By John Studer
Workers and young people who value the Militant for its coverage of resistance and working-class politics — from the mobilizations to defend national sovereignty in Ukraine to the international campaign to free the Cuban Five — will be gathering for an Active Workers Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 19-21. The conference is sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party.
Reports and discussion at the conference will look at the development of capitalist production on a world scale and the international character of the capitalist crisis is drawing workers together, as the circumstances and struggles of toiling humanity converge. And how the world today is one of increasing openness and possibilities for working-class struggle.
The conference will also look at the continuing ramifications of the fact that U.S. imperialism lost the Cold War when the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, no longer able to count on a Stalinist regime to keep workers out of politics and disarm revolutionary-minded forces around the world. This opened space for workers to become actors in politics once again, as demonstrated by working-class struggles in Ukraine and fights for democratic rights in Russia.
The conference will discuss how the Cuban Revolution’s unparalleled record over 60 years sets a moral and political example the world over for advancing the struggle for workers power.
Six different classes at the conference — organized so that conference participants can get to several over three days — will supplement the themes of political reports presented by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party.
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