asked in an interview why as a socialist he was running for prestdent, Camejo replied:
We have to use every tool available to fight oppression, We use the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech. freedom of assembly, the right to put out newspapers and organise meelings and protests. Using every tool includes running in elections - they're an excellent opportunity to speak out, to reach people, and to help organise.
Socialist "I don't believe clections themselves will solve the problems people face. The problems will be solved when working people themselves are organised and mobilised on all levels. I see clection campaigns as one way to help accomplish this.
'I run as a socialist because the Democrats and Republicans represent the corporations. A voice rust be heard that stands up for the real needs of working people, of oppressed minorities, of worsen.
*The Socialist Workers Party is campaigning very hard on the concept that working people should hreak from the parlies of the capitalist class and form their own political organisation. That the Chicano move the trade union leaderships are tied into the Democratic party machine, the main theme of the SWP is the need for class independence. It calls for the formation of a labour party. and gives support to the independent Chicano party, the Raza Unida party.
Willie Mae Reid, the vice-presidentlal candidate, is a black woman who ai carly as 1958 joined the boycott that ended segregated seating on public transport in the South, At a recent black conference attended by thousands, she used her campaign to paint out the need for independent black political action in the form of a party. The idea was also voiced inside the conference, but the hold of the reformist black Democrats was still strong Other issues that the SW campaice concentrates on are:
Unemployment: The SWP bas popalarised a Bill of Rights for Working Pouple waich speaks of the right to a job as a basic right of every citizen. It also demands the Funding of free medical care and other socal services instead of the Siuo billion dollar war budger.
Because the existing seniority Boston racists on the rampago. Busing has been a Icey issue in the SIP's campaign.
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of the importance of the issue which La full investigation The question of busing is perhaps a mobilisation which tinally had people