February 11, 2025
UE General President Carl Rosen will be speaking on a zoom panel on “Lessons from the US Labor Party for Working-Class Politics Today” on Thursday, February 20, at 8pm ET.
The Labor Party was launched in 1996 by 1,400 elected delegates representing some one million union members and community activists. The panel will discuss questions including: What lessons can be learned from this earlier effort to organize an independent working-class party? How can this project inform contemporary efforts to move forward with building towards a serious alternative to the two corporate parties, grounded in the working class?
Other speakers on the panel will be:
- Katherine Isaac, coordinator Campaign for Postal Banking at the American Postal Workers Union. Formerly of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and its effort to create a Labor Party.
- Howard Botwinick, Associate Professor of Economics, SUNY Cortland and former Vice Chair of the New York Labor Party.
- Mark Dudzic, longtime union activist and former national organizer of the Labor Party, and current chair of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.