This is a period of heightened resistance by workers and farmers who are confronting the capitalist economic crisis and the assault by the employer class on our wages, working conditions, social rights, and human dignity. More and more are hungry for solidarity and struggle, and are becoming open to consider new and radical ideas about the root causes of these problems.

The Socialist Workers candidates explain that the problem we face as working people is not that capitalism today is not working right. The increasing brutality and exploitation we are facing is how capitalism works.

Through struggle, more working people are shattering our biggest obstacle: the tendency, fostered by exploiters, to underestimate our own capacities as a class. The message of the socialist campaign is that workers and farmers have no common ground with the capitalists, and that we need to chart a course of political struggle independent from the Democrats, Republicans, and other pro-capitalist parties and politicians. And that we can take on the ruling rich and win.

The exploiting class is well-organized, and to stand up to them our class must be too. To build a movement of workers and farmers that can confront the most ruthless ruling class in the world, we need to be part of a revolutionary party of workers.

As a result of their own experiences in struggle against the bosses and their government, numerous groups of workers and farmers around the country are becoming open to the idea that we need such a revolutionary change and organization. And a growing number of young people who both hate the dog-eat-dog system of capitalism and are attracted to the power of the working class are seeking out a road forward.

We urge you to join in campaigning for the socialist alternative. Join with the socialist candidates at picket lines, plant gates, social protest actions, and street-corner campaigning in working-class areas. Help set up meetings for socialist candidates to speak at campuses and before groups of interested workers, farmers, students, and others. Help distribute the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial, the socialist campaign newspapers. Participate with other socialist workers and youth in reading and studying together books on the revolutionary lessons of working-class struggle.
 
 
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