Vol. 75/No. 42      November 21, 2011

From the Twin Cities, Natalie Morrison reports that following a successful Party-Building Fund meeting on October 30, “Our pledges are now $4,971 with $3,426 collected towards a goal of $6,000.”

Twenty-five people attended the meeting featuring a presentation by Joe Swanson, a longtime leader of the party. He talked about labor resistance today, from sugar workers in the Midwest to longshore workers on the West Coast standing up to the growing number of lockouts and other aggressive boss assaults. Four new contributions were made.

Swanson said, “Seeing these lock-outs is seeing how the bosses organize their forces to go to war against us; trying to break unions and attack democratic rights here and around the world. We see and hear in discussions how workers are being transformed in the process of fighting back.”

Marty Knable, a worker at Delta Airlines, who came with two coworkers fighting for a union, said, “The Militant newsweekly gives workers confidence in seeing other workers wage struggles. We passed the hat and raised $200 for the locked-out sugar workers, and it wasn’t difficult, even in these hard times.”

Robert Dickson, a recent college student, contributed $5 to the fund “because it’s a good cause.” Morrison explained that in the Twin Cities they had about five contributions from meeting people selling door to door and at the Occupy Wall Street actions in Minneapolis. “These people, who for one reason or another didn’t get a subscription to the Militant, asked if they could donate money to our work because they like what we are doing,” Morrison said.
 
 
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