Kshama Sawant

I will be joining @briebriejoy live right now to discuss what working people will need to do after the midterm elections if we are to win anything: addressing the cost of living crisis, end the genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran, or win universal public healthcare.

The endorsement by Democrat Haley Stevens of Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat @AbdulElSayed exposes the true character of the Democratic Party. It’s not only @HaleyforMI who has more in common with the Republican Party. The Democratic Party as a whole has very much a shared agenda with the Republican Party. Together, these parties are the two most powerful political institutions of global capitalism. Both parties represent the billionaires and multimillionaires and their profit extraction, mass exploitation, genocide, and imperialist war. Both parties are completely hostile to working-class, poor, and oppressed people. DSA electeds like @DarializaforNY are peddling the illusion that there is any possibility that the Democratic Party would “[fight] for the things working class voters want.” The Democratic Party is viciously opposed to working people. Under Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden, the Democratic Party refused to use their majorities in the House and Senate to do absolutely anything for the working class, whether an increase in the federal minimum wage, universal public healthcare, canceling student debt, or taxing the rich to fund our needs. Instead, among other rotten actions, they carried out financial deregulation to help the rich make a killing in profits and ravage the lives of tens of millions of working and poor people in the Great Recession, carried out a horrendous anti-immigrant agenda, invaded multiple nations and caused the deaths of millions of people, and led the active support for the genocide in Gaza. “Democratic socialists” like Chevalier and "progressives" like El-Sayed do the dirty work of whitewashing the Democratic Party’s record, even including the worst Democrats like genocidal Kamala Harris and Hakeem Jeffries. El-Sayed fully embraced Harris on the Michigan campaign trail. Chevalier has shamefully refused to pledge to vote against Jeffries for House Speaker, and instead appears to be greasing the wheels publicly for a potential yes vote by romanticizing Jeffries as the first Black speaker and "bringing the speakership to New York." The working class cannot afford to fall for these lies again and urgently needs a party of our own.

Read this article by @wrkrsstrikeback cofounder @calvinpriest about why "democratic socialist" politicians like @MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson will keep selling out and why working people need a class struggle based fighting strategy. workersstrikeback.org/news-a… Seattle’s ruling Democratic Party, led by so-called “socialist” Mayor Katie Wilson, is proposing massive budget cuts for essential city programs for Seattle’s working class and poor, including a $65 million cut from funding for affordable housing, while at the same time putting forward an additional $68 million for the already massively bloated police budget. Join Workers Strike Back in the fight against these attacks at Seattle City Hall on November 5th at 4 pm to SPEAK OUT to stop Wilson and the Democratic Party's austerity budget. We demand: 💥Cut the police budget! 💥Raise the Amazon Tax to fund affordable housing and services that working people need! Wilson and her fellow Democrats are hell-bent on ramming through this budget. ALL working-class organizations and socialists have a responsibility to fight back and expose the role of “democratic socialist” politicians in defending the interests of the billionaires and their police. We need a new party for working people that is completely independent of the billionaires and multimillionaires and both the parties that represent them. In stark contrast with "democratic socialists," I used my decade-long position as a revolutionary socialist on the Seattle City Council to lead fighting movements to go to war against the Democratic Party and the billionaires and multimillionaires. Our movements won unheard-of victories, like the nation's highest minimum wage and defeating billionaires like Jeff Bezos to win the Amazon Tax.

Join @wrkrsstrikeback at our upcoming Seattle City Hall SPEAKOUT against the shameful new budget from @MayorofSeattle and @SeattleCouncil that will give more money to the already-bloated Seattle Police and slash funds from social services. Budget hearing on November 5th at 4 pm PT. RSVP: workersstrikeback.org/events… Self-described "socialist" Mayor of Seattle, Democrat Katie Wilson, is proposing a historic attack on working and poor people. Her first budget cuts $65 million from affordable housing and slashes much-needed social services, while adding ZERO new taxes on the rich. Wilson plans to raise the Seattle Police budget by $68 billion, making police spending a MAJORITY of the city’s general fund for the first time. This is a shocking betrayal, especially after Wilson ran as the "progressive" alternative to openly corporate, pro-cop Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell in the 2025 election. In truth, whether the Democrat in charge is outwardly in the pocket of big business or “progressive” like Wilson, they represent billionaires and multimillionaires as do the Republican Party. We need a new mass party for working people willing to fight both the Democrats and Republicans for our needs. Most immediately, Workers Strike Back is mobilizing working and poor people from throughout Seattle to SPEAK OUT and DISRUPT the business-as-usual of Wilson and Seattle Democrats at their next budget hearing on November 5th at 4pm. RSVP: workersstrikeback.org/events…

