What we stand for

This site is dedicated to exploding the myth of “American democracy,” and to the proposition that real democracy cannot be attained through the Democratic and Republican parties, controlled as they are by a small elite minority of billionaires, whose interests they serve. Until there is a new party, genuinely controlled by majority—the working people and their allies, including oppressed ethnic minorities, the unemployed, the retired, and those who work as unpaid domestic partners, the power of the people can be expressed only through mass action–protests, demonstrations, strikes, labor and community organizing. Such action can only be effective if remains outside and independent of the Republican and Democratic parties, which are but two sides of the same counterfeit coin—the negation of democracy, parties of privilege, of inequality, of corruption, of the corporate elite.  

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the massive protests against the Vietnam War, the demonstrations for women’s rights, the United Farmworkers organizing campaign, and the Black Lives Matter movement of recent years have all pointed the way for democratic mass action. In order for these and similar movements to achieve lasting gains going forward, however, they must create durable mass organizations that cannot be derailed into the swamp of capitalist party politics. Such organizations, along with a revitalized labor movement, can form the basis for a new political party.

The movement must not advocate or condone violence.  Violence as a tactic by the popular movements only plays into the hands of the capitalist state apparatus, which will always use such violence as justification for repression. It opens the door for provocateurs. The democratic movement must make clear to the world its opposition to violence, while at the same time it must make every effort to protect its ranks from violence initiated by the minority that now holds power.