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Vol. 83/No. 7
February 18, 2019
Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City
Public Advocate, released this statement Feb. 6. Galinsky had just
returned from two days campaigning door to door and farm to farm in
upstate New York.
All you have to do is knock on doors in working-class neighborhoods and
rural areas to hear about workers’ reality in today’s capitalist
economic recovery — vacant homes, bankrupt farms, growing numbers of
homeless and the blight of the opioid crisis. Veterans back from wars
that never end.
And everyone knows, sooner or later it’ll be worse when the inevitable
next downturn hits.
The capitalist rulers in the U.S., Europe and worldwide, despite their
rivalries, have in common their class disdain for the men and women from
nowhere — workers, farmers and other small producers.
But now they are beginning to fear us. You could see that in the
reaction of many of the representatives of the capitalist class to the
2016 presidential election. Their view was epitomized by Hillary Clinton
who called working people a “basket of deplorables.”
If working people won’t vote the way the “smart” people want, their
answer is to take steps to restrict their right to vote!
That’s the same attitude as the British rulers who in the face of the
majority vote — especially from working people — to get out of the
European Union, refuse to implement that decision. They want to force
another referendum to get workers to vote their way this time.
You can see it in the French rulers’ attacks on the tens of thousands of
yellow vest protesters who keep coming back. The French government has
fired rubber bullets at unarmed protesters and pushed a new law to
sharply restrict the right to protest.
But working people everywhere have common interests — whether we’re wage
slaves, as in the case of workers, or debt slaves like small farmers and
other small proprietors. To fight effectively against the carnage of
capitalism and the attacks of the bosses and their government, we need
to break with all the bosses’ parties and rely on ourselves. Working
people need to fight side by side, to show solidarity with each other’s
strikes and protest actions, and in independent working-class political
action.
That’s why the Socialist Workers Party is running a slate of candidates
in local and state elections across the country. Our candidates and
supporters are going door to door, in small towns and working-class
neighborhoods in big cities, and farmhouse to farmhouse, to introduce
the party, discuss the big questions on workers’ minds and point to the
need for working people to organize to take political power into our own
hands. We introduce everyone we meet to the Militant and to books by
party leaders. We look to develop long-term collaboration and to win new
members.
Join us!
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