Solidarity with @DrJillStein and the antiwar movement! Drop the false charges against Jill Stein! On April 27, 2024, students at Washington University in St. Louis, and Green Party Presidential candidate and antiwar activist Jill Stein, peacefully protested against the horrific genocide in Gaza. Video of the protest shows the police assaulting the peaceful protesters, including an officer using a bicycle as a battering ram against Jill Stein and the students. Stein is now being falsely charged with assaulting a police officer and trespassing during the protest. This is blatant political retaliation, which in reality is directed against the antiwar movement as a whole, with the aim of making people afraid to protest. I demand that St. Louis County drop these charges on Jill Stein immediately. Stein in particular is being specifically targeted because she has had the courage to challenge both genocidal billionaire-backed protest parties in her campaigns for president. The Democratic Party in particular, which supported and funded the Israeli state's genocide and controls St. Louis County, wants to send a chilling message to anyone who would dare to challenge them like Stein has. If Jill Stein were to be convicted, she could face up to 18 months in prison. Students, working people, union members, and the antiwar movement must stand with Jill Stein. Demand that the false charges on Jill Stein be dropped immediately!

I am proud to endorse @samhusseini's campaign for the U.S. Congress. Sam is running independent of the two genocidal parties of the billionaire class as a Green Party candidate. Sam has shown a willingness to go to battle against the Democratic Party, and has already publicly and courageously confronted Democratic genocide purveyors like Senator Chuck Schumer and Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken. This is urgently needed if we are going to turn the tables on the political establishment and fight for a different kind of society. I strongly support Sam’s calls for an end to all aid to the apartheid Israeli state, for universal public healthcare, and to dramatically increase taxes on the rich.

Solidarity with Jane Doe and other survivors of rape and sexual violence. Solidarity with the protests on Cornell campus and other protests happening nationwide this week. What has taken place at Cornell is unspeakable, but it is part of an overall pattern of sexual violence that needs to be directly confronted. Rape, sexual assault, misogyny, and oppression are intrinsic to capitalism, and are used by the wealthy and privileged to exploit the marginalized with impunity. We need mass student and labor action in order to fight against sexism and exploitation. We demand: 👉 The Cornell Seven rapists must be arrested and convicted for the gang rape and other crimes, including in relation to their horrifying group text messages. 👉 An independent investigation must be conducted into all the sexual assaults at Cornell by a team that is elected by the protest movement and includes students, social workers, and rank-and-file union members. 👉 Similar elected independent investigation teams must be set up at all campuses with fraternities to bring to light rapes and other sexual assaults and cases of extreme bullying and hazing. 👉 Fraternities must be banned from all campuses nationwide. Studies have found that fraternity members are three times more likely to rape than other male students. 👉 Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff must resign. Kotlikoff and the entire Cornell administration must be investigated for their utter inability and refusal to take campus sexual violence seriously. A 2025 survey found that about one in three women at Cornell have reported experiencing sexual assault. 👉 Unions on Cornell campus, such as the United Auto Workers, the Communication Workers of America, the Teamsters, and the Cornell Graduate Students must call for a one-day strike and campus shutdown, and escalate further if needed, in order to help win these demands. The Democratic and Republican parties represent the interests of the rich and powerful, and uphold the oppressive and sexist system of capitalism at all costs. We need a new independent party of the working class that fights against all forms of oppression. Such a party would be a historic step toward what is urgently needed: a revolutionary struggle to overthrow the capitalist system, which breeds violence, rape, and oppression, and replace it with a socialist world.

.@voguemagazine has just published an article calling for frat houses to be shut down. It contains some shocking statistics: "Do frats, and the men who join them, have a monopoly on predatory behavior on campus? Absolutely not. But a 2007 study found that frat brothers are three times more likely to rape than other male students; and in a 2025 survey at Cornell University—where seven fraternity brothers have been accused of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old student (and sorority member herself) in 2024—roughly one in three women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at the school." vogue.com/article/when-will-…

