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We received this letter from @Movement4Kshama on May 4. During our trip to Seattle in lead-up to May Day, we campaigned for Sawant alongside Movement for Kshama, while engaging in an exchange of views. Read it here! iclfi.org/wv/2026-sawant

Will you mobilize? @cmkshama @wrkrsstrikeback

Seattle Democrats are taking an axe to public services, including Ballard light rail. They've failed to take action against ICE. Demand action TOMORROW @ City Hall w/ @SeattleDSA, @labormilitant, @SEASocialists, @movement4kshama, & @seattlegreens. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

King County Democrats want to cancel Ballard light rail. @MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson is threatening cuts to public services. But in the last 5 years: 📈SPD budget is up $123 million 📈Amazon’s profits more than tripled, from $21B to $77B Fight the cuts TOMORROW @ City Hall

SHUT DOWN ICE! SAVE BALLARD RAIL! FIGHT THE CUTS! Pack Seattle City Hall TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 5! @ 2 pm or 6 pm Join @SeattleDSA, @labormilitant, @SEASocialists, @movement4kshama, & @seattlegreens to fight ICE, tax the rich & stop the cuts. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I’m voting for @cmkshama and building her campaign because she is fighting for: - Free Healthcare for All funded by taxing the rich - An end to all U.S. military aid to Israel and an end to the occupation of Palestinian lands - and end to all deportations and to shut down the detention centers - National rent control and to build millions of affordable homes

Democrats like Mehdi Hasan sharing videos of @RepAdamSmith are trying to whitewash his crimes. Adam Smith voted for ICE & the Iraq War, has taken over $1 million from AIPAC & the Zionist lobby, and sent billions for genocide in Gaza. Dump the Democrats. Elect @cmkshama.

@0x262d @movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith Her campaign isn’t our primary focus, because of exactly that. But it’s still correct to support it. We’ve also been supporting the Socialist Party of Indiana. We have disagreements, but it’s a step in the right direction — away from the Democrats. Same with Andre Easton.

@socialistem @movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith I mean, she clearly wants nothing to do with you or your help. I know you're an exceptional campaigner. Is that reaction not a red flag for her whole campaign?

