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Save the Date! Workers World Party National Conference
November 15-16 2008, NYC


Register online here.


Register online here.

Save the Date


WORKERS WORLD PARTY


CONFERENCE


SAT•SUN • NOV 15•16


NEW YORK CITY

WHY CAPITALISM MUST GO!


(place to be announced)

Topics will include:

• An assessment of the elections, no matter who wins
• The deepening economic crisis—What is it and how can we fight back?
• Supporting the right to self-determination against imperialism in the Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia & inside the U.S.
• Pushing forward the class struggle=UNITY against racism, national oppression, immigrant bashing, women’s oppression and LGBT oppression
• Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) on organizing youth & students
• Why capitalism is the problem and Socialism is the solution

and much more

• Plenaries
• Discussion groups
• Strategy sessions
• Music/spoken word

Register online here.

Call 212-627-2994 www.workers.org www.workersworld.net
Mark Nov. 15-16
Workers World Party conference

Workers World Party will be holding a national conference in New York City Nov. 15-16. The general theme of the conference will be “Challenges and tasks facing our movement following the 2008 elections.” The venue for the conference will be announced soon.
Plenaries, discussion groups, strategy sessions and cultural performances will focus on themes of prime importance for workers, oppressed people and youth. There will be an assessment of the elections, no matter who wins, and the impact of the deepening economic crisis on the workers and oppressed—what it is and how we can fight back. Reports will highlight the struggle for self-determination against imperialism in the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and inside the U.S., and the need to push forward the class struggle by uniting against racism, national oppression, immigrant bashing, women’s oppression and LGBT oppression. Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) activists will speak on organizing youth and students and why capitalism is the problem and socialism is the solution.
Register online here.
Call 212-627-2994 or go to
www.workersworld.net for more updates on the conference.

Capitalist Economic Crisis

• $1,000,000,000,000? United mass action can STOP giveaway to Wall Street bankers by Fred Goldstein
• As Capitalist Crisis Deepens - The workers’ fightback is coming by Larry Holmes
• CAPITALIST MELTDOWN - Workers, oppressed to pay billions to bail out Wall Street by Fred Goldstein
• Gov’t gives away billions to big mortgage bankers by Jaimeson Champion
• Workers, Banks and the Credit Crisis by Fred Goldstein
• Lansing, Mich., protest: ‘Moratorium now! No evictions!’ by Bryan G. Pfeifer
• Michigan activists demand moratorium on foreclosures by Kris Hamel
• Labor, community coalition fights foreclosures in California by John Parker
• Foreclosures provoke coast-to-coast fightback by Gerry Scoppettuolo
• Women hit utility shutoffs, foreclosures By Phebe Eckfeldt

Low Wage Capitalism and Strategies for the Coming Period

by Fred Goldstein

• part 1
• part 2

Obama, McKinney, and the Elections

• Obama's Speech in Denver by Larry Holmes
• Obama—Un análisis por Larry Holmes
• During election and beyond - A call for Black unity, action by Black Left Unity Network
• Black and blues at the DNC by U-Savior
• Biden and Palen Workers World Editorial
• Biden y Palen Editorial Mundo Obrero
• Why Workers World is Endorsing Cynthia McKinney for President Workers World Editorial
• At Detroit's Labor Day - Cynthia McKinney Speaks on War and Racism By Abayomi Azikiwe

NO! to Imperialist War!

• Sanctions, diplomacy, missiles - U.S. takes aim at Iran’s sovereignty by Sara Flounders
• Pentagon ramps up threats on Iran - Anti-war forces call Sept 27 Day of Action By Dustin Langley
• U.S.-NATO’s war in Georgia: Who wins,who loses? by Sara Flounders
• La guerra de la OTAN-EEUU en Georgia: ¿Quién gana, quién pierde? por Sara Flounders

Fighting for Socialism and the Environment

• A study in contrasts - Who’s developing more wind power—U.S. or China? by Deirdre Griswold
• Hurricanes, Cuba and U.S. imperialism Workers World Editorial

F.I.S.T. - Fight Imperialism, Stand Together - Youth Fight for Socialism

• Despite heavy police violence - No peace for war-makers at RNC by Peter Gilbert - speaker at the opening rally on behalf of FIST and the Troops Out Now Coalition, arrested during the protests
• No democracy in Denver - Cops attack protesters at DNC by LeiLani Dowell
• Gustav and New Orleans: Again, gov’t focus is on repression by Larry Hales
• Another New Orleans outrage - Judge drops charges on Katrina killer cops by LeiLani Dowell
• North Carolina People’s Assembly generates plan of action by Dante Strobino

Reports from Workers World Party National Conference
November 17-18 2007, NYC

Workers World Party National Conference
November 17-18 2007, NYC

Highlights of Conference Reports



Podcats of Conference Talks and Panels



International Solidarity Messages

Preconference Discussion Documents:

Pre-conference document--"Wall Street Crash--What does it mean"

by Sam Marcy

(The late Sam Marcy was the chairperson of Workers World Party)
Introduction
Wall Street Crash -- What does it mean?
Imperialist Globalization in the post-Soviet era and the future of the struggle for socialism in the U.S.


For pre-conference discussion, Workers World Party National Conference 2007 (chapters one and two of the forthcoming book, "Colossus with Feet of Clay: U.S. imperialism, globalization and the working class")
By Fred Goldstein, Secretariat, Workers World Party

Challenges in Organizing the U.S. Working Class in the Post-Soviet Period


Prepared for the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, 4-6 May, 2007
By Fred Goldstein, Secretariat, Workers World Party

WWP Conference Nov 17-18 - Answering the Hard Questions

FIST invites youth to WWP conference

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