Our Strategy
Capitalism has been a disaster for the working class.
Both capitalist parties — Democrat and Republican — have overseen war, genocide, climate catastrophe, and a spiraling cost-of-living crisis.
70 percent of Americans support a single-payer healthcare system, 60 percent support ending U.S. military aid to Israel, and 80 percent support rent control — this includes supermajorities of self-identified Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
Why haven’t these things been done? Because neither party represents workers. They represent billionaires, corporate landlords, the health insurance industry, Big Pharma, the weapons manufacturers, Big Oil & Gas, and the capitalist system as a whole.
Millions of Americans know this. A record-breaking 45 percent of Americans identify as political independents, and 62 percent say we need a new party. 58 percent disapprove of the Republicans’ job in Congress, and 73 percent disapprove of the Democrats.
So how do we break the billionaires’ two-party stranglehold?
Dump the Democrats and Republicans
Elect an Independent Socialist!
Democrats and Republicans have sold workers out again and again. Joe Biden promised a $15 minimum wage, cancellation of student debt, and paid family leave. Instead, he broke a railroad strike and carried out a genocide in Gaza. Trump ran on “peace” and “America First.” Instead he doubled down on the genocide in Gaza and war on Venezuela and Iran.
The so-called “progressive” Democrats like AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Zohran Mamdani have promised to “change” the Democratic Party. But instead of fighting the Democratic establishment, they prop it up. Mamdani has already used his platform as NYC Mayor to endorse Democratic Party leader Hakeem Jeffries and arch-corporate Governor Kathy Hochul.
Republicans like Josh Hawley and Thomas Massie serve the same function for the Republican Party. They pose as “pro-worker” or “antiwar,” giving workers false hope that the Republican Party can be pulled from the swamp. The Epstein Files are just the latest proof that this is a pipe dream.
These parties are two arms of the same capitalist machine.
Workers need a clean break with both billionaire-backed parties. Workers need independent representatives who will go to war against both of these rotten parties and fight for our interests.
Kshama Sawant won four elections to the Seattle City Council, each time as an independent socialist. She didn’t cozy up to corporate Democrats. She led movements of tens of thousands of working people to fight for what we need. These movements won historic victories: the highest minimum wage in the country (now $21.30), the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and renters’ rights like a $10/month cap on late rent fees and a ban on winter evictions.
Electing Kshama to Congress would be a political earthquake. It would demonstrate to workers that the two parties can be defeated, and that we don’t have to accept the political status quo. It would be a massive step towards building a new workers’ party and overthrowing the two-party system for good.
Kshama’s campaign for Congress is already the strongest independent socialist campaign for Congress in recent history. She is running against a hated warmongering Democrat, Adam Smith, and has already raised over $400,000.
Workers, unions, and the left need to concentrate all our forces to elect an independent socialist to Congress.
Big business, corporate landlords, the Democrats, and the Republicans will do everything they can to stop her. They will mobilize all their resources nationally to stop any independent, working-class candidate from winning. That’s why working people need to concentrate our resources nationally to elect Kshama and make a breakthrough for the workers’ and socialist movement.
Neighborhood action committees
get organized to win
Kshama can’t win this election alone. It will take more than a small team of staff or a small socialist organization. We need an organized movement of hundreds or thousands of working-class people, building the campaign in their workplaces, unions, organizations, and communities.
Working people everywhere should begin building neighborhood action committees — not only to build Kshama’s campaign, but to begin getting organized to fight for working-class demands.
These committees should be open and democratic. They should be crystal clear about the importance of Kshama’s campaign, and get organized to support it. They should be used not only to build Kshama’s campaign, but to build the movement against ICE; to support strikes, student walkouts, and unionization efforts; to build the fight against genocide and imperialist war; and to support other independent socialist candidates where you live. We need to connect our fights together to strengthen them.
Stop the sellouts! Unite labor and the left!
Union leaders have failed to break workers out of the two-party trap. In fact, they have used our unions as a Democratic Party piggy bank. The leadership of multiple unions — including AFSCME, AFGE, IAM, and the Laborers union — have already donated to Kshama’s warmongering corporate opponent, Democrat Adam Smith.
