Where we stand

Socialists support trade unions because they are the most elementary form of organization of the working class.

Rank-and-file organization is needed in unions to overcome the limits of the union leadership.

In the collective fight for reforms, ordinary people are radicalized and gain a sense of their own power.

The modern state is the state of the dominant class, and its main purpose is to secure the rule of that class.

The working class needs its own, democratic state--a state that works itself out of a job.

The U.S. political system creates an institutional arrangement whereby only two parties are presented as legitimate options.

Without its own political party, leaders and political representatives, the working class will remain subordinated to the Republicans and Democrats.

Since capitalism is an international system, the working-class struggle to overcome capitalism must also be international.

U.S. politicians and employers have always used anti-immigrant laws not so much to prevent the entry of all immigrant labor, as to control it.

U.S. intervention has to be opposed, whether it is in the name of humanitarian intervention, spreading democracy or defending the "homeland."

The countries that have masqueraded as socialist--from the former USSR to China and Cuba--turned the basic tenets of Marxism on their head.

Capitalism divides the working class, based on sexual, racial and national distinctions, with specially oppressed groups suffering the most.

The old saying of the Industrial Workers of the World, "An injury to one is an injury to all," is a crucial slogan for the labor movement.

Anyone who has ever gotten involved in even the smallest struggle knows that without organization, little can be accomplished.