Revolutionary socialists support the formation of a Labor Party in the U.S. because the working class can’t move forward on the road to its emancipation from capitalism without first breaking from its political subordination to the twin parties of Capital by forming its own political party.

As early as the 1880s many attempts to build a workers’ party have been undertaken. But none succeeded in building more than local or regional Labor Party formations, and even these tended to be short-lived.

In 1996, for the first time, a national Labor Party was founded in Cleveland by a significant wing of the trade union movement. But this Labor Party has stagnated, failing to fulfill the hopes of its founding members. The task of building a fighting workers’ party remains a central task for trade unionists and activists seeking to defend and advance the interests of working people.