Needed: A Working Class Party
What are the first steps to build one?
September 20, 2026— The Democrats came into this election thinking they would turn the population’s growing anger with Trump into a vote for themselves.
And there has been anger—about inflation, about the war on Iran, about gas prices, about tariffs, about a trade war with Canada—even about Trump’s new plaything, a monster ballroom, for which he tore down almost a third of the White House.
For almost a year, polls show anger eroding Trump’s support, going lower than ever before.
But there is a fly in the Democratic Party’s ointment. In some polls, its numbers are even lower than Trump’s. John Anzalone, a pollster who works for the Democratic Party, had this to say: “The Democratic Party brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to criticize Trump and the Republican Party.”
The fact is, big parts of the population are fed up, really fed up, with both of the two big parties.
With good reason. Those two parties, Democrat and Republican, direct a political system that is stacked against ordinary people.
The big majority of the population did not want this war against Iran. But we have it.
The majority of the population did not want U.S. money going to pay for wars in the Middle East and in Africa. The majority did not want money going to keep a war continuing between Ukraine and Russia.
But money was spent anyway. Under Obama, under Biden and under Trump, money was taken from schools to be spent on war.
The big majority of the population do not want a trade war with Canada, throwing the U.S. into conflict with our closest neighbor. But we are caught in one, anyway.
The majority of the population do not want vicious attacks on immigrants who have been working here for years, taking care of patients in nursing homes, paying taxes, being a valuable part of our neighborhoods, but ICE has been rounding people up anyway.
We made none of these decisions. Before they were carried out, we weren’t informed. We weren’t consulted. We definitely weren’t asked for our opinions.
We have no way to express ourselves. We aren’t organized politically. The working class is without its own party. It’s like being in a boat with no rudder, unable to steer it where we want it to go.
We need to organize ourselves politically. We need our own party, a party that doesn’t exist today.
But it could exist. People like us could begin the work to make it exist.
There needs to be a nucleus of people who take the first step.
They would face the truth, that neither of the two big parties represent working class people. They would refuse to give their votes to either of those parties. They would advocate for the working class to build its own party.
Today, in Michigan, Maryland and Illinois, there are some people who have done exactly that. They worked to put a party on the ballot called Working Class Party. In California, a non-partisan campaign called for the same thing.
Working Class Party—the name is a slogan, standing for what needs to be built: a party that represents the working class, and not only during election time.
Working Class Party—the name is a perspective, a call for the working class to unite its forces to fight for what the population needs.
Other workers in these four states can use the election to express themselves. In Maryland and Michigan, every voter can vote for a Working Class Party candidate.
With their vote, they can affirm that they want their class to build its own party.
Their vote can be a statement that other workers can hear, realizing that what they want, other workers want. So, the ground has been broken.
This may not seem like much. First steps often don’t. But to get someplace else, you have to have the courage to take that first step.
—The Spark, September 28, 2026
https://the-spark.net/paper/1259/needed-a-working-class-party-what-are-the-first-steps-to-build-one/