We must rebuild the workers’ movement from below, from bottom to top, so that it can confront and beat the bosses and transform government.
- The American labor movement will only be rebuilt through the initiative and the activity of rank-and-file workers. We must recreate the fighting spirit and bonds of solidarity that can make working people the leading force in building a more democratic and egalitarian American society. And make unions a political power once more.
- Workers need democracy in the workplace, in the union, and in society. Free and fair elections in unions form one part of those rights, but workers also need the power to control their unions on an on-going and day-to-day basis. Workers need leaders accountable to them. Workers need elected and recallable workplace representatives who fight for them day-in-and-day-out.
- Workers will only be able to confront and stop management abuses such as wage-cuts, increases in health care costs, forced over-time, workplace discrimination and undignified treatment when they are prepared to use their economic power and political power.
- The rebuilding of the labor movement will take a working class upheaval from below in the forms of strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and mass confrontations with power to rebuild the power of unions.
- Working people cannot make significant advances as long as they have no political party of their own and remain trapped in the Democratic and Republican parties.
