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SWP Active Workers Conference set for June 13-15
??By Janet Post
Vol. 83/No. 22
June 3, 2019
???I want to go to the conference to meet workers who are excited and
prepared for the struggles ahead. I???m excited for all the learning, of
course ??? learning in community, across generations ??? there???s something
so powerful about that,??? Kaitlin Estill, a teacher in San Francisco,
told the Militant.
Estill is one of over 300 working people and youth from the U.S. and
around the world who will attend the June 13-15 Active Workers
Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party.
The conference will include major talks by party leaders, classes and
panel presentations.
Estill heard about the conference from party members she met on the May
Day International Volunteer Work Brigade in Cuba this spring.
This year???s conference will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the
founding of the Communist Party in the U.S., coming out of the victory
of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The SWP???s revolutionary
continuity runs from that founding ??? and the programmatic documents
adopted at the first four congresses of the Communist International ???
through its participation in working-class struggles today.
SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes will give the main political report,
???Party and Program Are One,??? which will open the conference. Barnes has
been a member of the party???s National Committee since 1963 and a
national officer since 1969.
The next day Steve Clark, a member of the party???s National Committee,
will speak on ???The Middle East and the Jewish Question: Acting on the
Communist Program.??? Clark was the author of the SWP???s 2017 statement
???For Recognition of a Palestinian State and of Israel.???
Clark joined other members of the SWP and Communist Leagues to
participate in the International Book Fair in Baghdad in February and
the 14th Erbil International Book Fair in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
in April. On that second trip they were invited to present the party???s
program and activities at a meeting of more than 100 unionists and
others in Ainkawa in the Kurdistan region, sponsored by the Kurdistan
Communist Party.
There will be two panel discussions focused on the work of the party
today: ???Tribunes of the People and the Turn to Industry,??? which will be
chaired by SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters; and ???Our Election Campaigns
Drive the Wisconsin Turn,??? chaired by SWP national campaign director
John Studer. These will focus on how party members speak in the
interests of all the exploited and oppressed and take the party???s
program to the working class ??? from going door to door in working-class
neighborhoods in cities, towns and countryside to its participation in
the labor movement.
They will take up some of the central questions facing working people ???
from Washington???s wars abroad and threats against working people in
Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, to the fight for amnesty for all immigrants in
the U.S., to the working-class road forward in the fight for women???s
emancipation.
???I have attended conferences in previous years and really appreciated
what I learned,??? said Pat Scott, a Walmart worker for 20 years in the
Seattle area. ???Those who come want what???s best for workers, and discuss
the unity and solidarity that is needed. The conference helps me
envision what it could be like after a revolution.???
Other conference sessions will feature Q and A sessions on the main
presentations, informal discussion at buffet-style meals and evening
socials. The final session Saturday night will feature reports
summarizing the political themes and discussions at the conference.
The next day organized supporters of the party will meet to discuss
their work designing, getting printed and promoting Pathfinder
literature; making book placements at colleges, bookstores and
libraries; and raising funds for the work of the party.
For more information, contact the SWP or Communist League branch nearest
you.
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evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ???
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