Norton Sandler

Norton Sandler, a member of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, spoke from the floor the next day and pointed to the danger of scapegoating and Jew-hatred for the working-class movement.

Norton Sandler, a member of the SWP National Committee, described the struggles that forged Ring as a communist.
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Sandler noted that Ring carried national leadership responsibilities for 35 of his 71 years in the party.

Kelly was one of a panel of speakers at a conference session on the work of supporters of the communist movement July 11, introduced by Socialist Workers Party (SWP) National Committee member Norton Sandler (for full conference coverage see last week's Militant).

The first speaker, SWP National Committee member Norton Sandler, told the meeting that voluntary construction teams would rapidly turn the space into the flagship Pathfinder bookshop in the United States.The address-307 West 36th Street, 10th Floor North, New York, NY 10018-would be listed on the data page of each Pathfinder book that comes off the press, he said, just as 47 The Cut, the address of the publisher's London distributor, has appeared in every Pathfinder book since 1972.

"This is a harassment and nuisance suit," Norton Sandler, national director of the Socialist Workers 2004 Campaign, told the audience."It is designed to take the focus off the fight for a union."The lawsuit charges the UMWA with violation of labor law, and places charges of libel and defamation against a number of unions and other organizations that support the union fight, as well as numerous media outlets that have covered the struggle at Co-Op.

Sandler said the Militant is one target of the company lawsuit."Twenty-four of the 80 pages of the suit are block quotes from the Militant's coverage of the fight," he said.

Of the 56 issues of the socialist paper that have come out since the start of the fight, 54 have had articles on the struggle at Co-Op, Sandler noted."And the Militant is going to continue to cover this fight in the same way," he said, "with the same accuracy, making no bones about its support for the miners in their fight for a union."

Supporters of the Militant are taking this attack seriously."It's one thing to not be thrown off course by a suit like this," Sandler said, "but it's something else to take frivolously what you may face."He announced the launching of the Militant Fighting Fund and asked for contributions to help cover the legal and other expenses that the Militant may face against the Kingston suit.The goal, he said, is to raise $30,000 by December 15.

Reaching the goal, said Norton Sandler, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, "will take the political imagination and combined work of supporters of the communist movement and socialist workers who are active in their unions, standing as candidates for elective office, and shouldering responsibility with others in various coalitions doing work in defense of the Cuban Revolution."

Sales of Pathfinder titles will be a central part of work by Socialist Workers candidates and their supporters as they soapbox at street corners and sell the socialist press at factory gates, he added.Socialists in the trade unions will find sales of Pathfinder titles an indispensable component of their political work over the coming months, as they fight alongside other workers to build their unions as part of resisting the assaults by the capitalist rulers in country after country.

Sandler noted that young people like those who attended the Cuba-U.S. Youth Exchange in July are likely to continue adding to their Pathfinder libraries.Among those who will find these revolutionary books and pamphlets of interest, he said, will be the hundreds of workers, students, and youth joining the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride caravans across the country that will converge in a rally for immigrant rights in New York October 4.