Union and Progressive Leaders Launch Organizing Committee for a Major New Party

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Washington, D.C. — Following a meeting in the nation’s capital, they have formed a 29-person organizing committee with representation at the highest levels of American labor to lay the groundwork. Today the committee released this statement of intent:

"We, the undersigned unionists and activists, met on February 24 and 25 in Washington D.C. to discuss the next steps to a labor-based party. We unanimously concluded that Americans need a major new party rooted in labor, the struggles of working people and communities of the oppressed. We hereby constitute ourselves as the Organizing Committee of the Labor-Community Campaign for an Independent Party for this purpose.
In the wake of the Gilded Age of robber barons and monopolies, unions and community groups organized mass strikes and social protest movements, and banded together in independent parties that led to landmark progressive reforms, from child labor laws to the eight-hour work day, from food and drug regulation to Social Security. They came close to establishing a major party for working people.
In the midst of this second Gilded Age of big finance and tech corporations, labor and community are uniting again to finish what they started. Together we will build an independent party of and for working people that can achieve the landmark advances of the early 21st century, from Medicare for all to free public college, from an end to mass deportation to the abolition of police violence against Black and Brown communities, from a Green New Deal to a federal jobs guarantee, from full labor rights to budgets that fund social needs at home, not wars and interventions abroad.
Our decision to form this organizing committee is rooted in two groundbreaking resolutions adopted by the AFL-CIO at its October 2017 national convention. The first affirms that, “whether the candidates are elected from the Republican or Democratic Party, the interests of Wall Street have been protected and advanced, while the interests of labor and working people have generally been set back.” The resolution also affirms that whether “labor’s candidate wins or loses the election, the results for labor and the 99% remain fundamentally unchanged.” The second resolution concludes that, “the time has passed when we can passively settle for the lesser of two evils politics.”
The implications of those statements are urgent and profound. Accordingly, our Organizing Committee will pursue two intertwined objectives: . ."

https://www.forapeoplesparty.org/organizing-committee/

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