Build & Fight
It’s time we engage with politics on our own terms, completely independent of the two corporate parties.
The Build & Fight strategy emphasizes creating autonomous, cooperative institutions (Build) while simultaneously engaging in organized resistance against oppressive systems (Fight). We promote grassroots economic self-determination, dual power, and mass mobilization to challenge capitalism, white supremacy, and ecological destruction, fostering a just transition.
Mission
Build & Fight C4 was created to engage in electoral politics from an explicitly transformational perspective, integrate political education into electoral work, and build a cross-sectoral democracy movement.
Democratize our Elections
- Publicly Funded Elections
- Proportional Representation
- Ranked Choice Voting
- Felony Re-enfranchisement
- Immigrant Voting Rights
- Same Day Voter Registration
- Election Day Holiday
Democratize the Economy
- Public Banking
- Participatory Budgeting
- Community Land Trusts
- Worker-Owned Cooperatives
- Municipal Energy
- Universal Basic Income
Democratize Society
- Abolish Corporate Constitutional Rights
- Advance Self-Rule Initiatives
- Create Public Advocacy “Sandboxes”
- Corporate “Three Strikes” and Charter Revocation
- Shareholder Votes for Political Donations
Our Work
We will use the full suite of tools available to us as a 501(c)4 to advance the above mission, including issuing a candidate questionnaire,
Candidate Questionnaire
- Build & Fight only endorses candidates that are committed to a left agenda and who pledge to never accept corporate contributions
- We’re educating candidates, putting politicians on the record, and letting voters know where their elected officials stand on core issues
- If you’re running for office, download and fill out the questionnaire. If you’re not running for office, ask your representatives to fill out the questionnaire
Non-Reformist Reforms
- André Gorz (pictured with his wife, Dorine), a leading theorist of what was then regularly called the “New Left,” first coined the term “non-reformist reforms” in the 1960s to describe reforms that immediately improve people’s lives and also build power to achieve more systemic change
- Build & Fight is working to coordinate this strategic framework and refine what this means in 2025
- Read more about non-reformist reforms here
“The United States is at a crossroads. As Antonio Gramsci recognized almost a hundred years ago, these interregnum periods are indeed times of monsters. But we can’t just fight what we’re against, lest we become monsters ourselves, so we also have to be for what we’re for and build that world at the same time.”
Johanna Epke
Founder, Build & Fight C4
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