DENTON, Texas—Amanda Ulman, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Houston, speaks with North Texas University students at an Indian restaurant here February 7. “Obama’s ‘economic stimulus’ package has nothing to do with providing jobs,” said Ulman, a sewing machine operator. “The real source of the crisis is capitalism. Workers need to organize unions and then use our strength to take political power out of the hands of the billionaire rulers.”

A campaign table earlier that day on the main campus was the center of lively political discussion and sales of the Militant and Marxist books. Six subscriptions to the paper, including two renewals, were sold along with the Communist Manifesto, New International no. 14, Teamster Rebellion, and four copies of Is Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible?

—STEVE WARSHELL