Source: CounterPunch
by Jeff Mackler
“With zero exceptions, not a single fighting social movement has emerged within the framework of US capitalist politics. Indeed, the Democratic Party has an unbroken record as the graveyard of all social movements. History has demonstrated with a vengeance that only a massive, independent, democratic working class-led and controlled movement is capable of bringing forth critical social, economic and political change. A starting point in the US today would be a qualitatively expanded fighting democratic trade union movement that enters the political arena in its own name, with its own candidates and fights at the point of production against the bosses and in the political arena.” (08/28/24)