By Maggie Trowe March 1, 2021
Militant/Tamar RosenfeldRóger Calero, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, with Alberto Mendoza, a worker at Hunts Point Produce Market, Feb. 10. “The bosses use the unemployed to drive down our wages,” Mendoza told Calero. “Then they tell us, if you don’t like it, there’s the front door!”
After campaign supporters turned in seven times the number of required signatures, Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, was certified for the ballot Feb. 10.
Supporters of the campaign of Joe Swanson, the party’s candidate for City Council in Lincoln, Nebraska, will finish collecting signatures needed to get on the ballot over the Feb. 20 weekend. Swanson will speak at a Lincoln campaign forum that day in support of locked-out Marathon oil refinery workers in Minnesota.
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By Naomi Craine February 15, 2021
Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party campaign will kick off the drive to put Joe Swanson on the ballot for City Council At-Large in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a weekend of campaigning Feb. 6-7.
Swanson is a longtime union member who worked on the railroad, in meatpacking and elsewhere. He is a member of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Transportation Division Alumni Association Local 1732.
Volunteers from Nebraska, Chicago and Twin Cities will join Swanson to use the SWP campaign to discuss how workers can organize to defend our interests in struggle against the bosses and their Democratic and Republican parties. Their goal is to collect the 150 signatures needed to put Swanson on the ballot. Above, Rae Arellano signs Swanson’s petition in Lincoln.