Political crises of US capitalist rulers’ two parties deepen heading to 2024 – The Militant

[....]   Both parties fear deepening struggles by working people for things we need — higher wages, cost-of-living protection against the scourge of inflation, more effective health care, retirement pay we can live on, livable work schedules and more.

[....]   Republicans, Trump opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, making this part of his campaign for the party’s 2024 nomination. He hopes this will help position his party as “the party of the working class.” But the class character of any party is determined by which class it serves, not who votes for it. Both Democrats and Republicans loyally serve the U.S. imperialist rulers. Neither can nor will be bent to serve the interests of those the rulers exploit.

[....]   Broader political questions than the handling of classified documents or the debt ceiling lie underneath the mounting clashes between the bosses’ parties. Cracks in the imperialist world order put together by the U.S. rulers at the end of World War II are widening. Moscow’s war in Ukraine and the worldwide slowdown in production and trade are exacerbating antagonisms between Washington, Beijing and Moscow, as well as tensions between Washington, Paris and Berlin.

In this world, the Socialist Workers Party gets a hearing for its program and working-class line of march forward. The SWP explains that working people have to break from the Democratic and Republican parties.

“Workers need our own party, a labor party based on our unions to unite all working people and others exploited and oppressed by capital to advance the interests we share against the bosses and their parties,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey Senate, said Jan. 31.

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Political crises of US capitalist rulers’ two parties deepen heading to 2024 – The Militant