The Democratic Party in Seattle, led by so-called “socialist” Mayor Katie Wilson, is proposing massive budget cuts for crucial city programs, while at the same time putting forward an additional $68 million for the already massively bloated police budget! Join me and @wrkrsstrikeback at a speakout at Seattle City Hall tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th, at 4pm. We demand: 👉 Slash the police budget! 👉 No cuts to the public services working people rely on, which are being dramatically underfunded while the ultra rich make historic profits! 👉 Raise the Amazon Tax to massively expand affordable housing and fully fund education and other services! RSVP to attend the speakout: workersstrikeback.org/events… Wilson's budget would be a huge 14% increase in the police funding, dramatically higher than increases by former Mayor Bruce Harrell. The massive funding increase to the police is a blatant betrayal of the Black Lives Matter movement. The proposed budget also includes a $65 million cut from funding for affordable housing. Media reports indicate that some departments facing cuts include Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle Department of Transportation, the Office of Sustainability and Environment, and the Office of Civil Rights, all of which are vital for the needs of working people in this city. This is more evidence of the fact that the Democratic Party is a thoroughly pro-billionaire, anti-worker party, just like the Republican Party. We need leaders who are independent of both these rotten parties, leaders who will go to war against big business and the political establishment. That is the approach I took in my 2014-2023 decade on the Seattle City Council. I used my elected position to lead movements of working people to defeat the Democratic Party over and over again to win victories like the highest minimum wage in the nation, the Amazon Tax, landmark renters' rights laws. My City Council office was, unfortunately, a unique example in our times, which is why I co-founded the national organization of Workers Strike Back, to continue the fighting strategy I used in my office by launching mass movements and mobilizing working people. Join me and Workers Strike Back, at a speakout at Seattle City Hall tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th at 4pm. We demand: 👉 Slash the police budget! 👉 No cuts to the public services working people rely on, which are being dramatically underfunded while the ultra rich make historic profits! 👉 Raise the Amazon Tax to massively expand affordable housing and fully fund education and other services! RSVP to attend the speakout: workersstrikeback.org/events…

Solidarity with WA State Ferries workers in the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) union in their fight for 20 percent raises! MEBA members operate, maintain and repair the engine rooms of Washington State Ferries. Democratic Governor Ferguson and the Democrat-dominated State Legislature have put forward a stunning ZERO-PERCENT-raise contract! MEBA members are fed up and angry. @wrkrsstrikeback and I stand in full solidarity with their sickouts! Public sector workers everywhere are facing the brutal impact of budget shortfalls that have been engineered by the Democratic and Republican parties who refuse to tax the rich. In Washington State, this means public-sector workers have been offered ZERO PERCENT raises across the board after two years that saw a 6 percent inflation rate and the billionaires and multimillionaires massively increasing their wealth. MEBA members have also been fighting to close a shocking 20-percent wage gap with comparable industry jobs for nearly a decade, so the recent ZERO-PERCENT-raise contract adds insult to injury. MEBA members are going on the offensive with sickouts. This is setting an example of the kind of fightback that the labor movement needs. Unfortunately, the leadership of most labor unions have refused to lead any kind of fight against the attacks on workers. The leadership of the Washington Federation of State Employees accepted ZERO-PERCENT-raise contracts this year without organizing any significant action against this rotten deal. Rank-and-file union members will need to organize around fighting demands and strategies and overcome the obstacle of union leaders who refuse to fight.

I will be speaking tonight alongside @ClarissaRedwine and @js_tan_ about their new book, Against Tech Oligarchy! Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Elliott Bay Book Company 1521 10th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122 RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/js-tan-clar… We will talk about the strategy needed for tech worker organizing and for the labor movement, the antiwar movement, and the fight against the AI billionaires.

The University of Michigan administration is spending a shocking $850 million to build a data center for nuclear weapons research. Join @wrkrsstrikeback, antiwar activists, and working people organizing against these data centers! Protest on Thursday, October 1, 2026 4:30 PM-6:30 PM Ann Arbor Marriott at Eagle Crest in Ypsilanti 1275 South Huron Street Ypsilanti, Michigan, 48197 Workers Strike Back is mobilizing to demand that U-M end all funding to the nuclear weapons data center project in Ypsilanti. We need to disrupt the business-as-usual of both the U-M admin and the Democratic and Republican parties in Michigan. We need mass action against these data centers, including mass civil disobedience and strike action. We demand: 👉 Stop the U-M Data Center! No Funding for Weapons of Imperialist War! 👉 Tax the Billionaire Tech and Energy Giants - Fund Affordable Housing, Free Healthcare, and All Our Needs! 👉 Take Big Tech and the Major Energy Companies into Democratic Worker Ownership!

Join us for the Workers Strike Back National Zoom Meeting! Starting now!

Join grocery workers like Oscar at their antiwar and pro-union protest rally at 12 noon today in Seattle! Rally and picket with grocery workers and union members! Columbia City PCC in Seattle Fight to defend our rights & fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people!

