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From The Socialist newspaper, 6 January 2022
Fighting Fund - 162% of target, £162,000 raised
Fighting fund collection at Socialism2021. Photo: Mary Finch (Click to enlarge)
Adam Harmsworth, Coventry Socialist Party
Congrats to Socialist Party members and supporters for raising 162% of the fighting fund target for 2021 - £162,000. We hit the annual fighting fund target with three months left, and then obliterated the final quarter's target with 242%, raising over £60,000 in a quarter for the first time!
That funding comes from donations in support of our campaigns and our politics from members, plus a bigger number of people who support our work.
I know in Coventry that our Socialist Party stalls have had donations from NHS workers, especially when we're campaigning on the issue. We also get money from working-class pensioners, and young workers and students - they often make a big donation relative to the money they have.
Workers put money towards us in the hope it will make a difference. That money goes towards vital parts of the Socialist Party's work:
- Running our national centre and printing press
- Buying material for reams of leaflets, pamphlets and posters
You might be reading this and not be a member of the Socialist Party. Maybe you like something in particular that we fight on, like climate change, the NHS or LGBTQ+ rights.
First consider joining us and getting involved in this urgent work of fighting for socialism. Then, whether or not you join right away, consider giving the Socialist Party a donation as a symbol of support. Every penny goes into the struggle for socialism.
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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 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.
- 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 Fighting Fund.
In The Socialist 6 January 2022:
News
Tories' cost of living squeeze - build the workers' fightback
Blair knighted for services to the rich and powerful
More fares misery for passengers - renationalise the railways
Schools: union action needed for Covid safety
Capitalism in crisis
Britain in 2022: Build a coordinated working-class fightback
Workplace news
Strike threat forces Tesco to improve pay offer
West Mids metalworkers strike over pay
Sheffield JustEat couriers escalate dispute
Scunny scaffs enter twelfth week of strike action
S. Yorks Stagecoach workers start indefinite strike
International news
Chile's working class delivers a landslide vote against ultra-right Kast
Socialist history
New unionism - when mass workers' action changed Britain
Local elections
TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections
Campaigns news
Coventry: Private profits from hospital parking
Fighting Fund - 162% of target, £162,000 raised
Trinity Centre: Shameful eviction by Newham council
Obituary
Obituary: Kate Jones - 1953-2021
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