Isai Marijerla, Socialist Party national treasurer
Socialist Party branches have been campaigning up and down the country against Labour’s cuts, for more funding for our vital services and discussing the ideas needed to change this rotten system, so that we can thrive in our lives rather than struggling to survive.
On every one of our stalls in local communities or at protests and demonstrations, we meet people angry at the system’s crises, and our ideas get an echo. The super-rich have so much money that they are spending like there is no end. Jeff Bezos, who has wealth of $237 billion, recently spent around $50 million on his grand wedding in Venice. We say take the wealth off the super-rich! The working class can collectively take control of the vast wealth that exists and use it in the interest of the majority.
Our branches have also been organising public meetings, fundraising activities and socials to reach our quarterly target of £25,000. We have taken part in local Pride marches, demos against war, protests against disability cuts, for winter fuel allowance, to keep children’s centres open, to abolish youth rates and other anti-cuts campaigns. We also had the East Midlands, South West, West Midlands and Wales conferences, which had finance appeals to fund our work here and internationally.
The Socialist Party has a proud and rich history of winning rights for the working-class and young people. And our strength flows from Marxist ideas and our unshakable confidence in our class to fight and win. Reaching our fighting fund target means we will have the resources to fight for socialism.
We want to thank our members and supporters who have donated to our fighting fund target and those who donated to our other appeals, including the CWI appeal, and over £10,000 in memory of Peter Taaffe, the Socialist Party’s former general secretary, who sadly passed away in April.
