The Socialist Workers Party is holding an international conference at Oberlin College in Ohio June 12-14.
The conference will feature reports by leaders of the SWP and classes about the party’s main programmatic resolutions and reports over the last 40 years. This will help deepen participants’ political understanding of the world in which they are carrying out politics today, the party’s communist continuity and its course forward.
Among those is “What the 1987 Stock Market Crash Foretold,” found in New International no. 10, a resolution adopted by the SWP in 1988 that looks at the consequences of the decelerating growth, heightened volatility and increasing instability that marks capitalism today.
Another is “The Opening Guns of World War III,” written by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on the significance and consequences of Washington’s brutal attack on Iraq in 1991. The detailed report on that U.S.-organized slaughter and devastation can be found in New International no. 7. It points toward the conflicts ahead as the imperialist rulers march, willy-nilly, toward World War III.
Another centerpiece of the conference will be on The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class, a presentation and discussion on the importance of defending Israel as a refuge for Jews and the crucial stakes for working people in fighting Jew-hatred, which the bosses will use against the working class.
The conference will celebrate the new English edition of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women, an important contribution to the class-struggle road to women’s emancipation.
The political course of the party presented in The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward, which features the political resolution adopted by the SWP in 2022, and “Black Liberation and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” based on reports to international leadership conferences in 2006, which is included in Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power, will be discussed.
Over the last year members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and United Kingdom have won a hearing from thousands of workers concerned about capitalism’s growing world disorder, and who want to discuss what can be done to stop imperialism’s march toward fascism and a third world war.
They’ve joined picket lines, protests to demand Moscow get out of Ukraine and spoken to thousands who are interested in the working-class course forward presented by the party’s candidates.
Conference reports will discuss the new opportunities that are opening today for the party to recruit and grow.
Participation in the conference is by invitation only. For more information, contact the party branch nearest you.