Oppose All Capitalist Candidates -- For a Class Struggle Workers Party

Oppose All Capitalist Candidates -- 
For a Class Struggle Workers Party

CSEW at immigration rights protest,
New York City, 2018.

The United Federation of Teachers is the largest union in NYC.   But to wage real struggle in defense of teachers, students, parents, and all school workers, we need to break the chains which bind the union's power to the capitalist Democratic Party.   While the leadership of the union (Unity Caucus) is pushing to endorse the "mainstream" Democrats (Biden & Co.) the MORE caucus (Movement of Rank and File Educators) is campaigning for "Labor For Bernie" (Bernie Sanders). 

At the December 11 UFT Delegate Assembly, the MORE caucus put up a resolution for more democracy, but they made it clear that they intend to stay within the framework of the capitalist parties: "....Be it resolved that the UFT will wait to endorse a presidential candidate until after members have had a chance to learn about the candidates through the first six DNC debates through December 2019."

In sharp contrast, CSEW-UFT's motion showed the way forward with a class struggle program that breaks from all the capitalist parties:

Motion for UFT Delegate Assembly

The issue we as educators face is not which Democrat (or Republican) to vote for – whether it’s Sanders or Warren, or Biden or Bloomberg, the Democrats are a party of Wall Street and have pushed every move to gut public education and resegregate the schools. While white supremacist Trump is in the White House, from L.A. to Chicago and New York, the bosses we face, who preside over mass homelessness and racist repression, are Democrats. To defend immigrants and all the oppressed, we need a real democratic discussion that includes the need to oppose all capitalist candidates, and build a class-struggle workers party.

Submitted:

Marjorie Stamberg, delegate  

Class Struggle Education Workers

December 11, 2019