‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ – The Militant

‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ – The Militant

[….] “We’re not ‘socialists’ like the Democratic Socialists’ Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders,” Kuniansky replied. “What they’re doing is trying to draw more young people back into the Democratic Party,” which, she noted, is the oldest party of the U.S. capitalist rulers.

The SWP ran its own candidate for mayor of New York, Paul Mailhot.

“We’re not for a big welfare state,” which is what the Democrats advocate, she said. The SWP is “for jobs, good jobs and the union movement fighting for that. We’re for a public works program to provide jobs at union wages led by the union movement.

“We fight for cost-of-living increases in contracts so that your wages go up with inflation,” Kuniansky said. “We fight for jobs that pay a wage high enough to afford a family and have a schedule where you can spend time with your family.

“The working class is capable of acting in its own interests,” the SWP candidate concluded. “We put forward a course of action to fight” along a road for working people of town and country to come to power and end the evils of the capitalist system.