Join campaign to put SWP???s presidential ticket on ballot!
https://themilitant.com/2020/08/01/join-campaign-to-put-swps-presidential-ticket-on-ballot/
August 10, 2020
Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, issued
the following statement July 28. Malcolm Jarrett is the party???s
candidate for vice president.
Join the fight to put the Socialist Workers Party 2020 presidential
campaign on the ballot everywhere we can! Teams of campaigners are
fanning out across Washington state, Tennessee, New Jersey and
Minnesota. With backing from working people, the party has already won
ballot status in Colorado and Vermont, and is filing in Louisiana Aug.
7. The party???s goal is to be on the ballot in as many states as
possible, as we have done every four years since 1948.
All working people have a stake in this struggle! Winning ballot status
for the SWP gives us an opportunity to advance building our own
political party, a labor party. The Democrats and Republicans both
defend the interests of the employers whose attacks we face daily on our
jobs, wages, working conditions and dignity at work.
If the political arena is left in the hands of the bosses and their
parties, and we spend our time trying to figure out which is the ???lesser
of two evils,??? workers and our unions will continue to face blows from a
government that serves the ruling class. But if workers forge our own
labor party, we will have a powerful tool to fight to strengthen the
unity of all workers and lead millions in struggle for the interests of
all those who are exploited and oppressed.
The SWP is putting forward a fighting working-class program. No worker
has to die on the job! Work can be performed safely, but as long as the
capitalist class controls production, their profits will come before our
health, limbs and lives.
To work safely, workers and our unions need to wage a fight to win
control over all aspects of production. We should set the line speeds,
organize the arrangement of work stations and have total power to put in
place other measures necessary to stop coronavirus infections and
prevent work injuries.
As workers wrest greater control over production, we learn more about
our own capacities and can see more clearly the need for our class and
its allies to run the entire economy.
Neither Democratic nor Republican candidates act on the urgent need to
reverse the rising joblessness facing the working class.
Our campaign calls for a government-funded public works program to put
millions back to work at union-scale pay. Such a jobs program would be
used to construct safe workplaces, rebuild and reopen shutdown hospitals
and build schools where our children, teachers and other school workers
can work safely.
Getting workers back on the job opens the door to acting together to
stand up to the bosses and build unions. And, in the process, to build a
labor party that can champion and lead these battles and fight for
political power. On that foundation future progress for all toiling
humanity can be made.
Campaign supporters are fighting to get on the ballot despite obstacles
state governments place in front of working-class parties. In New York,
for instance, Gov. Andrew Cuomo lowered the petitioning requirements of
Democratic Party candidates to be on the primary ballot by 70%, then
doubled the requirement for independent parties like the SWP to be on
the ballot in November ??? the highest in the history of the state!
Join in the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party???s presidential
ticket on the ballot!
Workers need our own party, a labor party!
SEATTLE ??? Across Tennessee, New Jersey and Washington state, Socialist
Workers Party campaigners are collecting signatures from working people
who want to see a working-class party on the ballot in 2020. Through the
fight for ballot status they???re winning support???
Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
This is the SWP???s fighting campaign platform to confront the economic,
social and moral crisis caused by capitalism: UNIONS/FOR A LABOR PARTY
Support workers??? struggles to organize to defend themselves, to use
union power on behalf of ourselves and all???
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