The Party for Socialism and Liberation is running activist and teacher Frank Lara for the 12th Congressional District to amplify this growing movement.
In an arena where the Democrats claim to own anything and anyone progressive and the Republicans face no real threat to their reactionary, sexist, homophobic and racist politics, our campaign will offer people a real, socialist choice.
We hope to change the tone of politics in San Francisco and strengthen the people’s movements. Our electoral fight is based on the program below. Unlike liberals who make the impossible promise that their policies will help everyone, our platform aims at meeting the needs of the working class, the poor, the unemployed, and the oppressed.
In the city of San Francisco, a wave of gentrification is displacing hundreds of long-time residents, as real-estate speculators bypass renter protections and evict entire buildings through a California law known as the Ellis Act. As a result, workers are forced to commute longer hours around the Bay Area in order to maintain a life with a meager wage as high-tech companies are welcomed with tax-free perks and open use of publicly funded city services.
The two local public transit options, MUNI and BART, find themselves deeper and deeper in the red as local, state and federal funds diminish each year. The result is higher fares for the public and a vicious anti-union campaign meant to place the blame for the lack of funding on overworked and underpaid workers.
Racist police brutality continues at epidemic levels in the Bay Area, California and across the country.
But resentment towards these injustices is building, leading to resistance. Already, we have seen the immigrants’ rights movement shut down the ICE bus, the anti-war movement take to the streets against a possible war in Syria, and the anti-eviction movement occupied foreclosed homes and the offices of realtors. San Francisco has had enough of words, we want action.
• End all evictions and foreclosures!
• Free public transit!
• A $15 national minimum wage and $20 S.F. minimum wage!
• Free and universal quality healthcare without insurance companies!
• Full rights for immigrants; amnesty for all!
• Free and quality education from preschool to university!
• End the wars and bring the troops home!
• Tax the rich and make the banks pay!
