A socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people Vol. The event drew other workers involved in struggles, including members of the IUE at a battery plant in Sumter, South Carolina. Three of these workers told Harris about their fight for safer conditions and against racist discrimination. Richmond Truesdale, chairperson of the United Container Movers Association of Charleston, described the efforts of port truck drivers to unionize in face of antilabor laws. We're doing work we're not paid for.
Real struggles are the motor force of change.
We need to get politically aware and act independently, not look to the Democrats and Republicans. Truesdale commented that he ran for the state legislature in the Democratic Party in a previous election. We need a working-class party. Supporters of the Socialist Workers campaign set up a table outside the rally site. It's the fights of working people that change things.