Vol. 81/No. 23      June 12, 2017

 

Congratulations! Militant Fighting Fund over the top

 
Congratulations to all! With your efforts, the seven-week Militant Fighting Fund campaign has gone over the goal of raising $112,000 — bringing in $113,270. The fund is essential to the paper’s budget — for operating expenses; to subsidize the price of introductory subscriptions to help win new readers; to provide low cost and complimentary prisoners’ subscriptions; and for fielding reporting teams whenever and wherever important developments in the class struggle break out.

More donations will be coming in earmarked for the recent solidarity and reporting trip to Puerto Rico, where the Militant sent Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York mayor, Martín Koppel and Linda Joyce to stand with Oscar López Rivera after his release from almost 36 years in U.S. prisons. The capitalist rulers hate him for his uncompromising stance in opposition to U.S. colonialism and for the independence of Puerto Rico.

New contributors gave many hundreds of dollars — mostly ones, twos, fives and tens — to party members campaigning for communism in working class neighborhoods, on workers’ picket lines and at social protests.

The fund ran concurrently with the SWP’s campaign to introduce the party to workers. Over the seven weeks, working people and youth learned about, discussed and debated the SWP program and the political questions posed by the unfolding worldwide crisis of capitalism today. They bought 1,145 books by Jack Barnes and Mary-Alice Waters, leaders of the party, and 1,252 subscriptions to the Militant, along with thousands of single copies.

The Militant has almost 150 prisoners who subscribe to the paper and benefit from the fund.

“Every week that we people receive your newspaper, ‘The Militant,’ it gives us more hope, more strength and more unity,” one worker behind bars wrote from Florida. “I ask that you will never give up your stride and that you continue to be a tool and voice for the masses.”

The success of the party-building campaigns sets us up to continue to expand the reach of the Militant and the Socialist Workers Party.

The SWP will be hosting an Active Workers Conference June 15-17 in Ohio, where party leaders will give presentations on the deepening capitalist economic and social crisis and what working people can do to build a movement to take political power. Classes will discuss the Middle East, the damage to workers struggles from ‘political correctness’ campaigns and other important questions. If you want to learn more about the party or the conference, contact branches in your area in the directory on page 8.  
 
 
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