On this day in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed a day of thanks. Lincoln reminded us that even throughout war, goodness & gratitude still prevail. He urged us to count our victories against those who oppress, but also that much work still needs to be done. Happy Thanksgiving from the LC-ASP!

What are the goals of the Liberation Caucus?

3. Promote our values within the American Solidarity Party through dialogue with other members, strengthen ties between our members and others within the broader party, and encourage caucus members to take active roles in organizing within ASP.

What are the goals of the Liberation Caucus?

1. Build a community for camaraderie of people within the American Solidarity Party who share common values stemming from distributist, socialist, social democratic and communitarian politics, whether they ID as leftist or otherwise anti-capitalist.

We must build our society from the bottom up, providing for local autonomy and prioritizing the family and the community.

We embrace the role of civil, community-based conversations to find common ground and commonsense solutions for the common good.

We support a more egalitarian society and power structure through local autonomy and decentralized, deliberative democracy.

Only through dialogue across differences will we ever make progress toward shared goals.

We have an ecologically-imposed drop deadline to create a sustainable, global economy that puts people and the planet over profit.

We cannot pursue half measures. We need bold action to save lives and to prevent the catastrophic disruption and destruction of delicate ecosystems.

We acknowledge the impending global climate catastrophe and promote the immediate, rapid transition to a sustainable ecological economy.

Ecology and environmentalism are central to any holistically pro-life politics, as is a just transition to green, renewable energy.

At the same time, we also reject class reductionism and the false choice that we must focus solely on class to the exclusion of other systems of oppression the ruling class have imposed on the working class. We choose solidarity with oppressed people everywhere.

We reject attempts by the establishment to use tokenism and weaponized identity politics to silence working class opposition and to erase the anti-capitalist struggles of working class women and working class people of color.

We understand that racism and misogyny undermine the dignity of the human person, and continue to plague our society. We know reconciliation will require dismantling systems of oppression to create a society where people of good will of all backgrounds can flourish.

We seek an ownership society, where every person has equitable access to land, shelter, healthy food, clean water, education, healthcare and productive capital through worker-owned, democratically-run cooperative enterprises.

We work toward the replacement of that system with one focused more on the needs of people, whether described as distributist, socialist or communitarian. We promote peaceful solidarity among nations.

We seek to dismantle capitalism, with its reliance on unsustainable consumerist growth, usury, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a small number of individuals with outsized influence on our politics and economy, and an aggressive, imperialist military policy.

Thread: What is the the Liberation Caucus?

We are a voting bloc caucus of the American Solidarity Party, with members of varying backgrounds, unified by common principles.

We seek to dismantle capitalism, racism and misogyny, and promote an ownership society through deliberative democracy.