Scott Jones, May Day greetings campaign organiser
The 1.5 million days lost to strike action in 2022 will be built on this year as workers continue to fight back. Picket lines are now part of the landscape almost everywhere – outside stations and hospitals and on industrial estates and high streets.
A feature of many of these picket lines is the Socialist newspaper, as Socialist Party members join these workers in struggle as supporters, or as workers on strike themselves. These hundreds of struggles, including many victories, are reported every week in the pages of the Socialist. The Socialist carries reports of these strikes, quotes by the workers, and an industrial strategy to take disputes forward and win.
It’s clear that the rest of the media does not do this, either repeating misinformation or only putting forward the bosses’ side of things. We need organised workers to support the alternative – the Socialist.
So celebrate International Workers’ Day 2023 in the traditional workers’ movement way by sending May Day greetings to help fund the Socialist. May Day is an annual celebration of workers’ struggle against capitalism. Its origins lie in the general strike for an eight-hour working day. Each year, we ask groups of workers and trade unionists to support the Socialist newspaper and its ideas by financing a May Day greeting.
Can your trade union branch, community campaign, workplace colleagues, trade union council, or student society send us a donation and short message of solidarity? We publish these each year on International Workers’ Day to help fund the socialist press.
The Socialist says that we all need to strike together. Help us get that message out there and continue to report and support workers in struggle by backing the paper that backs the working class.
Send greetings, see prices and make payments: socialistparty.org.uk/mayday
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