Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses (more fully, Bread and Roses/Peace and Justice) is a new national organization. We see electoral politics as the central free speech realm in America, as the place where change happens, where people are raising new visions, and are listening. We support Bread and Roses candidates inside the dominant parties, and we support the estab... lishment of statewide Bread and Roses Parties. Our first state party is The Bread and Roses Party of Maryland, which in August 2018 delivered 15,000 signatures to the Maryland Board of Elections. We are now qualified as a non-major party in Maryland, able to place candidates on the ballot. In 2020, Jerome Segal and John de Graaf, our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates were on the ballot, and we expect to have a fuller slate of candidates in 2022. And in all states, we encourage Bread and Roses candidacies in the Democratic primaries. Bread and Roses is egalitarian in its ideals, open to Socialists and Non-Socialists alike. While many of the goals of American democratic socialism are central to our outlook, we also have new ideas with respect to public policy; we are not wedded to Big Government, and we seek to develop a new political culture that is experimental and modest rather than dogmatic with respect to its efforts to build a better world. We are not clairvoyant. We believe in keeping our eyes on ultimate goals and values, while being a society that learns, even from failure. We embrace the social vision implied in old labor slogan, "an injury to one is an injury to all. We are all in this together. We wish to build a society where everyone can make a contribution and is given an opportunity to do so. That contribution should come from our deepest abilities, from potentials that we are able to develop to their fullest. And in exchange, we all have a right to fulfillment of core economic needs, regardless of income level. Secondly, we believe that the "The Job System," our basic economic framework that divides us into two groups: "the job creators" ...Read More