Time to invest in Workers World

For the past 31 years Workers World has offered its readers a rare opportunity: the chance to invest in this revolutionary newspaper.

By becoming members of the Workers World Supporter Program, readers have played a valuable role in solidifying the newspaper’s financial base through yearly contributions. That, in turn, has enabled the paper to become computerized, bilingual and accessible on the World Wide Web.

Supporter dollars have also helped provide on-the-spot reportage of significant strikes, community struggles or international events like the recent conference in Cuba on the legacy of Karl Marx and challenges of the 21st century. And Supporter funds have helped pay for national and international phone interviews which allow the voices of working and oppressed peoples to speak from its pages.

Subscribers come from all over the country—from Alaska and Hawaii to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Maine. As in the rest of the workers’ struggle, there are no borders in the WW Supporter Program: Supporters also contribute from Canada and Europe.

Unlike investors on Wall Street, members of the WW Supporter Program do not receive cash dividends. However, they do receive monthly mailings of new publications, buttons, brochures or petitions, automatic renewal of their subscriptions and five free subscriptions to give to friends. And they also have a “share” in the unique satisfaction that comes from helping to break the information blockade of the big-business media.

While the yearly minimum contribution of Supporters has increased over the decades-from $50 or $5 a month in 1977 to $75 or $6 a month in 1996—the categories of contributors have also increased. In 1988 the category of Sponsor was created. For $100 or $10 a month, a Sponsor receives a new book from World View Forum in addition to all the other benefits.

Along with the need to expand our electronic capabilities and keep subscription costs as affordable as possible, we have another category—Sustainer. For a lump sum of $300 a year or as little as $25 a month, Sustainers receive, in addition to all the other “dividends,” a choice of five books from World View Forum or five videos from the People’s Video Network.

There’s yet another way Supporters can invest: by putting Workers World in their will or setting up a planned giving program. We urge all our readers who are financially able to join the WW Supporter Program (see coupon). As you are well aware, the newspaper doesn’t qualify for corporate welfare, solicit grants from the Ford Foundation or clip coupons from Wall Street stocks. Our best resources come from the day-to-day struggle of working and oppressed people. So please invest your hard-earned dollars in Workers World and help build one.

—Sue Davis
Workers World Supporter Program coordinator

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