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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN STATEMENT
Why workers should fight for control of production
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Vol. 84/No. 6
February 17, 2020
As part of strengthening the self-confidence, fighting capacities and
class consciousness of working people, Socialist Workers Party
candidates for president
and vice president Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett, explain why the
fight for workers control of production is a key part of advancing our
struggles
against the bosses and their capitalist government.
It is our labor that creates all the wealth that the bosses take from us
every day. Throughout industry they raise line speeds and cut corners on
safety.
The bosses and the parties that serve them have no concern about how
their drive for profits endangers our lives and limbs, undermines our
quality of life,
nor how it destroys the environment and prevents us from conserving the
earth’s patrimony for future generations.
From time to time workers are able to wrest some control over safety on
the job from the bosses as we organize and build unions, the key
defensive organizations
of the working class, and extend solidarity and use union power. Such
steps can make a real difference to our capacity to prevent injuries and
worse. No
worker has to die on the job!
As long as production, transportation and distribution remain under the
control of the bosses, the productive capacities of human labor will be
twisted
to serve profits, not human needs. The bosses lie about all aspects of
production — to keep us from learning about what we are being exposed to
and, more
importantly, when they lie about their real expenses and profits to
press us for concessions.
“The immediate tasks of workers control,” explains Russian revolutionary
leader Leon Trotsky in the
Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution,
adopted by the Socialist Workers Party in 1938, is to “explain the
debits and credits of society, beginning with individual business
undertakings; to
determine the actual share of the national income appropriated by
individual capitalists and by the exploiters as a whole,” and, “finally,
to reveal to
all members of society that unconscionable squandering of human labor
which is the result of capitalist anarchy and the naked pursuit of profits.”
The fight for workers control of production is a school for the working
class, as we uncover the bosses’ business secrets and reality of their
economic
relations. As we learn — and become more confident through our struggles
— we fight for deeper and deeper inroads over all aspects of production.
It is a necessary and essential step along the road to reorganizing all
of society, as we fight to take the planning and direction of the entire
economy
into our own hands, something only the overthrow of capitalist class
rule and establishment of a workers and farmers government will make
possible.
That liberating perspective is what the SWP’s presidential ticket and
candidates around the country will be explaining. Join the campaign!
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