Campaign Literature—General Election


Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Campaign Committee
   
Flyer  8 1/2" x 11", Summer 2016.

Moorehead-Lilly '16
Abolish Capitalism - Black Lives Matter - Fight for Socialism  @wwp2016
WORKERS WORLD PARTY.org

To contact the campaign or to book the candidates to speak, call 917.740.2628. www.workers.org/wwp/ fb.com/WorkersWorldParty/ wwp2016@workers.org.

Open Letter to the Movement at the Democratic National Convention
Issued by the Moorehead/Lilly Workers World 2016 Election Campaign

When Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign by endorsing Hillary Clinton, millions of progressive people in the U.S. were left to ask, "Who could I possibly support now?" As the Republican Party ends its convention with all the appearance of fascism on the horizon, do progressives vote for Clinton in fear of a Trump victory?

We have another option. Join the movement for revolutionary socialism with our Workers World candidates, Monica Moorehead for President and Lamont Lilly for Vice President.

The oppressed and workers deserve our own candidates

As the most unpopular election in U.S. history plays out, the historic Black Lives Matter movement continues to heroically take the streets. This movement occupies headlines, highways, and police precincts across the country, demanding an end to police violence and mass incarceration. We will not allow the police and politicians to push back the movement.

Black Lives Matter activists, who are marching, shutting shit down, and challenging the militarized po­lice of white supremacy upon which capitalism is built, deserve their own candidates. Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and all the Black people murdered by racist police deserve their own candidates. Fennin Vincent Valenzuela, Melissa Ventura, Anthony Nufiez, Pedro Villanueva, and Raul Saavedra-Vargas, Latinos/as murdered by police, deserve their own independent, un-abashedly anti-racist candidates. The people of Iraq, Syria, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and everywhere else terrorized by U.S. imperialism deserve candidates in solidarity with them, not bombs dropping on their communities.

Monica Moorehead was in Ferguson, twice (include link). She has traveled the entire world, learning from peoples' struggles for national liberation, including self-determination, freedom from imperialist domination, and socialism. She has spent the majority of her life on the :frontlines as an organizer, journalist, and leader in Black freedom and workers' struggles.

Lamont Lilly spent time in Baltimore during the 2015 uprising following the police murder of Freddie Gray, helping to defend the militant youth and build the movement. He has traveled to Lebanon and Syria in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements abroad.

Together, their credentials make them infinitely more quali­fied than any other candidates to speak to the pain, suffering, and horrific oppression which is the global system of capitalism. They speak truth to power and never compromise with injustice.

We need revolution, not just a third party

Polls show that 60% of people in the U.S. voiced the need for a third party. Millions more mobilized by Sanders are now turning away from the Democratic Party and are open to new possibilities. Another poll of young people showed two-thirds were open to socialist ideas.

Since Sanders' endorsement of Clinton, the Green Party's Jill Stein has seen a rise in popularity. Stein's political program represents many of the major reforns that Sanders fought for. But her program goes beyond Sanders in some ways, essentially addressing left-wing Democrats and those who have shunned the "undemocratic" party.

It's likely that millions will vote for a progressive third party this year. No doubt, a progressive third party would be a historic step forward for the class struggle in the U.S. Many other third-party cam­paigns have been popular in the past, yet often their long­term vision of revolutionary change has been limited.

We believe that we need a revolution - a transfor­mation of the economy, the political system, and all of society, where workers and communities control their future. While building an electoral third party is helpful, building a revolutionary organization, working with broad social movements and guided by a clear perspective to bring on that revolution, is fundamental­ly more powerful.

Why is the Moorehead-Lilly campaign unique?

We encourage those who are looking for revolution­ary alternative candidates to check out our campaign, Workers World's 2016 Moorehead-Lilly Campaign. We have ballot access in a few states (New Jersey, Utah and Wisconsin) and are working on write-in status in nearly all states.

For the millions of.youth, incarcerated people, returning citizens, undocumented workers, and everyone who's not allowed to vote, we have Vote4Socialism.org. There everyone, including people from around the globe, can vote for our candidates.

Our 10-point program calls for reparations for Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples, for abolishing capitalism, opening the borders, shutting down the Pentagon and using the billions wasted on death and destruction to provide jobs, housing, education, health care, full rights for women and LGBTQ people, and a clean environment for all. Our whole program can be seen here www.workers.org/wwp/.

We are not in this election purely for votes. We are in this to build people's power - the power of a united revolutionary movement which will last much longer than November 8.

We want millions of people to know about our campaign and to think about how to really build revolutionary people's power during these bankrupt, corrupt elections. Please support our campaign. See you in the streets!