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By Alyson Kennedy February 8, 2021
Militant/George ChalmersGerardo Sánchez, SWP candidate for Dallas City Council, talks with Valerie Pinales Jan. 20 on her doorstep about the party’s program. She signed the petition to put the party on the ballot.
DALLAS Socialist Workers Party campaigners have gotten off to a solid start in the fight to win ballot status for Gerardo Sánchez, the party’s candidate for City Council District 1. They are extending the party’s reach and finding interest in its program and activity as they knock on doors in working-class neighborhoods and talk to co-workers.
Sánchez, a tire and lube worker at Walmart who grew up in Cuernavaca, Mexico, has also worked as a meatpacker and an underground coal miner. He is part of today’s fights for job safety, improved wages and better working conditions and has taken part in protests against police brutality. He built solidarity with Asarco copper
By Sara Lobman January 25, 2021
Militant/Mike ShurFrom left, Pedro Luis Pedroso, Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, and Dave Prince and Mary-Alice Waters, from the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, at celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution Jan. 9 in New York City.
NEW YORK This past year “was an especially challenging and complex year for our country,” Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso, Cuba’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said at a Jan. 9 celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution here. In addition to confronting a worldwide pandemic, the administration of President Donald Trump “tried everything in its attempt to break our resistance and force us to make concessions.”
By Seth Galinsky January 18, 2021
Militant/George ChalmersFactory worker Daniela Veloz subscribed to Militant after Alyson Kennedy, left, knocked on her door in Ennis, Texas, Jan. 4. Socialist Workers Party is building on success of its work last year to continue campaigning among working people in cities, towns and farm areas.
In the midst of 2020’s capitalist economic, social and pandemic crisis, and government-ordered lockdowns, the Socialist Workers Party did not skip a beat.
Its members went to work to organize with co-workers to fight to defend their wages and working conditions. They continued introducing the party to working people on their doorsteps in cities and towns, large and small, and in farm areas. Many of those they met were looking for ways to stand up to the bosses’ moves to shore up their profits on our backs and were keen to discuss what workers can do together.
BY NAOMI CRAINE
MAYWOOD, Ill. “These companies use the pandemic as an excuse” to go after workers’ rights and conditions, truck driver Shishonie Perry told Socialist Workers Party member Leroy Watson and this worker-correspondent when we knocked on his door in this Chicago suburb Dec. 6. Perry owns his rig and works for a company that delivers containers for a major grocery chain.
Militant/George Chalmers“Everything in this country is about money,” said apprentice electrician Joshua Liska as he got Militant subscription from Alyson Kennedy in Ennis, Texas, Dec. 2. “We have to change things.”
In June the company tried to cut the pay rates for both independent truckers and those it hires directly.