Vol. 77/No. 26 July 8, 2013
With barely three weeks to go, preparatory work is gearing up for the July 19-20 active workers educational conference in Oberlin, Ohio, sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party.
The conference will draw together members of the SWP and Communist Leagues in other countries, supporters of the communist movement from around the world, and other workers who have been reading and helping to circulate the Militant and books on revolutionary working-class politics, building solidarity with workers standing up to bosses’ assaults and other struggles.
The talks, classes and panels will be geared toward advancing efforts to get the Militant into the hands of a broad cross-section of working people, centered on door-to-door sales in working-class neighborhoods and the international defense campaign to free the Cuban Five.
In addition, talks by party leaders will discuss the world capitalist crisis, other political developments and how the working class can chart a course toward a revolutionary fight for state power to transform social relations from top to bottom and, in the process, the men and women engaged in it.
Five classes are scheduled on topics complementing the main presentations. One will discuss how the capitalist crisis is rooted in contracting production and trade, not money or the banks. Another will take up the sharpening contradictions and conflicts for the capitalist rulers of Latin America, from Venezuela to Brazil and beyond, and the pressures on the workers and farmers of Cuba. Classes will be repeated at least twice, with some scheduled Thursday evening, July 18.
A closing panel July 20 will feature political activities of supporters of the Militant. Others will address participating in the Continental Conference in Solidarity with Cuba, in Caracas, Venezuela, July 24-27; petitioning to put SWP candidates on the ballot; and building the World Festival of Youth and Students in Ecuador in December. For more information, call Militant distributors in your area (see page 8) or contact us at (212) 244-4899 or themilitant@mac.com.