In October, Workers’ Voice launched a $14,000 fund drive. By the end of December — thanks to many generous donations — we exceeded the goal! However, it is not too late to participate! We have decided to extend the drive until Jan. 15, in order to provide time beyond the busy holiday season for our website readers and supporters to help out.
We are a relatively new organization, formed two and a half years ago from a fusion that included people from several revolutionary socialist tendencies. Since that time, we have succeeded in consolidating Workers’ Voice in many key sections of the country. Our members participate in, and in some cases have helped to lead, a number of activist movements. Our activity includes union struggles and the movements for Palestine and Ukraine solidarity, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, protecting the climate and environment, LGBTQ+ liberation—and much more.
Recently, for example, our Workers’ Voice branch in the Bay Area helped to build a Palestine Solidarity Convention, which drew over 350 attendees. Similar conferences are planned in Connecticut and other areas. Likewise, Workers’ Voice participated in the creation of the Ukrainian Solidarity Network; together with the Brazilian CSP Conlutas trade-union federation, we raised $11,000 for the Ukrainian mineworkers in Kryvyi Rih.
Workers’ Voice believes no one is “illegal,” and therefore we support undocumented workers. Currently, our West Coast branches are engaged in actions of solidarity with migrant detainees at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex in their struggle, including hunger strikes, against their conditions.
Since this has been the season for heightened interest in the U.S. elections, we embarked on an educational campaign around the need for working people and their organizations to remain independent of the Democrats and Republicans. In several areas of the country, Workers’ Voice branches organized public forums highlighting the idea that building a labor party would be an important, if not essential, political step for U.S. workers and their struggles. In New York City and San Francisco, for example, worked closely with the Freedom Socialist Party to build forums about the need for a labor party.
Workers’ Voice has ambitious plans to increase our activity and continue our growth. For example, we plan to launch a newly designed website, which will contain many easily accessed departments that include educational materials, archived articles, foundational documents, and links to action campaigns. And we will continue to carry news and analysis from around the world with contributions from activists in the International Workers League.
Along with this, we are constructing a series of audio versions of articles on topical issues, starting with material in the Spanish language.
Our attractive bilingual newspaper, Workers’ Action, continues to improve. This past summer, we increased the frequency of publication, going from a quarterly to a bimonthly schedule. There are new features, such as a regular column by Brian Crawford on issues pertaining to the Black liberation movement and timely “on the picket line” articles by Ernie Gotta that offer insight into the latest developments in the labor movement. We hope to initiate a subscription plan for Workers’ Action, so readers can obtain copies every two months in the mail.
So far this year, we’ve published pamphlets on labor, reproductive rights, and Palestine. Coming soon are new pamphlets on Black liberation, the climate crisis, the far right, and the Queer liberation struggle.
But all of this takes money—which is why we are calling on you, our website readers and supporters, to help out.
Worker’s Voice is a socialist organization that seeks unity of the working class in this country and globally to build a world without war, poverty, and oppression. The world is currently ruled in the interests of the obscenely wealthy and their private-profit system, which is carrying the planet and its peoples to the brink of environmental catastrophe. We work to help bring about an alternative society—one that is governed by and for working people and the oppressed.
Naturally, building a socialist and activist organization requires funding. We do not receive corporate, foundational, or governmental funds; we rely on dues-paying members and our working-class supporters for our financial health. If you believe another world is possible and it can be achieved through the unity and power of the working class, please contribute to Workers’ Voice. Please help us achieve our goals; the drive has been extended until Jan. 15.
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