The signature campaign to put Working Class Party back on the ballot for the 2026 election in Maryland was a success. Around 30 petition circulators collected over 12,300 signatures. We went to grocery stores, Walmarts, parades, festivals and farmers' markets. Twenty-five people agreed to be founding members of WCP. The state of Maryland does not make it easy for third parties to get on the ballot. Nevertheless, it shows what a small group of determined people can accomplish. It is also worth noting that the idea of workers having their own political party resonates with many people.

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Working people make the whole society run. We are all “essential.” Our labor creates everything in society and runs all services. Yet the wealth we produce fills the pockets of the rich.

Today we have no political voice. To keep voting for the same people and parties who have lied to us repeatedly and run society into the ground, is a waste. That’s why we worked to put Working Class Party on the ballot.

Putting up a few candidates and voting for them will not be enough. But a vote for Working Class Party is a way to say that we disagree with what is going on and that a working class party needs to be built.

The candidates we put on the ballot in Maryland for the 2022 elections are workers who helped gather the signatures needed to recognize Working Class Party in Maryland. They are workers who have been active in their own work places.

Working Class Party is running David Harding for governor of Maryland and Cathy White for lieutenant governor in November. Dave has lived and worked in Baltimore for many decades, as a steelworker, shipyard worker, and as a computer operator for the Maryland Department of Health. He has been active in two unions. Cathy has worked in many different jobs, babysitting and cleaning other people’s homes, working in a pizza joint, a pet hotel, a nursing home, and a warehouse. She has worked at a photofinishing factory for the last 35 years.

Workers face high prices, inadequate schools, and unaffordable housing. The pandemic exposed a broken health care system that allowed corporations to make fortunes while we got sick and died.

Workers see what has happened in Maryland, a rich state. Huge military contractors like Northrop Grumman, Westinghouse, and Lockheed Martin produce many weapons systems here. But like other corporations, they pay much lower tax rates than ordinary working people pay. Real estate developers get special tax breaks everywhere, whether by Baltimore’s Inner Harbor or at UnderArmour’s new complex near I-95. The water and sewer systems for Baltimore City and County and for WSSC outside Washington, D.C. have not been maintained despite all the fees we pay, even while sewage seeps into homes and pollutes the Patapsco and Potomac Rivers. Agricultural companies on the Eastern Shore like Perdue pay lousy wages for hard, dangerous work and expect the state to ignore the pollution they cause.

Facing these problems, politicians try to set us against each other, using racist, sexist, and anti-immigrant lies. To go forward, to try to solve all the problems, we must stand together to confront the bosses and the politicians who serve them. We must join together, women and men, black and white, born here and born elsewhere, to fight for a better life for all.

Today working people are not organized with our own voice. So working people need to build our own party. Elections are not enough. But voting for Working Class Party will let people who agree with these ideas be counted. It’s a start.

FOR A WORKING CLASS FIGHT