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Vol. 75/No. 37      October 17, 2011

 
Socialist Workers Party
begins fund drive
 
BY OMARI MUSA  
The Socialist Workers Party has launched an eight-week drive to raise $100,000 to advance the work of building a revolutionary proletarian party. The drive, which began October 1 and extends through November 27, is off to a strong start with quotas adopted from each area totaling $100,900. (See chart on this page).

Armed with the Militant newsweekly and books by Pathfinder Press on revolutionary working-class politics, communist workers are joining resistance by working people. Today there are increasing examples in which workers are fighting back against the drive by the bosses and their government to make us, the toilers of city and countryside, shoulder the burden of their capitalist economic crisis.

We stand with workers fighting union busting from Minnesota and North Dakota in their battle against American Crystal Sugar, to Steelworkers fighting Armstrong World Industries in Pennsylvania, to International Longshore and Warehouse Union members in Washington state in their battle with EGT grain terminal bosses at the Port of Longview.

We are finding workers who are seeking a way forward. Many are open to discussing the necessity and possibility of a mass revolutionary struggle by the working class and its allies to wrest political power from the capitalist rulers and reorganize society based on solidarity instead of profit.

As we reach out to working-class fighters many will contribute to the Party-Building Fund. While many may not yet agree with the perspective of worldwide proletarian revolution, they see communist workers as part of a common struggle against the bosses and their government.

A team of communist workers in Seattle sold a Militant subscription to Byron Jacobs, a member of ILWU Local 21 in Longview. He said to keep the $5 change “as a contribution to your work.” Later while going door to door they spoke with Norma Reynolds, a union supporter who donated $10 “to keep up the work you’re doing.” There are many more Byrons and Normas out there.

Donate to the SWP Party-Building Fund by sending your contribution to the nearest address listed on page 8.
 
 
Related articles:
Party-Building Fund Oct. 1-Nov. 20 (chart).  
 
 
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