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Vol. 76/No. 14      April 9, 2012

 
Wash. state Socialist
Workers launch campaign
 

SEATTLE—Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party election campaign of Mary Martin for Washington state governor held a campaign launching rally here March 24 attended by some 25 people.

Martin spoke about the crisis of capitalism and the continuing onslaught against the working class in order to prop up the profit system. She called attention to the importance of working-class resistance today, from sugar workers in the Midwest to the longshore workers in Longview, Wash.

Campaign chairperson John Naubert read a letter of solidarity to Byron Jacobs, secretary-treasurer of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 in Longview, who started a 21-day jail sentence that day. The participants in the meeting unanimously ratified the message with applause and signed their names below it, pledging to “spread the word … of your union’s ongoing fight against frame-up charges of its members.”

—JOHN NAUBERT AND EDWIN FRUIT


 
 
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