Vote Socialist in 2004! Support the campaigns of Leonard Peltier, Roger Calero and John Parker!

With elections coming up again a lot of politically conscious people are hitting the pavement to campaign for their candidates. Voter registration drives, leafleting and yard sign distribution have become the order of the day for many activists.

Many progressives, from anti-war activists to trade unionists, and going all out to beat President George Bush in November. They point to the attacks on working people, huge unemployment, and occupation of Iraq and the Patriot Act as reasons we all need to get behind the “Anybody But Bush” bandwagon.

But is John Kerry any better? He supported the war with Iraq, and supports the occupation. He supports the Patriot Act, Plan Columbia, Ariel Sharon’s “settlement plan”, the campaign against Hugo Chavez, free trade, and the continued dismantling of social welfare. And he has won the endorsement of over 200 billionaires and multi-millionaires, which raises doubt about how much he on the side of working people!

We in Socialist Action refuse to support candidates like Bush and Kerry, who are bought and paid for by big business. We believe working people need their own party, and their own candidates. That’s why we support the idea of a Labor Party.

However, the November elections are coming up, and we have no Labor Party yet in this country to campaign for. But, fortunately there are several working class candidates that we feel are worth supporting. We have endorsed three socialist election campaigns, and urge you to vote for one of them, depending which is on the ballot in your state: Leonard Peltier of the Peace & Freedom Party, Roger Calero of the Socialist Workers Party and John Parker of the Workers World Party.

Sure, these campaigns are small, but by supporting them we’ll be able to register our support for working class politics, and our rejection of the politics of big business. It’s important for people to vote for what they stand for. As Eugene Debs once said, “I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it, than vote for something I don’t want and get it.”

Electing John Kerry won’t stop the war on working people at home and abroad. Only mass social movements in the street have the power to do that. Don’t get sucked into the shell game of lesser evil politics. Register a protest vote for working class politics, and instead of wringing door bells for multi-millionaire candidates who support war, recommit yourself to organizing. Join the anti-war movement, the labor movement, the abortion rights movements, and all of the other social movements that are our best bet of defending ourselves against whichever Republicrat occupies the White House after November.