https://themilitant.com/2021/03/20/ky-swp-launches-campaign-workers-need-their-own-voice/
BY JACQUIE HENDERSON
Vol. 85/No. 12
March 29, 2021
Maggie Trowe, with campaign supporters, speaks at March 12 press
conference in front of City Hall to announce her campaign as Socialist
Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville.
MILITANT/KAITLIN ESTILL
Maggie Trowe, with campaign supporters, speaks at March 12 press
conference in front of City Hall to announce her campaign as Socialist
Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “Working people need a voice and a movement,” Margaret
Trowe told Rebekah Dow of WLKY-TV as she interviewed the Socialist
Workers Party candidate for mayor at a press conference outside City
Hall March 12.
“Like the 18 other SWP candidates across the country I will use my
campaign vigorously to build solidarity with workers in struggle for
unions, against racism, for women’s rights,” said Trowe.
“We traveled to Bessemer, Alabama, last weekend to support the Amazon
workers’ unionizing drive there,” she said. “We joined others to build
support for the Harlan County coal miners, who set up camp on the
railroad tracks in 2019 after Blackjewel Coal, with the blessing of the
bankruptcy court, clawed the last paychecks from their accounts. The
success of those miners in getting their money back was a victory for
all working people. They showed what we can do when we stand together.”
Trowe’s campaign was covered in a feature article March 15 in the online
edition of Louisville’s daily paper, the Courier Journal, headlined,
“Socialist Workers Party Candidate Enters 2022 Louisville Mayor’s Race.”
See directory to contact party campaign office nearest you.
“As a teenager, Trowe said she became active in the movement to defeat
Jim Crow segregation,” the article said, “and now wants to see charges
against officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s killing on March 13, 2020.”
“A year has passed since Louisville police knocked down Breonna Taylor’s
door in a midnight raid and killed her. No one has been charged for her
death,” Trowe said in her announcement. “I urge all working people to
demand that all those responsible for her death be charged and prosecuted.”
“We need broad, disciplined and sustained protests of unionists and
other working people, churches and students to win this fight,” she told
the Courier Journal.
The article was accompanied by a picture from the Militant showing the
Socialist Workers Party candidate in Harlan County speaking with Chris
Rowe, a leader of the Blackjewel miners, during the miners’ encampment
on the train tracks.
“The parties of big business — the Democrats and Republicans — act in
the interests of the billionaire families who rule the U.S. Workers and
farmers need to break from these parties and organize in their own
interests,” Trowe said in the television interview. “In this way we will
transform ourselves on the road to ending the dictatorship of capital
and establishing a workers and farmers government.”
“Is that really possible?” Dow asked. “Yes, it’s possible and
necessary,” Trowe said, pointing to the example of the revolution made
by workers and farmers in Cuba.
SWP ballot drive in New Jersey gains ground
UNION CITY, N.J. — Supporters of the campaign of Joanne Kuniansky and
Candace Wagner, the Socialist Workers Party candidates for governor and
lieutenant governor of New Jersey, made steady progress during the
second weekend of a six-week effort to put…
US rulers step up attack on right to be on ballot
The capitalist rulers and their Democratic and Republican parties have
been stepping up attacks on ballot access for the Socialist Workers
Party, and other independent political candidates. This effort is
bipartisan, as millions of workers and farmers, facing worsening working…
Working class needs its own foreign policy
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New
Jersey governor, March 16. Democratic and Republican politicians alike
claim to wield U.S. economic and military influence at home and abroad
in the interests of “all Americans.” Workers and farmers…
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US rulers step up attack on right to be on ballot
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