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From The Socialist newspaper, 5 October 2016

Come to Socialism 2016!

Socialism 2016 (Click to enlarge)

Debate and discussion on:

US presidential election

#BlackLivesMatter

Britain after Brexit

Corbyn and Labour

Fighting Tory austerity

Capitalist crisis

Building the socialist alternative

What is Marxism?

And more!

Bigoted US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently appealed to African-Americans to vote for him: "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed - what the hell do you have to lose?"

Probably a lot more if he got into the White House! Then again, would black and ethnic minority people fare better under a Clinton Democrat presidency?

As Barack Obama's presidency comes to the end of his second term, twice as many black Americans than white people are being killed by police.

Also, institutional racism means blacks and Hispanics comprised 59% of all prisoners in 2014, even though they make up approximately one-quarter of the US population.

As black revolutionary Malcolm X famously remarked, racism is inherent in the capitalist system. But such oppression can and is being fought, as shown by the spontaneous eruption of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the US.

In many places this movement has been led by young black women. Likewise, the fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage to end poverty pay is led mainly by young fast food workers. And more young people voted for Bernie Sanders and his call for "a political revolution against the billionaire class" in the presidential primaries than for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined!

Darletta Scruggs on Fox News (Click to enlarge)

Darletta Scruggs is a young activist in these working class struggles and a member of Socialist Alternative - our co-thinkers in the USA. She will be speaking at the Socialist Party's 'Rally for Socialism' on the evening of Saturday 11 November in central London - part of the weekend event, Socialism 2016.

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two of the most unpopular major party candidates in living memory. That's because both represent the corporate establishment and the super-rich 1%. They represent the failed capitalist system.

At Socialism 2016 more than a thousand people will be discussing the socialist alternative to that system.

It's the place to be to learn the lessons of the movements in the US and elsewhere. And it will include serious discussions about organising here to defeat racism, to defend Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity leadership, to kick out the Tories, and much more.

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In The Socialist 5 October 2016:

What we think

Combative, vibrant unions should be central to the Corbyn movement

Socialist Party news and analysis

Tories out!

Come to Socialism 2016!

Sam Allardyce corruption shame: reclaim the game!

Asos workers fear taking toilet breaks, sacked for panic attacks

UK workers born in early 1980s half as wealthy as those born in 1970s

Millions have less than £100 savings

Them & Us

What we saw

Black History Month

Fighting racism today

Workplace news and analysis

RMT president Sean Hoyle speaks to the Socialist

Durham teaching assistants ballot for strike

Napo conference 2016: new mood of determination

London Met strike against job cuts and victimisation

Workplace news in brief

Socialist readers' comments and reviews

Corbyn's praise for Cardiff Labour is mistaken

Review: where you live can kill you

Review: international jazz protest storytelling

The Socialist inbox

Socialist Students

Socialist ideas - winning a new generation of students

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

Thousands march against Tory conference

Protests against children's centre closures in Bolton

Why I joined the Socialist Party

Fighting fund record smashed again!

Leeds: Solidarity demo with Irish abortion fight

London: Socialism Today milestone celebration

Worcester: Public meeting discusses Corbyn

International socialist news and analysis

Poland: Fighting back against anti-abortion law

Ireland: repeal the 8th Amendment!

Joint declaration by Izquierda Revolucionaria and the CWI

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