SWP candidate meets fighters at May Day march

Militant/Laura Anderson

MILWAUKEE — A Socialist Workers Party contingent including vice- presidential candidate Osborne Hart, right, joined more than 1,000 people here May 1 in the May Day March for Immigrant and Worker Rights. (See article on front page.)

"Demonstrations like today's help break down divisions among workers that only help the bosses," Hart told Tomás Medina, a flooring installer who helped bring a busload of workers and young people from Green Bay. "We need to organize everyone, regardless of where they were born."

Medina agreed, telling Hart that previous mobilizations had pushed back one proposed anti-immigrant, anti-worker law.

Campaigning with Hart, communists sold 10 Militant subscriptions and seven books as they engaged in discussion and debate with marchers.

"I never thought I would see these kind of books in this country!" said Nieves Cordova, above left, a Mexican-born student at Lakeland College in Green Bay, upon seeing the Socialist Workers Party table.

Cordova said that after she gave a talk in her class about socialism, some students asked her, "Where are you from, Cuba?"

She bought three books, got a subscription and took stacks of campaign leaflets in English and Spanish.

— ILONA GERSH AND BETSY FARLEY