Former Swift employee and current vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe returned to Marshalltown on Friday to meet with old friends and spread the message -- the revolution is coming.

Trowe is running for vice president on the Socialist Workers Party ticket along with presidential candidate James Harris. While many area residents probably aren't familiar with the Socialist Workers Party, Trowe believes that what she says may be attractive to voters.

For instance, she is calling for a moratorium on all farm foreclosures and wants a guaranteed floor on commodity prices which would realistically ensure farmers can make ends meet. She also wants massive free loans and technical help for farmers to ensure that the family farmer can stay in business.

After spending several years working in the packing plant industry, Trowe also believes that farmers and packing house workers are each being led to believe that the other group is responsible for low wages or poor working conditions.

Where Trowe differs from her opponents is in her choice of enemies.

She doesn't waste time pointing the finger at the other parties' candidates, she attacks a much larger group: capitalists. "Capitalism is in crisis," Trowe said. "Workers and farmers produce all the wealth and all the produce, but get the least."

Trowe said she is not only concerned with the effects of capitalism on Iowa farmers and workers, but with people around the world. "Capitalism is ugly and brutal for most people," she said. "But U.S. capitalist rulers are worried .... a revolution is coming." Trowe said she believes that one day soon, farmers and workers fed up with poor working conditions and low wages will "build a stronger union."

In addition, Trowe believes the justice system is influenced by those with the most money. "The justice system is not just. There is no law on the books for the death penalty in Iowa, but the police are acting as judge, jury and executioner, such as the Charles Lovelady murder in Des Moines. "Wealthy people who use cocaine usually snort it, but poor people usually smoke it. The penalty for smoking cocaine is much harsher than for sniffing it, why is that?" she asked.

Trowe feels so strongly about these issues that she and Harris have visited over 19 states, 33 cities and several foreign countries to spread their revolutionary ideals on a campaign budget of just $100,000.

"We sleep where we can and eat a lot of McDonald's and Wendy's," she said. While Trowe concedes that the odds of her party winning this election are poor. "Once the election is over, I won't miss a beat."

Friday's stop hasn't been the first time Trowe has returned to Marshalltown from her current home in Austin, Minn. In 1999, she was instrumental in organizing protests against deputizing police officers with powers to aid the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in deporting Mexican-born packing house workers.