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Vol. 79/No. 38 October 26, 2015
Help make Socialist Workers
Party-Building Fund
BY JOHN STUDER
“Our Party-Building Fund goal is bumped up again to $3,645,” Frank
Forrestal wrote Oct. 8 from the Twin Cities. This is the second increase
Socialist Workers Party fund organizers there have made, totaling an
additional $500 toward the national goal.
Overall local pledges still fall $6,000 short of meeting the $100,000
needed to help fund the work of the SWP. The funds are crucial to take
advantage of growing opportunities to join in union and social
struggles, spread the reach of the party’s press and books and expand
its contacts and support. We need more areas to respond like the Twin
Cities.
“We sent out a supplementary mailing to long-term readers of the
Militant in the area,” Joel Britton from Oakland, California, said Oct.
12. “So far three have responded. One, who gave $75, is someone we’ve
never met.” Party members and supporters in Oakland have helped lead the
drive from the beginning and raised their goal. “The mail just arrived
with three contributions for $600 more,” Britton wrote later the same day.
His report was just one example of combining work on the fund drive with
efforts to meet and strengthen collaboration with new and old readers of
the paper and others, who are attracted to the SWP today by new openings
in the class struggle.
The growing response by workers and youth to explosive world
developments — from the devastating consequences for toilers in Syria
and throughout the Middle East caused by the U.S. rulers’ desperate
efforts to hold together their crumbling imperialist “world order,” to
the spread of the $15 and a union movement and other labor resistance to
growing employer attacks generated from the deepening world crisis of
capitalist production and trade, to greater interest in the
international course of the Cuban Revolution today — mean growing
opportunities for expansion of the communist movement.
The SWP’s timely and audacious response to these openings depends on
success in the party’s annual fund effort.
“Next weekend supporters of the Party-Building Fund in the area are
holding a cook-out,” Bill Arth said by phone Oct. 14 from Los Angeles.
“We’re inviting people we’ve met recently as well as subscribers to the
Militant. It’s part of a battle plan we’ve decided on for the next three
weeks to make our goals in both the subscription and fund drive.
If you like what you’ve been reading in the Militant and want to see the
Socialist Workers Party deepen its involvement in working class
resistance here and around the world, please get out the word about the
Party-Building Fund. And send as generous a contribution as your can!
John Studer is the 2015 SWP Party-Building Fund director.
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