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Vol. 77/No. 23      June 17, 2013

 
Active workers conference to discuss
lessons in fights for workers power
 
BY LOUIS MARTIN
“I’ve learned from reading the Militant, from the party. Now more than ever, I appreciate the Militant. It’s a way of educating the whole working class and what the whole working class has to struggle and go through,” said Virgen López, explaining why she decided to attend a July 19-20 active workers conference sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party in Oberlin, Ohio.

López, who works in a medical office, met distributors of the paper when she worked at Perrigo, a pharmaceutical factory in the Bronx. She got a subscription and got involved in building solidarity with 1,300 sugar beet workers fighting a 2011-2013 lockout by American Crystal Sugar in the Midwest, demonstrations for a woman’s right to choose abortion and the fight to win freedom for the Cuban Five and Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera.

“Reading about the Cuban Five and what they go through, and relating that to what the government and courts have done to me, it touches you to be part of the solution,” López said.

The presentations and classes will focus on lessons of previous working-class struggles for political power and the involvement of millions of working people as they organize to maintain that power through decisive measures aimed at transforming social relations inherited from capitalism from top to bottom — and transforming themselves in the process.

The conference will draw together members of the SWP and Communist Leagues, supporters of the communist movement from around the world as well as other workers who have been reading and helping to circulate the Militant, many as participants in labor battles, protests against police brutality and other social struggles.

Coming a few weeks after the spring Militant subscription campaign, the conference will discuss steps to continue expanding the readership of the socialist newsweekly and Pathfinder books in the U.S. and around the world.

To learn more about the conference, call Militant distributors in your area see page 8) or contact us at (212) 244-4899 or themilitant@mac.com.  
 
 
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