The candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are the only voice in the 2026 elections that champion workers’ struggles for a better life in the face of the rulers’ attacks at home and speak out against their bloody wars abroad. Everywhere they go SWP candidates act along the lines explained by Russian revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin in What Is To Be Done? A socialist, Lenin wrote, is a “tribune of the people, who is able to react to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears.”
The SWP spreads the word about union struggles and organizes solidarity. It condemns and campaigns against all restrictions on workers’ ability to defend ourselves, like the April 14 editorial in the Washington Post calling for a nationwide ban on the right of public school teachers to strike.
SWP candidates join actions to defend Jews from violent assaults, which are on the rise today. They explain that Jew-hatred is used by the ruling class to point away from the real roots of the crisis we face — dog-eat-dog capitalism. The poison of Jew-hatred will be the banner of reactionary forces the capitalists unleash to try to crush the working-class movement when they fear their rule is threatened.
SWP candidates join actions against the deportation of workers without papers and champion the fight for an amnesty for all immigrants in the U.S. The bosses and their government use the pariah status of immigrants to impose lower wages, worse conditions and other indignities on them. Then they turn around and move to inflict those same conditions on all of us. The fight to defend immigrant workers is a life-and-death battle for the unions.
SWP campaigners explain that capitalist rule is the root cause of racial oppression, another tool for the bosses to divide the working class. Mighty gains were won in the civil rights battles of the 1960s, but Blacks still face discrimination and racist attacks.
Women’s oppression has been a key feature of every society in human history since the birth of private property, including capitalist rule today. It’s reflected in the lower wages that bosses pay women, the lack of affordable child care and the highly profitable drive by the owners of the “beauty” industry to lure women into undergoing “rib remodeling” and other surgeries.
SWP campaigners explain that workers have common class interests with working people worldwide. And that Washington’s wars are carried out for plunder and domination to further enrich the very same class that is putting the capitalist crisis on our backs at home.
At the center of the party’s 2026 campaigns is explaining the SWP is the peace party. As the crisis of capitalism deepens, the propertied rulers are driven to rearm, compete and prepare for new wars to redivide the world. This is behind Washington’s war in the Middle East, the latest step in the capitalist rulers’ march toward a third world war and nuclear catastrophe.
SWP candidates explain this can be stopped. All political questions are class questions. To advance our class interests and of all those victimized by capitalist exploitation, workers need to break from the capitalist parties — the Democrats, Republicans and any others that pop up — and build a party of our own. A party that organizes and educates the working class for our historic task, to replace capitalist rule with a government of our own. A party that is working class in program and composition. A tested leadership must be built out of today’s struggles to lead working people in their millions to take political power into our own hands.
With the working class holding political power, we can take control of the factories, fields and banks and reorganize society from top to bottom to meet the needs of the vast majority. That’s what workers and farmers in Cuba accomplished under the leadership of Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement.
That’s why Washington has been determined for over 65 years to overturn the Cuban Revolution. But working people in Cuba are ready to defend their revolution, arms in hand. SWP candidates build protests to demand, “U.S. hands off Cuba!”
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