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Vol. 73/No. 36      September 21, 2009

 
$95,000 party-building fund to aid
communist response to openings
(front page)
 
BY SETH GALINSKY  
The Socialist Workers Party has launched a fall party-building fund to raise $95,000. It will run for eight weeks starting September 12 through November 10.

Funds are needed to enable the party to respond in a timely and effective way to openings in the class struggle that are emerging as a result of the worst capitalist economic crisis in living memory, said party leader Norton Sandler, one of the cochairs of the fund. Sandler is joined by Laura Garza, a leader of the party in Boston and the SWP candidate for Boston City Council in District 1.

The fund will pay for travel, phone, and other expenses incurred in extending the reach of the communist movement among workers, farmers, and rebel-minded youth who are responding to the devastation caused by capitalism in decline.

The SWP depends on contributions from workers and farmers to help ensure the communist course—that of taking political power out of the hands of the capitalist rulers and reorganizing economic and social relations from top to bottom in the interests of the working class—is heard.

Many workers and youth are outraged by the incineration of dozens of people in Afghanistan from a NATO bombing raid and reports of U.S. troops raiding a hospital there, allegedly in search of Taliban supporters.

The Socialist Workers Party and the Young Socialists have a long history of joining struggles that advances the class consciousness, organization, discipline, internationalism, and self-confidence of working people.

To build a revolutionary working-class party and put forward this perspective, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists will be taking the Militant, New International magazine, and books published by Pathfinder Press to college campuses, factory gates and mine portals, and working-class communities.

Socialist workers will talk with their coworkers in garment shops and meatpacking plants about the work of the party. Many of them who are also facing pending layoffs or speed-ups on the job will want to contribute.

Party-building fund meetings will be taking place in many cities in the United States. Where they are held early in the campaign, public meetings where party leaders will speak on the historic accomplishments of the SWP in the working-class struggles and the place of building a revolutionary party in the fight for political power can help get the fund off to a good start.

This kind of approach can also help to establish a weekly pace to the contributions, which are needed now.

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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