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What
Socialists Demand . . .
 Bring all troops home
now from Iraq,
Afghanistan,
Pakistan,
Haiti,
Yemen,
and everywhere else in the world. Close all military bases.
Cut all aid and political ties to Apartheid Israel.
No blood for oil.
End all military and
military-related spending. Use the money saved towards a massive
jobs program designed to combat the climate crisis and make an
environmentally healthy and sustainable economy. Billions to care
for veterans returning from war.
Place the largest banks, financial
institutions and corporations under public ownership and workers
control. Organize workers committees to direct investment and
production towards human needs instead of profit.
Reduce all carbon emissions world-wide
by 90% by 2020. Reorganize every sector of the economy – food,
housing, transportation, manufacturing, city design – in a coordinated
fashion to radically reduce greenhouse emissions while improving the
standard of living for all working people. Eliminate the use of
nuclear power and hydro-carbons from energy production. Convert the
war industry into renewable green industry. Retrain all workers
from polluting industries for jobs in a carbon-neutral economy.
Free universal health care. Drop
the insurance companies and establish a single-payer system. Use
the savings to provide health-care to the uninsured and retrain insurance
workers for new jobs. Drop all medical debt.
Create full employment by reducing the
work week while increasing pay and spreading out the available work.
Establish a mass jobs program to fill in the gaps. Triple the
federal minimum wage.
Free access to quality education and
retraining for life. Drop all student debt. 100% tax on all
annual income above $250,000. No tax on incomes below $50,000 a
year.
Quality housing for all with affordable
rents. End all home foreclosures. Turn all vacant properties
into homes, gardens, parks, and other common areas.
End racist discrimination and
oppression. Preferential hiring of Black, Puerto Rican, Latino, and
female workers to make up for centuries of marginalization from the
better jobs. Reparations for the African-American, Puerto-Rican,
and Mexican-American communities in compensation for wealth stolen over
centuries.
We defend the right of all oppressed
nationalities to control their own communities. We give full
support to independent political action by the Black, Puerto Rican, and
Latino communities, as well as all other oppressed peoples.
Amnesty, citizenship and equal rights
for all immigrant workers and students regardless of immigration
status. End the raids, E-verify and all attacks on
immigrants. No guest-worker program. An injury to one is an
injury to all!
End the oppression of women. Reopen
closed women’s shelters. Defend Roe v. Wade. Repeal the Hyde
amendment and all other restrictions on a woman’s right to choose
abortion. Free birth control and abortion on demand.
Free 24-hour child care centers controlled by those who use
them. End the wage disparity that exists for the work done by
women.
Repeal the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act and all other restrictions on democratic
and civil liberties. End all restrictions on the right to organize,
assemble and protest.
Abolish the death penalty. Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lynne Stewart, Leonard Peltier and all other political
prisoners. Money for schools and rehabilitation, not for jails and
incarceration.
End all discrimination based on sexual
preference and gender identity. Create housing for those escaping
discrimination from family or peers. Legalize same-sex marriages.
Abolish “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
For a labor party based on reinvigorated
and democratic trade unions.
For socialism – a society organized on
the basis of human needs.
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