Here is the plain and simple truth: there is no party of the working class. And there has not been for the better part of a century.
The only choice we have been offered in elections is between the Republicans, a party that speaks openly for the big banks and the big industrialists – and the Democrats, a party that, while it gets some of its money from the unions, acts for the big banks and the big industrialists. In other words, the choice is between an open enemy and a false friend – both of them defenders of the capitalist system, enforcers of exploitation.
The working class needs its own party, built around the conviction that the working class and the employing class have nothing in common
– in the words of the IWW.
That's never been more true than today. The capitalist class has engaged itself in a great war, a class war against all of us who do the work necessary to make this society run. Up until now, it has been a very one-sided war: workers have not found the way to join together in a common struggle against our enemies – against the bankers, the big industrialists and the politicians and governments that serve the capitalists.
But we could. We don't need saviors to come defend us. We have the forces to defend ourselves. We make the whole economy run. Not only can we make it stop running, in order to defend ourselves. We have the power to create a new society and to run it in a way that can serve ourselves and all of humanity.
The pages that follow provide information on some people who have worked to put forward these ideas by taking advantage of elections to discuss with working people.