Come to Socialism 2016!

Socialism 2016 (Click to enlarge)

Debate and discussion on:

US presidential election
#BlackLivesMatter
Britain after Brexit
Corbyn and Labour
Fighting Tory austerity
Capitalist crisis
Building the socialist alternative
What is Marxism?
And more!

Bigoted US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently appealed to African-Americans to vote for him: "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed - what the hell do you have to lose?"

Probably a lot more if he got into the White House! Then again, would black and ethnic minority people fare better under a Clinton Democrat presidency?

As Barack Obama's presidency comes to the end of his second term, twice as many black Americans than white people are being killed by police.

Also, institutional racism means blacks and Hispanics comprised 59% of all prisoners in 2014, even though they make up approximately one-quarter of the US population.

As black revolutionary Malcolm X famously remarked, racism is inherent in the capitalist system. But such oppression can and is being fought, as shown by the spontaneous eruption of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the US.

In many places this movement has been led by young black women. Likewise, the fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage to end poverty pay is led mainly by young fast food workers. And more young people voted for Bernie Sanders and his call for "a political revolution against the billionaire class" in the presidential primaries than for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined!

Darletta Scruggs on Fox News (Click to enlarge)

Darletta Scruggs is a young activist in these working class struggles and a member of Socialist Alternative - our co-thinkers in the USA. She will be speaking at the Socialist Party's 'Rally for Socialism' on the evening of Saturday 11 November in central London - part of the weekend event, Socialism 2016.

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two of the most unpopular major party candidates in living memory. That's because both represent the corporate establishment and the super-rich 1%. They represent the failed capitalist system.

At Socialism 2016 more than a thousand people will be discussing the socialist alternative to that system.

It's the place to be to learn the lessons of the movements in the US and elsewhere. And it will include serious discussions about organising here to defeat racism, to defend Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity leadership, to kick out the Tories, and much more.

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Finance appeal

The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.

The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.

The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.

The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.

Inevitably, during the crisis we have not been able to sell the Socialist and raise funds in the ways we normally would.

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