US Labor Party Statement on Midterm Elections

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"The More Things Change

"The labor movement played a crucial role in this upset.
As always, they provided the ground troops, and untold
tens of millions of dollars, that made the victories
possible. More importantly, the passion and
commitment of the activists who worked on the campaigns
gave substance and credibility to a Democratic Party that
had long ago run out of any real ideas. But one doesn't
need a crystal ball to predict that nearly all of the hopes
and dreams of the activists who made this incredible election
victory possible will be betrayed before the next round of
cherry blossoms bloom on the National Mall. Past experience
should tell us that the new Congress will do nothing to
confront the impact of the growing concentration of
corporate power on the lives and aspirations of
working people. Refreshing as the election results may
seem, working people will soon be reminded that the
Democratic Party, as well as the Republican, remains
dominated by corporate interests.

"Although minimum wage and anti-war ballot measures passed
in numerous states, more fundamental challenges to
corporate power such as California's Clean Money and Fair
Elections Act (Proposition 89) did not prevail. "Across
the board, the biggest winner on Tuesday in California
was big money," said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director
of the California Nurses Association, which sponsored
Proposition 89. This bi-partisan commitment will
continue to bring accelerated globalization,
outsourcing and plant closures, declining real incomes
and no end in sight to a failing health care system. Working
 people will remain stuck in the political wilderness
with no one to speak for our needs and aspirations. And
we will remain in that wilderness until we find a way
to build a party of our own to confront the corporate power
that continues to control the political agenda of both parties.

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