Letter: Revolutionary Masses in the Americas

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By Kevin Nance
Wednesday, 10 June 2009

But the main problem is the leadership. We have mostly elected center-left, reformists who are ultimately defenders of capitalism into office, when the people of the Americas need more.

The United States of America is in many ways the best example of such revolutionary masses with the wrong leadership. With the conditions presented to them, Americans are beginning to become more class conscious. Class consciousness is knowing what class you are in and how to make things better for yourself and your peers. The seeds of class consciousness are being sown though, which is unusual in the U.S.A., at least in recent years, but great sign. People are beginning to see that electing officials that are in bed with the corporations of America is a bad idea.
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We need fundamental change in the U.S. and across the Americas. This means breaking with the capitalist system altogether. We need to have a party that offers real change, not just the appearance of it. America’s workers needs candidates who are not afraid to take their side, who are not afraid to challenge the corporations. We need a mass party of labor, by and for the working class, that will stick with what it says and follow through with it. This party would run on a platform for the workers.

Our candidates can be neither Democrat nor Republican because both are so entwined with their respective counterpart. Our candidates must have the interests of the majority in their minds and in their hearts. Our candidates must be direct representatives of the working class and everything the working class stands for. Our candidates must be directly accountable to those that elect them. Our candidates must have a truly new way forward, a break with the horrific capitalist past and present of America. We need Labor candidates for working people. We need candidates that fight for socialist ideas.
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Kevin Nance, Philadelphia, PA

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