Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.
Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.
For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.
The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.
The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.
There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism
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‘We are working-class women of color’: the long-shot socialist run for the White House
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END CAPITALISM BEFORE IT ENDS US Claudia/Karina campaign page
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The amount of mask off libs harassing my Arab partner and I today is fucking ridiculous
Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself sad.
Libs in the neighborhood group chat “mourning” the election but suspiciously silent when presented with a book club reading Fanon. Curious.
Also, I see you, one “organizer” in my tiny town. “As a descendant of displaced peoples”, “my child’s parent is trans”, “calling for the overthrow of the Hitlerite state is a privilege people with melanin don’t have”. My gay ass and my trans boywife didn’t vote for fucking Kkkopmala, what’s your fucking excuse?
See you at the book club.
She lost the popular vote, in what’s looking like a wider margin than John Kerry’s! Even Hilldawg won the popular vote by 2%.
She is the biggest Democratic loser since the 1980s. How do you fuck up that badly?
In a brave rejection of electoralism, the Harris campaign lost every swing state
I am loving the venom and haughtiness with which the libs are deflecting responsibility for their losses towards The Doubters among them, so ferocious in their denial. I see all their wretchedly entitled, fascist, smugnorant posts and I smile, knowing that for every seasoned tankie like you or I going
, there are a thousand newly-minted leftists reading it with searing rage as blue maga’s historical revisionism takes aim at them. Keep it up you tantruming nazi losers, keep making me more friends.
trying not to joker laugh in class as the phrase “They sent Ritchie Torres to Dearborn” rattles around my head with increasingly exasperated intonation
the people in my life most upset by trump as such tend to be the ones least directly impacted by his policies. i really do think it’s an aesthetic thing for a lot of middle class white libs. more upset by the holes he punches in soothing fantasies about lib democracy than most of the actual abuses his admin carries out. not to minimize the anxieties of comrades in higher risk groups ofc, there is a genuine wider range of domestic political violence under trump. and i realize this is a pretty worn out/cliche point in our circles at this point. but still, just thinking about different people i know’s reactions to Orange Man
Folks, let’s not lose sight of the fact that JOE BIDEN IS STILL PRESIDENT AND CAN STILL DIE IN OFFICE! KAMALA CAN STILL BE PRESIDENT
liberals when they lose an election
I really thought the race would be closer. I’m surprised that 15 million voters just didn’t show up for Kamala 4 years later. That’s like losing half of the voting blocks Pew Research define as outsider and progressive left. Absolutely abysmal campaign by the Democrats, and that’s pretty cool that many folks decided not to endorse their bullshit.
I’m sure trump will find an even more ghoulish appointment, but at least this smug asshole will be gone
The libs are scraaaaaaaaatched
Trump appoints RFK as head of the FDA. WHO declares avian flu pandemic the next day.
