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From The Socialist newspaper, 20 June 2012
Support the final sprint to the fighting fund quarter finish line
Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer
With one week to go, Socialist Party members are going all out to ensure that we reach the target of £25,000 by 29 June.
Some are even going that extra mile - or more: Steve Score and Drew Walton from Leicester Socialist Party both went an extra 13 miles as they ran in the Sheffield half-marathon!
Steve raised over £180 for the fighting fund in sponsorship and Drew raised £15 and sold 13 copies of the Socialist by running with a collecting bucket. Flushed with success, Steve is planning to run in the Leicester half-marathon in October while Drew is upgrading to the full marathon.
The Socialist Party depends on the support of ordinary people for its funding. This is because we fight for the interests of working class people, and not for the interests of big business.
This is unlike the Tory leaders Hunt, Cameron and Osborne, and New Labour's Blair and Brown before them, who were shown by the Leveson inquiry to have fallen over themselves to do Rupert Murdoch's bidding.
Murdoch's newspapers attack public and private sector workers and relentlessly advocate austerity for us, but not for FTSE 100 chief executives who enjoyed a 10% pay increase. A quarter of these chief execs had a 41% pay rise!
Can you make a donation - via our website www.socialistparty.org.uk/donate or by telephoning 020 8988 8777 - to help raise the £5,000 needed to reach our target for the quarter? Every donation, no matter how big or small, will help us on our way.
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Coronavirus crisis - Finance appeal
The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.
The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.
- The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
- Our 'fighting coronavirus workers' charter', outlines a programme to combat the virus and protect workers' living conditions.
- When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.
Inevitably, during the crisis we have not been able to sell the Socialist and raise funds in the ways we normally would.
We therefore urgently appeal to all our viewers to donate to our special coronavirus appeal.
In The Socialist 20 June 2012:
Socialist Party news and analysis
British economy: "black cloud overhead"
Leveson inquiry - The 1%: "definitely in this together"
International socialist news and analysis
Greece election - majority vote against austerity
Egypt's military instigates a 'soft coup'
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Gloucestershire: Countywide protests to stop NHS sell-off
Bus bosses can't stop the Socialist!
Support the final sprint to the fighting fund quarter finish line
Socialist Party workplace news
Striking at Fords to defend pensions
Five hundred food processing workers strike in Leicester
Packed Coryton refinery meeting backs action to win
UCU: Time to fight on pay and pensions
Improved offer in Metro workers' pay fight
Trade union conferences
GMB delegates question link to Labour
Unite needs strategy to step up fight against austerity
Unison conference: members show anger at pensions 'offer'
Fighting teachers' association network launched
Socialist Party review
Secret History of the Streets, Deptford High Street
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