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
Apr 14, 2025
At least half a million people attended over 1,000 protests across the U.S. on Saturday, April 5. Demonstrators held up signs supporting federal workers and postal workers. Some said, “Hands off” Social Security and Medicaid. Some attacked DOGE and Musk and called Trump a dictator. Some decried the brutal attacks on immigrants.
While the Democratic Party did not put itself forward as organizing the demonstration, nor on the hundreds of hand-made signs, Democrats clearly helped to organize the rallies and their leaders spoke at some of them. The Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin raised the issue of Trump and Musk being a dictatorship. The Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar raised the issue of the rule of law. A union leader called the current administration “the biggest assault on collective bargaining rights we have ever seen.”
Of course, it’s true that the current Republicans have acted like dictators, do ignore the laws, have attacked unions and immigrants. But the Democrats have done exactly the same thing, without the “Shock and Awe”! Joe Biden told the railroad workers they could not strike against their hours and hours of overtime. Barack Obama deported more immigrants than Trump—so far. Democrats Kennedy, Johnson, Truman, and Roosevelt dictated the U.S. population would be dragged into wars.
Protests can result in some protections against some attacks and alert the general population to existing dangers. But to stop the attacks requires a strategy beyond electoral solutions.
Granted, the Trump administration’s attacks are hitting hard and fast and are not evolving behind closed doors. But the Democratic Party has no answers to the problems facing the majority, whether we are born here or born elsewhere, whether we are in unions or colleges, whether we are black or white, or old or young.
Both parties defend the interests of the capitalist class. We need our own political program, one that fights for all of us, not for millionaires to become billionaires. We need an organized working class and we need a working class party.