In recent years, many of the gains won by earlier struggles have been dismantled. Union membership and benefits have dwindled. Welfare is gone. Social Security is on the chopping block. Affirmative action and the right to abortion are being whittled down.
Public education is under attack.
The Pentagon is intervening more around the world. Workers World Party has always stood for the independent political organization of the workers and oppressed. It calls on all progressives to break with the Democratic Party and build a real opposition to capitalist politics. Recession means class struggle Even in the recent period of prosperity, social programs were cut back. Now the system has entered one of its periodic downturns.