It points to the capacities of working people to transform through revolutionary struggle the dog-eat-dog social relations imposed by capitalism, and why the values, class interests, and solidarity manifested through working-class action point the way for all humanity. It expresses the confidence, gained through decades of experience and the history of the working-class movement, of the ability of workers and farmers to fight for and win state power and reconstruct society into one fit for humanity.

We encourage readers in every city to discuss campaigning with this pamphlet and ordering large quantities of it--in the simultaneously published English, Spanish, and French editions--to sell to co-workers, fighters on picket lines, marchers against police brutality, workers and youth demanding equal rights for immigrants, and youth attracted to the working-class struggles.

The booklet offers an opportunity to gain some experience in the long tradition of the revolutionary workers movement of pamphleteering. It can be a point of common discussion, educationals, and exchange, as well as an opening to studying essential works such as Capitalism's World Disorder, The Changing Face of U.S. Politics, and others. Those attending the Active Workers Conference can place orders on the spot and take home a box to kick off the effort during the last days of July.

Socialist Workers candidates and supporters of the socialist campaign will especially want to promote the pamphlet as part of the campaign. The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning explicitly rejects the whole framework posed in the "debate" between the leading candidates in the Democratic and Republican parties on such crucial questions as education, social security, and the death penalty. It sets an example for how to take up such questions and break out of the trap posed by the two-party system: the argument that the "choices" working people have are those within the confines and range of options advanced by either the Democrats or Republicans. Thus, they hope, working people will have to choose between the lesser of evils in the political arena.

From reports in the Militant on meetings James Harris and Margaret Trowe are having on the campaign trail, this is exactly the discussion a vanguard layer of workers and fighting youth want to have. Socialist candidates explain that the proposals advanced by Gore and Bush try to get workers and farmers "centered on 'looking out for number one,' " as the introduction to the booklet points out.

Harris and Trowe are getting a serious hearing because they pose every question as a social question and point out the interests of the working class as a whole in it. They put at the center of their campaign the same point made in the pamphlet: that workers and farmers are capable of waging "the greatest of all battles in the years ahead--the battle to throw off the self-image the rulers teach us, and to recognize the we are capable of taking power and organizing society, as we collectively educate ourselves and learn the exploiters in the process."