Vol. 77/No. 27      July 15, 2013

The two-day gathering will bring together members of the SWP and Communist Leagues in other countries, supporters of the communist movement, and other workers who’ve been reading and helping circulate the Militant and communist books and pamphlets, and building solidarity with workers engaged in struggles against bosses’ assaults and other fights.

The conference will discuss stepped-up efforts to build the worldwide defense campaign to free the Cuban Five, as well as Socialist Workers Party election campaigns that set an example of independent working-class political action. All this strengthens circulation of the Militant and books through door-to-door sales in working-class neighborhoods, which forms the foundation of the weekly activity of the SWP and Communist Leagues .

One aspect that is underway is preparations for five classes that will complement the main political presentations by party leaders. The following are working titles to whet the appetite:

— Contradictions and Openings in Working-Class Politics Today: “We” and “They,” the SWP Federal Electoral Commission Victory, and the Meritocracy vs. a Lifetime of Learning and Labor.

— A Crisis Rooted in Production and Trade, Not Money and Banks: Why Washington’s “Visible Hand,” Whether Monetary or Fiscal, Won’t Stop the Anti-labor Lash of Capitalism’s “Invisible Hand.”

— Sharpening Contradictions and Conflicts for Latin America’s Capitalist Rulers and Their Pressures on Workers and Farmers of Cuba: Class Struggle in Venezuela, Brazil and Beyond; the “Bolivarian” (Social Democratic) Alternative; and the Myth of U.S. Rulers’ “Failed Cuba Policy.”

— From Turkey to Egypt and Syria: Imperialism’s “20th Century” Middle East Order Is Unraveling: Toilers Need Political Space to Organize and Act in Face of Bourgeois Regimes, Islamist Forces, Imperialist-Drawn Borders.

— Why Class Not Race Is the Decisive Question in Cuba: The Fight to Deepen the Revolution’s Proletarian Course vs. the Meritocracy’s Pressure for “Economic Liberation.”

A list of suggested preparatory class readings will be sent to conference participants ahead of the gathering.

The closing panel and rally July 20 will feature the political work conference participants will be carrying out together coming out of the conference.

This includes participation in the Continental Conference in Solidarity with Cuba in Caracas, Venezuela, July 24-27; petitioning to put SWP and Communist League candidates on the ballot; joining an August trip by Pathfinder supporters to Malaysia and Indonesia; and building the World Festival of Youth and Students in Ecuador in December.

For more information, call Militant distributors in your area (see directory on page 8) or contact us at (212) 244-4899 or themilitant@mac.com.  
 
 
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