Vol. 73/No. 11 March 23, 2009
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N.Y. socialist mayoral candidate joins union rally |
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Militant/Peter Thierjung
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NEW YORK—Dan Fein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, speaks with participant in March 5 union rally here against layoffs and cuts in social services. “We need to build a working-class movement that will lead a revolutionary struggle to take political power out of the hands of the capitalist rulers and establish a workers and farmers government,” Fein said.
The socialist candidate said such a government would cut the workweek with no cut in pay to spread around the work to provide jobs. It would stop paying the $3.7 billion in interest given each year to the city’s superrich bondholders, he explained. It would legalize all undocumented workers and enforce affirmative action. It would guarantee universal health care and pensions. —PETER THIERJUNG |