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Albany SWP runs on ???program that can defend working people???
By Jacob Perasso
Vol. 83/No. 35
September 30, 2019
Abby Tilsner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Albany County
Executive, speaks with Christopher Conroy, a truck driver, about party???s
program in Waterford, New York, Aug. 24.
Militant/Jacob Perasso
Abby Tilsner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Albany County
Executive, speaks with Christopher Conroy, a truck driver, about party???s
program in Waterford, New York, Aug. 24.
ALBANY, N.Y. ??? ???I am running for Albany County Executive for the
Socialist Workers Party to put forward a program that can defend working
people from the carnage of the crisis-ridden capitalist system and unite
the working class in struggle,??? Abby Tilsner told supporters as she
announced her candidacy at a press conference Sept. 10.
Tilsner, 53, who works at St. Peter???s Hospital, was among dozens of
nurses who rallied in June in support of the contract fight being waged
by nurses at Albany Medical Center.
Last April the nurses voted to unionize, joining the New York State
Nurses Association. However, the hospital has refused to sign a contract.
???A central pillar of our campaign is organizing workers to extend
solidarity to struggles like these nurses are waging,??? Tilsner said.
The campaign was announced by WNYT Channel 13. Tilsner is joined on the
SWP slate by rail worker Ved Dookhun, the party???s candidate for mayor of
Troy, and Walmart worker Lawrence Quinn, its candidate for Troy City
Council president.
The socialist candidates explain that it is possible for working people
to take political power into our own hands and uproot capitalist
exploitation.
Tilsner???s opponent, Democratic incumbent Daniel McCoy, has backed
federal lawsuits against drug companies for pushing sales of addictive
opioids. The pharmaceutical bosses are making giant profits from opioid
addiction.
???This crisis cannot be solved by suing pharmaceutical companies and
transferring billions of dollars from them to the government and
lawyers,??? Tilsner explained. ???The rising rates of suicide and addiction
are the result of the broader crisis facing millions under capitalism.
Our fighting program explains that working people can be transformed in
the course of struggles against the bosses and their system, building
our self-confidence and self-worth ??? along the way we can begin to
address these issues.???
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The Socialist Workers Party???s fighting program to confront the economic,
social and moral crisis caused by capitalism: UNIONS Support workers???
struggles to organize to defend themselves, to use union power on behalf
of ourselves and all working people. One union???
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