We are a group of members of United Campus Workers of Georgia welded together in solidarity and committed to promoting member-led union democracy, international and intersectional solidarity, and the emancipation of working people by the working people themselves. We are leftists, democratic socialists, anarchists, communists, marxists, and class-struggle unionists, and on Feb. 9, 2025, we began exercising our right as union members to meet and self-organize as a political caucus.
As a political caucus we are united by our desire to advance our shared positive political principles, working to improve the tactics, strategy and operational procedures of our union. We chose not to label ourselves a “reform caucus” because we did not wish to begin from an assumption of conflict with the current leadership of our union beyond Georgia, which includes many newly elected officers just beginning their first term. Rather, we believe our political principles as class-struggle unionists, leftists, etc., are fundamentally aligned with the mission and values of our union, Communications Workers of America Local 3821. We do not seek to tear down or divide, but to build and unite.
Our new caucus is a collective without officers, but we are “leader-full”, not leaderless. Our rank-and-file member-leaders have already worked together to elect a majority to our union’s statewide Steering Committee and our state representative to our regional Executive Board.
Our caucus answers to no authority external to our union, be it Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Stop Cop City, Liberation Road, Mosaic Atlanta, Marxist Unity Group (MUG), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Labor Notes, Higher Education Labor United (HELU), American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Democratic Party, or any of these organizations’ subordinate entities. Although we strenuously affirm our members’ right to belong to any of these organizations, our caucus is neither formally affiliated with nor in any way subordinate to any of them.
We believe all power in our union rests with the general membership, as stated in our union’s bylaws.
We believe in multi-tendency democracy. We welcome all democratic socialists, anarchists, communists, and class-struggle unionists.
We believe in carrying on the proud tradition of American socialists, anarchists and communists educating, agitating and organizing in the labor movement. We take special inspiration from Black communist labor organizers in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Our work includes advancing leftist and socialist principles in our union and in our workplace, electing union officers, providing support to those officers once elected, writing policy proposals to be put before our union’s general membership and leadership, fostering mutual aid, hosting political education events, developing interpersonal relationships of solidarity in our union and in our community, and in general promoting the labor movement’s growth and development.
We are currently only accepting new members who are also members of United Campus Workers. To request to join or contact us with any questions/inquires please email us at contact@sfdu.org