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To Howard Dean on Leaving the Democrats |
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Written by Joe Lang of the Twin Cities CMPL
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Monday, 17 June 2013 15:35 |
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Mr. Dean,
Your recent announcement that you may have to become an independent if the Obama administration’s sequestration budget gets passed sent an uproar through the news community and blogs across the internet. This bit of news has not gone unnoticed by those of us at the Campaign For a Mass Party of Labor (CMPL). We are of the belief that the two major parties are far more interested in the interests of big business, and believe the facts speak for themselves...
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CMPL Supporter Tom Trottier's Contribution to the Labor Party Blog |
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Written by CMPL
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Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:23 |
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Labor Party Time? A New Blog Initiated by Former Officials of the Labor Party |
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Written by CMPL
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Sunday, 23 December 2012 08:40 |
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Labor Party Time? (A Contribution to the Discussion) |
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Written by Mark Dudzic & Katherine Isaac
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012 00:14 |
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 We republish here an article by Mark Dudzic and Katherine Isaac, both active in the Labor Party in the 1990s and early 2000s (as National Organizer and Secretary-Treasurer respectively). It gives an overall picture of the movement for a labor party in the 1990s, and the conditions that contributed to the party's formation. The article correctly points out the need for an independent political party of the working class and the need for such a party to be based on the resources of the labor movement. As the authors explain: "We would be hard-pressed to identify a period of U.S. history where the need for a labor-based political party was greater than it is now." The CMPL couldn't agree more!
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Written by Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Thursday, 06 December 2012 19:06 |
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Click here and here for pages one and two of a newsletter by the Utah CMPL which was distributed at the Salt Lake City Walmart protest.
Walmart protesters demonstrate for better wages, benefits
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Demonstrators gathered outside a Salt Lake Walmart store and Walmart stores across the nation Friday to protest what they believe are low wages, poor benefits and bad treatment of employees.
"They don't get full-time hours, they don't get any benefits, they don't get decent wages, they can't live on their wages. … I mean it's miserable conditions," said Michael Broumas, a member of the Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor.
He was among about 30 people who protested outside of a Salt Lake Walmart near 300 W. 1300 South, in conjunction with a union-backed group called OUR Walmart. The Utah chapters of the Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World also attended the protest.
OUR Walmart claimed it was holding an estimated 1,000 protests in 46 states. The exact number was unclear. Walmart refuted that estimate, saying the figure was grossly exaggerated and that the protests involved few of its own employees.
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The Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor is thrilled to see a broadening of the discussion on the need for a U.S. labor party with the launching of this new blog. With "lesser evil" austerity bearing down on the American working class, the need for such a party has never been more urgent. 
In order to win political power, a labor party must have as its base the entire labor movement or a least a very significant part of it. However, this does not exclude the fact that a “non-mass” labor party, provided it has some support from sections of the labor movement, could play an important educational role and help to build support for a mass party. This would mean the party would have to engage various political and social movements and would need to run candidates in some elections. We might not expect to win at first, but we could use the campaigns to build broader support as workers (both in and out of unions) could hear a different political perspective to the two big business parties. What might start as protest votes could be built into something larger in some areas. As the party grows, the dead-end of the present policy of the labor leaders would mean more debate opening up in the unions among the rank and file about what labor should do in elections.