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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN STATEMENT
Organize workers to defend class interests
Vol. 83/No. 33
September 9, 2019
The following statement was issued Aug. 28 by Seth Galinsky, Socialist
Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate.
Working people from New York and Puerto Rico to the coalfields of
Appalachia and the Powder River Basin face attacks by the bosses and
their cops, courts and government. We don???t have to accept this state of
affairs.
Today there are examples of working people standing up to defend our
interests ??? like Blackjewel miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, thrown
out on the street after bosses declared bankruptcy. Miners are
preventing the company from shipping out coal until they get the pay
they???re owed.
Wherever workers are standing up to the bosses??? assaults we can organize
to bring solidarity. Every act of solidarity helps unify the working
class and strengthens our ability to stand up and fight.
The capitalist rulers??? efforts to make us pay for the crisis of their
system has no end. As competition sharpens between bosses at Walmart and
their retail competitors, they tighten their squeeze on the workers to
maximize their profits. Rail workers confront bosses operating longer
and longer trains with fewer workers, making conditions increasingly
dangerous. Federal officials plan to grant the packing bosses??? demands
to end all limits on line speeds in pork processing plants, further
threatening workers??? lives and limbs.
The Blackjewel miners have been winning widespread support and aid, from
retired United Mine Workers union members, churches, small businesses,
other unions and individual workers. What we do makes a difference! Win
your co-workers, family and friends to offering solidarity for this
working-class struggle and others like it.
As workers organize together we gain experience and become more
confident, like our fellow workers in Puerto Rico did when their mass
actions brought down the governor.
We develop consciousness of our power as a class. We learn how to fight
in a disciplined way. We see more clearly how our interests are tied
together with those of fellow working people around the world.
Two years ago U.S. colonial rulers and the capitalist government in
Puerto Rico left working people there to fend for themselves, in the
wake of Hurricane Maria. Now another hurricane threatens to wreak more
havoc. Working people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. have common interests
in fighting for an end to U.S. colonial rule and cancelling Puerto
Rico???s $74 billion debt.
The capitalists want to convince us to see each other as the problem,
not their exploitative system and the crises and wars it breeds. To look
out for ???number one.???
The Socialist Workers Party candidates do the opposite. Our program is
aimed at advancing the unity of working people, to point a road forward
together against our common enemy: the capitalist system.
That???s why we demand amnesty for all immigrants in the U.S. without
papers. That would open the door wide so they can more easily join in
struggles for higher pay, safer conditions and for dignity without the
fear of deportation. This will put all workers in a stronger position.
The Socialist Workers Party campaign organizes to involve other workers
in every union fight and social protest in the interests of the working
class.
Through common struggle we become different people, more conscious that
working people are part of the exploited class that creates the wealth
that the capitalists take away from us. That we are capable of
overturning capitalist rule and taking power into our own hands.
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???We need to organize workers to defend environment, safety???
???It???s only by organizing a fighting workers??? movement and using union
power that we can prevent the bosses from poisoning the air, water and
soil,??? Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Atlanta
School Board, told Belinda Aycock who was???
Socialist Workers Party 2019 campaign program
The Socialist Workers Party???s fighting program to confront the economic,
social and moral crisis caused by capitalism: UNIONS Support workers???
struggles to organize and strengthen unions, to use union power to
defend ourselves and all working people. One union for???
In This Issue
Front Page Articles ???Miners win support in fight against Blackjewel
???Workers in Puerto Rico face crisis of colonial rule
??????New York Times??? changes its ???story,??? says race-baiting can topple
Trump
??????We need to organize workers to defend environment, safety???
???Florida prison officials lift ban on 5 issues of ???Militant??? after
protests
???Working people in Syria face growing crisis from attacks by Assad regime
Feature Articles ???Gov???t to give pork bosses sole power over line speed
Also In This Issue ???Communications Workers hold four day strike across 9
states
???Toronto cop who killed youth paroled after only two years
???Organize workers to defend class interests
???Israeli rulers bomb Tehran???s bases in Syria and Iraq
On the Picket Line ???Airline catering workers picket Dallas airport in
contract fight
???Asda store workers in U.K. rally against concessions contract
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