Carl,
If you can find today's episode of Moderate Rebels, you'd probably enjoy
listening to it as much as I did. Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, and Aaron Mate
talk about the Democratic Party, voting, the convention, and Russiagate. I felt
comfortable with everything that they said.
Miriam
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Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 2:26 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
It's a damn fine Platform. One every working class American should support.
But, given the "Fog" spread by the Ruling Class through their Mass Media, many
Working Class Americans oppose that which is in their best interest. As much
as I would like to see such a Platform be voted in, I am a realist. Four years
ago I voted for Jill Stein and got Donald Trump. Of course we live in a
"safe" blue state, so I could vote for other than Joe Biden, but voting for a
Platform without a strong Political Party is like spitting in the wind. I tell
myself that I am a spectator in this election process. I vote, because it's
important to not lose that right, but at this time it is merely an exercise in
futility.
Looking back over the past 85 years, I can say with certainty that the
Capitalist form of government is not going to be of any help to the Working
Class. A system that responds to the needs of the majority, rather than to the
needs of the minority, will need to come into power. That will most likely
never be allowed to happen through our election system.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/19/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
https://themilitant.com/2020/08/15/socialist-workers-party-2020-campai
gn-platform/
August 24, 2020
JOIN THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY 2020 CAMPAIGN!
WORKERS NEED A UNION IN EVERY WORKPLACE. We need to fight growing
employer attacks on our jobs, wages and working conditions. Build
solidarity with workers’ struggles to organize and defend themselves.
Use union power on our own behalf, and for all those suffering blows
by the bosses and their government. One union for all drivers — taxi,
Uber, Lyft and other app-based and car service drivers!
WORKERS NEED THEIR OWN PARTY, A LABOR PARTY. For a class break from
the parties of the bosses, the Democrats and Republicans. A labor
party can organize workers in their millions to fight in our own
interest and in the interests of all those exploited and oppressed by
capital. It can chart a course to take political power out of the
hands of the capitalist rulers and build a workers and farmers government.
WORKERS CONTROL OF PRODUCTION. Workers need to fight to wrest control
of production out of the hands of the bosses. Employers care about
profits, not the dangerous conditions we’re forced to work under. This
is the only road to take control of and enforce safety and health on the job.
Demand the bosses open their books for inspection by workers and
consumers. Workers control of production is a school for learning to
run the economy ourselves, in the interests of all producers, a
crucial step alongside building a labor party to fight to take political
power.
MILLIONS NEED JOBS TODAY! Fight for a federal government-financed
public works program to put millions to work at union-scale wages
building hospitals, schools, child care centers, mass transportation,
quality affordable housing and much more that workers need. Set the
minimum wage to allow workers to have a home and support a family.
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.
See directory to contact nearest party campaign office.
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.
FOR RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL & 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.
CUBA’S REVOLUTION — AN EXAMPLE. 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.
End the US rulers’ economic war against Cuba; US out of Guantánamo.
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. Fight for universal, government-guaranteed
cradle-to-grave health care, and retirement income for all.
FIGHT POLICE BRUTALITY! Demand that cops who kill and brutalize people
be prosecuted. Fight 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.
WOMEN’S RIGHT TO ABORTION. Defend women’s right to unrestricted access
to family planning services, including the right to safe, secure abortions.
DEFEND POLITICAL RIGHTS. Defend the right to vote, to free speech and
assembly and to bear arms, under attack from Democrats and Republicans
alike. Defend freedom of worship. Stop FBI and other government
spying, harassment and disruption. No to middle-class radical “cancel culture”
and their thuggery against people they deem “politically incorrect.”
DEFEND RIGHTS OF PRISONERS. End solitary confinement. End suppression
of the Militant, books and other 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 monopolization by the banks and
landlords. We demand the government guarantee farmers their costs of
production, including their living expenses.
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