Vol. 77/No. 20      May 27, 2013

The two-day gathering in Oberlin, Ohio, will feature talks by Socialist Workers Party leaders on world capitalism’s deepening economic crisis, social and political upheavals, wars and military conflicts, and other questions that fill the Militant’s pages each week. Workers at the gathering will discuss resistance by coal miners, school bus drivers, and others to assaults by the bosses and their government on working people, our unions and political rights. There will be classes on lessons from revolutionary working-class struggles the world over.

Central to conference events will be charting a political course to build a mass social movement of the working class and its allies that can wage a revolutionary fight for workers power.

Organized by the Socialist Workers Party, the conference is an opportunity for participants to share experiences and discuss how to advance our common efforts. It will be attended by workers involved in labor and political struggles here and abroad, as well as supporters of the communist movement who help produce the books used in political work, many of whom have decades of experience in working-class politics.

Activity to build the July conference is underway by members of the SWP and by Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Participants in the Militant subscription campaign are discussing the gathering with workers and others interested in the paper, including how to get time off work, organize transportation and raise money to cover costs.

Chuck Guerra and Helen Meyers of Des Moines, Iowa, for example, met over coffee recently with coworker and subscriber Kyle Young to talk about the conference. All three work in a printing plant there. Discussing the Militant’s coverage of fights by coal miners from West Virginia to Utah, Young asked, “Why would anyone fight before their backs are against the wall?” That opened an exchange on the need for solidarity with each other’s fights, why many workers don’t yet see our power to change the world, and how the active workers conference is a chance to deepen such discussions.

The gathering will assess accomplishments of the spring subscription campaign and ongoing efforts to expand circulation of the Militant among workers and farmers and to get books and pamphlets on working-class politics into their hands. There will be tables of books published or distributed by Pathfinder Press in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Swedish and other languages, as well as displays of photos and charts showing how revolutionary literature is being used by socialist workers around the world.

On Sunday July 21, supporters of the communist movement will meet to discuss their work helping produce Pathfinder books and sell them to bookstores and libraries across the globe — from New York to Paris, from Sydney, Australia, to Bamako, Mali.

To learn more, call Militant distributors in your area (see directory on page 10) or contact us at (212) 244-4899 or themilitant@mac.com.  

 
 
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