Chris

RAYSON

    As the Socialist Workers Party candidate, I will use my campaign to present a working-class program.

    A mood of resistance to capitalist disorder and injustice is growing in the U.S. and worldwide.

I can attest to this because I walked picket lines and rallied at the Port of Tacoma with locked out Kaiser workers, participated in convoys of Seattle port drivers trying to organize, and with Alaska Airlines workers at Sea-Tac Airport fighting for a just contract.  I've marched with farmworkers in eastern Washington, and rallied with packinghouse workers on the piers demanding the Port support their union-organizing drive.

    These fights are part of the protests and strike battles sweeping the Pacific Rim and Asia.  Just as the shipping lines and railroads find the present Port Commission a willing ally in their attempts to bust unions and lower wages amid worsening working conditions, International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies force impoverished nations to repay loans to Wall Street banks while throwing millions of workers into starvation conditions.

    I'm campaigning around an action plan to unite working people in defense of our interests:

    • A shorter workweek with no reduction in weekly pay.  The port uses competition as a club to cut jobs, increase speed up, and lower wages.  The answer is solidarity with workers in every port against "whipsawing."  • Defend affirmative action.  Equal rights for immigrant workers.  End INS raids.  Raise the minimum wage to union scale.  Support organizing efforts among port drivers, farm and packinghouse workers, immediately benefitting immigrant workers.  • Join the struggle to cancel the Third World debt, providing immediate relief for countries reeling from the capitalist currency crisis and for small farmers unable to market their produce.  End the trade embargo against Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and North Korea.

CAMPAIGN ADDRESS:  1405 E Madison, Seattle, WA 98122  TELEPHONE:  (206) 938-4170

Chris Rayson

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