Socialist Workers vice-presidential candidate Margaret Trowe spoke at a rally organized by the New Jersey National Organization for Women, and at another organized by the Newark-based People's Organization for Progress. Supporters of Trowe and Nancy Rosenstock, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, traveled in a 50-car caravan from Newark to Morristown, their cars adorned with slogans against racism and the names of recent victims of police brutality.

"The fascists here today had a banner that said, 'America Arise: Destroy Minority Tyranny,' " Trowe told the protesters. "But we know that the majority of working people support the fight against racist attacks and police brutality. We know that affirmative action, which helps unify the working class and bring up the wages and working conditions of the most oppressed, is in the interests of all working people."

Trowe said that while the Nationalist Movement group was small, anti-racist fighters must be alert to the increasing activity of incipient fascist politician Patrick Buchanan, who has been steadily gaining control of the Reform Party. "You haven't heard much from Buchanan lately, but he is getting his base in the Reform Party in place, and he will be actively putting forth a similarly reactionary political message to Barrett's in the coming months," Trowe explained.

"We have to keep our marching shoes ready. But there are more people today who are ready to join us--workers, including many immigrants, who are organizing unions in packinghouses in the Midwest, striking miners, hotel workers and janitors, and others. The potential to build a fighting movement of workers and farmers is greater than ever. James Harris and I are traveling across the country along the lines of resistance by fighters like those here today. You can see today the beginnings of the movement that can take power away from the capitalists and establish a workers and farmers government," Trowe concluded. James Harris is the Socialist Workers presidential candidate.

Supporters of the Socialist Workers campaign met a number of people at the event who were eager to find out more about the campaign. Several gave donations, and 16 bought the Militant or Perspectiva Mundial.