Founding The Labor Party
Mazzocchi founded the Labor Party in 1996. For several decades, Mazzocchi had been convinced that corporations and entrenched political interests were not serving the best interests of working people. Throughout the 1980s, Mazzocchi ran an organization known as the Labor Party Advocates, a group of individuals committed to the goal of organizing a political party to support national health care, Social Security, labor rights and other workers' issues.
Mazzocchi founded the Labor Party in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1996. He had won the support of nine international unions and hundreds of local unions and central labor councils. Their membership totaled more than a million workers.
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