Vote Socialist Workers! -We need our own program and political course, based on working-class solidarity...

[Laura Kamienski <tkd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vote Socialist Workers!
(editorial)

http://www.themilitant.com/2000/6442/644220.html

"The Socialist Workers campaign is made up of workers, farmers, and
youth who are in the midst of struggles and reach out to every other
place where working people are taking a stand," said SWP presidential
candidate James Harris at the launching of the party’s national election
campaign June 25 in New York. "We are the most realistic campaign. We
tell the truth about what is going on in the world. We explain that the
root cause of the problems all workers face is capitalism. The socialist
campaign will provide class answers to what is confronting working
people," he said, "and will explain that we need socialist solutions,
and that to achieve this workers and farmers need to make a revolution
and take political power."

Harris and running mate Margaret Trowe, along with Socialist Workers
candidates listed on page 7, have stayed true to this initial campaign
pledge. They have taken this message to workers, farmers, and young
people across the United States, as well as to Australia, Canada,
Iceland, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

This fighting, working-class campaign has reached tens of thousands
through speaking engagements, petitioning drives to achieve ballot
status, and media coverage. It has meant that the parties of union
busting, racism, economic depression, and war--the Democrats and
Republicans--have not gone unanswered in the elections.

Why vote Socialist Workers? Because working people need our own
political voice, independent of the capitalist rulers. The big-business
servants of the rich have no perspective to offer working people for a
way out of economic conditions that, while prosperous for a few wealthy
families, are getting worse for millions. Their system, and all their
representatives--Democrat, Republican, and "independent"--simply offer
more wars, unemployment, police brutality, strikebreaking, attacks on
affirmative action, and other assaults.

The socialist campaign has explained why working people don’t need a
third, pro-capitalist party such as that advanced by Ralph Nader. It has
pointed to the danger posed by fascist-minded Patrick Buchanan of the
Reform Party. We need our own program and political course, based on
working-class solidarity and joining in struggles that advance the
interests of workers and farmers worldwide.

Socialist candidates participate in and support battles like those waged
by transit workers in Los Angeles, packinghouse workers in the Midwest,
coal miners and other working people in mining communities, Teamsters
standing up to Safeway, and many others. They join in actions to defend
immigrant rights, to oppose police violence and killings, and in defense
of the Palestinian people’s fight for self-determination. They explain
the conquests of working people in the Yugoslav workers state and oppose
U.S.-led imperialist intervention there. They demand an end to the
U.S.-imposed division of Korea and the withdrawal of all Washington’s
forces from the peninsula. They point to the example of Cuba’s socialist
revolution and why the fighting people of that country are defending the
interests of working people worldwide.

Above all, working people need to count on our own strength through an
independent political movement that can fight for the necessary measures
to defend our livelihood as the economic and social crisis deepens.
Through these struggles workers and revolutionary-minded young people
can begin to understand the capitalist system as a whole, and draw the
revolutionary conclusion that there is no way to make any piece of this
dog-eat-dog system work for the toilers--the vast majority of
humanity--and, more importantly, that working people are capable of
reorganizing and running society in the interests of humanity.

A vote for the socialist candidates is a vote that recognizes the need
to replace the current big-business regime--from City Hall to the White
House--with a government of workers and farmers and to build a new
socialist society based on human solidarity.

The Militant urges readers who decide to go to the ballot booth to vote
Socialist Workers. And to continue this same political campaign effort
year round by joining in the front ranks of the struggle, telling the
truth about the system of exploitation and oppression, getting the
needed books, pamphlets, and socialist periodicals into the hands of
tens of thousands stepping forward for whom hell is one more day of
capitalism. If you want to make a revolution, join the Socialist Workers
Party and the Young Socialists!
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