The Socialist Workers Party is running a national slate of candidates for office, joining union struggles, defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for the Jews and fighting to unify the working class, as it presents a working-class road forward to take political power.
Unlike the Democrats, Republicans and other parties that defend capitalist rule, the SWP does not start from a set of ideas.
It presents conclusions drawn from relations of class exploitation that workers experience every day; from ongoing battles between the working class and the employers; and from the rich lessons of these struggles that show the interests of our class are incompatible with theirs.
Since the industrial working class emerged over two centuries ago, it has continuously sought to check competition among workers by joining together to form unions. It’s driven to fight for protection from the bosses’ relentless drive for profits, from periodic capitalist crises and to oppose the rulers’ wars over markets, resources and domination.
These struggles convince growing numbers of workers that our class needs to organize independently of the bosses and their political parties and that all political questions are class questions.
The communist movement arose out of recognition that the line of march of the working class to defend its interests leads toward ending capitalist rule and bringing our class to power. V.I. Lenin’s leadership of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 and Fidel Castro’s leadership of socialist revolution in Cuba in 1959 pointed the way forward for vanguard workers worldwide.
The vanguard of the communist movement is organized today in the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Their members explain what can be done to build parties capable of leading millions to establish workers power in the course of the battles ahead.
In contrast, politicians like New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani urge workers to depend on reforms that leave the capitalist rulers on top and on rebuilding the Democratic Party, one of the two historic parties of the U.S. capitalist class.
Workers need a course that points in the opposite direction, one that strengthens confidence in our own worth and ability to unite and to fight.
From its founding, the communist movement has pointed to the interests that workers share in common with fellow workers worldwide. It’s open to all workers, no matter where you were born or your nationality. It speaks out unequivocally against all attempts by the rulers to draw working people behind their interests abroad and preparations for more wars. It champions struggles against Jew-hatred, racist oppression and women’s second-class status.
To advance those struggles effectively and to be part of carrying them through to their necessary conclusion, you should join the Socialist Workers Party.