Many people are rightly horrified by the election of Donald Trump, which will mean renewed attacks on immigrant, Transgender, Indigenous, Latinx, and Arab/Muslim communities and other oppressed groups. But the outcome of this presidential election was far from inevitable. The Democratic Party ran an unpopular candidate who abandoned working class voters, which led to the crueler face of capital coming into leadership for the next four years.

The Democratic Party and Biden’s administration failed to address the people’s needs in an election that largely became about the economy, and dismissed key constituents while increasing funding to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Their complacency caused the second Trump presidential term just as it caused the first – the right fills the vacuum left by their failures. The Democratic Party is unsuited for progress and we must build the alternative.

As socialists, it’s up to us to stop the descent into barbarism by building an organization by and for the working class. The rightward trajectory of both capitalist parties shows that we need an alternative to the future of war, militarism, and oppression on offer to us– a socialist alternative rooted in the struggle for liberation. The time is now. Join us in the fight for the new world.

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