Joel Britton

Joel Britton (born 1942) is an American Communist and serves on the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. Britton is a longtime trade unionist having been a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union as well as a member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union while working as a chemical process operator at a Chevron refinery.

The way he first came in contact with the communist movement was at a series of meetings in the fall of 1961, organized by students at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in collaboration with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Britton joined the Young Socialist Alliance, the youth organization of the SWP, in 1962, at the age of 20. In 1969, Joel Britton participated in an SWP delegation that was invited to come to Cuba to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the victory of the revolution.

Britton was the Socialist Workers Party's candidate for governor of California in the 2003 recall election, which was won by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He said before the election: "I have opposed Democratic and Republican moves to put the economic crisis of capitalism on the backs of working people. I’m for a workers and farmers government that will abolish capitalism in the U.S. and join in the worldwide struggle for socialism."

External links

* [http://www.themilitant.com/ The Militant, weekly paper of the Socialist Workers Party]
* [http://www.pathfinderpress.com Pathfinder Books, bookstore of the Socialist Workers Party]