EL RENO, Okla. — “America needs an independent labor party from the workers,” Robert Stock said as he signed a card to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, June 2.
Stock, above left, with SWP member Gerardo Sánchez, is a hotel worker in El Reno. He looked online for a party with working-class politics, found the SWP and the Militant and subscribed. He agreed with the party’s views supporting Ukraine’s fight for sovereignty, on Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews, and the importance of the Cuban Revolution and sent in two contributions to the spring Militant Fighting Fund.