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Vol. 79/No. 35 October 5, 2015
Raise Socialist Workers Party fund goals
BY JOHN STUDER
With $10,710 in hand and $5,960 in the mail — $3,430 from Atlanta and
$2,530 from Oakland — we have raised almost $19,000 towards the
Socialist Workers Party eight-week $100,000 fund drive.
The fund is decisive for the party’s work — international collaboration,
like participation in the Asia-Pacific Conference in Solidarity with
Cuba in Vietnam; guiding the party’s work building solidarity with
locked-out Steelworkers at ATI and other workers fighting boss attacks;
expanding support for rail workers Tom Harding and Richard Labrie in
Quebec; building actions against cop abuse and murders from Charleston,
South Carolina, to Baltimore; and more.
Area quotas are currently some $10,000 short of the goal. Over the last
week, I raised with party leaders across the country that many quotas
don’t jibe with the political opportunities. The deepening capitalist
crisis, which has spawned boss assaults against wages and working
conditions and government attacks on social and political rights, is
fueling labor resistance, social struggles and greater interest in the
party. There is growing disgust with the moral and political standing of
the capitalist ruling families.
“We will discuss whether we can set a higher target based on the
political openings and on the party’s needs,” Joel Britton from Oakland,
California, wrote when he sent in their latest check.
We meet more and more combatants who are interested in the party and
value their collaboration with it. They will want to help finance the
party’s work.
Join us in making the drive in full and on time. Make as generous a
contribution as you can. And tune in next week to see our progress in
getting the goals over $100,000.
John Studer is the 2015 fund drive director.
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Party-Building Fund
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