Fight for a socialist future!

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Pete Mason, Socialist Party finance organiser

More than £500 has been donated to the Socialist Party during Black Lives Matter protests around the country in the last few days. We received £104 from the Stafford protest in the West Midlands, including one donation of £40; £100 from Reading, and £51 in Worcester.

"Thanks for another great meeting!" writes Peggy-Sue from Hackney, sending us £5.

These small, regular donations are a vital part of our fundraising - they help us participate and bring our ideas to the mass protests happening today. We get no backing from big business or wealthy benefactors.

An anonymous donation of £10 which came with the comment: "To put towards the BLM posters." It precisely hit the spot. A Bristol reader writes: "Glad to be of help, let's make it a better world" and donated £15.

But we welcome large donations from working-class people too! Helen Hayes, an 85-year-old, gets a copy of the Socialist each week from Frank Bowen from Wavertree in Liverpool, and donated another £100 this week. Frank says: "She has made several donations of a £100 over the last couple of years", and she is helping to build a socialist future.

Enterprising fundraiser Alexander Brown from Sheffield has sent us a whopping £800 from the sale of Militant T-shirts, including £300 sent earlier in the year.

Donations in memory of Socialist Party national organisers Ken Douglas and Mick Cotter are still arriving and have topped £2,000, with some moving tributes.

A £100 donation to the Mick Cotter memorial arrived from Thessaloniki in Greece.

A donation in memory of Ken Douglas of £50, saluted the "huge contribution" Ken made to the work of the Socialist Party. The contributor added: "He remains simply, one of the nicest people I had ever met."

Also, donations to our special coronavirus finance appeal have reached £32,613. Keep them coming in!

Visit socialistparty.org.uk/donate or call 020 8988 8777 or make cheques payable to Socialist Party, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT

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Finance appeal

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.