https://themilitant.com/2019/06/29/celebrating-100-years-on-right-side-of-history/
Celebrating 100 years ???on right side of history???
By Janet Post
Vol. 83/No. 24
July 8, 2019
Militant photos: Above, Mike Shur; inset, Arthur Hughes
OBERLIN, Ohio ??? More than 300 workers and young people from the U.S. and
around the world attended the 2019 International Active Workers
Conference sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party June 13-15 here. A
large banner above the stage at the main sessions read, ???Celebrating 100
Years ???On the Right Side of History,?????? stressing the party???s
revolutionary continuity with the 1919 founding of the Communist Party
after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
In the opening political report SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes,
inset, explained, ???Communism is not a doctrine, but a movement; it
proceeds not from principles, but from facts.??? This is a quote from an
1847 polemic by Frederick Engels, one of the founders of the modern
revolutionary working-class movement along with Karl Marx.
For the first time in human history, Barnes said, there is a social
class ??? the working class ??? who can find the road to fight for
independent political action, take political power and end class
exploitation and oppression once and for all.
A second banner above the stage read, ???Advancing Along the Line of March
of the Working Class; Act on Imperialism???s Deepening Political Crisis;
Build the Labor Movement; Build the Socialist Workers Party.???
???This conference gives confidence to do more work organizing, discussing
the road forward with workers on their doorsteps and at labor and social
battles,??? Nicholas Eddington from Seattle, told the Militant at the
conference. Eddington had met the SWP, gone with party members to Cuba
this year on the May Day Brigade, and joined the party.
He spent five years in the U.S. Army, and while stationed in Afghanistan
read The Communist Manifesto and some books on the Cuban Revolution. ???I
wanted to find a party that would fit with what I had read,??? he said.
Full coverage from the conference will appear in coming issues of the
Militant.
In This Issue
Front Page Articles ???US hands off Iran! End US economic war!
???US sanctions hit hardest against working people
???Speak out against bans on ???Militant??? in prisons!
???Vote to erase Calif. mural is blow to art, political rights
???Massive protests in Hong Kong push back hated extradition bill
??????We demand: End US colonial rule over people of Puerto Rico???
Feature Articles ???Victory in bakery???s lawsuit against ???racism??? smear by
Oberlin College
Also In This Issue ???Former ???wives,??? children of IS fighters held in
Mideast camps
???Workers at Gate Gourmet, Sky Chefs fight for contract
???Undocumented workers in NY win right to driver???s licenses
???Sudan military attacks protests demanding civilian government
???Celebrating 100 years ???on right side of history???
???Joyce Meissenheimer: Communist fighter
Books of the Month ???Building a party capable of leading workers to power
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