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Detroit Mayoral Campaign

The political lessons of the Detroit mayoral elections

August 6, 2009
Collier gives an interview with local television

I want to thank everyone who supported and volunteered for the Socialist Equality Party’s campaign for Detroit mayor, along with the more than 1,200 people who voted for me in the primary elections on Tuesday.

This vote is very significant. Despite a virtual media blackout of our campaign, a significant layer of the Detroit working class made a conscious decision to vote for a socialist candidate.

Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral elections

August 5, 2009

Only one out of six eligible voters in Detroit participated in the “non-partisan” primary election held Tuesday in a sign of mass alienation from the political system in the city, which has long been dominated by the Democratic Party.

Millionaire businessman and current mayor, David Bing, who enjoyed the backing of the city’s corporate and political elite, won 74 percent of the vote and will face second place finisher Tom Barrow, who received 11 percent, in a run-off election November 3.

SEP Detroit mayoral candidate speaks at forum on youth and education

July 30, 2009

D’Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate in the upcoming Detroit mayoral election, spoke Tuesday at a moderated mayoral forum held at a youth development center in Detroit’s New Center Area. Collier and other candidates were asked to present their programs, placing specific emphasis on their positions with regards to education and youth development.

End all utility shutoffs! For a socialist response to the economic crisis

July 24, 2009

As the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for Detroit mayor, I extend my deepest sympathy and condolences to friends and family of the four Detroit family members who died of carbon monoxide poisoning on July 16, after their electricity had been shut off.

Southwest Detroit residents speak to D’Artagnan Collier campaign

By Jack Cody
30 June 2009

On July 1st, starting at 7pm, D’Artagnan Collier, the Social Equality Party’s candidate in the 2009 mayoral election, will address workers in Southwest Detroit at a public meeting to be held at the Holy Redeemer Church on the corner of Junction St. and West Vernor Ave. Several of Collier’s supporters spent the Afternoon Saturday distributing information and talking to workers within the community of Mexicantown.

About the Campaign

Detroit is the center of the world-wide attack on the working class. All the forces of the political establishment are working together to shut down its factories, close its schools, and further impoverish its people.

The working class has to fight back! Our campaign is directed at reviving the traditions of working class struggle. The crisis confronting mankind cannot be resolved until the working class intervenes with its own solution. For this we need a new political party, based on an independent socialist perspective for the working class.

SEP candidate speaks at Detroit meeting

June 22, 2009

D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit Mayor, spoke at a meeting in Downtown Detroit Tuesday. He addressed the pressing social questions facing workers in the city and explained his reasons for running.

“The Obama Administration has given its response to the economic crisis. The bourgeoisie, they have a strategy in which they are using this crisis to impose attacks on the working class, essentially returning conditions of life to what it was prior to the Great Depression...”