WWP Conference in New York Dec. 2-3
A place to ask the big questions
By Greg
Butterfield
New York
What's the difference between revolutionary Marxism and
anarchism?
What's the significance of the Nader movement? How can the
activists who built that third-party electoral challenge help
forge a powerful movement to end big-business domination?
What's behind the latest U.S. war moves toward Cuba? How can
Cuba solidarity activists most effectively defend the
revolution? How can anti-racists build a powerful movement to
support the Palestinian uprising?
Can the working class, students and youths, and oppressed
communities build a mass movement for socialism in the United
States?
These and many other questions will be under discussion at
the Dec. 2-3 Workers World Party conference in New York, called
"The Socialist Answer to Capitalism: Building a Revolutionary
Movement in the U.S."
Activists and community organizers, youths and labor
unionists from across the United States will gather here that
weekend to discuss and analyze the past year's struggles and
lay out an action plan for 2001. First on the agenda is
building a powerful demonstration against the racist death
penalty and for Mumia Abu-Jamal at the Jan. 20 presidential
inauguration in Washington.
Workers World Party's 2000 presidential and
vice-presidential candidates, Monica Moorehead and Gloria La
Riva, will be featured speakers. There will be discussion and
analysis of the elections, the Nader phenomenon and the
anti-capitalist movement that began in Seattle.
The conference will also hear eyewitness accounts from
activists who traveled to Palestine, Iraq, Yugoslavia and
Cuba.
A flyer sent out by WWP says: "Since mass protests against
the World Trade Organization swept Seattle last year, a new
radical movement has been growing against capitalism.
"As it fights against globalization, rac ism and the death
penalty, the movement must also show the socialist alternative
to corporate exploitation and oppression."
In that spirit, panels and workshops will include: Building
a movement to free Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and all political
prisoners; organizing the unorganized and building workers'
unions; globalization and capitalism today; the class origins
of lesbian, gay, bi and trans oppression; resist ing the
Pentagon's occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico; fighting police
brutality; and much more.
To get more information or to register for the conference,
contact WWP at 55 W. 17 St., New York, NY 10011; call (212)
255-0352; or send e-mail to register@wwpublish.com.
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