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Vol. 78/No. 40      November 10, 2014

 
New contributors boost
SWP Party-Building Fund
 
BY PAUL MAILHOT
The success of the Militant subscription campaign has inspired efforts across the country to reach out and win new contributors to the SWP Party-Building Fund. Five areas have raised their quotas in the last several weeks, with Chicago making two increases. Local quotas plus other in-hand contributions now stand at the $100,000 mark. Some $59,000 has been collected, with two weeks remaining in the drive.

At an Oct. 16 Philadelphia Federation of Teachers demonstration to protest the city government’s elimination of their union contract, many expressed appreciation for solidarity they’ve received from other workers. Encarna Rodriguez, who trains teachers, and her husband John Lavin, a high school teacher, met SWP members at the rally. “It is important that socialist ideas are being discussed in this country,” Rodriguez said, making a $15 contribution to “the causes” the party is fighting for.

Socialist workers in Miami organize a regular sale of the Militant to dockworkers in southern Florida. Clarence Mann, who has had his union card for 40 years, gave $10 to the Party-Building Fund last week. “I support what you all are doing,” he said. “The paper gives you examples of struggles, like the Honeywell lockout, that show why we need to keep union rights and conditions.” Four longshoremen from the area have donated so far.

“The Socialist Workers Party’s work to explain what’s really going on in the struggles of workers worldwide is extremely important,” said Dex Sims, a Militant subscriber from Akron, Ohio, who contributed to the fund for the first time. “Workers need this kind of party.”

The Party-Building Fund runs through Nov. 11. To allow for payments to arrive in the mail, the final scoreboard will be printed in the Militant that goes to press Nov. 19. All contributions received by Nov. 18 will be counted.
 
 
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