Two Socialist Workers Party (SWP) candidates have filed as independents, also known as unaffiliated, candidates for the 8th District congressional and U.S. Senate general elections on November 5th.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Both candidates are bracketing with SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit, the alternative to President Joe Biden (D), former President Donald Trump (R), and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (I).
“The future of humanity depends on the U.S. working class taking power away from the capitalist rulers and starting down the road to make a socialist revolution,” Fruit said in a statement.
Kuniansky filed 1,687 signatures (800 are required), while Sherman filed 255 signatures (100 are required).
The Socialist Workers Party candidates’ platform includes defend constitutional freedoms, claiming the New York grand jury convicting Trump in 34 felonies needs to be challenged.
“Overturn the guilty verdict against Donald Trump on frame-up charges brought by Democrats. Whatever they do to Trump — a candidate of one of the bosses’ parties — the same and worse will be done to workers and our unions,” the group said, also calling for breaking from Democratic and Republican norms in favor of a labor-based party.
That also includes building solidarity with workers from various fields, such as flight attendants, nurses, and railroad workers to fight for better wages and conditions.
The SWP also wants to “fight Jew-hatred,” particularly hoping “for the defeat of Hamas to prevent more pogroms,” backing Ukraine after being invaded by Russia, and ending the “U.S. government’s decades long economic war against Cuba’s socialist revolution.”
They also want to see amnesty for all immigrant workers in the United States.
