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SWP: Workers need to take political power
Join the Socialist Workers Party 2018 campaign! SWP Statement
Vol. 82/No. 30
August 13, 2018
Dan Fein, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Illinois governor,
talks with factory worker Jesse Bridges at his door while campaigning in
Kankakee neighborhood July 29.
Militant
Dan Fein, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Illinois governor,
talks with factory worker Jesse Bridges at his door while campaigning in
Kankakee neighborhood July 29.
The following statement is from John Studer, chairman of the Socialist
Workers Party National Campaign Committee.
Efforts by the Donald Trump administration to open negotiations with the
governments of North Korea, Russia, Iran, China and the Taliban in
Afghanistan are aimed at advancing the class interests of the U.S.
capitalist families. Washington is also pressing Palestinian leaders and
the government of Israel to join them in holding talks. The White House
seeks to dial down conflicts and gain a greater measure of stability
favorable for the U.S. propertied rulers.
The unintentional result of these moves, if successful, will be to
create better conditions for the working class — if we organize to take
advantage of them.
Every week Socialist Workers Party members seek out discussions with
fellow workers on their doorsteps about what the changes unfolding in
the world open up and the course forward the party presents.
SWP candidates and their supporters explain that Washington’s moves make
it easier for workers to discuss and debate, organize and fight; to gain
some combat experience against our own ruling classes; to forge the
unity we need to counter the national, racial and religious divisions
the rulers try to use to pit us against each other; to organize a course
toward independent working-class political action.
The rulers face a growing political crisis worldwide, as the
institutions they hammered together out of their victory in the second
imperialist world war — NATO, the EU and others — are shattering.
The steps the White House is taking around the world stem from this
crisis, and from the fact that the U.S. rulers’ power is declining today
at the same time that it remains the dominant imperialist power. This is
underscored by their inability for decades to win any of the wars
they’ve started.
For decades their profit rates have been declining, and they’ve
responded by trying to squeeze more and more out of workers and farmers.
But today growing numbers of workers are looking for ways to fight back
effectively.
As party members talk about these developments with fellow workers on
their doorsteps, we discuss how what we face is grounded in the immoral
capitalist system, which exists by expropriating the wealth we produce.
We debate what we can do about it. The SWP finds greater interest in the
course we advance — building the labor movement; fighting for
government-funded health care and retirement pay for all; amnesty for
all 11 million immigrants in the U.S. to build working-class unity;
prosecuting and jailing cops who brutalize and kill workers; and
defending women’s right to choose whether to have an abortion.
We explain this requires building a revolutionary working-class party
that can lead millions in the fight to overthrow capitalist exploitation
and oppression and build a workers and farmers government.
Party members debate the issues posed for the working class that arise
from the political crisis that is tearing apart both the Democratic and
Republican parties. This involves fighting efforts to restrict political
rights advanced by liberals as they try to drive the president from
office — attempts whose real target is the working class, who they
increasingly fear.
If this perspective sounds good to you, join the SWP campaign!
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