This video from the USA says about itself:
Bernie Sanders: Many Think Hillary Is ‘Lesser Of Two Evils‘
23 May 2016
Bernie Sanders says that American voters would see voting for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in a general election as “the lesser of two evils.”
“That’s what the American people are saying,” the Vermont senator said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday.
By JOHN WOJCIK and MARK GRUENBERG in the USA:
AFL-CIO calls for a break with ‘lesser of two evils‘ politics
Saturday 28th October 2017
JOHN WOJCIK and MARK GRUENBERG report on how US trade unionists are considering founding a Labour Party as an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans
THE AFL-CIO convention in St Louis on Tuesday passed a political resolution that calls for a break with “lesser of two evil politics” but came up short when it comes to projecting a clear path to how that will be accomplished.
“The time has passed when we can passively settle for the lesser of two evils,” reads the main political resolution passed by the AFL-CIO convention delegates.
Lee Saunders, chair of the AFL-CIO’s political committee and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, introduced the resolution. They lead the labour federation’s two largest unions.
Convention managers yoked the resolution to another measure it also approved discussing a labour party, though not by name.
“For decades the political system has failed working people,” Weingarten said. “Acting on behalf of corporations and the rich and powerful, the political system has been taking away, one after another, the pillars that support working people’s right to good jobs and secure benefits.”
The two measures, adopted on October 24, followed a late Monday-evening meeting of supporters of reviving the Labour Party idea.
It attracted about 50 delegates to an upstairs meeting room at the convention’s lead hotel. Their contention: both the Democrats and the Republicans are under corporate domination.
The prime mover of a Labour Party motion at the convention, Postal Workers president Mark Dimondstein, has been calling for such a new formation since the passage of Nafta in 1993, which he said showed both Democrats and Republicans were in the pockets of the corporate class.
Dimondstein made many of the same arguments for a Labour Party on the convention floor that he voiced in the meeting the night before, when Baldemar Velasquez of the Farm Labor Organising Committee, Mark Dudzic of Labour’s Committee for Single Payer, and Donna DeWitt, former president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, joined him.
Meeting participants differed over whether the nascent party should first build an organisation and concentrate on issues, or get into political races, running the risk of becoming “spoilers” in the current political system, rigged in favour of the two existing parties.
“We had a vision to build a party of the working class. You have to have the labour movement at the table from the beginning,” of the effort “or you’re building sand castles,” Dudzic explained.
He was a leader in the original Labour Party effort of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Participants in the meeting agreed.
“We cannot build a party of labour when the working class is in retreat,” he added. The question was how to move forward.
“We have to crawl before we walk, we have to walk before we run and we have to run before we sprint,” one attendee, Professional and Technical Engineers president Greg Junemann, said.
Velasquez contended pro-Labour Party members should participate in electoral politics, but starting at the local and state levels. But all agreed, as he put it, the Democrats “are not doing us any favours, never have and never will.”
Several unions meanwhile drew delegates to another meeting off the main convention floor — a meeting of Labour for Our Revolution.
Seven national unions called on their member delegates to attend that meeting on Monday, across the street from the convention hall to, in their words, continue the movement that grew out of the Bernie Sanders challenge in last year’s Democratic primaries.
The unions that called that meeting were the Amalgamated Transit Union, the American Postal Workers Union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees, the Communications Workers of America, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, National Nurses United and the United Electrical Workers. They were joined by the Massachusetts and South Carolina AFL-CIOs.
The Our Revolution organisation they are backing claims more than 300 local chapters in the US and four state-wide chapters in Texas, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Maryland.
Communications Workers of America previous president Larry Cohen is the chair of Our Revolution and has been asking union leaders to become part of the local groups.
Rand Wilson, a leader in SEIU’s Local 888, is a steering committee member for Labour for Our Revolution. He explained at the group’s meeting that unions getting involved in Our Revolution gives labour the ability to influence it so it has significant focus on the working class.
“It also gives us the opportunity to organise our own members around broad, working-class issues,” he said.
The group is pushing a number of bills in Congress including Medicare for All and free college tuition.
The AFL-CIO is not actually pulling the plug on the Democrats, although its politics resolution, which doesn’t mention the party by name, is a clear warning to Democrats that labour support will not be taken for granted.
The labour leaders who introduced the independent politics resolution, Saunders and Weingarten, are both members of the Democratic national committee.
The main resolution declared that for the 2018 elections labour would “define a pro-worker agenda … to hold as a joint standard for all officials, regardless of party.”
That resolution also commits the federation to establish a communications framework to send the agenda to unions and their allies, “prioritise year-round member-to-member communication” and greater internal organising, mobilising non-union workers and opposing suppression of union, young, old, female and minority-group voters.
The Labour Party supporters at the convention made the argument that the massive grassroots mobilisation for the Democratic presidential primary candidacy of Sanders, and the later GOP triumph of Donald Trump — powered in part by defecting working-class voters in key Great Lakes states — “showed the working class is done with the status quo.”
Dimondstein made that point in both the upstairs session and on the convention floor. Sanders drew tens of thousands of union volunteers and many more union voters.
“We can’t take half a loaf, a quarter of a loaf, an eighth of a loaf, or even crumbs,” Dimondstein added.
He received applause when he pointed out on the convention floor that even when the Democrats gained total control of the presidency and Congress in the 2008 election, they not only didn’t follow through on labour law reform and other top progressive and worker priorities, but instead produced the Trans-Pacific Partnership “free trade” pact and similar measures.
“The Democratic Party was not delivering anything,” he said, “even when it had control of the White House, the Congress and the Senate.”
The Republicans entrenched union-busting, Democratic president Bill Clinton deregulated Wall Street, and Democratic president Jimmy Carter deregulated trucking, Dimondstein said.
Constructing a Labour Party, Dimondstein admitted, will be a long-range project and needs both community and labour support.
“What would be wrong would be to confine this movement” for a Labour Party “to the institution of the two-party system.”
“Continuing to follow the same model, expecting a different result, is not a solution,” a delegate from Vermont said in the meeting.
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Former DNC interim chair Donna Brazile just told the world what millions of independents and progressives already suspected. The presidential primary was rigged as far back as 2015, as then-chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz ceded all authority to the Clinton campaign. The DNC’s reliance on big money donors tipped the scales against progressives.
This proves why we must continue to fight against establishment politics. Make a $5 contribution to Our Revolution today so that we can stand up to the party insiders and corporate consultants.
Even after the 2016 election, the party continues to alienate progressives. Tom Perez, the current DNC Chair, just demoted supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Keith Ellison, including Our Revolution Board Member Dr. Jim Zogby, the only Arab American, from the Executive Committee.
The DNC’s preference for large campaign contributions over our revolutionary model of small-dollar donations goes against everything a grassroots organization is supposed to be about. We won’t have a chance against Republican extremism if our core values are compromised for campaign contributions. Progressives, independents, and a growing number of Democrats feel that the Party no longer works for them. That has to change.
The model of relying on people, not special interests is the way forward. But that only works if you keep supporting organizations and candidates that can change the world for the better. Contribute $5 to Our Revolution and help us get big money out of the Democratic Party and return power to the grassroots.
Power concedes nothing without pressure. We need to apply that pressure now more than ever.
In solidarity,
Nina Turner
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