American Party of Labor Statement on the Chauvin Ruling

The American Party of Labor, along with all progressive people in the United States, celebrates the conviction of murderer Derek Chauvin.

The small justice we have won today was only possible thanks to the overwhelming street movement last spring that revolutionized American politics towards not only reforming the police but fundamentally changing the nature of authority and power in our society.

When the people rise up, the ruling class has no choice but to submit. While we won justice today, we will never stop fighting until we have made a society in which George Floyd would be alive and well with his daughter, who correctly and famously said that her father “changed the world.”