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The
Kshama Sawant Re-election campaign has already made a huge impact in rocking the
corporate political establishment in Seattle, and it’s making waves across the
country. The affordability program we’ve put forward - calling for
things like rent control, affordable housing and increasing transit funding -
has gained a massive echo not just in Seattle but in cities across the country
where working people are being priced out.
This
is part of a national phenomena that has seen the massive growth of
support for candidates that run on a pro-worker program and are entirely funding
by working people, not corporations. Similarly, the growing openness to
the ideas of socialism as a way to fight back against the interests of
the billionaire class are being shown in both the campaigns of Kshama Sawant and
the momentum behind Bernie Sanders.
However,
both of these have also shown that the establishment is organized in their own
interests against the 99%. In order to fight this, we have to have an
organized socialist movement. Kshama Sawant’s success has been
precisely because she is part of this movement and has behind her an organized
force that has been able to beat back the corporate onslaught and win important
victories for working people. But before she ran for office,
she helped build an organization that made it possible to score these
victories, she joined Socialist
Alternative.
Solidarity.
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