Militant/Frank Forrestal

Wendy Lyons, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, tapes New Year’s greetings December 21 for viewers of ETTV, a large Chinese-language cable television program. Lyons works at Farmer John meatpacking plant near Los Angeles. She extended “a special greeting to my Chinese co-workers at Farmer John and those I’ve worked with in garment shops.” After outlining key demands in the SWP campaign platform—championing, in particular, the struggle of working people to organize unions and to strengthen them where they exist to resist the bosses’ attacks —Lyons explained the socialists’ opposition to Washington’s anti-China campaign.

“We call for an end to threats against China, from U.S. naval maneuvers in the Pacific, to the arming of Taiwan, to Washington’s aggressive trade policies. We are for Washington dropping all tariffs and restrictions on goods coming in from China and the whole semicolonial world,” she said.

“The Socialist Workers Party supports our brothers and sisters in China,” she continued, “who are protesting coal mine disasters and many of the same conditions we are fighting against here such as low wages, speedup, no pay for overtime, and the extension of the workweek and workyear.”

—FRANK FORRESTAL  
 
 
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