There is a revolutionary working-class voice in the 2025 elections.
The Socialist Workers Party is launching a spring campaign to introduce its national slate of 2025 candidates, expand the reach of the Militant and books by SWP leaders and other revolutionaries, and to raise $165,000 to keep the Militant coming out.
The SWP and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. are organizing an eight-week effort March 22-May 20 to win 1,300 subscribers to the Militant and get 1,300 books recounting the lessons of earlier working-class struggles into the hands of working people.
SWP candidates start with the world — the deepening crisis of the imperialist system. They point to a class-struggle road forward for the working class everywhere. The rulers’ only solution to their sharpening competition and national rivalries today is heightened trade conflicts and more wars. Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel — the worst such slaughter since the Holocaust — mark a significant turn in the world we live in.
New and more dangerous wars are inevitable as the competition between national capitalist powers marches humanity toward war, fascism and the threat of a nuclear conflagration.
There is no alternative in the imperialist epoch. This is captured in the headline on the Militant Aug. 18, 1945, after the U.S. rulers callously unleashed nuclear destruction on the peoples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “There Is No Peace! Only World Socialism Can Save Mankind From Atomic Destruction In Another Imperialist War,” the headline read. The subhead: “Workers of America! You Must Take Power Into Your Own Hands!”
This is what the SWP candidates campaign on: Break with the parties of the bosses and bankers and chart a course toward workers taking political power. We say vote SWP! Join in building the SWP campaign. Join the SWP!
No other party explains all political issues today are class questions. No other party says that workers can, and have, made history. We point to our continuity with the two great revolutions of our epoch — the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 led by V.I. Lenin and Cuba’s socialist revolution in 1959 led by Fidel Castro.
Tribunes of the people
SWP members are workers. They stand alongside fellow workers on union picket lines, join fights for jobs for all, better wages and conditions and join in efforts to build solidarity.
They’re tribunes of the people, defending all those exploited and oppressed under capitalism, including working farmers who face bankruptcy and the millions of workers without papers forced into pariah status by the U.S. rulers. They point to the historic place of the fight by African Americans against national oppression and why only the working class can lead the fight for women’s emancipation.
Party candidates join actions against Jew-hating violence, in defense of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for the Jewish people, and in support of Ukrainian sovereignty. They build actions to press Washington to end its brutal economic war against Cuba’s socialist revolution. They explain all workers have a stake in defending constitutional protections no matter whose freedoms are under assault.
The SWP has an unparalleled record — running candidates for president in every election in the last 75 years.
The Militant gives voice to the SWP campaign, as well as those of the Communist Leagues. The books on special during the eight-week campaign explain the powerful lessons of previous revolutionary struggles.
Week-in, week-out, the Militant reports the activities of the party’s candidates and how they explain unfolding politics from the point of view of the working class. They point to examples of the deep capacities of workers in struggle. They speak in defense of workers behind bars. Don’t hesitate to drop the paper a line about what you’re up to.
After party branches adopt quotas for the campaign, the Militant will print a scoreboard and article each week measuring the progress being made to bring home the drive.
Contributions to the Militant Fighting Fund can be made now online at themilitant.com. Join in the SWP spring campaign! Contact the party branch nearest you listed in the directory.
Militant editor
