To successfully challenge Trump’s attacks, the movement urgently needs to take up clear, unifying demands, expand its reach, and escalate its tactics. In order to do so, the anti-Trump movement needs to break from the politics and structures of the Democratic Party and bring the broader working class into the fight, with the labor movement in the lead. Ultimately, we must fight for a program and strategy that goes beyond the framework of the existing capitalist system.
For many people, a strategy that relies on the Democrats and their institutions doesn’t resonate. This is a key reason why 50501 protests have leaned more towards the middle class, older, and whiter, and have struggled to involve the wider working class. Instead of relying on the courts or Democrats, the movement needs to use the protests as a springboard for further escalation—occupations, walkouts, and strikes. This is the type of action that worked in Trump’s first term, and history has demonstrated many times over that these tactics, which interrupt business as usual, are what is needed to win real gains for the working class. This is also the type of struggle that the Democratic Party, a party backed by the same billionaire class as Trump and the Republicans, are deathly allergic to.
OUR DEMANDS
No Deportations
No Money for War and Genocide
Fight Climate Change
End Attacks on Trans Youth
The Democrats are a Dead End
We Need a New System
The anti-Trump movement needs a program of clear demands to outline what we stand for, rather than only what we're against. Join Socialist Alternative to discuss what is needed to escalate the movement against the right!
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