporter of the party
in Newark, New Jersey.
Party members across the country are in the process of pulling together
ambitious goals and organizing to reach out to those they have been
working with to make the drive a success. It runs concurrently with the
party’s fall campaign to expand the circulation of the Militant.
A chart listing area quotas and progress to date will be printed in the
next issue and weekly throughout the drive.
Explosive world developments — including the continuing internationalist
leadership example of revolutionary Cuba; social explosions, crises and
wars from Ukraine to Syria; the deepening world capitalist crisis of
production and trade and employer assaults on the working class it has
unleashed; the coming apart of the imperialist alliances and relations
that have marked the capitalist “world order” established after World
War II; and more — are fueling the growth of labor battles and social
struggles.
These are propitious circumstances for the expansion of the communist
movement and its participation in battles of working people. The SWP is
getting a greater hearing as members join with Steelworkers fighting the
lockout by Allegheny Technologies bosses, opponents of cop brutality
coming together in actions like the recent “Days of Grace” in South
Carolina, farmworkers organizing in eastern Washington, and protesters
rallying in support of Kurds fighting Syrian government troops, Islamic
State terrorists and attacks by the Turkish government.
“We’re sending a check for $1,350 toward our $10,000 goal,” Chicago fund
director John Hawkins wrote Sept. 13. “That’s the best start to a Party
Building Fund we’ve had in years.”
Party supporters reaching out for contributions throughout the Midwest
are getting an enthusiastic response, Hawkins said.
“Now the challenge before us is to keep up the pace getting pledges and
payments so we not only finish the drive in full and on time, but also
keep on schedule each week,” Hawkins said. “And we want to meet our goal
of winning at least 10 new contributors to the fund.”
Join us in introducing the work of the party to your co-workers and
those you practice politics with. Show them the Militant, which reports
on world politics from a working-class viewpoint and on the activities
of the Socialist Workers Party. And ask them to join you in making as
generous a contribution to the party as they can.
John Studer, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee
and editor of the Militant, is the 2015 party fund drive director.
Related articles:
Join Socialist Workers Party drive for new readers!
Socialist Workers Party drive for new readers! (Chart)
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