Meanwhile, union leaders have refused to unleash the real power of the American labor movement: mass strike action, mass rallies, mass civil disobedience, and using the resources of the labor movement to run independent working-class campaigns. They could have done this in response to the ICE murders in Minneapolis. Instead, union leaders told workers not to strike.
Workers need to use Kshama’s campaign as a weapon against the do-nothing union bureaucracy, and as a tool to break the labor movement away from the billionaire-backed Democratic Party.
Workers should launch rank-and-file committees in their unions to build support for Kshama’s campaign among co-workers, and to demand that their union leaders support the campaign. These committees can put forward resolutions in their unions. They should also build struggles in their workplaces for better wages and conditions, organize for strike action to win workers’ demands, and support other independent socialists for office.
Workers also need to get organized across socialist organizations.
The socialist movement is a mess. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) now has over 100,000 members, making it the largest self-described socialist organization in over 100 years. But the DSA leadership has refused to break from the Democratic Party and run independent candidates. The leadership of Seattle DSA has even refused to hold a vote on Kshama’s independent socialist campaign.
The rest of the left is splintered into a hundred organizations, which act like competing small businesses instead of a unified movement. Most left organizations have completely ignored Kshama’s historic campaign for Congress. Kshama’s own organization, Revolutionary Workers, has only a few dozen members and has isolated itself further by pushing away left organizations who do want to help. Sectarianism is rampant and has been destructive for the left.
The Democratic and Republican Parties have bitter disagreements. Yet they unite around their class interests: launching wars, funding ICE, sending billions to the Israeli state, and screwing over workers.
Socialists need to overcome our disagreements in the interests of the working class. Rank-and-file socialists need to get organized to bring the socialist movement into the fight to elect Kshama Sawant as an independent socialist to Congress. We need to fight relentlessly against both the Democrat-aligned leadership of DSA and against petty sectarianism throughout the left.
A working-class Super PAC
Movement for Kshama is funded by United Front for a Workers’ Party, a working-class Super PAC.
The Democratic and Republican parties use Super PACs to take unlimited donations from billionaires and big corporations. Our Super PAC is a weapon AGAINST those billionaires and big corporations.
United Front for a Workers’ Party was launched by socialists and union members to support independent socialists like Kshama.
Kshama’s opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, has received over $500,000 from AIPAC. He is bankrolled by big corporations like Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and Microsoft. He is funded by billionaires like Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale. The Democratic and Republican Parties have billions of dollars at their disposal. We need a war chest of our own to fight back.
Our Super PAC is funded by working people. We will never support any Democratic or Republican politician, or any other candidate of the bosses. We are fighting to shut down ICE, to end U.S. military aid to Israel, for free healthcare for all, for reparations from the rich, for a $30/hour minimum wage, for universal childcare, for national rent control, to cancel student & medical debt, to nationalize big oil & gas, for a workers’ party, and for socialism.
Help fund Movement for Kshama —donate to our working-class Super PAC!
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We need a workers’ party!
Electing Kshama to Congress would be a massive blow to the Democratic and Republican Parties, and it would be a giant step towards a workers’ party.
We need a party that will run working-class candidates across the country, launch bold campaigns, and do what it takes to win historic victories like free healthcare for all. We need leaders who will call for mass rallies, mass strike action, and mass civil disobedience. We need to demand that leaders take the average workers’ wage, like Kshama did for ten years on the Seattle City Council, and never sell out.
A workers’ party like this can only be built through struggle. We need to build mass movements around concrete fights: for political demands like free healthcare for all and shutting down ICE, and for workplace demands like a $30/hour starting wage and a 30-hour work week with no loss in pay. We need to unite the most militant sections of the labor movement, the socialist movement, and the unorganized working class around these demands, independent of the Democratic and Republican parties.
Kshama has pledged that she will turn her inauguration into a rally of 10,000 people to launch a fight to end U.S. military aid to Israel and for free healthcare for all. This would be an unprecedented opportunity for the whole socialist and workers’ movement to get organized and build fighting organizations — neighborhood action groups, militant rank-and-file committees in their unions, and revolutionary socialist organizations — that could form the basis for a new workers’ party capable of defeating the parties of big business.
Donate to Movement for Kshama today, and get organized with us to elect an independent socialist to U.S. Congress and to build a mass working-class party.