Workers World Party conference is timely

In 1959 Workers World Party was founded by Sam Marcy, Dorothy Ballan, Vince Copeland and other U.S.  working-class leaders based on the teachings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. This Nov. 14-15 Workers World Party will hold a national conference in New York City marking its 50th anniversary.  More than just marking a landmark anniversary, the conference will take up the contributions Workers World Party has made to the worldwide class struggle with its consistent revolutionary theory and practice.  Two goals of the conference will be to analyze the current state of the global class struggle and the capitalist economic crisis and to show why only socialism can end exploitation, racism and war.

This conference comes in the midst of deepening impoverishment among hundreds of millions of people worldwide in the biggest crisis of the capitalist economic system since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  The conference will explore important questions, including what is the next stage of this crisis and what does a “jobless recovery” mean? Will the working class and oppressed peoples, in the U.S. and around the world, be able to mount a real struggle in their own defense?  With Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the U.S. imperialist government, what unique challenges does this create for Black workers, immigrant workers, the whole working class and antiimperialist movements?

The two-day conference will evaluate important mass organizing in many cities against foreclosures, evictions, layoffs, utility shut-offs and plant closings and for united mobilizations against the multibillion-dollar bank bailout.

The conference will take up the enormous opposition within Honduras to the right-wing coup d’état and what activists and revolutionaries in the U.S. can do to aid the popular resistance there and elsewhere around the world, including in Palestine, Puerto Rico, Africa and Afghanistan.

Thoughtful consideration will be given to how the deepening capitalist economic crisis, the endless wars and occupations, and the development of the class struggle can contribute to forging greater unity and solidarity against national oppression, women’s oppression and lesbian, gay, bi and trans oppression in the United States.  The conference will feature plenaries, discussion groups and strategy sessions with activists and Workers World Party members from across the country representing many different struggles. There will also be music and spoken-word performances. Spanish translation for some plenaries will be provided.

Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) organizers are planning a special workshop for youth and student activists. Guest speakers representing labor, community, youth and anti-imperialist struggles will share their important experiences and join others in conference deliberations.

For more information about the conference, including venue, literature, pre-registration, housing and more, visit www.workersworld.net or call 212-627-2994.