By Tom Baumann
MIAMI — “The message of this campaign is that we need to organize and fight independently of the capitalist rulers and the political parties that represent their interests, here in Florida and all over the world,” Naomi Craine, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Florida governor, said in an April 25 statement launching the party’s election campaign here.
“As we organize to resist these worsening conditions, we can gain the experience, self-confidence, and solidarity that will be needed to overturn the dictatorship of capital we live under and chart a course toward working people taking political power,” she said.
Craine is one of a number of Socialist Workers Party candidates for governor across the country — including Eleanor García in California, John Studer in New York, Frank Forrestal in Minnesota, Ilona Gersh in Illinois, David Rosenfeld in Iowa and John Benson in Georgia.
They are joining in efforts by workers and farmers to defend their jobs, wages, working conditions and political rights; calling for solidarity with workers in Ukraine fighting to defend their national sovereignty; participating in activities in defense of the Cuban Five and the Cuban Revolution; and raising demands, such as a government-funded public works program to create jobs, that can advance the unity and fighting spirit of the working class.
Craine, a 43-year-old factory worker, joined supporters of the socialist campaign and Militant April 26-27, talking with workers outside the International Longshoremen’s Association hiring hall in Fort Lauderdale and knocking on doors in Miami.
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