Kshama Sawant

Join me and my campaign to Protest Against the War Profiteer Convention! TODAY, Wednesday, March 18th, 12 pm Seattle Convention Center Washington state’s Democratic Governor. Bob Ferguson, is warmly welcoming the executives of over 700 war profiteering companies to Seattle today. Ferguson says that he is “proud to welcome” companies like Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing. These are the TOP FIVE war contractors in the United States. Ferguson is also welcoming other companies like Palantir. SpaceX, Textron, L3Harris Technologies, Leidos, Amentum, and Booz Allen Hamilton, which are also profiting from imperialist wars. These are all companies that have been contracted for the genocide in Gaza and for the current war on Iran. Democratic Governor Ferguson is welcoming these purveyors of death and destruction at the same time that they have just promised Trump that they will “quadruple production” of weapons for the Iran war. Specifically, the chief executives of RTX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, L3Harris Missile Solutions and Honeywell Aerospace met with Trump last week. These companies are sitting on billions of dollars of order backlogs, some of which are greater than the gross domestic products of several nations. The Democrats in Congress, like my opponent, Adam Smith, joined the Republicans in giving essentially a blank check to Trump for his wars. A majority of Democrats like Adam Smith voted in December to give Trump over $900 billion in new war spending, which Trump is using for his current war on Iran. This war has already killed thousands of people in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and other nations, and forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands. Democrats like Adam Smith, under Democratic President Biden, handed over tens of billions of dollars for the genocide in Gaza and are still funding both the genocide and the decades-long brutal occupation of Palestinian lands. The billionaire and multimillionaire executives and major shareholders who profit from the war contracts are profiting directly from bloodshed, deaths of babies and children, maiming and grave physical injuries, and widespread destruction of cities and nations. It is Republicans and Democrats who give the billionaires and multimillionaires those profits. The wealthy individuals profiting from these companies, in turn, bankroll the campaigns of both Republicans and Democrats, including Adam Smith. The bipartisan agenda of imperialist war by the billionaire class can only be defeated by breakthroughs in building a militant movement. That's why we need labor strike actions, including a general strike. That's also why fighting to elect as the first-ever revolutionary socialist to Congress is the most important campaign for the working class nationally this year.

Why is there no general strike in the UK against this war? (Or in the US?) Where are the trade unions? Why aren't there permanent encampments and protests outside the US embassy and US bases? Is the mountain of corpses not high enough yet?

Targets for the U.S. war on Iran are being identified by Palantir’s Maven system. My opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, is the FOURTH-HIGHEST recipient of campaign money from Palantir, having already taken over $100K. Adam Smith also voted to give Trump over $900B for this war.

Targets for the U.S. war on Iran are being identified by Palantir’s Maven system. My opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, is the FOURTH-HIGHEST recipient of campaign money from Palantir, having already taken over $100K. Adam Smith also voted to give Trump over $900B for this war.