Houston DSA is ready to continue the fight. Let's get to work.

John,

The fight continues. 

Donald Trump's election is an inarguable catastrophe for working, marginalized, and oppressed people. Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party establishment, whose allegiance to the capitalist class renders them incapable of delivering meaningful change, are squarely to blame for the ascendance of the extreme right.

As democratic socialists, we refuse to be limited by the Democratic and Republican factions of the ruling class. We understand that only a mass movement of the working class can fundamentally change our lives for the better.

Our task now, as always, is to organize — both to oppose Trump's dangerous agenda and to build the mass working-class movement that can deliver meaningful change for working people and defeat the far-right once and for all.

Houston DSA is ready to get to work. Join us Saturday on Zoom for our next chapter orientation, where new and potential members join us to learn about our local chapter and how to get involved. Then, Thursday the 14th is our next general meeting. More info on both events is below, and read on for our full statement about the election results.

Solidarity,

Jose V. and Dan D.
Co-Chairs, Houston DSA

Houston DSA statement on 2024 election results

The fight against Trump and the Republican Party’s renewed assault on working, marginalized, and oppressed people continues. 

The right wing agenda laid out in Project 2025 and supported by Trump and his allies seeks to strip away millions of Americans’ human rights by banning abortion, criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare, and deporting millions of our fellow workers. While the ruling capitalist class profits from exploitation and imperialism, their charlatan will animate racism, sexism, transphobia, and nativism to divide and conquer.  

As President, Trump will govern for the benefit of his fellow billionaires, such as Elon Musk, to abuse and exploit workers by abolishing the National Labor Relations Board to reverse workers’ rights and union wins.

The blame for Trump’s win lies with the Democratic Party. Trump and his vile movement could not have achieved their goals without the complacency and accommodation of an opposition increasingly beholden to billionaire donors and corporate interests. The Democrats’ hostility to any popular reform that would threaten ruling-class power or corporate profits has demobilized the multi-racial working class that has always led the fight against Trumpism. 

The far right attack on trans rights accelerated under the Biden administration. Both Biden and Harris campaigned on restricting refugees, militarizing the border, and mass deportations to fulfill the wishes of the first Trump term.  

Harris proudly proclaimed the support of war criminals like Dick Cheney and silenced opposition to a hawkish, belligerent foreign policy that funnels billions and billions of dollars to weapons manufacturers who sow death and destruction abroad.

There is no clearer nor more catastrophic example than the Biden administration arming Israel with US-made weapons to commit genocide against the Palestinian people, while supporting violent repression of the Palestinian liberation movement at home.

By abandoning any semblance of support for the working class in favor of billionaires and corporations, and through its indefensible support of genocide abroad, the Democratic Party disillusioned many otherwise anti-Trump voters and lost an election that should have been a clear refutation of the dangerous and unpopular far-right.

Houston DSA will continue to work towards building an independent party by and for the working class. As socialists, we know that capitalism is incompatible with true democracy, and that no president or political party beholden to the capitalist class is capable of addressing the mounting crises facing the world today. As democratic socialists, we know that workers deserve the world — and it is our duty to fight and win.

That’s why Houston DSA has spent the last eight years fighting for the entire working class. It’s why we’ve helped flood the streets for Palestine. It’s why we organized against privatization of our public schools. It’s why we led efforts to pass democratic reforms to Houston’s city charter, to win misdemeanor bail reform,  and why we knock doors to elect socialists to office. We know electing Democrats or Republicans won’t get us trans rights, free abortion on demand, a Green New Deal, or Medicare for All — only mass movements of the working class, organized in our jobs, our streets, and our schools, can do that.

Our power is collective power. Despair is a luxury we cannot afford.

Are you ready? Join us.

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