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From The Socialist newspaper, 23 May 2018
Let's sell 1,000 extra copies of issue 1000!
Wherever workers enter struggle, the Socialist is there, photo by Mary Finch (Click to enlarge)
Ian Pattison, the Socialist editorial team
The Socialist will reach a milestone next month. The 1,000th issue of our paper.
In that time we've consistently supported workers' struggles and community campaigns. From the enormous movement against Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq in 2003, to the public sector strikes and demos in 2011 and the battle to save the NHS today.
We put forward a socialist alternative to the world financial crash of 2008 and the decade of crisis and austerity that has followed since. Eleven years of economic crisis, almost a decade of Tory austerity and huge enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn mean that today the need for a socialist paper has never been clearer since the launch of the Socialist in 1997.
Can you help us mark this milestone? On Saturday 23 June we are having a drive for 1,000 extra sales of issue 1000. Can your branch involve extra people, keep the campaign stall going for longer than usual or have more activites in more places?
You don't have to be a member of the Socialist Party to sell the Socialist. One person recently donated to our building fund to aid our search for new premises before we face eviction.
She encouraged her Twitter followers and Facebook friends to do the same, because "round near me they have been instrumental in saving a women's refuge and hospital wards, organising demos and standing up to Tory austerity".
Can you or your branch sell 20-30 copies more than usual of that issue? Can you add some extra sales throughout the week of the 1,000th issue - try the local college, bus and rail stations and workplaces.
If those paper sales go well, can you keep them going beyond issue 1000? And don't forget to ask for the solidarity price of £2 - every extra pound helps us sustain a socialist paper which is an independent voice for the working class.
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In The Socialist 23 May 2018:
What we think
Tories prepare for possible snap election
Socialist Party news and analysis
Capitalism's Grenfell shame - Tories must go
Homeless charity colluding to deport homeless!
Youthful enthusiasm to break with repression of past
Government continues to back failed private rail
France '68
May 1968: 'Communist' leaders hand power back to defeated bosses
Socialist Party workplace news
Victory: how school strike beat 'academy' privatisers
PCS conference votes for strike action
Solid strike at Tesco Dagenham distribution centre forces pay talks
Services disappearing from Harrogate
College staff caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
First ever strike at TGI Fridays
International socialist news and analysis
Yes to the struggle to lift the siege
Tax Amazon movement wins in Seattle
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Stop Trump! Build for 13 July student walkouts
Student leaders claim one million on the streets against Brexit - fight for a workers' exit
Let's sell 1,000 extra copies of issue 1000!
Leicester socialists fight poverty-paying sweatshops
Sheffield Pride organisers defeated in attempt to ban politics
40 attend Socialist Party housing campaign launch in Windsor
Section 28
30 years on from Section 28: the legacy of fighting LGBT+ attacks must continue
Opinion
How 'Prevent' training fosters racist paranoia
Ads won't fix it: fight mental health cuts as well as stigma
We can learn about struggle from the mass trespass of Kinder Scout
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