Bill Reed, West London Socialist Party
How soon can you sell 100 Socialist papers in 2025? That challenge was put to Socialist Party members in west London.
2025 is going to be a year of protest, strikes, and opposition. It will be easier to sell the paper on demonstrations, picket lines, and on the street, than it has been previously.
In fact, it should be easy to sell 100. We just need to be out there, and have the right approach.
People respond to calls to ‘reinstate Winter Fuel Allowance’, and ‘public service, not private profit – nationalise the energy companies’.
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In the Socialist, you can read how we say the super-rich should be made to pay to fund public services, like the NHS. Increasingly, people who buy our paper want to know more about what we do, and where we meet.
500,000 people signed up for Mick Lynch’s ‘Enough is Enough’, and 350,000 joined Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn. These people are still looking for a lead. And many of them would find it in our paper, if we only offer it widely enough.
In general, we are short of sellers, not buyers. So perhaps 2025 is the year we promote the Socialist paper more widely.
We’ve devised a new record sheet, and four Socialist paper sales are organised for each week. One member already had 23 sales in the first 15 days of the year. And we sold 14 at Acton station on 14 January.
The ‘100 challenge’ – if West London branch can do it, why not yours?
London – Stand up to Starmer
Acton, west London
Members of West London Socialist Party branch sold 14 Socialist papers in just 30 minutes at Acton, before our new members’ reading group. We were campaigning against the rising cost of energy bills. Despite the cold weather, people are really warming to our ideas.
Camden, north London
We sold the Socialist using the slogan: “Stand up to Starmer’s austerity agenda”. We noticed that it was mainly younger workers coming out of the tube and interested in getting involved in a fightback.
Helen, Hamza, and Amnon – London Socialist Party
Oxford – fighting cuts
Lots of engagement and enthusiasm on our campaign stall for the lobby of the council we’re holding against cuts. One person took multiple leaflets to give to friends.
Rae Cox, Oxford Socialist Party
Birmingham – Plenty of anger at Labour
There was plenty of anger towards the Labour council’s plans to reduce bin collections to fortnightly, and downgrade experienced bin collectors’ jobs.
With cuts to multiple other frontline services planned in the council budget next month, there’s a pressing need to organise workers and service users to put pressure on the Labour council and government to fund services.
Nick Hart, Birmingham Socialist Party
