Vol. 75/No. 45      December 12, 2011

Supporters of the party reached out to coworkers, strikers and locked-out workers, people they met selling the Militant door to door and participants in social protest actions.

The Party-Building Fund provides an opportunity to garner support for building a revolutionary working-class party today, one that can play an indispensable role in organizing a mass revolutionary movement capable of replacing the dictatorship of capital with a government of workers and farmers and joining the worldwide struggle for socialism.

Lincoln tops the chart—as it did in the international Militant subscription campaign—having collected 139 percent of its local quota!

Jacquie Henderson from Houston recounts that while going door to door campaigning for SWP candidates one worker asked, “How do you finance your efforts?” After some discussion he gave to the fund.

In New York City Nancy Boyasko reports that nearly $175 was collected at street tables, political events, demonstrations and door-to-door teams.

“Every dollar counts,” says Joel Britton from San Francisco, where supporters collected over $1,800 more than the local quota. “One such dollar came from a sugarcane refinery worker in nearby Crockett. She was attracted to a Militant headline on the sugar beet workers fight against American Crystal Sugar’s lockout in the Upper Midwest. She and others at C&H Sugar have been working lots of overtime. She had heard this was due to less sugar than normal being refined in the Red River Valley where 1,300 sugar workers have been battling a lockout for the last four months.”

“We got off to an early start with many contributions pledged in the first couple of weeks,” writes Norton Sandler from Los Angeles. “A highlight was the contributions received going door to door with the Militant in working-class neighborhoods. In the last three weeks we received donations from four workers of $25, $20 and two for $5.”

Thank you to all who contributed to make the drive a smashing success and bringing in the funds needed to take advantage of the growing opportunities to build the party.
 
 
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