It does have some shortcomings, especially if it's an ideal toward which one
works with the knowledge that we'll never get there.
Why did they omit Bolivia from the "hands off" section, also Iraq and Syria?
Why not mention removing all those 800 plus US bases throughout the world?
Why not put a ceiling on how much income one individual US citizen can have? Do
we need billionaires?
Why not say flatly that we will end the use of all fossil fuels by a specific
year in order to save the planet?
And what about prison abolition, something that many groups are working for?
Why should there be a Jewish State and a Palestinian state? Many on the left
are way beyond that now and want a one secular state where Jews and
Palestinians can live in peace with equal rights.
Where is any discussion of how the US will function economically in relation to
other countries?
I think it's dated and shortsighted, at best.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 12:17 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
A solid platform, well worth supporting.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/17/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2020/01/11/socialist-workers-party-2020-campai
gn-platform-2/ Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform article
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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