When the living cost goes high, while our wages sink, and the military soaks up every last dime, the fight against fascism, the fight against genocide, becomes even more relevant to our daily lives.

John Parker, the only socialist candidate for U.S. Congress District 37.

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What we stand for:

    • Call for an immediate cessation of U.S. and Israeli wars and proxy wars and the funding of wars, occupations and genocide  

    • Demand the immediate release of President Nicolas Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores 

    • Divert the 100’s of billions for war in funding vital social programs and for use in programs to reverse poverty, homelessness and environmental damage.

    • End all foreign military assistance, especially to Israel, the Philippines, etc

    • End all sanctions, embargoes, and blockades

    • Shut down Guantanamo and all U.S. military basesription text goes here

  • Abolish Cops: Immediately call for a state of emergency in Black and Brown neighborhoods to address police & ICE agent murder, with the initial step of ceasing the use of deadly force. In addition, propose a change in the 10th constitutional amendment that does not allow the federal government to abolish a police force that has a pattern of civil rights violations and murder.

    • Institute a referendum calling for the conversion of privately owned industries and corporations into people's ownership." 

    • Bosses don’t really do anything – management, engineering, etc have their place, we don’t need the people stealing our wages

  • Abolish the Pentagon

    The US military's carbon footprint exceeds nearly 140 countries. The largest institutional contributor to global warming on planet Earth is the Department of Defense. The U.S. military adds more CO2 than any other single entity and more than most single countries in the world. Add to that the heat trapping toxins produced by the manufacture of trillions in weapons manufacture. Trillions of dollars are wasted on death and destruction in the quest to seize oil markets. This should be reallocated to sustainable energy research and development and mitigation of climate change. 


    Peace Driven Manhattan Project for Climate Change

    As the U.S. did in developing the atomic bomb, all out research and development should be done by leading scientists. Universities should end all research and development for weaponry.


    Mass Transit

    From the forties through the fifties, General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil and other companies conspired to destroy mass transit and build freeways across the country. When proven guilty of this criminal profit-grab, General Motors was fined $5,000.  Now the situation calls for immediate reversal. There must be a multi-trillion investment to build a new mass transit system.

    Eliminate Profits as a Factor in Energy Production

    Science must be the determining factor on how to build a new, global system of sustainable energy. Coal, fracking and offshore oil drilling must end, oil pipelines must be shut down. Profit as a guide in energy production must be eliminated. Science in the service of the people must determine the way forward.

    • Incentivize food autonomy

    • Public transportation/mass transitscription

  • When a parent is stolen from their child right before their crying eyes for simply being undocumented, whether being here legally or not, is nothing less than a fascist act. Now 47 have died in the ICE prisons and several have been shot to death for simply being someone who fits the profile; or guilty of being in solidarity with migrant and immigrant peoples. Most of the migration from Mexico and Central and South America is due to both economic and military wars waged by the U.S. against these regions, forcing workers to come over the border risking life and faced with constant terror of being deported. Migrants in this country contribute to the vast wealth of this country without benefit of social security or pensions, yet they pay taxes. And, instead of making the lives of migrants worse, reparations should be due for the destabilization of countries.These fascist dehumanizing acts by DHS and their thugs – ICE – have nothing to do with stopping drugs in this country. 

    When fishing boats are targeted with assassination by the U.S. – it is blatant murder and a war crime, and real evidence of drugs smuggling to this today is not even given as a unjustifiable justification for such murders – now 157 people. The current worldwide refugee crisis is a direct result of the U.S. war on Iraq, Libya and Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and the entire Global South with sanction and embargoes that are acts of war against a sovereign country.

  • Trump recently asked for another 400 billion dollars for the war on Iran that encourages not only theft of resources and the lives of the targeted in sovereign countries – but a most careless and dangerous encouragement of World War III.

    The Pentagon budget should be cut to zero until the people have a say in how it is spent and the priorities of profit over humanity by the military industrial complex – whose stocks fly with every war of Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela and now Iran – must come to a halt.

    From 2000 to 2024 these policies of war and proxy wars have turned our $100 to $42, and the gas and food and everyone thing that needs to be transported in industry rises while the GDP continues to fall in relation to the world. In another words, gambling on Wall Street has replaced the production needed for infrastructure and services.  And, with the downward amount of jobs created – all of this does nothing but create poverty and homelessness.

    To keep the anger of our working class in check, more military is spent domestically on police and especially now ICE, which has a budget larger than most militaries, using fascist terror and encouraging fascism against our workingclass and international workingclass.

    Has we recently saw in Minneapolis, a general strike shutting down a city makes the government act. Every congressperson needs to encourage that and do what is needed: use the laws that exist and create the laws necessary to stop the ruling class’ race towards fascism and genocide. And, most importantly, help build a workingclass movement demanding systemic change.

    As Martin Luther King Jr said – the greatest purveyor of violence: by own government. After 500,000 children admitted killed in the Iraq by Madeleine Albright, and the 140,000 killed in Hiroshima, and then repeated in Nagasaki; and the millions killed and poisoned by Agent Orange in Vietnam – perhaps we shouldn’t use a military used against humanity time and time again.

  • Fight for Ethnic Studies NOW!

    “Know History- Know Self”

    It has been confirmed that an Ethnic Studies curriculum increases student attendance, grades, participation and overall interest in school. In schools where an Ethnic Studies Curriculum has been implemented, teachers see the improvements in students learning about who they are in relation to the world.

    Fund the movement for an inclusive  ethnic studies curriculum for all public schools from K to 12th grade.

A little bit about me

FROM THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES TO THE FIGHT AGAINST GENOCIDE

My name is John Parker. I am the coordinator of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice and a leading member of the Struggle for Socialism Party. The Harriet Tubman Center is a steering community member of the Community for Self-Defense Coalition, because we understand that communities under attack—whether in Gaza, the Global South, or our own neighborhoods—have the right to organize and defend themselves.


I learned the power of organizing when I was 18 years old, helping workers at a small steel plant in New Jersey to form their union. I taught in public schools in Newark. I fought for working families here in Los Angeles—I authored and initiated the $15 minimum wage ballot initiative in 2013 - because a job should be enough to live on.

I have seen the damage of U.S. foreign policy firsthand:

  • I accompanied former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark on anti-war delegations.

  • I opposed the 2009 U.S.-supported coup in Honduras and was invited to the inauguration of President Xiomara Castro for my solidarity work.

  • In November 2023, I was detained in Egypt for attempting to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza. 

I went because the same system carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people is the same system that wages war against Black and Brown communities through police violence, terrorizes immigrant and migrant communities through ICE, and attacks the very existence of our Trans community. The fight against U.S. imperialism abroad and the fight against oppression at home are one and the same.

A FIGHTER, NOT A POLITICIAN

I am a Black worker who has spent a lifetime on the front lines. I am not looking for a career in politics. I am looking to use this campaign to build the movement we need to take on the billionaires and the war machine.

If you want a representative who will:

  • Oppose sanctions and military threats against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and the Global South

  • Fight to defund the war machine and fund housing, healthcare, and education

  • Stand with immigrant and migrant communities against the terror of ICE

  • Defend the Trans community from political attacks and violence

  • Support the right of oppressed communities to organize for self-defense