Appeal letter

Workers Power BCM box 7750 London WCIN 3XX Email: workerspower@btopenworld.com | Tel: 020 7708 4331

Dear Rob Your help to continue going forwards

In recent months Workers Power has been very active. We are continuing to grow; having made very successful interventions into the movement against the attacks on Gaza, the university occupations that followed, the G20 mobilisations, the Unite for Jobs march, the workers’ factory occupation at Visteon, the Glasgow primary school occupations and much, much more. Internationally, we are moving forward in leaps and bounds. We now have a sympathising section in the USA. Our comrades in Sri Lanka and Pakistan continue to carry out vital work, despite the immense difficulties of operating in those countries.

Meanwhile, the crisis caused by this historic world recession continues to deepen, with

millions being put out of work and on to the dole. In Britain workers are threatened with major pay cuts, the threat of long term unemployment and swinging cuts to our public | services, our health and our education.

The class struggle in Britain is now at an important turning point. The European elections showed the working class punishing Labour in their millions as a result of the hardship caused by the recession and the expenses scandal exposing the greed of the MPs. But the collapse in Labour’s vote opened the way for far-right parties like UKIP and, even more worryingly, the fascist BNP to gain Members of the European Parliament.

These events have sparked the call for debate on the left on the way to go forwards. The Socialist Workers Party have produced an open letter calling for debates and discussions on the way to go forward from here. Workers Power’s contribution to this debate is vital. At this years Marxism festival we sold 126 copies of a new pamphlet we have produced called ‘The Left Debates its Future’. We have been loud and clear with our intervention into this debate — we need to organise workers and youth in struggle against the attacks of capitalists into an anticapitalist party which can intervene into struggles and fight for the interests of the working class, not just around elections but all year round.

There will be plenty of opportunity to do just this. Workers Power has intervened into the tube strike and the postal strikes in London which are now turning into a national dispute. We have won a lot of agreement from the people we have spoken to on picket lines who see an alternative to the Labour Party as a necessity to resist the attacks on workers everywhere.

However the recession has affected our financial situation too. We depend on the contributions of members and supporters to fund our work, and we need to keep these contributions coming in more than ever at this time when everyone is feeling the pinch.

So we have set ourselves a fundraising target of £4000 to keep putting across our message effectively in the struggles ahead. We need your help to make sure this happens.

If you can help us to do this, then please send a cheque or cash, to our address, or better still, contribute to us regularly as an organised supporter by setting up a standing order to the account details below.

In solidarity

Jah. Roum

Workers Power

Account to be debited: Social History Society Account number: 79771626 Sort Code: 07 00 55

Address:

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Wigmore branch 12/14 Wigmore Street LONDON W1U 2DA