Independent Political Action

We are for a mass working-class party that contests elections and builds movements. To legitimately represent the working class, such a party must be born out of a level of class struggle and unity far greater than exists today. To do so, we need an oppositional electoral strategy that remains completely independent from the Democratic Party apparatus. 

At the same time, we can maintain tactical flexibility on the question of what ballot line socialists run on. In certain cases it also makes sense for us to endorse class struggle candidates who are not socialists but whose campaigns advance key parts of our platform. Such campaigns can help build class consciousness and polarize (and eventually split) the Democratic Party coalition.

Candidates running as socialists should serve the movement, never the other way around. Socialist politicians should act as organizers for the socialist movement and as popularizers of our ideas first, and as legislators second.