Vol. 74/No. 15      April 19, 2010

James Harris, a national committee member of the Socialist Workers Party, keynoted a panel centered on the book Malcolm X, Black Liberation and the Road to Workers Power. Panelists Carlos Narváez, a hotel worker and member of UNITE HERE Local 2, and Zach Liddle, a student at San Francisco State University, kicked off the discussion, sharing their enthusiasm for the lessons they have been drawing from reading, studying, and distributing the book.

This interest in the workplace, above all among workers who are Black, reflects what Harris called “the shock” workers feel at the speed with which the U.S. rulers are beginning to take away hard-won gains of the working class, and the conclusion some are beginning to draw that we live under the dictatorship of capital.

“They are working us short shifts, with the minimum number of workers,” Narváez said. “They are trying to break us as a union. It’s the workers who have to take the initiative to fight back. That’s why I came here: to learn more.”

Liddle said he is convinced from studying the book that Malcolm X was on the road to becoming a socialist.

Meeting participants contributed close to $3,350.

Supporters of the Militant in Auckland, New Zealand, launched their fund drive for the paper at an April 1 Militant Labor Forum, writes Mike Tucker. Participants pledged $2,180 toward the New Zealand-wide goal of $3,000.

The meeting and social also celebrated the opening of a new Militant Labor Forum hall, Pathfinder Books center, and Communist League election campaign office.
 
 
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