Category: Forging Equality

Originally published on 10/17/2019 Mike Carano is a unionist and political activist in Tallmadge, Ohio Those demanding change must be pragmatic. First, we must organize and call for a national conference of unions and community and justice groups — local to national — to hammer out a two-fold program: a strong platform that takes on the systemic roots that created

Originally published on 10/16/2019 Regional Conference Cleveland, Ohio December 7, 2019 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Please join us in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 7 at a regional conference titled, “Break the Grip of the Two-party System: Labor & Community for an Independent Party.”  The conference is sponsored by Labor Education and Arts Project (LEAP) in cooperation with Labor and Community

Originally published on 10/16/2019 IN THIS DOSSIER: (1) Statement by Ujima People’s Progress Party in Support of LCIP (2) Call to Exit Both Parties of the Bosses — Interview with Brandon Walker of the Ujima People’s Progress Party (3) A Contribution to the Discussion: For Independent Black Political Action! — by Alan Benjamin (4) Statement by Clarence Thomas, Retired member

Originally published on 10/13/2019 Statement by Ujima People’s Progress Party in Support of Labor & Community for an Independent Party (LCIP) Nnamdi Lumumba, Organizer, Ujima People’s Progress Party, Baltimore, MD Since the launching of our campaign, the Ujima People’s Progress Party has called for the building of an alternate electoral option for working-class people. It has been obvious to us

Originally published on 10/7/2019 A Contribution to the Discussion, by Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone (editorial Board, The Organizer) To Fight Back, We Need a Labor Party Based on the Unions and Rooted in the Communities of the Oppressed That Fights For: HAYWARD, CA 4/13/11 — Students and faculty at California State University, East Bay, march to the administration building

Originally published on 10/6/2019 Message from APWU President Mark Dimondstein to the Eugene V. Debs Centennial Commemoration [Note: Following are major excerpts from a message sent to the Debs’ Centennial Commemoration, held in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 5-6, 2018, under the sponsorship of the Labor Education and Arts Project.] Dear Sisters and Brothers: I salute you for having this fitting

Originally published on 10/5/2019 by Labor Fightback Network (The following has been excerpted from a statement written by now-departed Labor Fightback Network founder Jerry Gordon that was adopted in August 2016 by the Steering Committee of the LFN.) As has long been the pattern of labor politics — with a growing number of dissenters among a number of unions and

Originally published on 10/5/2019 By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report The November 6 [2018] midterm elections put Democrats back in control of the U.S. House while strengthening the Republican hold on the Senate. … Although the GOP remains a minority party — Democrats outpolled them in House races by 7 percent to 9 percent — white supremacists remain the largest

Originally published on 10/5/2019 (Excerpted from longer piece published in LA Progressive on August 28, 2019) By Jim Lafferty The debate within the Democratic Party, and among Americans opposing the re-election of Donald Trump, over whether the party should nominate a candidate from the “moderate wing” or the “liberal wing” of the party, misses the much more critical debate that

Originally published on 10/5/2019 (Speech delivered in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 22, 2017. Phillips is a member of the Editorial Board of The Organizer) It’s an honor to represent Labor Fightback Network this evening. And it’s wonderful to see so many people here. What a strange time we are living in. On one hand is a blatantly open and direct