Vol. 73/No. 38 October 5, 2009
The fund runs until November 10. So far, $91,700 has been pledged. A scoreboard showing where the drive stands will appear in next week’s issue.
The opening stage of the worldwide economic depression is more and more showing the unvarnished face of capitalism to workers who are being forced to bear the brunt of the crisis through increasing unemployment, declining wages, speedup, and shorter hours for those who are working.
As these conditions worsen it becomes clearer that Democratic and Republican politicians have no answers for working people.
The Socialist Workers Party unflinchingly tells the truth about what capitalism has in store for working people. It explains that working people have to take political power out of the hands of the ruling rich. The SWP is funded through contributions by workers and farmers. The money is needed to expand the reach of the party as working people begin to fight against the worst economic crisis in our lifetime.
At a September 19 party-building fund meeting in Newark, New Jersey, Norton Sandler, a member of the SWP National Committee, urged participants “to think in class terms” when they are reading bourgeois media coverage about the “economic recovery.”
“This kind of talk belies the reality for the world’s toiling majority,” said Sandler. “To resolve the crisis, the capitalist class must destroy capital. They also must junk massive amounts of plants and equipment. In the coming years the bosses will continue to press down on workers. The rulers will start trade conflicts and wars.”
Supporters of the SWP in Des Moines, Iowa, will host a fund event September 26 featuring Ben O’Shaughnessy, a leader of the Young Socialists, speaking on “The World Crisis of Capitalism and the Working-Class Road to Power.”
Contributions to the fund can be sent to 306 W. 37th Street, 10th floor, New York, NY 10018. Checks and money orders should be written out to the Socialist Workers Party.
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