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Vol. 80/No. 42 November 7, 2016
(editorial, lead article)
Vote for and build the Socialist Workers Party!
Join party to challenge capitalist exploiters
Militant/Eric Simpson
Restaurant worker Stephanie Vasquez speaks with SWP vice-presidential
candidate Osborne Hart, right, and party member Joel Britton from
Oakland Oct. 6 in Turlock, California.
Vote for the Socialist Workers Party, the working class party, your
party on Nov. 8. Join with the party to discuss with other workers a way
forward for our class, before and after the election.
And join us Nov. 3-12 as party members along with workers and youth
we’ve met in recent months use the new book The Clintons’
Anti-Working-Class Record: Why Washington Fears Working People to
present this course in discussions on porches and in kitchens, in labor
and social struggles. This political work is at the heart of the SWP’s
activity today.
Alyson Kennedy, the party’s candidate for president, was a coal miner
and member of the United Mine Workers for many years. She has helped
lead union battles, built the fight against police brutality and
defended a woman’s right to choose abortion. Vice-presidential candidate
Osborne Hart, who has worked in meatpacking, on the railroad and at
Walmart, has opposed imperialist wars and fought for Black rights for
decades. Both champion the Cuban Revolution, pointing to the
revolutionary internationalist accomplishments of workers and farmers
there as an example for working-class fighters everywhere.
Don’t throw away your vote on the capitalist parties of exploitation,
depression and war. Their rule relies on you holding your nose and
backing the “lesser evil.” But there is no lesser evil. Democrat Hillary
Clinton is a warhorse veteran of a bourgeois political family and a
leader of imperialist aggression who has used government positions to
enrich herself and her $400 million family foundation. She oozes
contempt for workers she writes off as “deplorable” and “irredeemable.”
Republican Donald Trump is a coarse, demagogic billionaire landlord who
acknowledges the economic crisis facing workers, but says the answer is
to enrich the bosses, push “American interests” and scapegoat immigrants
and Muslims. Both parties promote the lie that “we” Americans — workers
and capitalists — have common interests.
No matter who is elected, the slow-burning depression conditions will
worsen, imperialist wars will metastasize and the need for the
working-class road to power will be posed more sharply.
The propertied rulers respond to the world contraction of production and
trade the only way they can, by attacking the working class — the source
of their profits — trying to drive down wages and working conditions
here and around the world, divide us and erode our confidence.
Ultimately, capitalism’s crisis drives the rulers toward the kind of
imperialist world slaughter they unleashed twice in the 20th century,
seeking to arise triumphant from the mass destruction of human beings
and productive capacity.
Both Republicans and Democrats will continue to carry out the ruling
families’ war against workers at home and abroad. Both will continue the
trillion dollar “modernization” of Washington’s nuclear weapons arsenal,
increasing the danger of annihilation.
The Socialist Workers Party explains that only the working class can
stop capitalism’s march toward economic catastrophe and world war.
The Cuban Revolution shows that ordinary working people can wage and win
a struggle to form a workers and farmers government, end the
dictatorship of capital and join the world struggle for socialism.
Workers here can do the same, becoming different people along the way.
This is a fight worth fighting, a life worth living.
On Nov. 8, pull the lever for Kennedy and Hart, and for the candidates
for federal and state office listed below. If the SWP has been kept off
the ballot where you live, write them in.
Vote Socialist Workers Party! Join the Socialist Workers Party!
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