the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Aug 9, 2024
The Working Class Party of Michigan has nominated its candidates for the 2024 election. In 2016, when the party was formed, there were only three candidates. Today, there are 15.
Two candidates are on the ballot in every district in the state: MARY ANN HERING, running for State Board of Education, and SUZANNE ROEHRIG, for Wayne State University. Board of Governors.
Seven candidates are running for Congress in districts where more than half the state’s population lives: LIZ HAKOLA in the 1st District; LOU PALUS, 3rd District; KATHY GOODWIN, 8th District; JIM WALKOWICZ, 9th District; ANDREA L. KIRBY, 10th District; GARY WALKOWICZ, 12th District; and SIMONE R. COLEMAN, 13th District.
Six other people are running for State Representative positions: MARK DaSACCO, District 2; LARRY DARNELL BETTS, District 3; LINDA RAYBURN, District 7; LOGAN AUSHERMAN, District 8; HASHIM MALIK BAKARI, District 13; and LINDA GREEN-HARRIS, District 16.
The Working Class Party of Illinois collected signatures to put ED HERSHEY on the ballot in Illinois. He is running in Illinois’s 4th Congressional District. This is the second time Ed has run as the WCP candidate for Congress in Illinois.
In California, where election law is so reactionary and restrictive that it is almost impossible for a new party to get on the ballot, people who want to see the working class build its own party have done the work to put JUAN REY on the ballot in California as an independent candidate, a worker running for Congress in California’s 37th District. Juan ran in the March multi-party primary and came in second, giving him a spot on the November election ballot.
All of these candidates come from the working class, they want to see their class build its own party.
These candidates know that we won’t change a society so terribly destructive as this one through an election. For that, a social fight spanning large parts of the working class is necessary. But this election can show just how many people are fed up with the situation capitalism has created, it can show how many want to see their own class organize its own party.
The program on which these candidates are running is on the following page.