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Joel Britton, (born 1942 ) is an American Communist and serves on the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party . Britton is a longtime Trade Union ist 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 a 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 . Statement by Britton before the 2003 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
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