Fight for a socialist Appalachia, where democracy and prosperity are shared in kind by a healthy people and a healthy environment.
We work within all the avenues available to us, and that includes elections. This is not out of a desire to legitimize a system with several issues, but out of a desire to win real concessions for people, to expose the contradictions in the capitalist economic system, and importantly to prevent fascists from getting into office and enacting their agenda.
Their biggest fear is a united working class able to challenge the reign of capital. No worker, including white workers, has a material interest in maintaining such a system.
Continue to investigate the success of the Working Family Party in Philadelphia as a third party that achieved independence and viability in a Democratic Party stronghold.
For a truly just and equitable healthcare system.
Consider an addition to the party’s program to include the fight for DC Statehood as a special component struggle in the general fight for democracy in the United States.
Building the party in this socialist moment amidst an imperialist crisis and fascist danger shapes how we approach our work while using Marxism-Leninism.
As communists, we should think of voting as a strategic act, and vote in a way that affords us the space to rally the working class on the political terrain of our choosing.
While Biden’s support of genocide in Gaza is abhorrent, this doesn’t mean that allowing a Republican to win would be better for the world.
Insisting that fascism is already here, or the Democratic party is fascist, or that Democratic party voters are voting for fascism, is to disarm workers against the fascist threat.