Kshama Sawant has issued a statement calling our organization "reckless" & "damaging." Kshama is pretending she doesn’t know who we are: DNC wreckers? Agents of @RepAdamSmith? Kshama knows exactly who we are. Her statement is a dishonest political attack on our organization & on revolutionary socialists. The Democrats are busy taking an axe to public services in Seattle, including the cancellation of the Ballard light rail extension and threatening cuts to healthcare, housing & education. @MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson has dropped her campaign promise to fight for free childcare & shut down surveillance cameras. Democrats have failed to take action against ICE or protect victims of police brutality. In the last 5 years, they have INCREASED the Seattle police budget by $123 million. Kshama should be using her campaign to fight against these attacks by the Seattle & King County Democratic Party, including Mayor Katie Wilson. Activists and socialist organizations have urged Kshama to use her campaign to mobilize against these attacks, but she has not. Instead of fighting to stop the Democrats’ cuts, Kshama is using her $500,000 war chest to make social media posts, create Instagram graphics, and send emails to her national list attacking other socialists with @movement4kshama. Unfortunately, Kshama has a pattern of sectarianism, which HAS done damage to her campaign. But it’s not just her: there is a crisis of both sectarianism and opportunism on the left. Most of the left has refused to support Kshama’s campaign. There has been total silence from self-described socialist organizations like @DemSocialists, @SocialistAlt, @revcommunists, and @pslnational. A whole wing of the “socialist” movement has chained itself to the Democratic Party. Last month, @SeattleDSA voted against even having a debate about endorsing Kshama’s campaign, while voting happily to endorse Democrat Jaelynn Scott. @CentralINDSA has refused to support the new Socialist Party of Indiana, while endorsing Democrat Jackson Franklin. New York DSA won’t support @AndreEastonBX, but endorsed strikebreaking Democrat AOC again. Even the “left wing” of DSA like @dsarandr have refused to support Kshama’s campaign. Yet their members argue for “critical support” for sellouts like @AOC. Only the @labormilitant and @cleanbreaknow caucuses in DSA have taken a principled stance. Labor Notes, the supposed “left” of the labor movement, has banned a member of the left caucus @Teamsters_Mblz from attending this year’s @labornotes conference. But Labor Notes had no problem inviting @ChicagosMayor Democrat Brandon Johnson to deliver a keynote address in 2024, right as he was preparing a crackdown on anti-genocide protesters ahead of the DNC. Socialist Alternative, Kshama’s former organization, endorsed DSA Democrat Zohran Mamdani (who hired Zionist police chief Jessica Tisch and endorsed Hakeem Jeffries), but has yet to say anything about Kshama’s campaign. The Revolutionary Communists of America are sticking their heads in the sand until the revolution comes to them. Other organizations like @SEP_US are just hopelessly sectarian. They have not been silent (give them credit!), but they have been hostile to any working-class campaign not run by the SEP/@WSWS_Updates. Kshama’s recent statement is also sectarian: it is an attack on the only revolutionary socialists who ARE supporting her campaign: @labormilitant, @WorkersVanguard, and @SEASocialists, all of whom have been involved with Movement for Kshama. So why is Kshama attacking us? Movement for Kshama was launched by 5 former members of @cmkshama’s organization, including her former campaign manager @socialistem and 3 former campaign staff. We launched it after Kshama & the leadership fired these staff members and suspended two of them from her organizations @revworkers & @wrkrsstrikeback. These members were suspended and fired after raising political disagreements with the campaign leadership, including objections to a months-long campaign against a dedicated member that was characterized by a series of ugly personalized attacks. These personal attacks were a substitute for much-needed political debate within the organization. Kshama and the @revworkers leadership carried out a series of undemocratic maneuvers to suppress debate inside the organization, including bureaucratic and draconian suspensions. Several elected leaders quit the organization in protest, and founded @labormilitant. We think that the members of Workers Strike Back (WSB) should demand answers, and fight to reverse these suspensions, including the undemocratic suspension of an elected member of the National Coordinating Committee (NCC). Unfortunately, most WSB members aren’t even aware that the suspensions happened. The suspension of an elected leader was carried out during a 30-minute meeting of the NCC, and was never communicated to the members. Rank-and-file WSB members have been kept in the dark for almost 3 months. We have many political disagreements with Kshama, @revworkers, and the leadership of @wrkrsstrikeback. But despite our disagreements, we urged them at the time to work together to build Kshama’s campaign. Instead, Kshama and her campaign told us to get lost. They explicitly banned us from attending campaign events. They told us that if we wanted to support the campaign, we would have to do so independently. So we did. We launched Movement for Kshama. Since launching our Super PAC, we have had no communication with the campaign whatsoever. All of our work has been done independently, and is 100% legal. This is a *working-class* Super PAC (a fact Kshama withheld in her statement). We have received donations from more than 400 working people, overwhelmingly from Washington state. Our median donation is $5. Kshama’s campaign didn’t release this statement because they don’t want us collecting signatures, or because they’re concerned about legal consequences for the campaign. If that was all, they wouldn’t have needed social media graphics and a national email campaign. They released this statement because they don’t want us to support the campaign at all, with or without a Super PAC. This is an attempt to smear us and undermine support for our efforts. The left cannot respond to every disagreement with dishonest attacks and refusing to work together. This is how we got here, where the left is splintered into 1,000 organizations that act like competing small businesses. Kshama’s sectarian attacks have not helped her win support from the rest of the left. She has alienated thousands of would-be supporters. But we can’t fight sectarianism with yet more sectarianism. Workers and the left need to unite to elect Kshama. We need to support EVERY working-class effort to break with the capitalist Democratic Party and build a party of our own. Kshama’s campaign announced a target of 5,000 ballot signatures. We hope she reaches that goal. We are forced to suspend our signature collection, since Kshama’s campaign will not accept them. We refuse to mislead working people. But we will not suspend our support for the campaign. Our work has expanded far beyond campaigning for one election, so we will also be voting at an upcoming meeting on whether to legally dissolve our working-class Super PAC (which was launched at a time when Kshama’s campaign was the organization’s primary purpose), and continue building a broader movement through United Front for a Workers’ Party (@4aworkersparty). We hope Kshama will end her sectarian attacks, and work to build a unified movement. Kshama calls herself a revolutionary socialist. A revolutionary socialist would use her campaign to fight against the brutal attacks on working people from both parties, including the attacks currently being carried out by the Democrats in Seattle and King County. We have many disagreements with Kshama, and we have no problem saying so. Socialists need to be willing to accept criticism, especially those who want to lead the movement. And we need to be open and honest when we disagree. At the same time, we can’t allow disagreements to get in the way of taking steps forward for the workers’ movement, and a victory for Kshama would be a massive step forward. Our enemies are Adam Smith, the Democratic and Republican parties, and the opportunist leaders of the socialist & labor movement. We urge all working people to organize support for Kshama’s campaign. Socialists should demand support from their organizations. Rank-and-file union members should organize for endorsements in their unions, and expose sellout union leaders in @LIUNA, @AFSCME, @IAM_Union, @AFGENational who are supporting Kshama’s strikebreaking opponent, genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. We need a united front to elect @cmkshama and other independent socialists, and build a workers’ party that can take on both capitalist and imperialist parties. We urge all socialists and working people to join us. Reach out at movementforkshama@gmail.com or movementforkshama.org.

