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USA : It Is Not Our Election But Their Election

12 November 2016, 09:00

The only time workers have expressed ourselves in the elections is when the candidates who ran were workers themselves, people who were linked to struggles and used the elections to express what workers wanted to say. For example, Eugene Debs, a railroad worker, ran for president in 1912. Then workers could vote for someone who had led strikes and struggles and who stood on the side of working people. He was a leader of the Socialist Party, which had over a 100,000 members, and he got almost one million votes. This is what we need today – a party of fighters of the working class.
We don’t have a party like this now, or even the beginnings of one. Only in a few places are worker candidates even running for office. It is important to remember that the movements of the 1930s and 1960s began with small struggles, and grew to a huge wave of actions. This is possible today. Workers make up the majority of the society. We are the ones who produce all the goods, provide all the services and make the society run. We have every right and every reason to have our own political party.

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