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???Workers need to build their own party ??? independent of the bosses???
By Janet Post
Vol. 83/No. 30
August 19, 2019
Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in Canada, speaks at rally
in Ottawa Aug. 3 against continued military rule in Algeria and for
release of those arrested during protests there.
Militant/John Steele
Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in Canada, speaks at rally
in Ottawa Aug. 3 against continued military rule in Algeria and for
release of those arrested during protests there.
The 20-plus candidates vying for the Democratic Party???s presidential
nomination want to compete with President Donald Trump over who should
be the chief executive officer for the capitalist class and command its
armed forces in the wars the U.S. rulers wage around the world.
In the course of the Democratic Party debates each candidate offers ways
to patch up the system of exploitation and oppression, the opposite of
the course presented by candidates of the Socialist Workers Party to
unify and mobilize working people to overthrow that system.
???Capitalism has long outlived any productive role in society. We need to
build a working-class movement, independent of the two capitalist
parties, that fights to advance the working class to take political
power,??? Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, told
the Militant.
Jarrett is one of several SWP candidates around the country presenting
this political perspective as they campaign door to door in
working-class neighborhoods, at labor protests and picket lines, and
other protest actions. He submitted 240 signatures July 30 to get on the
ballot for District 1 of the City Council.
???We can use the campaign to give voice to working people involved in
social struggles, and fights against the back-breaking working
conditions being imposed by the bosses,??? Jarrett added.
Amnesty for undocumented workers
???My campaign demands an amnesty for undocumented workers,??? Rachele
Fruit, SWP candidate for Atlanta School Board, told construction worker
Phillip Whiting at his home in that city Aug. 3. Whiting gave Fruit a
???high-five.???
Malcolm Jarrett, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for
Pittsburgh City Council, filed to get on ballot July 30, with
supporters. ???We need to build a movement independent of the two
capitalist parties, that fights to advance the working class to take
power,??? Jarrett says.
Militant/Phil Norris
Malcolm Jarrett, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for
Pittsburgh City Council, filed to get on ballot July 30, with
supporters. ???We need to build a movement independent of the two
capitalist parties, that fights to advance the working class to take
power,??? Jarrett says.
???The government wants to make it harder for us to organize unions by
keeping a section of the workforce afraid they could be deported,??? Fruit
said.
???And let me tell you ??? they don???t want to deport them all,??? said
Whiting, describing how bosses at construction sites he has worked on
assign jobs based on workers??? race, sex and country of origin. He got a
subscription to the Militant?? and a copy of Are They Rich Because
They???re Smart??? by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes.
The day before, Fruit joined a demonstration in northwest Atlanta to
protest the emission of a cancer-causing compound, ethylene oxide, by
the Sterigenics plant, which sterilizes medical products.
Georgia Health News and WebMD issued a report July 19 that emissions of
the compound from the plant are way beyond what the Environmental
Protection Agency considers to be ???acceptable.??? A town hall meeting of
200 followed on July 30.
Judy Renfold, 46, who lives a half-mile from the plant, told Fruit at
the demonstration that she is worried about her 6-year-old son???s health.
???I don???t want to sell the house to another family that would face the
same emissions. It???s not ethical. The company should buy out these homes.???
Barry Goppman, 72, told Fruit, ???The plant has been here since 1972. Why
did it take so long for this to become public knowledge????
???The government protects the interests of the bosses,??? Fruit responded.
???That???s why it???s necessary to break with their two parties and organize
an independent fight.???
The SWP campaign explains why workers and their unions need to fight for
workers control over production and safety.
In Quebec, Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in the federal
election in the constituency of Longueuil-St. Hubert, recently walked
the picket lines of United Steelworkers on strike at the Galvano plating
plant (see article on page 5). He also joined with Service Employees
International Union Local 298 workers who struck for a $15 an hour
minimum wage at senior residences in Quebec.
???The biggest obstacle facing us is our tendency to underestimate
ourselves, to underestimate what we can accomplish, to doubt our own
value. That???s why we need to build our own party, independent of the
bosses??? parties,??? Filion told Jean-Guy Touchette, an office worker at
Bombardier, while going door to door in Montreal Aug. 2.
Filion has joined weekly rallies held in solidarity with protests in
Algeria, demanding an end to military rule there. In April President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign. The army postponed a
presidential election due on July 4, refusing to set a new date. Tens of
thousands took to the streets demanding the removal of interim president
Abdelkader Bensalah July 19.
Filion addressed an Aug. 3 rally in Ottawa, where protesters demanded
the Algerian authorities release those arrested during the
anti-government demonstrations. He explained that the imperialist rulers
in Canada exploit working people worldwide. ???What they do in Algeria and
other countries is an extension of what they do to working people here,???
he said.
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