@0x262d @movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith Andre Easton collected 10,000 signatures for his Congressional campaign in a matter of weeks. Is Socialist Alternative endorsing & campaigning for him?

@0x262d @movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith Kshama has raised $500,000 from over 5,000 donors. More than 400 people have donated to our small independent effort to support her in the last 2 months. What do you mean by “organic”? The biggest obstacle to Kshama’s campaign is the opportunism & sectarianism of the left.

@0x262d @movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith Socialist Alternative endorsed Mamdani, so I know you understand the idea of critical support. You just give it to Democrats, instead of independent socialists.

@movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith Why is it so important to support Kshama's campaign if it's run in as irresponsible and sectarian a manner as you describe?

As early voting is underway, I just wanted to remind everyone that George Hornedo is a total grifter - he entered the race as an AIPAC plant, and now is trying to pivot to desperately pretend this wasn't his published stance just last year. Because everyone loves a slimy liar!

Seattle was a center of Black Power. But capitalists waged war on Black people: thousands forced from the Central District + police brutality + political betrayals. We’ll join @WorkersVanguard THIS Thurs @ 5 at Rainier Beach Library: “Which Way Forward for the Black Struggle?”

SEATTLE: Join us this Thursday for a discussion on the recently re-launched Black History and the Class Struggle! We’ll be at Rainier Beach Library, Meeting Room, 9125 Rainier Ave. S. For more info (and to check out the latest BH) click the link below: iclfi.org/usa/events/202…

@movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith This left unity and maturity is good to see. Obviously a messy situation but the important part is coalescing behind a socialist candidate.

That’s one of them. What triggered the crisis was a suppression of debate within the campaign staff & Kshama’s organizations. There was disagreement over staffing decisions, the ambitiousness of the campaign, and how to relate to other organizations, among other things. Socialists should debate these things out. Instead, the leadership attacked the people raising disagreement. I think the campaign should be vocally supporting other independent socialist campaigns — the new Socialist Party of Indiana, Andre Easton in NY, etc. — to build a united front to break the socialist & labor movement away from the Democratic Party. The campaign should be helping other groups who are fighting against the attacks by Democrats in Seattle and King County. A coalition of several socialist organizations and the Seattle Green Party is mobilizing to City Hall on May 5th to make demands on the Democrats to stop the cuts & take action against ICE. This is the third such action. Kshama has not been willing to support these mobilizations. The campaign also should have publicly supported the free childcare ballot initiative voted on by Seattle DSA last year, and pledged to help collect signatures. The lack of support from Kshama helped the SEIU union bureaucracy to kill the campaign (with help from a section of DSA leadership). So it’s not just one thing — it’s a pattern of separating the campaign from the movement. The unwillingness to support initiatives like this has helped the Democrat-aligned “socialists” to isolate Kshama’s campaign.

@movement4kshama @RepAdamSmith so do i understand correctly that your chief political strategy disagreement is that she should be using her campaign to fight against current city/county battles against Dems there?

@cmkshama I’m proud to volunteer with Kshama for Congress and her campaign. We were out canvassing yesterday and I collected 22 signatures and 6 voter registrations at a single bus stop in the CD. One person, who had never voted before, registered and signed so he could vote for Kshama

Hell yeah! The unity in action we need. @SeattleDSA are you with Smith or the socialists?

We’re knocking doors w/ members of @labormilitant, @WorkersVanguard & @SEASocialists to get Kshama Sawant on the ballot. Democrats & Republicans don’t fight for workers. We need to build our own party that will. Join us for our 2 WEEKS OF ACTION: movementforkshama.org/volunteer