The first open expression of these sentiments came in the Occupy Wall Street protests of the past three months, although still limited mainly to layers of youth and students. Despite the desperate efforts of Obama's apologists in the trade unions, liberal publications like the Nation and pseudo-left groups like the International Socialist Organization, these protests were characterized by hostility to both parties.
As broader layers of the working class come into struggle over fundamental economic and social issues -- jobs, living standards, the defense of public services like education and health care -- the conditions will develop for the emergence of a mass political movement of working people, independent of and hostile to the existing parties of big business.
The Socialist Equality Party fights for the development of such a movement, based on a revolutionary socialist program, as the only alternative to a political system controlled by the one percent at the top of American society and utterly indifferent to the needs and sentiments of the people.
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