Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor...that's right....a Socialist running for Detroit mayor...be still by beating heart.....
• For socialism and the political independence of the working class! Break with the Democratic and Republican parties!
If the working class is to fight for its interests, it must break resolutely with the trade unions, including the United Auto Workers, which is headquartered in Detroit. These organizations—trade unions in name only—have for decades collaborated with the corporations in the destruction of jobs and wages. Their alliance with the Democrats and defense of the capitalist system has produced a disaster for auto workers and the working class as a whole. The SEP calls for the formation of independent rank-and-file committees to carry forward the struggle.
The economic crisis has exposed not only the failure of a set of polices, but of an entire economic and social system—the capitalist system, based on private ownership of the productive forces and the profit motive.
There can be no solution to the crisis facing Detroit without the political mobilization of the working class on a national and international level against the capitalist system. Capitalism is a global system and it is in the midst of a global crisis. Workers must unify internationally in struggle for their common interests.
The alternative to capitalism is socialism, the democratic control of the productive forces in the interests of social need. If the working class is to advance its own solution, it must build its own political party based on a socialist perspective.
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from his campaign statement
see post below for link to full article
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=395x474