CL candidate in Calais: Workers need labor party

Militant/Claude Bleton

“The Labour Party leadership’s shift to the left doesn’t strengthen working people,” Jonathan Silberman, Communist League candidate for mayor of London, said Sept. 27. “Workers need to overthrow the capitalist rulers and put working people in power, not shift capitalism to the left or the right. This means organizing distinctly from the capitalist parties and forging a labor party based on the unions that carries out an independent working-class course.”

Above, Silberman, left, joins Pakistani immigrants in a demonstration at a refugee camp in Calais, France, Aug. 8.

—PETE CLIFFORD