Dear Reader,

Last week, a video published by the World Socialist Web Site on the Flint water crisis surpassed 1,000,000 views on Facebook. This is an important milestone in the work of the ICFI, and we need your financial support to carry this work forward.

In launching the World Socialist Web Site in 1998, the International Committee of the Fourth International recognized the technologically revolutionary character of the Internet and its significance for the development of the socialist movement. Today, social media, mobile devices, and global, high-speed networks link the working class like never before and provide a platform for sharing information across national boundaries.

For this reason, corporations like Google are censoring the WSWS, cutting our search traffic by 74 percent to block internet users from accessing socialist and left-wing views.

But we are fighting back. Despite the blacklisting, over 90,000 people accesssed a recent WSWS article "Why arent trains evacuating people from the path of Hurricane Irma?" making it the most-read WSWS article of all time. Tens of thousands of Amazon workers have accessed the International Amazon Workers Voice, allowing the Socialist Equ ality Party to develop opposition to censorship, war, and inequality in this key section of the international working class.

These initial successes are only an indication of the vast potential for developing socialist consciousness among billions of workers, including in places like India and China, where social media use is on the rise.

But this requires financial resources. We need to expand our staff, and to invest in and master new technologies. Your support is more important now than ever, and it can make a big impact. If each of our Facebook followers donated just $10, we would have nearly $1,000,000 to develop our presence online.

Please make a generous donation to the WSWS today and sign up to make a recurring monthly donation. Visit wsws.org/donate now.

Sincerely,
World Socialist Web Site