Over a hundred people rallied at Grand Circus Park in Detroit, MI, following a march along Woodward Ave. demanding an end to war, violence and injustice.
On July 3, the day before countrywide celebrations of the American Revolution, young members of the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (MECAWI) spoke out against mass amounts of money going to war and imperialism instead of education and health care, and the drive to bring back the draft to send more working class youth to die for capitalist interests.
The Detroit Socialist Party, along with members of the Socialist Party of Michigan, mobilized to this rally and joined the demands for an end to the occupation of Afghanistaion and Iraq, the liberation of Palestine and money for education and health care.
As the struggle against imperialism continued, members of the Debs Tendency, a tendency in the Socialist Party USA, distributed the first issue of the new Appeal to Reason, a publication originally published between 1879 and 1922 read by hundreds of thousands of working people.
The Socialist Party of Michigan will continue its opposition to American imperialism until all US troops have come home!