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The Black Agenda Report has an article on the effort to organize a new
movement for a people's party https:
//www.blackagendareport.com/leftists-jump-corporate-democratic-ship-leaving-sanders-behind.
Nearly three-quarters of the 10,000-strong Los Angeles chapter of
Our Revolution<https://www.ourrevolution.com/>, the mass
organization birthed during Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid,
voted to leave the Democratic Party and join the Movement for a
People’s Party<https://peoplesparty.org/>, also founded
by operatives from Sanders’ 2016 campaign. In effect, Sanders’ most
committed supporters have refused to once again be sheep-dogged by
their mentor into the cemetery where U.S. social movements go to die.
Press release:
https://peoplesparty.org/our-revolution-los-angeles-joins-the-movement-for-a-peoples-party/
Note that, from what I've read of their platform, the organizers are not
explicitly advocating that people not vote for the Democratic candidate;
they could have but it's probably unnecessarily divisive. They inveigh
instead, trenchantly and in some detail, against the current party
duopoly and the present electoral process.
They invite all movements and individuals with beliefs similar to those
in their declared platform to join them.
They could move beyond (or with a section of) the DSA, seemingly
embroiled as it is in its impasse over electoral support.
This is a follow-on that has been looked for since 2016, as Sanders has
again endorsed the Democratic Party choice, just as he has always said
he would. He has a different agenda from his constituents from here on
out, which has always been implicitly tied to his role in the Congress
and his reelection by his diverse constituents in a money-driven
Senatorial campaign. So bye bye Bernie.
The move to organize outside the two parties begins now not after the
election, with a committed base with nowhere else to go but move ahead
of the irredeemably corporate, effectively dead two-party system.
This is well and good, of course, and maybe a necessary way-station, but
moving beyond the rigged electoral system to participatory democracy,
and the new system that entails, remains the priority.
*Our Revolution Los Angeles and the Movement for a People’s Party*
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**https://peoplesparty.org/*
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