Elections 3 May

Donate to fund a socialist alternative

The Socialist Party is standing this year in local elections and Welsh Assembly elections to provide a socialist alternative to the parties of big business.

Our election campaigns and our day-to-day campaigning work, like defending the NHS, pensions and education, are all funded by donations from our members and supporters.

Socialist Party members who are elected to paid positions to represent people, whether in a trade union or in government, take a worker's wage instead of the inflated salaries that MPs and many trade union leaders live on. We are accountable to working-class people, unlike New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats who answer to the big business corporations who fund them.

If you agree that a socialist alternative is needed, that privatisation in the NHS must stop, that workers should be paid a living wage, we need your help! Every penny or pound you can donate to our fighting fund will help pay for more leaflets and posters and allow our ideas to reach more people.

Naomi Byron, finance department

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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 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.
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 click here to donate to our Fighting Fund.