Our 10-point Program

  1. Make a job a Constitutional right
    Tens of millions are jobless and under-employed because the capitalists control
    employment. A decent paying job must be a legal, guaranteed right. The minimum
    wage should be raised to $20 per hour and a living income must be guaranteed for those
    who cannot work.
  2. Make free health care, free education and affordable housing
    Constitutional rights
    These are
    essentials of life and should not be run for-profit. Create a completely free
    and public health care system. Make education freecancel all student debt. Stop all foreclosures and evictions
    – end all mortgage interest payments to the banks
  3. Shut down all U.S. military bases around the world—bring all the
    troops, planes & ships home
    U.S. foreign
    policy uses the pretext of national security to enforce the imperialist
    interests of the biggest banks and corporations. That’s what is behind the
    endless wars and occupations. Use the $1 trillion military budget instead to provide
    for people’s needs here and around the world. Stop U.S. aid to Israel. End the
    blockade of Cuba.
  4. Stop racist police brutality and mass incarceration
    More than three million people are behind bars in the largest prison complex in the world.
    Mass incarceration of our youth is the real crime. End the mass incarceration of oppressed communities.
    Fully prosecute all acts of police brutality and violence.
  5. Defend our unions
    Support the right
    of all workers to have a union. Fight back against the attacks on collective
    bargaining. Pass the Employee Free Choice Act and repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. In the
    spirit of Wisconsin, rebuild a fighting—and striking—labor movement.
  6. Equality for women and free, safe, legal abortion on demand
    Stop the attack on women’s reproductive rights and defend Roe v. Wade.
    Women must have the fundamental right to choose and control their own bodies. Women still earn 22 percent less than men, and the gap is even more severe for
    Black and Latina women. Close the wage gap and end the gender division of
    labor.
  7. Full rights for all immigrants
    Abolish all
    anti-immigrant laws. Stop the raids and deportations. The government’s war on
    immigrants must end. The border wall must be dismantled.
  8. Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
    Make same-sex
    marriage a federal right—keep the movement in the streets. Fight anti-LGBT
    discrimination and violence.
  9. Save the planet—End capitalism
    We need a central
    economic plan to significantly cut greenhouse gases, clean up the environment and
    build a massive renewable energy network. The for-profit economic system
    creates incentives to pollute. No fracking, no Keystone pipeline!
  10. Seize the banks—Jail Wall Street criminals
    The banks’ vast
    wealth came from the people’s labor and tax-dollar bailout. Capitalist banking
    is a form of organized crime, rewarding greed and fraud with obscene bonuses.
    These billionaires looted and destroyed the economy. It is time to seize their assets
    and use those resources in the interests of the vast majority. Power must be
    taken out of the hands of the super-rich, and the Wall Street criminals must be
    held accountable.

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