CAMPAIGN WITH THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Alyson Kennedy for U.S. president, Osborne Hart for vice president!

Don’t organize around who you’re against, fight for what you’re for! he capitalist economic crisis is Tbattering workers and farmers in the United States and around the world. It’s a slow-burning global depression, and it’s working people who are paying the price. Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart, the Socialist Workers Party candidates for U.S. president and vice president, are discussing with workers on their doorsteps and on strike picket lines from small towns to big cities, from coast to coast, how we can organize Socialist Worker Party candidates Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart have long histories in to overturn the dictatorship of capital, class struggle. Left: Kennedy joins Verizon strikers at April 25 rally in Trenton, New Jersey. : Hart (at left) at November 2015 rally for $15 and a union in Philadelphia. which is at the root of the crisis. Right

The bosses throw job safety out the fear is the hundreds of thousands allies, working to transform our unions window as they impose speedup or of working people who have turned into effective fighting instruments slash hours to boost their profits. out to hear what they have to say, against the propertied rulers and They scapegoat immigrant workers, looking for an alternative to politics their government. We are part of the seeking to drive down wages and as usual, to the patronizing attitude fight for a government-funded public divide the working class. Millions of the capitalist class and their works program to create jobs at have no jobs, or temporary, part- politicians who look at working union-scale pay to replace crumbling time work at minimum wage. people as “white trash,” “welfare infrastructure and build schools, Workers wages are stagnating. cheats” or “crack-heads.” But more medical, childcare and recreation and more working people are centers, and other things working The bosses try to convince us that refusing to keep quiet. people need; for $15 and a union; they’re rich because they’re smart for free and comprehensive medical and we’re stupid. And they run the The Socialist Workers Party poses a care for all; to demand an end to government because they say they working-class road out of the dog- Washington’s colonial rule over the know what’s best for us. eat-dog, crises-ridden capitalist people of Puerto Rico; to guarantee system and its wars, racism and They have unleashed a propaganda women the right to choose abortion; oppression of women. war against the working class, for prosecuting cops who kill or churning out articles saying things As working people fight together brutalize working people. like, “the white American underclass to defend ourselves we gain class- The Socialist Workers Party is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture consciousness and self-confidence speaks out against Washington’s whose main products are misery and learn that we can rely on our own imperialist military attacks — from and used heroin needles. Donald power, solidarity and mobilization. Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria. SWP Trump’s speeches make them feel We become different people. Like candidates fight the rulers’ efforts good. So does OxyContin.” Malcolm X said when asked if he to use workers’ revulsion at Islamic was trying to wake Blacks to their This is the biggest crisis of State’s terrorist acts to scapegoat oppression, he said “No, I’m trying to capitalism, and their twin parties, Muslims and roll back workers’ wake them up to their self worth.” the Democrats and Republicans, rights. The party speak out against in our lifetimes. The capitalist class The Socialist Workers Party joins Jew-hatred, which seeks to divert and their media blast Trump and with fellow class-conscious workers workers attention away from the real Bernie Sanders, but what they really in battles to defend our class and its enemy: the capitalist system. bosses’ par-ties, build our own independent labor party based on the unions and set out to take political power into our own hands.

The Cuban Revolution: An example for workers today In the 1950s workers and farmers across Cuba, led by Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement, launched a movement to overthrow the U.S.- backed Batista dictatorship. They took political power and took control Alyson Kennedy campaigns at construction sites in New York February 9, discussing of their own destiny — leading mass fight for workers control of conditions on mobilizations to overcome illiteracy, the job to enforce safety. and advance culture, health care for all and built a new peoples’ Osborne Hart talks with fellow participant in Oct. 2015 protest against police brutality. We join in the fight against army, militia and police out of their deportations and e-verify. It doesn’t own ranks to defend, not oppress, matter whether you are from Mexico working people. In the process, they Join with us or China, Indiana or Texas; it doesn’t became what Che Guevara called Socialist Workers Party candidates matter what language you speak or “new men,” capable of changing the and their supporters campaign to the color of your skin, we need to world. They showed that a revolution discuss these issues confronting organize the unorganized into unions is not only necessary, it is possible. our class. As a central part of this and expand solidarity to stand up to they explain that the only way Cuba’s revolutionary people extend the bosses. forward is to organize independent internationalist solidarity, from working-class struggles that point SWP candidates have joined rallies sending almost 400,000 volunteers to-ward overturning the dictatorship of Pennsylvania Steelworkers locked to fight against apartheid South of capital, replacing it with a out by Allegheny Technologies and Africa’s invasion in Angola to government of workers and farmers Machinists at Triumph Composites in sending doctors to help lead the and building a new society based Spokane battling company bosses’ fight against Ebola in West Africa. on human solidarity and joining the efforts to maintain a divisive two- Working people everywhere are worldwide fight for socialism. That is tier wage system. 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