By Maggie Trowe March 1, 2021
Militant/Tamar RosenfeldRóger Calero, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, with Alberto Mendoza, a worker at Hunts Point Produce Market, Feb. 10. “The bosses use the unemployed to drive down our wages,” Mendoza told Calero. “Then they tell us, if you don’t like it, there’s the front door!”
After campaign supporters turned in seven times the number of required signatures, Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, was certified for the ballot Feb. 10.
Supporters of the campaign of Joe Swanson, the party’s candidate for City Council in Lincoln, Nebraska, will finish collecting signatures needed to get on the ballot over the Feb. 20 weekend. Swanson will speak at a Lincoln campaign forum that day in support of locked-out Marathon oil refinery workers in Minnesota.
Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as Democrats push to restart in-person classes in Chicago and other cities
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee in the United States held its second public meeting of 2021 on Saturday, January 30, to discuss the fight against the Biden administration’s drive to reopen schools as the coronavirus pandemic reaches a new and deadlier phase. The meeting was held as thousands of Chicago educators were battling efforts by Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot to resume in-person classes in the nation’s third largest school district.
The meeting was attended by nearly 200 people, most of them educators from all across the United States, as well as Europe, Latin America and Asia. Leading members of the Socialist Equality Party addressed the meeting as did rank-and-file educators from Chicago, Alabama and Pennsylvania. Also speaking were a nurse in Southern California, the current epicenter of the pandemic in the US, and a Baltimore Amazon
White House executive orders aim to hold workers in check By Terry Evans February 8, 2021 Chart shows steep fall in employment in 2020, even with partial recovery. Rate is falling again now. Workers need to be at work, alongside fellow workers, to fight attacks by bosses, gov’t.
President Joe Biden spent his first days in office churning out executive orders, avoiding debate or vote by Congress. He aims to put a stamp of “political correctness” on government agencies and much more. These measures are a danger to the working class.
At the same time, nothing has changed about the disaster of widespread joblessness afflicting working people. His administration, as Trump’s did, governs over a crisis of the capitalist class that bosses are offloading onto the backs of working people.
By Maggie Trowe February 8, 2021
Socialist Workers Party candidates in the 2021 elections are discussing the party’s action program with working people coast to coast. As they do so they are visiting many of the 3,000 plus people who have subscribed to the
Militant over the last year to discuss what they think of the paper, urge them to renew their subscriptions and encourage them to campaign to get the party’s candidates on the ballot.
Many subscribers will want to get books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries offered at reduced prices. They provide a deeper understanding of what workers face and the road toward organizing to replace the rule of the capitalist class with a government of workers and farmers.