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Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer
Socialist Party members raised a record £36,281 in the first three months of 2016 – smashing the target, getting to 145%.
The fighting fund plays a vital part in sustaining the Socialist Party’s finances. We aim to reach a minimum of 120% of the overall annual target of £100,000 to ensure that we have the finance necessary to maintain our campaigning.
Our members and supporters have taken up the challenge, holding all sorts of fundraising events, as well as raising fighting fund on the regular campaign stalls.
The year got off to a great start in Carlisle, where despite the flooding, the branch raised £175 at their now traditional Burns Night public event.
Nottingham branch shot to the top of the charts when Jean Thorpe raised a fantastic £440 in sponsorship for a ten kilometre run. Mansfield branch raised over £70 with the sale of badges commemorating the miners’ strike.
The leak lifting the lid on offshore tax-havens (see back page) shows that the rich care for nothing but their own wealth. In stark contrast the Socialist Party is working to build a socialist alternative where ordinary people democratically control all the wealth that is produced for the benefit of the whole of society.
We ask for donations in the course of our campaigning to help with that struggle.
Socialist Party members have been out consistently campaigning in support of the junior doctors, calling for the nationalisation of the steel industry and throughout England and Wales against cuts and closures caused by Cameron and Osborne’s ruinous austerity.
And now we aim to make the next quarter as successful as the last.
- Can you help with fundraising ideas or by making a donation at www.socialistparty.org.uk/main/donate or by calling 020 8988 8777
