Today, working people have few good options. In most political races, the choice is between far-right Republicans and corporate do-nothing democrats. In both cases, workers lose, and our politicians continue to support the corporate class that bought them over the people who supported them. Under this status quo, inequality will continue to worsen, corporations will continue to sell war and wreak havoc on the environment, and the worst impacts of these crises will be felt by the poor, people of color, and working people generally.

Even in Boston, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, Mayor Wu calls for fiscal responsibility as classrooms lose teachers to belt-tightening and students to ICE terrorism. Across the state, Democratic politicians pass tax cuts for the rich while hospitals are shut down, school districts are threatened with budget cuts, and our infrastructure falls apart.

It doesn’t have to be this way—the tides are shifting. Across the country, working-class Americans are bucking the status quo and supporting candidates like Zohran Mamdani. The working class is making clear that we will have power over our lives. We will build a government and economy by and for the working class.

Neither major party is capable of advancing a positive program that meets the needs of the people. That’s why the Boston Democratic Socialists of America, a local of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is leading an alternative course of action. In our local program, “Workers Deserve More,” adapted from DSA’s national platform, we hope to bring together the people of the greater Boston area to fight for a true democracy where working people have control over their own lives, their government, and the economy. 

Workers deserve more, and we will fight like hell to make that vision a reality.