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The class issues in the US federal shutdown

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Patrick Martin
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Whatever the immediate result of the political deadlock in Washington, there will be no progressive outcome without the independent intervention of the working class against both the capitalist parties. If they are allowed to work through this crisis, the twin parties of the US ruling elite will produce only more social disasters and more attacks on the jobs, living standards and democratic rights of working people, as well as a further shift in foreign policy in the direction of war and militarism.

The central issue facing the working class is its lack of any independent political voice. Working people need their own political party, fighting for jobs, decent living standards, to defend democratic rights and oppose imperialist war. This means breaking with the corporate-controlled two-party system, and building the Socialist Equality Party, in the United States and internationally, as the mass socialist party of the working class.

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Patrick Martin writes for the World Socialist Website (wsws.org), a forum for socialist ideas & analysis & published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
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