SAN FRANCISCO—On March 19 young socialists joined Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, (pictured above at right) and other campaign supporters in a demonstration here against the war in Iraq, held on the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.

Young campaigners for Róger Calero and Alyson Kennedy, the SWP candidates for president and vice president, explained that on taking office their candidates will take measures to immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.

They introduced other young people to Sánchez, who explained that when he and the other SWP candidates are elected to Congress, they will help form a socialist caucus that will fight against giving one more cent or one more person to the imperialist war drive.

Young socialists in San Francisco have also been active on campuses, such as at the University of California at Davis, where they are helping defend the Cuban Revolution through promoting the Pathfinder book Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution.

—MICK DIDDAMS