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Vol. 77/No. 37      October 21, 2013

 
Socialist Workers Party launches
$100,000 fund drive
 
BY BRIAN WILLIAMS  
The Socialist Workers Party is launching its annual party-building fund, appealing for contributions from working people and others who support its aims to help finance its work. The nine-week drive runs from Oct. 12 to Dec. 17 with a goal of raising $100,000.

Today we have entered a period of historic crisis for capitalism, a crisis worldwide that is still in its initial stages. In response, the Socialist Workers Party is bringing its communist program deeper and broader into the working class and working with others to increase readership of the Militant and books by Pathfinder Press that draw on the working-class’s 150-year continuity of the struggle for power, clarify current political developments and help chart a course toward proletarian revolution.

The party and its supporters are introducing thousands of working people to its election campaigns, which help reach broader audiences with a socialist platform and provide an example of the need and possibility of an independent working-class political course and break from the parties of capitalist rule, the Democrats and Republicans.

Together with a small but growing vanguard of workers, the party is joining and building solidarity with working-class battles and important social struggles. Yet small in number and scope today, they reflect the bubbling underneath the surface.

The party is organizing to link up with other working-class fighters and recruit to its ranks. The SWP is today a nucleus of what will be decisive in building a mass revolutionary proletarian party in the future. It is an indispensible instrument for drawing together and educating a working-class vanguard that can lead working people and allies in coming class battles.

Through these experiences workers will gain the confidence, organization and discipline necessary to wrest political power from the capitalist exploiters and establish a workers and farmers government that will end the dictatorship of capital and join the worldwide fight for socialism.

SWP units and supporters nationwide are taking quotas to meet the national goal. The Militant will provide weekly reports along with a chart showing progress in the drive.

Contributions can be sent to the SWP address nearest you (see directory on page 8) or directly to the SWP National Office at 306 W. 37th St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10018.  
 
 
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