TODAY, Sunday September 27th at 12pm PT: Rally and picket with grocery workers and union members at Columbia City PCC in Seattle to defend our rights & fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people! RSVP here: workersstrikeback.org/events… Grocery workers in Washington state have been taking a stand against Israel's genocide in Gaza and state-sanctioned settler violence in the occupied West Bank by wearing union watermelon pins to work. The watermelon is a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, since it was first used in 1967 after the Israeli state took control of Gaza and the West Bank and prohibited the Palestinian flag from being displayed in public for more than two decades. Recently, workers at the Seattle-area grocery stores of the PCC Community Markets have been sent home early from their shifts for wearing pins with the watermelon symbol, and also pins with the Palestinian flag. The PCC bosses have claimed the pins were “too political” to have at work. The UFCW 3000, which is Washington state’s largest union and represents grocery workers, including those at PCC, created union pins with the watermelon symbol in response to this retaliation by PCC management. Since then, numerous workers across multiple stores have worn these union pins to stand not only with the Palestinian people, but also with their fellow union members facing attacks from the bosses. Under national labor law, workers have a right to wear their union’s pins on the job. Despite this, the bosses went even further by egregiously firing a worker at Seattle’s Greenlake Village PCC for continuing to wear the pin, continuing to say the pins were "too political". The bosses don't hesitate to violate labor law when it is in their interests to do so, and they are shielded by the Democratic & Republican parties, both of which serve the bosses. The only way for us as workers to defend our rights and to win major improvements in our lives is to get organized and take collective action to fight the bosses and their political servants. #seattle #palestine #solidarity

Workers Strike Back, @wrkrsstrikeback, is at the NYC protest against genocidal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin @netanyahu. Netanyahu needs to be arrested for war crimes. Netanyahu and the Israeli state are only able to carry out apartheid, a brutal occupation, and a genocide because of the political and military support from the Democratic and Republican parties, both of which serve the war-profiteering billionaires and multimillionaires. The antiwar movement needs to break from the Democratic Party in order to be able to achieve any breakthroughs. We need a new antiwar party for the working class.

Democratic @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani promised during his campaign that he would arrest Netanyahu if he set foot in NYC. Since then, Mamdani has abandoned this promise, and recently announced that he will not be joining the protest campaign against Netanyahu. Instead, under Mamdani's leadership, the NYPD is arresting antiwar activists protesting Netanhayu. This is a horrific betrayal of the antiwar movement and the Palestinian people. Mamdani also re-hired Zionist and billionaire heir Jessica Tisch as NYPD Commissioner and endorsed Governor Kathy Hochul for re-election and Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries for U.S. House Speaker, both of whom are arch Zionist Democrats. The strategy of putting faith in the Democratic Party or in DSA's elected Democrats is a dead end for the antiwar movement. @wrkrsstrikeback is calling for a new antiwar working class party. - Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes! - End all military aid to Israel! Permanent arms embargo on Israel now! - End the genocide in Gaza and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands! - Build an independent antiwar working-class party!

Stand With Gaza and the Occupied West Bank! Israel has continued murdering Palestinians in Gaza and has ramped up violence in the occupied West Bank. Join us to hear directly from Palestinian activists on the front lines of the struggle against apartheid. @wrkrsstrikeback National September Meeting Sunday, September 27th 12 noon PT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET Join over Zoom OR RSVP to come to our in-person meeting in Peoria, Illinois or Milwaukee, Wisconsin. workersstrikeback.org/events… Featured speakers: Manal Tamimi: Executive director of the Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee - West Bank Gamaal El Attar: CEO of the International Federation for Rights and Development @BeIfrd - Brussels

It’s a beautiful thing to see ALL of @edsheeran’s opening acts — @finneas, @LukasGraham, and Aaron Rowe — as well as Sheeran's own backing band, Beoga, dropping out of his tour because of his capitulation to the Zionist billionaires. This international public shaming for Sheeran’s lack of courage and siding with wealthy promoters against Palestinian solidarity could not be more deserved, especially for someone who owns $400 million. It’s a victory for the antiwar movement that Sheeran’s tour is actually at risk of closing down because working and young people expect at least a modicum of courage from him in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. This is the type of public shaming that is urgently needed against the DSA electeds in the Democratic Party who purport to be pro-Palestinian but instead are giving cover to the the pro-genocide agenda of their party and Zionist leaders like Hakeem Jeffries.

It’s the height of hypocrisy for @AOC to say she'll boycott @edsheeran given her endorsements of genocidal politicians like @RepJeffries, campaigning for @KamalaHarris, and supporting Iron Dome weapons funding for Israel. But AOC empathizing with Ed Sheeran is unsurprising given that both of them have made it clear that their personal careers are much more important to them than using their internationally prominent positions to stand up against the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. In reality, the sellouts by @AOC are even worse, as an elected representative of the Democratic Socialists of America. If AOC had decided to use her elected office to fight the genocidal, anti-worker Democratic Party, she would have antagonized the party leadership but a majority of working people would have agreed with her. She could have combated establishment opposition by building mass movements of working people to support her, as I relentlessly did during my decade on the Seattle City Council. The cowardice and complicity of @NYCMayor Mamdani and AOC is what history will remember, along with the cover given to them by the DSA leadership. They claim to be pro-Palestinian but support genocidal politicians to ensure their own comfortable careers in the capitalist Democratic Party.