AN AGEING cowboy Ronald: Reagan, may be next president of the United States.
The British press tell us that the only alternatives to Reagan are Jimmy Carter or the outsider John Anderson.
But in 30 states working people will be able to vote for a socialist alternative to these politicians.
Andrew Pulley, steelworker Gary, • also running Ior te Socialist Workers Party American supporters of the Fourth International.
Myth His campaign challenges the myth that the only road for the American labour ment is Io support Carter's Democratic Party.
Pulley became a socialist -during the Vietnam war. While opposed the war, and along with seven other GIS was arrested and court-marshalled.
e. He became nationally known through the Care. campaign as one of the Fort Jackson Eight. Later he was to become prominent in the struggle for black rights throughout tre United States.
Pulley believes that working people should have their own A MIL presidential elections.
The Democratic Party has always been associated with the actor, union movement: But disilluthe sionment policies has question of who trade unionists should back.
Anthony Mazzocchi, health and safety director of the Oil, Chemical, and Workers Union, expressed this sentiment pointed out that In- Democratic Party is the party of Oil. We have to be naive not • Ene movelater to see that, and we need a new political mechanism, and that's a labour party.' the Mazzocchi was speaking at à major union-sponsored conference to discuss Big Business also supported the demand for a new party.
When Pulley Carter's right- labour party, he also says what posed the that party should do He wants a fighting labour party, that could halt the rundown of industry for the nationalisation of those industries causing Atomic cies.
Pulley says that the labour when he party he 'the organise massive support for demonstrations in the interests working people, marches to support the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA for women's rights), stop the draft, shut down nuclear power plants, and end Ku Klux Klan terror and police shootings of can- Miami Pulley and his SWP supporters aren't wald represcils waiting for this party to be formed by the union leaders.
They are using their campaign to talk with ordinary workers, the black militants, (the rights activists have take the next steps towards it. They have produced extendemands their solidarity by fighting harassment.
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next president of sitting around and women's about how When blacks took to the streets in Miami against the racist acquittal of a white cop, Pulley and a team of campaign workers went down to show and help organise against further police He has also campaigned to defend the popular revolutions in Iran and the Caribbean, and a feature of the campaign is its on solidarity with the Nicaraguan Andrew Pulley won't be the SO the United States. But it would be a better world to live in if he was. NUCLEAR POWER!
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