Peace &
Freedom
Party
The Peace and Freedom Party is the only socialist party with ballot access in California.
Why Register Peace
and Freedom (PFP)?
Under the current capitalist system, a tiny minority of rich bankers and CEOs have political power and will do anything to maintain it. California is home to 194 billionaires who hoard the wealth that working people create. Yet, more than 40% of Californians live paycheck to paycheck. The Peace and Freedom Party stands for socialism—a system where poor and working people hold political and economic power and use it to meet the needs of the people and the planet.
The Peace and Freedom Party is the only party on the ballot representing the working people of California.
Registering PFP Means:
You reject the two-party system and the two capitalist parties, neither of which represent the interest of working people who create California’s vast wealth.
You’re joining a movement of working people to take power (and office!) so that we can use the wealth we produce to meet our needs and save the planet.
Ready for change?
Register Peace and Freedom now!
PFP: The Legacy
We Stand On
The Peace and Freedom Party was born out of the anti-Vietnam war and anti-racist struggles in the summer of 1967. It was founded by activists seeking an alternative to the two-party system. Both the capitalist parties, the Democrats and Republicans, were not only complicit in the atrocities committed in Vietnam but were also actively denying the nominations of anti-war candidates. There was no peace alternative—one had to be created.
To achieve ballot access as a political party, anti-war organizers united with the Black Panther Party to gain ballot access, which required gathering 67,000 signatures of people pledging to register as Peace and Freedom Party across the state. This alliance strengthened the Peace and Freedom Party as a true coalition between the Anti-War and Black Liberation movements. The registration drive in the final weeks of the petitioning effort totaled an incredible 105,000signatures. The Peace and Freedom Party appeared on the November 1968 presidential ballot in California for the first time in history.
Building a Movement
Today the Peace and Freedom Party gives a platform and a voice to a movement, as it did in the revolutionary 60s. A movement for peace, liberation, and justice. A movement to use California’s wealth for Californian working people and not for war and corporate greed. A movement for a socialist future.
California’s 194 billionaires hoard more wealth than 27 million of us. That's not an accident—it's a rigged system. We make California rich, but can't afford rent, medicine, or decent schools for our kids because billionaires extract the wealth we create.
Our candidates are fighting for socialism—a system where we working people have the political and economic power to meet our needs. Together we will end billionaire rule once and for all.