Militant/Jacquie Henderson

HOUSTON, February 15—”As president and commander in chief, I would immediately withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, and everywhere else around the world,” Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Róger Calero told students at the University of Houston today. “My opponents, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain, all support the escalation of the imperialist war in Afghanistan,” he added.

Calero was joined on campus by SWP congressional candidates Amanda Ulman, who is running in the 9th District, and Steven Warshell, running in the 18th. On his two-day tour stop here Calero also attended campaign events with garment, meatpacking, and other workers.

One student came out to meet the candidates after his teacher told the class that “a worker who is running for president is outside right now.”

“Do you have that paper he showed us, the Militant?” the student asked Calero.

—JACQUIE HENDERSON