Bill Estrada, a member of the SWP National Committee and one of the leaders of the two-year-long fight by coal miners at the Co-Op mine in Huntington, Utah, to win representation by the United Mine Workers of America, solicited contributions at the New York event. “Every year the party needs a fund like this one to be able to respond to expanding political opportunities,” such as working peoples’ outrage at the unfolding social disaster in the Gulf Coast states and organizing solidarity with workers on strike at Northwest airlines and Boeing, he said.

The bedrock of party finances is the weekly contributions by its members, Estrada noted. Another essential element is the monthly contributions by organized supporters of the communist movement. Annual fund drives are also needed to meet special needs.

“Your financial contributions today enable the party to be on a footing to cover the hot spots in the class struggle,” said Estrada, “to be able to sustain our political work from Venezuela to Europe to Cuba and beyond, at the same time as comrades in the branches put ourselves where the action is, in the working-class resistance of the trade union movement.”

Those present pledged or contributed nearly $29,000. In coming issues the Militant will publish quotas supporters of the fund adopt in local areas as well as weekly progress charts. Checks or money orders should be made out to the SWP and sent to the party’s national office at 306 W. 37th St. 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
 
 
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