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Thomas Fiske      Closing Statement

Working people in the U.S. are stepping up our resistance to the
employers' attacks on our wages, rights and living conditions, even at
the start of a devastating world economic crisis that is beginning to
deeply affect the United States. Strikes against companies such as
UPS, Northwest and US West indicate that working people are rejecting
more concessions, and are fighting for a shorter workweek and against
cutbacks in benefits. Other fights reflect the same sentiment, such
as farm protests against low prices for crops, fights to defend
bilingual education, demonstrations against police brutality, the
resurgent fight for Puerto Rican independence, the effort to defend
affirmative action, and protests against U.S. military threats to
intervene in Iraq and Yugoslavia.

The Socialist Workers campaign and its youth supporters, the
Young Socialists, are part of this developing fight back. We
campaign to helporganize and mobilize working people and all those
struggling for social justice to use our numbers, our role in the
economy and our capacities for political thought and solidarity.

Our campaign points the way toward the organization of working
peoples'energies into an effective force independent of the
Democratic, Republican or any other capitalist political party. It
is along this road that working people can prepare our class and its
allies to take on and defeat even sharper attacks the capitalist
rulers are preparing for us,disarm the ruling class, and replace
their government with a government of our own, a workers' and
farmers' government.

Tom Fiske is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor.
Fiske, 54, is a machinist at Eaton Corporation in Eden Prairie and a
member of the International Association of Machinists Local 1037. He
has participated in getting labor solidarity for union struggles; in
demonstrations against U.S. intervention against Iraq and Yugoslavia;
and conferences that tell the truth about revolutionary socialist
Cuba.

John Hawkins is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. Hawkins, 49, is a laborer at North Star Steel
and a member of UnitedSteelworkers Local 7263. A participant in a
number of strikes in his previous job as a coal miner, Hawkins is a
veteran labor activist. He is a longtime fighter for Black rights
and has participated in the demonstrations against police brutality
here.

For more information about our campaign and for on-the-spot
coverage of the struggles of working people around the world you can
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