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Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
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Vol. 84/No. 2
January 20, 2020
As the Socialist Workers Party prepares to launch its 2020 campaign for
president and vice president, the party has begun announcing a series of
candidates
for federal and state offices across the country (see below).
This is the SWP’s fighting campaign platform to confront the economic,
social and moral crisis caused by capitalism:
UNIONS/FOR A LABOR PARTY Support workers’ struggles to organize to
defend themselves, to use union power on behalf of ourselves and all
working people.
Workers need their own party, a labor party. One union for all drivers —
taxi, Uber, Lyft, other app-based and car service drivers! Support
farmworkers
in their fight to organize unions and for safe working conditions.
AMNESTY FOR ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS in the US, a life-and-death
question for the unions to unite workers and cut across divisions the
bosses use to
drive down wages. For access to driver’s licenses for all.
JOBS Fight for a federal government-financed public works program to put
millions to work at union-scale wages building roads, bridges,
hospitals, child
care centers, mass transportation and quality affordable housing workers
need. Set the minimum wage to allow workers to have a home and support a
family.
OPPOSE WASHINGTON’S WARS US hands off Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. US
troops out of Afghanistan, Korea, the Middle East. End US colonial rule
in Puerto Rico.
CUBA’S REVOLUTION — AN EXAMPLE End the US rulers’ economic war against
Cuba; US out of Guantánamo. The Cuban Revolution in 1959 showed it is
possible for
workers and farmers to transform themselves in struggle, to take
political power and uproot capitalist exploitation.
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL Fight for universal, government-guaranteed
cradle-to-grave health care, and retirement income for all.
ABORTION Defend women’s right to unrestricted access to family planning
services, including the right to safe, secure abortions.
ISRAEL & PALESTINE For the recognition of Israel and of a contiguous
Palestinian state. For the right of Jews to return to Israel as a refuge
in the face
of capitalist crisis, Jew-hatred and murderous violence.
WORKERS CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION & SAFETY Capitalism’s profit drive is
the despoiler of nature and cause of unsafe working conditions. Workers
and our unions
must fight for workers control over production and safety in the
factories, mines, railroads and all energy monopolies to protect those
on the job and
in nearby communities, and to control emissions of CO2 and other
greenhouse gases to prevent the poisoning of the air, water and soil.
Workers control
over production to prevent disasters like the Boeing 737 MAX.
“JUSTICE” SYSTEM Fight against police brutality, racist discrimination
and the entire capitalist injustice system with its frame-ups, “plea
bargains,”
onerous bail and outrageous prison sentences, all of which
disproportionately hit workers who are Black. For the right to vote for
ex-prisoners and all
workers behind bars.
POLITICAL RIGHTS Defend democratic rights — the right to vote, to free
speech and assembly and to bear arms, under attack from Democrats and
Republicans
alike. Stop FBI and other government spying, harassment and disruption.
PRISONER RIGHTS End solitary confinement. End suppression of the
Militant, books and newspapers by prison authorities. Abolish the death
penalty, an anti-working-class
weapon in the hands of the rulers.
FARMERS — WORKERS ALLIES ON THE LAND To put a halt to farm foreclosures,
bankruptcies and skyrocketing rural debt, we demand nationalization of
the land.
This puts the soil at the service of the farmers who till it, as opposed
to control by the banks and landlords. We demand the government
guarantee farmers
their costs of production, including their living expenses.
Working people must organize and act independent of the ruling
capitalists and break from their political parties — the Democrats and
Republicans. For
a labor party and a movement of millions to fight for these demands
along a course to replace the rule of the exploitative capitalist class
with a workers
and farmers government.
Join the Socialist Workers Party campaign!
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