After Kshama’s historic campaign, on to the next fight
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by Justin Bare, Kshama for Congress campaign manager
After a year of intense campaigning, we won the highest ever vote, by far, for a revolutionary socialist candidate for Congress, with 17.3 percent of voters in the district choosing Kshama. We achieved this despite the myriad obstacles and maneuvering by the Democratic and Republican parties. This was an absolutely historic campaign.
Through this campaign, we spread the incredible history of how Kshama used her position on the Seattle City Council to win major victories for working people. We need more political leaders who are willing to take this approach if we are going to have a shot at turning the tide against the billionaires and their political servants in the US and around the world. And we need to continue to expose the gatekeepers who betray working people and hold back movements by tying them to the Democratic Party.
VICTORY: Democrats withdraw their shameful attack on Seattle workers
Under pressure from Workers Strike Back and Seattle’s working people, Democratic Party City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth has been forced to WITHDRAW her shameful bill to undermine our historic minimum wage victory. The bill would have created a permanent lower-tier minimum wage for over 200,000 workers in our city, immediately robbing them of at least $3/hour starting in January.
What arethe lessons from this victory?
Model Union Resolution to Defend Seattle's Historic Minimum Wage Victory
The Seattle City Council is considering legislation from District 3 Democratic Party Councilmember Hollingsworth to make a lower-tier minimum wage permanent, robbing over 200,000 workers of their right to the full minimum wage. We cannot let the City Council get away with this because this won’t be the last attack. The labor movement needs to fight to defend the gains we have won in wages, renters’ rights, and taxes on big business.
If you are a rank-and-file union member, please consider putting this resolution forward in your union, and help us fight back! Contact Workers Strike Back for more information.
Workers Strike Back endorses Jill Stein at Inaugural Zoom Conference — Report
On Sunday, July 21, Workers Strike Back held its Inaugural National Zoom Conference, attended by more than 300 working people from around the country, to discuss the path forward to end the genocidal war on Gaza–including the crucial question of what working people should do during this year’s Presidential election to oppose the warmongers in the Democratic and Republican Parties.
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