SOCIALIST Party leader Fred M’membe has urged party members to be contributing the little they have towards the political grouping’s activities, saying most outside financiers wanted the party to pursue their own agenda. Speaking during a Socialist Party fundraising dinner on the Copperbelt, Saturday, Dr M’membe said he had declined some funding offers from those who wanted the party to abandon socialism. “We have a lot to learn from the way the churches are fundraising. Most of our churches are very good at fundraising and we give the little we have. In the Catholic [church], we even take food, on Sunday, we take chickens, goats, water, we take anything we have to the priests. We don’t do that much in...

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