If we hope to change America’s domestic and foreign policies, we will need to build powerful labor and social movements. We will also need to create a political party which is the expression of those movements.
Rebuilding the Power of the Labor Movement
We must rebuild the workers' movement from below, from bottom to top, so that it can confront and beat the bosses and transform government.
Rebuilding the Social Movements
We will not be able to achieve a more just society unless we build the social movements, above all the labor and civil rights movements. Power yields nothing unless confronted with a demand for justice. Only through a powerful social movement engaged in strikes, protest demonstrations, marches, civil disobedience and the confrontations that force power to succumb to justice will be able to make the United States a more democratic, egalitarian, and just society.
Independent Politics
We need an independent, progressive party with an anti-corporate agenda that can be the expression of the social movements and the needs and desires of the American people.
To see my thinking about some of these issues, see these articles:
