The California recall election, previously dismissed and ridiculed by some big-business pundits as a “circus,” has now become a focus of national and international attention and is seen as a run-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential elections.

Britton, who is on the ballot for the October 7 election, is getting a serious hearing from many workers, farmers, and youth. His campaign is especially attractive to those involved in struggles in face of the drive by the wealthy employers and their two parties against the wages, jobs, social gains, and rights of working people.

We urge you to take a few days or a week off work or school to campaign with Young Socialists for Britton. The socialist campaigners are handing out flyers on street corners in working-class neighborhoods and industrial districts. They are discussing the campaign with workers at factory gates and picket lines. They are setting up campaign tables on campuses. And they are joining protests: from demonstrations against U.S. military intervention abroad, to actions in support of a woman’s right to abortion; against police brutality and the death penalty; and against deportations and “no-match” firings of immigrant workers.

The Britton for Governor/Vote Socialist Workers Campaign proposes a revolutionary program, one that can unite working people in struggle. Britton calls for opposing imperialism and its assaults and military threats around the globe—from Iraq to Liberia, from Korea to Iran—and for bringing all the troops home now. In face of the growing economic catastrophe, he advocates a fight to demand jobs for all by shortening the workweek with no cut in pay and carrying out a massive public works program. The socialist campaign supports the demand to cancel the Third World debt that is squeezing workers and farmers around the globe.

Britton explains that the capitalist rulers offer us a future of imperialist wars and plunder, economic dislocation, and dog-eat-dog reality. Workers and farmers, on the other hand, have the potential power to take on and defeat the ruling rich. To do so a course of political independence from the capitalist parties is needed—a course toward establishing a workers and farmers government and joining the worldwide fight for socialism.

The Cuban Revolution today is a living example that working people have the capacity to transform the world. The road charted in Cuba is necessary and possible in the United States and around the world, too. It is the road of working people developing the kind of leadership that can transform our unions into fighting organizations and lead working people to take political power.

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