Los Angeles Labor and Community for an Independent Party is a local, community effort to build a political party that will actually stand up to the oligarchy. At the moment, we're building a coalition of unions and community groups to run local, independent candidates.

We are not financed by big business, establishment politicians, or wealthy individuals. This is a movement to build a people’s party that will end business as usual and instead build for real progress and change for working and poor people. We'll work with anyone who agrees with our statement of purpose and points of unity, and isn't an oligarch.

More importantly, Los Angeles LCIP isn’t just an election-day party. We call on independent-minded activists, organizers, educators, students, workers, and unemployed members of the community to join us. 

Statement of Purpose

 

1. To promote running independent labor-community candidates at a local and state level around a platform that embraces workers’ and communities’ pressing demands. 

 

2. To promote widely in the union movement a committee that advocates for a break with the democrats - a Labor-Based Political Party. 

 

Points of Unity

We are organizing for:

 

  1.  A massive jobs program - no one who wants to work should be refused.
  2. An end to US wars and occupations.
  3. Tax the rich - confiscate all speculative funds.
  4. Single payer healthcare (medicare4all).
  5. Affordable housing.
  6. Papers for all.
  7. Support the right of self-determination for all Black and oppressed people.
  8. End police violence - strengthen civilian review boards, and release of all political prisoners.
  9. Free, quality education - stop charter schools and vouchers.
  10.  A national energy/mass transit system.
  11. Voting rights for all.
  12. Women's liberation - extend and guarantee paid maternity leave, and defend abortion and contraceptive rights.

Our Coalition Partners

LCIP is a national organization. Our biggest member so far is the Ujima People's Progress Party (https://uppmaryland.org/). We are following their successful model.

We're beginning to form a California chapter, with the eventual goal of building a genuine alternative to the democrats, that can win local elections and stand up for us.  At the moment, we're growing out of North East LA, and we're aiming to expand across the city. We've just begun running our first local candidates for neighborhood council. 

National Endorsements:

See lcipcommittee.org for a fuller list of organizational endorsements, as well as individual endorsements.

• Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO) — Toledo, OH

• Haiti Liberté Newspaper — Brooklyn, NY

• Judicial Violence Symposium — Harlem, NY

• Labor Fightback Network — Flanders, NJ

• The Organizer Newspaper/Socialist Organizer — San Francisco, CA

• San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party, Central Committee — San Francisco, CA

• Teamsters Local 808 — Long Island City, NY

• Ujima People’s Progress Party (MD) — Baltimore, MD