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CPUSA Online - Editorial: Eye on the Prize
A broad multiclass, multiracial movement is converging around Obamas Hope, change and unity campaign because they see in it the thrilling opportunity to end 30 years of ultra-right rule and move our nation forward with a broadly progressive agenda.
Notably, the labor movement has stepped up its independent mobilization for this election. It is leading an unprecedented campaign to educate and unify its ranks to elect the nations first African American president. Last week, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka told the Steelworkers convention that there is no evil thats inflicted more pain and more suffering than racism and its something we in the labor movement have a special responsibility to challenge.
If Obamas candidacy represented nothing more than the spark for this profound initiative to unite the working class and defeat the pernicious influence of racism, it would be a transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term.
The struggle to defeat the ultra-right and turn our country on a positive path will not end with Obamas election. But that step will shift the ground for successful struggles going forward.
One thing is clear. None of the peoples struggles from peace to universal health care to an economy that puts Main Street before Wall Street will advance if McCain wins in November.
Lets keep our eyes on the prize.
Communist Party....USA
A broad multiclass, multiracial movement is converging around Obamas Hope, change and unity campaign because they see in it the thrilling opportunity to end 30 years of ultra-right rule and move our nation forward with a broadly progressive agenda.
Notably, the labor movement has stepped up its independent mobilization for this election. It is leading an unprecedented campaign to educate and unify its ranks to elect the nations first African American president. Last week, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka told the Steelworkers convention that there is no evil thats inflicted more pain and more suffering than racism and its something we in the labor movement have a special responsibility to challenge.
If Obamas candidacy represented nothing more than the spark for this profound initiative to unite the working class and defeat the pernicious influence of racism, it would be a transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term.
The struggle to defeat the ultra-right and turn our country on a positive path will not end with Obamas election. But that step will shift the ground for successful struggles going forward.
One thing is clear. None of the peoples struggles from peace to universal health care to an economy that puts Main Street before Wall Street will advance if McCain wins in November.
Lets keep our eyes on the prize.
Communist Party....USA
