More than ideas here. My question, who is forming a workers' party? How do you do it if you're not a billionaire? What workers/unions are engaging progressive billionaires (there are some in the USA?) to fund such a party, locally? statewide? nationwide? How long does this take? People need action that is more than protest signs.
Think of all the new workers (voters)from Starbucks to Automakers to Manufacturing, and Meat Producers. This voter segment forgotten by Democrats and Republicans.
Make sure Class is in the name, for we are, and always will be, in a class war. The 1% will never, ever, stop trying to gain more power, and thus, more wealth for itself. We have to have that same mindset.
Interesting that in NYC, Cuomo, the longtime Democrat, is trying to be the spoiler. Wonder if he will get the Nader label or if hypocrisy will rein like normal.
We don't have to use a scary name like "Workers Party" or anything that would bring on a barrage of panicky propaganda from the MSM. We're the majority, but college professors and MDs are becoming de facto industrial employees, too. Why not a broader appeal?
I perked up at Howard Dean's claim he was "from the Democratic (or democratic) wing of the Democratic Party." I thought it was about time the party remembered its own roots. That last Dem party process for selecting a presidential candidate, along with the practice of weighted superdelegates, makes the name "Democratic" a cruel irony.
I was involved with the Labor Party as founded in 1996 by Tony Mazzocchi who was from the OCAW union. (Les, you know, but few now do.) It fell apart; in part when he died in 2002. So then another warning about depending on charismatic leaders. Also, dogmatic leftists, like in the '30s, came early and stayed late. Their theoretical claims began to outweigh our practical ones and their gift for rhetoric--they had their points down and could go on and on--tended to drown out the rank and file. Let's not make those mistakes again.
We can assert we are the REAL Democratic party. By acting democratic, and by saying we're sure people can decide what's best for them given accurate information with the excellent kind of training Les and the unions have done. By an agenda that was once the D party's pride: the New Deal, with its successful economics. Plus what FDR asked Congress for in his 1944 State of the Union address. 1.) a tax on unreasonable profits corporate and personal 2.) no exorbitant war profiteering 3.) a cost of food law. Then he proposed what's now known as The Economic Bill of Rights. Among them: The Right to a useful and remunerative job. The Right of every family to a decent home. The Right to adequate medical care. The Right to a good education.
When the Rs oppose this (and they will,) so much for their phony populism. The Ds will be disoriented--what would they do? Deny their most popular President? Go with their corporate sponsors? They'll have to form an alliance or lose even more. Vote the Real Democracy Party!
More than ideas here. My question, who is forming a workers' party? How do you do it if you're not a billionaire? What workers/unions are engaging progressive billionaires (there are some in the USA?) to fund such a party, locally? statewide? nationwide? How long does this take? People need action that is more than protest signs.
Collective Bargaining Workers Party.
Think of all the new workers (voters)from Starbucks to Automakers to Manufacturing, and Meat Producers. This voter segment forgotten by Democrats and Republicans.
These workers are ripe.
The IWCP. Independent Working Class Party.
Make sure Class is in the name, for we are, and always will be, in a class war. The 1% will never, ever, stop trying to gain more power, and thus, more wealth for itself. We have to have that same mindset.
Interesting that in NYC, Cuomo, the longtime Democrat, is trying to be the spoiler. Wonder if he will get the Nader label or if hypocrisy will rein like normal.
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We don't have to use a scary name like "Workers Party" or anything that would bring on a barrage of panicky propaganda from the MSM. We're the majority, but college professors and MDs are becoming de facto industrial employees, too. Why not a broader appeal?
I perked up at Howard Dean's claim he was "from the Democratic (or democratic) wing of the Democratic Party." I thought it was about time the party remembered its own roots. That last Dem party process for selecting a presidential candidate, along with the practice of weighted superdelegates, makes the name "Democratic" a cruel irony.
I was involved with the Labor Party as founded in 1996 by Tony Mazzocchi who was from the OCAW union. (Les, you know, but few now do.) It fell apart; in part when he died in 2002. So then another warning about depending on charismatic leaders. Also, dogmatic leftists, like in the '30s, came early and stayed late. Their theoretical claims began to outweigh our practical ones and their gift for rhetoric--they had their points down and could go on and on--tended to drown out the rank and file. Let's not make those mistakes again.
We can assert we are the REAL Democratic party. By acting democratic, and by saying we're sure people can decide what's best for them given accurate information with the excellent kind of training Les and the unions have done. By an agenda that was once the D party's pride: the New Deal, with its successful economics. Plus what FDR asked Congress for in his 1944 State of the Union address. 1.) a tax on unreasonable profits corporate and personal 2.) no exorbitant war profiteering 3.) a cost of food law. Then he proposed what's now known as The Economic Bill of Rights. Among them: The Right to a useful and remunerative job. The Right of every family to a decent home. The Right to adequate medical care. The Right to a good education.
When the Rs oppose this (and they will,) so much for their phony populism. The Ds will be disoriented--what would they do? Deny their most popular President? Go with their corporate sponsors? They'll have to form an alliance or lose even more. Vote the Real Democracy Party!
The problem has always been the difficulty of the
Blue Collar // Intelligencia collaboration.
It is the huge separation au current .
Labor cannot rule on its own .
Sure we have heard it all before .
If it was not for Beer;
Construction & Factory workers would rule the world.