Socialist Workers · U.S. Senate, New Jersey
General election Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026
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Also running: Cory Booker (D) · Veronica Fernandez (I) · Justin Murphy (R)
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What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
The Socialist Workers Party unconditionally supports the decriminalization of abortion and joins others in fighting for it. Our position flows from our support for the emancipation of women, from all forms of oppression. This is a part of a broader fight for women's right to reproductive and maternal healthcare, sex education (not gender indoctrination), and access to the safest and most reliable contraceptive methods, as well as safe and legal abortion. There can be no road to women’s emancipation or Black liberation separate and apart from a working-class struggle to confront capitalism’s social crisis. Today the fight for affordable family formation that includes living-wage jobs with regular hours and safe work conditions is key. Only with social and economic security can a woman freely decide when and if to have a child.
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
The Democrats and Republicans seek to divide working people, by blaming immigrants for the problems caused by the workings of capitalism. A union-led fight for amnesty for all workers in the US without papers is needed to unify the working class. The SWP opposes raids, deportations and brutal treatment of immigrant workers at the hands of ICE agents. Winning an amnesty would end, for good, their second-class status. SWP members have joined actions at Delaney Hall, Newark, to protest the treatment of immigrants held there. We’ve joined fights by families against attempts to have their loved ones deported. We will continue joining these struggles—which are in the interests of all workers—after the election. Neither federal nor state governments have any right to trample on the constitutional protections of any person in the US, whether they have papers or not. That includes protection from unreasonable search and seizure by ICE.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
Under capitalism health care is organized to maximize profits, not to provide people with the care they need. The Cuban Revolution shows how health care can be universal—but only because millions of workers and peasants took power transforming social relations and themselves. We back the strikes by thousands of nurses and health care workers in the US who are fighting for more hiring so patients get properly treated. The hospital bosses have increased the work load on nurses putting patients’ lives at risk. Striking nurses have shown the kind of militant struggle that is needed. You will find SWP candidates on their picket lines building solidarity with these fights. Advances for the working class don't come from begging capitalist politicians to make changes. They come through struggles by working people and our unions, and by organizing —independently of the bosses and their twin parties, the Democrats and Republicans.
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
Hundreds of millions worldwide have no electrical power. Nuclear power, which produces no greenhouse gas emissions, could solve this and improve lives, provided it is run under workers control, not under the capitalist profit system. The scale of death and destruction from wildfires, earthquakes, floods is not inevitable. The course of capitalist governments—not “climate change”—turns extreme weather into social disasters. Capitalists’ profit priorities override any concern for working people. They decide not to build flood barriers or to reinforce housing in regions prone to earthquakes. Unbridled capitalist development fouls the planet’s earth, waters and air—exploiting both labor and nature. The bosses’ dog-eat-dog system forces workers and farmers to live in the most flood-prone areas. In catastrophes like the floods in Nepal or earthquakes in Colombia, millions are left to fend for themselves, relying only on each other’s working-class solidarity.
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
Working people face assaults on our wages and conditions, growing uncertainty and preparations by the US and rival capitalist powers for more wars. Their spreading conflicts are fueling the march toward World War III. The road to prevent that is for the working class to replace capitalist rule with a government of our own and to run society for human need, not the bosses’ profits. The Socialist Workers Party is building a party capable of leading millions of workers to make that possible, as part of the fight for a socialist world. The US oil blockade and threats against Cuba are aimed at overthrowing the socialist revolution there. Working people in the US should stand with fellow workers in Cuba and demand US Hands Off Cuba! There are two wars in the Mideast. Washington’s war is for plunder and domination. Israel’s war is to prevent Tehran from carrying out another Holocaust. US troops out of the Middle East! Defend Israel's right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
The Socialist Workers Party calls on fellow workers to join us at strike picket lines and to build solidarity with unions wherever workers are fighting the bosses’ attacks on our wages and conditions. Workers need a course that strengthens confidence in our own worth and our ability to fight and organize together. We call for a public works program to provide jobs at union-scale wages to build hospitals, childcare centers and other infrastructure. We call for a shorter workweek with no cut in pay, with regular hours. In the face of skyrocketing prices for food, electricity, rent we demand automatic cost-of-living increases in union contracts, pensions, and social security. Working people need to break from the bosses’ Democratic and Republican parties that uphold their profit system and their class rule. Workers have the capacities to run society to meet the needs of the great majority, but only if we unite in our millions to take power into our own hands.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
The 1965 Voting Rights Act barred measures preventing Blacks from voting. It was a product of the massive Black-led working-class movement that destroyed racial segregation. Despite liberal hysteria, that conquest has not been reversed. The bosses’ parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are determined to maintain their political monopoly and keep working people trapped in a set-up where the only choice is which one of them is the lesser evil. They raise petitioning requirements to try to keep working-class parties like the SWP off the ballot, while their media severely restricts coverage of the SWP. Over 4 million former felons cannot vote. The fight to restore their right to vote is important for the entire working class. Workers can never trust parties that defend the bosses’ exploitation of our labor and promote their wars abroad. We need a party of our own, but we don’t have to start from scratch. The SWP exists, forged over decades in the class struggle. Help us to build it!
Joanne Kuniansky is not a current member of Congress, so there is no congressional roll-call record to show. State legislative or local records are not yet compiled.