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.
Democrats Deserved to Lose 1,000 Times Over - Fight the Rich & Their Two Parties
What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party elite.
Boeing Workers Vote to Continue the Fight: Escalation & Double Strike Pay Needed to Win!
Workers Strike Back stands in solidarity with the Boeing workers on strike, who have just rejected the company's latest offer by a supermajority of 64 percent.
Kshama Sawant’s Full Speech at the Jill Stein Rally in Seattle, WA
The Democratic Party is in full-on attack mode over our movement’s unapologetic support for Jill Stein’s antiwar, pro-worker presidential campaign and our steadfast opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
Join Jill Stein, Kshama Sawant, Abandon Harris activist Rizwan Samad, and Workers Strike Back on TUESDAY, 10/15 at Washington Hall in Seattle @ 5 pm Pacific or online! Organize to End the Genocide!
Jill Stein in Seattle — No Votes for Genocide! RALLY on Tuesday, Oct. 15
The Democratic Party is in full-on attack mode over our movement’s unapologetic support for Jill Stein’s antiwar, pro-worker presidential campaign and our steadfast opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
Join Jill Stein, Kshama Sawant, Abandon Harris activist Rizwan Samad, and Workers Strike Back on TUESDAY, 10/15 at Washington Hall in Seattle @ 5 pm Pacific or online! Organize to End the Genocide!
Antiwar Movement Rallies Around Jill Stein - A report from Workers Strike Back’s working-class antiwar rally at the DNC
On the night of August 20th, while Barack Obama gave remarks on the second night of the DNC, Workers Strike Back hosted a rally at Grace Church in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago around the slogan “Disrupt the DNC.” More than 200 working-class people from across the country gathered in-person, and more than 150,000 tuned in online to discuss a way forward for the antiwar movement and a strategy for the working class heading into November and beyond.
How Can We End the Genocide in Gaza?
◊ End the genocidal war on Gaza, the occupation, and all U.S. military aid to the Israeli state!
◊ Fully fund Medicare for All including gender-affirming care & abortion, and massively invest in high quality affordable housing for working people!
◊ Unions should call for a national one-day strike and walk-out of students and workers and build for a mass nationally coordinated protest against the genocide!
◊ No to Harris and Trump - build for the largest possible vote for Left antiwar pro-worker candidate Jill Stein, as a step towards a new antiwar party for the working class!
Working People, the Antiwar Movement & the 2024 Presidential Election
From the war on Gaza to the deep cost of living crisis facing working people, the stakes of this election could not be higher. Contrary to the mainstream media outlets portraying the choice in this election as between a “Marxist” and a “fascist,” both Harris and Trump are warmongering representatives of the billionaire class.
Hands Off 15! Workers Strike Back Speaks Out Against Seattle Democrats’ Attack on Our Historic Minimum Wage
Democrats and big business have made it clear they aren’t done trying to undermine Seattle’s hard-won, highest-in-the-nation minimum wage (currently at nearly $20/hour), despite the brutal ongoing housing affordability and cost of living crisis. We cannot let the City Council get away with any attack on our minimum wage victory!
If you are a rank-and-file union member, please consider putting this updated resolution forward in your union, as WFSE Local 889 members have already successfully done, and help us fight back!
UPDATED: Model Resolution to Defend Seattle's Historic Minimum Wage Victory - August 28, 2024
Democrats and big business have made it clear they aren’t done trying to undermine Seattle’s hard-won, highest-in-the-nation minimum wage (currently at nearly $20/hour), despite the brutal ongoing housing affordability and cost of living crisis. We cannot let the City Council get away with any attack on our minimum wage victory!
If you are a rank-and-file union member, please consider putting this updated resolution forward in your union, as WFSE Local 889 members have already successfully done, and help us fight back!
Kshama Sawant Speaks at the DNC Protests: No Harris! No Trump! End the Genocidal War!
The following is a transcript of a speech given by socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant on August 20, 2024 at a Workers Strike Back protest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago alongside Left independent antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein, which was attended by more than 200 working people in person, with more than 140,000 viewing online.
Union members WIN Workers Strike Back resolution to defend minimum wage victory - MODEL RESOLUTION
As Seattle Democrats prepare another attack on our historic minimum wage victory, the labor movement needs to wage a determined fight to defend it.
Workers Strike Back members and other rank-and-file union members successfully won a version of the below resolution in WFSE Local 889, a union of social service workers in Seattle, WA.
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.
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