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.

He first came in contact with the communist movement 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, as the Socialist Workers Party's candidate, was one of 135 candidates who ran for governor in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, receiving 751 votes.

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."