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WWP Conference 2009
A revolutionary Party utilizes
all methods to try and win the hearts and minds of the working class and the
oppressed, so that our class sisters and brothers become partisan fighters
alongside us in the global class struggle against capitalist exploitation and
imperialism....
Posted Feb 6, 2010
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Excerpts from a talk given by Richard Kossally at the Workers World Party 50th anniversary national conference....
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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Excerpts from a talk given by Steve Kirschbaum at the Workers World Party 50th anniversary national conference....
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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Excerpts from a talk by Martha Grevatt of Cleveland at the WWP
National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 19, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk given by Ellen Catalinotto at the WWP National
Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 13, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Sandra Hines, an
organizer with Michigan’s Moratorium NOW! Coalition, at the WWP National
Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk given by Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together organizer LeiLani Dowell, at the WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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Talk given by John Catalinotto at the WWP National
Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 5, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk
given by WWP Secretariat member Monica Moorehead at the WWP National Conference Nov. 14.....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Sharon Black at the WWP National Conference,
Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by John Parker from Los Angeles to the WWP
National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Phebe Eckfeldt from Boston at the WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts are from a talk by Bill Cecil at the WWP
National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts are from a talk given by Fight Imperialism,
Stand Together organizer, David Hoskins, at the WWP National Conference, Nov.
14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Talk given by WWP Secretariat member Deirdre
Griswold at the WWP National Conference Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Abayomi Azikiwe from Detroit at the
WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Larry Holmes to the Workers World Party National Conference: Our biggest problem is that our class has been untaught how to fight. It is a
legacy of class collaborationist trade union leaders that feel they have some
partnership with the Democratic Party and now with the government, which is an
illusion in their own mind....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Teresa Gutierrez to the
WWP National Conference, Nov. 14: To add to the long list of crimes against humanity perpetrated by imperialism,
we can include today’s unprecedented wave of human migration. I speak not
only of the millions of undocumented migrants forced to leave their countries
in hazardous boats or sweltering windowless trucks, transport that too often
becomes the coffins for too many....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Fred Goldstein to the Workers World Party National Conference Nov. 14: We are a party of fighters, but we also must carefully analyze what is
going on around us and what direction things are taking.
Using Marxism is the surest guide....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by youth organization FIST leader Larry Hales to
the WWP National Conference, Nov. 14: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for people between the ages of 16
and 24, unemployment is 18.5 percent, the highest it has been since after the
Second World War. For Black youth it is 32 percent, 22 percent for Latino/a
youth and the percentage for Indigenous youth is hard to come by, but according
to an ABC News report, on some reservations the general unemployment rate is 80
percent....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Elena Everett of Durham, N.C., to the WWP
National Conference, Nov. 14: Thank you for the opportunity to help open this beautiful conference where
we have come together to celebrate 50 years of organizing and struggling for
justice....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Excerpted from a talk by Sara Flounders at the Workers World Party National Conference in New York: The U.S. military budget is larger than the rest of the world’s put
together. This is a superprofit subsidy to the wealthiest CEOs and stockholders
of the military corporations....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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From a talk by Berta Joubert-Ceci of Philadelphia to the WWP National Conference, Nov.
14: I want to ask you to please stand up. Let us give homage to the courageous
people of Honduras. That resistance that today, for 140 days, has been in the
streets, demanding the restitution of their president, José Manuel Zelaya
Rosales, and the celebration of a Constitutional Assembly that will end
injustice and inequality....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Two main themes ran through the 2009 Workers World Party National Conference:
the revival of serious class struggle in the United States as the capitalist
crisis brutally strips the workers and oppressed of their jobs, homes and
health, and the need to strengthen international workers’ solidarity in
the face of corporate globalization and increasing militarism and war....
Posted Nov 18, 2009
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A highlight of the Workers World Party national conference on Nov. 14 was an
address by Armando Robles, president of United Electrical Workers Local 1110.
In December 2008, Robles led his members in the historic occupation of Republic
Window and Doors in Chicago after the company tried to close shop without
providing vacation or severance pay for workers....
Posted Nov 18, 2009
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