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From The Socialist newspaper, 26 April 2007
Elections 3 May
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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.
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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.
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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 donate to our Fighting Fund.
In The Socialist 26 April 2007:
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Civil servants' union May Day strike
Socialist Students
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No victimisation - support Deeside college lecturers
Campaign to Defeat Fees National Meeting
Socialist Party election analysis
New Labour - lowest poll ratings since 1983
Come to the Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference
Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference
Support for Labour falling in Scotland
Campaigning for socialist ideas in South Wales
Huddersfield: Fighting against NHS cuts and closures
Coventry socialists fight Post Office closure
Southampton: Save our Services!
Merseyside: Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Bootle has a real socialist alternative
Manchester Wythenshawe: NHS cuts threaten lives
Donate to fund a socialist alternative
Socialist solidarity on May Day
International socialist news and analysis
Socialist wins court battle in Kazakhstan
France: Record turnout sees Royal and Sarkozy go through to second round
Yeltsin's real record - 'wild capitalism' in Russia
Nigerian elections - a dangerous farce
Socialist Party workplace news
UNISON Delegates demand action
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