Vol. 73/No. 6      February 16, 2009

Eric Simpson, who works as a sewing-machine operator at a plant that repairs uniforms for firefighters, sent in a $25 “Christmas bonus” from his bosses. Simpson said it was easy to explain to his coworkers why he was giving the money to the communist movement. “I’ve had to already explain why I don’t take the donuts they give out every Friday or attend company parties,” he said. “It’s all just a bribe.”

Joel Britton, a groundskeeper, and Carole Lesnick, a sewer, sent in $5 and $2 bonuses their bosses handed out at the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

Workers sending in these “bonuses” by the bosses to the Capital Fund is consistent with the long and proud tradition of workers in the revolutionary socialist movement of not accepting company “blood money” bribes. It comes with our blood on it and that of fellow workers.

The money goes to advancing the long-term publishing program of the communist movement—to produce the political weapons workers need to understand the laws of the wages system and be better equipped to fight to abolish this system for all time and replace it with the rule of working people.

—SAM MANUEL