Vol. 72/No. 24      June 16, 2008

Militant/Amy Husk

Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for vice president, (in gray suit) delivers petitions to a worker at the state board of elections in Trenton May 29. Sara Lobman, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey is at left. Campaign supporter Moses Williams is at right.

At the same time more than 1,600 signatures for Sara Lobman, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, and more than 200 for Michael Taber, the party’s candidate for Congress in the 10th C.D., were submitted. In each case this is more than double the number required.

Kennedy said, “Working people in the United States and around the globe are bearing the brunt of a world capitalist financial crisis. When elected, Róger Calero and I will fight for cost-of-living increases in wages and benefits of all workers, so when prices of consumer goods go up there is an automatic rise in income to match.”

The socialist vice presidential candidate recently returned from Iowa. There she joined a protest march against the immigration raid at the Agriprocessors slaughterhouse. She spoke with workers who were arrested in the raid or lost their jobs because of it. “Our campaign calls for an end to immigration raids and deportations, and for the legalization of all undocumented workers,” she said.

Kennedy also answered recent statements by Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, who both favor maintaining the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

The SWP calls for normalization of relations with Cuba, Kennedy said. “We call for an end to the embargo and an end to all restrictions on U.S. residents visiting Cuba. We demand freedom for the Cuban Five.”

Lobman has participated in protests by truckers against high fuel prices and in rallies opposing the closing of hospitals in New Jersey. “When elected I will fight to open the books of the corporations running the hospitals to a committee of hospital and other workers. I will work in Congress for legislation guaranteeing health care and pensions, ensuring lifetime coverage and retirement income for all.”

Lobman also called for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
 
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