End the Genocide in Gaza!
Stop the Deportations and Shut down the Detention Centers!
Send Socialist Kshama Sawant to U.S. Congress!
Workers Strike Back members will be campaigning against the dangerous escalation of the war in the Middle East, and canvassing in Washington state’s ninth Congressional District to help build the nation’s strongest antiwar, anti-genocide, pro-worker election campaign in the nation.
We will be campaigning using the End the Genocide in Gaza Petition and Flyer
This campaign is extremely crucial because Kshama is the only independent anti-genocide candidate running for Congress. She is also running to stop deportations and shut down the detention centers. She is running as an independent socialist against warmongering Democrat Adam Smith, who has not only voted to give tens of billions of dollars for the Israeli state’s genocide in Gaza, but is also now cheerleading Israel’s assault on Iran. Adam Smith also voted to create ICE, which is a further reminder that the movement to stop deportations can’t afford to have illusions in the Democratic Party, either.
We urge all WSB members, regardless of which city you are in, to table using the petition and flyer, and tell working people about Kshama’s campaign. We have received strong support in every city nationally where our members have been campaigning. Help build the movement to send the socialist money can't buy to Congress!
Please send a photo of filled out Petitions to solidarity@workersstrikeback.org
Trump’s Dangerous Escalation Could Mean Further Carnage In the Middle East —
Trump’s threats to directly join the Israeli aggression against Iran are extremely dangerous.
The war with Iran has been instigated by the Israeli state with the full backing of U.S. imperialism and both the political parties — Republicans and Democrats — that represent the interest of Wall Street and the billionaires.
Israel’s war on Iran, and its genocide of the Palestinian people, would not be possible without the tens of billions of dollars of military aid to Israel, approved by both Republicans and Democrats.
Workers Strike Back stands in solidarity with immigrant community members and working and young people who are fighting back in Los Angeles and nationally against these vicious workplace raids, individual abductions, and mass deportations by ICE and the Trump administration.
Strikes, Boycott of Weapons Transportation, and Civil Disobedience Needed to Force an End to All U.S. Military Aid to Israel and to Stop the Deportations of U.S. Immigrants
We need mass strikes and mass civil disobedience to defeat Trump's horrendous agenda of deportations. We need protests in the hundreds of thousands across the country, in every city, to stop the mass deportations. Trump says this is disorderly — he hasn’t seen anything yet.
Candidate for U.S. Congress and Independent Socialist Kshama Sawant speaks at an anti-ICE protest in Seattle on Wednesday, June 11th.
Rank-and-file union members should organize for strike action because shutting down the profit machine is what can force Trump, the Republicans, and the Democrats to end military aid to Israel. This is the only language the billionaires and their political representatives understand.
French & Italian dock workers are refusing to load ships with weapons for the Israeli military. This is exactly what American port workers & the ILWU longshore workers' union leadership in the United Staes should be organizing to end the genocide in Gaza.
The working class DOES have the power to end the genocide, and this is how. Through workers internationally shutting down the genocide machinery — by not allowing one more arms shipment to go to Israel.
Unfortunately, most labor leaders are too closely tied to the Democratic Party and are reluctant to go up against the billionaires by calling for strike actions.
In the absence of this leadership, rank-and-file union members should organize for strike action because shutting down the profit machine is what can force Trump, the Republicans, and the Democrats to end military aid to Israel.
Workers Strike Back members around the country campaiging against the Genocide in Gaza and for Kshama Sawant for U.S. Congress
Adam Smith Has Blood All Over His Hands
War hawks like Kshama's opponent, Democratic Congressmember Adam Smith, have blood all over their hands, and are currently aiding and abetting Trump’s saber-rattling on Iran. Smith and his fellow pro-genocide politicians should not only be booted out of office. They should be on trial.
Adam Smith is bought out by billionaires and the Zionist lobby, and has repeatedly voted to fund the genocide in Gaza. His biggest donor last year was the Zionist pro-genocide AIPAC. He voted in favor of George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Act in 2002, which created ICE. He’s bankrolled by Palantir, which contracts with ICE. Smith and the Democratic Party have paved the way for Trump’s attacks on immigrants and working people.
Workers Can’t Have Illusions in Progressive Democrats
Most progressive Democrats are also complicit in the genocide.
They failed to fight against the genocide under Biden, and now they're failing to fight Trump.
Scandalously, both Pramila Jayapal and Bernie Sanders voted in 2021 to give the Israeli state a billion dollars for Iron Dome. Far from being a “defense” mechanism, Iron Dome is part of the U.S.-funded apparatus that allows the Israeli state to carry out mass slaughter of the Palestinians with impunity.
We Need International Working-Class Solidarity
We need a new party for working people. Working people can’t afford to have illusions in any capitalist parties or regimes, whether it is in Iran or the United States or in Israel. That’s why we are calling for international working-class solidarity to end the genocide and now to fight to stop the war with Iran.
No matter where the bombs land, it will be working people and poor and oppressed communities whose blood will be spilled and whose families will be ravaged. Already, nearly 400,000 Palestinians have been massacred in the genocide in Gaza.
The bosses in every nation have a spin machine that uses the ideas of national pride and patriotism in order to mask the most important division under capitalism — class.
That spin machine is in overdrive right now, though it is a perpetual one under capitalism. We need to be clear: as workers, no matter what country we reside in, working people’s enemies are the rich, not other workers, regardless of where they reside.
Join the Kshama for Congress Campaign!
Workers Strike Back members have voted overwhelmingly to back Kshama Sawant’s working-class, antiwar, anti-genocide campaign for U.S. Congress against warmonger Democrat Adam Smith.
The working class is getting nowhere by supporting the parties of the billionaires. Instead, let’s send the socialist money can’t buy to U.S. Congress!
No War With Iran & End the Genocide in Gaza — No Military Aid to Israel, No Occupation
Stop the ICE Raids and Deportations, and Shut Down the Detention Centers
Free Healthcare Now — Tax the Rich
We Need Rent Control — Make Corporate Landlords Pay