Campaign Literature—General Election


Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Campaign Committee
   
Brochure, opens to  8 1/2" x 11", Fall 2016.  (also in Spanish)

ABOLISH CAPITALISM
BLACK LIVES MATTER
FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM

Moorehead-Lilly '16
WORKERS WORLD PARTY

What We Stand for
What We Fight for.

ABOLISH CAPITALISM - FIGHT FOR REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
DISARM THE POLICE, ICE & THE PENTAGON
STAND WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

10 POINT ELECTION PROGRAM

1. End the war on Black people. Reparations now. Stand with and defend the Black Lives Matter Movement.
We stand in solidarity with and support the demands of the Black Lives Matter uprising, including jailing killer cops, abolishing the police and the historic necessity of reparations for Black people here and worldwide. Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples have the right to fight racist oppression by any means necessary. The rebellions in Baltimore and Ferguson were righteous acts of indignation and should be defended by the working-class movement.

2. End racism. Support self-determination for Black, Latino/a, Indigenous, Asian and Arab peoples.
The U.S. has a long history of violating the rights of the oppressed. The southwest part of this country was stolen from Mexico, creating an internal colony of Mexican/Chi­cano people. Genocide and robbery of the lands of Native people are part and parcel of the brutal history of the U.S. Japanese Americans experienced criminal intern­ment camps, and Filipinos in the U.S. suffer tremendous exploitation here and in their homeland. Chinese people were made indentured servants to build this country's railroads. And Puerto Rico and Hawaii were overthrown and lost their sovereignty.

3. Abollsh capitalism - fight for a socialist revolution.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. We need revolutionary socialism -a system of people's power, where the workers and oppressed peoples, not the banks and corporations, own and control everything, where the needs of the 99% are filled, not profit for the 1%. Although progressive  changes should be supported, they do not go far enough; the whole rotten system must be overturned. With the profit drive eliminated and the power in the hands of the masses of people who create society's wealth, great advances are possible. Everyone can have a job at a living wage or guaranteed income for those who can't work. Everyone can have free, quality health care, free, quality education through college, affordable housing, and the infrastructure can be repaired. All the ills created by capitalism can finally begin to be dismantled once human needs, not corporate greed, are society's central organiz­ing principle.

4. Stop the deportations and raids. Full rights for all migrants. End lslamophobla. Open the borders for people; close the borders for profiteers and warmongers.
No worker is illegal, whether they are from Mexico, Hondu­ras, Syria, Haiti or anywhere. What must be illegal is the role of U.S. corporations and the military in provoking instability and imposing misery, causing people from those countries to seek refuge. No racist attacks on immigrants and Mus­lims. Every migrant should be accorded full civil and human rights. Shut down U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce­ment. Instead of building walls on the U.S./Mexican border, open the borders for free and safe travel. Stop the so-called drug war that creates horrific conditions of incarceration and violence and fills the bankers' coffers.

5. Food, water, housing, clothing, health care, education and childcare for all. Solidarity with homeless people. Moratorium NOW! to stop all foreclosures, evictions, utlllty shut-offs. Justice for the people of Fllnt, Mich. Free education for all, full funding for publlc schools. Job training with a stipend. Cancel student debt. Defend the right of student athletes to strike for a living wage.
No one in the world's wealthiest country should be hungry. Restore and expand all food programs. Free, clean water is a human right. Capitalist housing creates wealthy landlords and gentrification, a new form of colonialism. We want permanent, quality, affordable housing for all. Abolish health-care-for-profit and replace it with a publicly owned health care system with free medical and dental care. Jail the pharmaceutical profiteers. Quality public education is being systematically eliminated via forced testing, Com­mon Core and charter schools. Young people, especially youth of color, are denied education and sent to prison in ever increasing numbers. College should be free. Student debt, the trillions of dollars the federal government and banks are robbing from millions of workers, should be immediately cancelled.

6. Women need full liberation in all facets of society. Equal pay for comparable work. Reproductive justice,including the right to abortion. Restore all welfare programs. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer liberation now. Stop the murders of trans women. Full rights for all queer people.
We demand equal pay for equivalent work. Women's con­trol of their own bodies requires full reproductive rights: free, legal, accessible abortion, birth control, no forced sterilization and full support needed to raise healthy children. Abuse, rape, incest and violence must end. Fully funded safe houses are needed. Stop the objectification and commodification of women. Federal law banning arti-LGBTQ discrimination is urgent. End the murders of transgender women of color; support the calls for LGBTQ people to leave the military and for LGBTQ communities fighting displacement and gentrification. Demand access to employment and health care that is sensitive to LGBTQ people; resources devoted to eliminating LGBTQ youth homelessness; and the right of all LGBTQ people to define their families. We support LGBTQ people in the fight for self-determination, trans and gender liberation, and against co-optation of LGBTQ issues such as "pinkwashing" by Israel.

7. Change the system, not the cllmate. Make the Pentagon and oll corporations pay for the destruction of the planet. Reparations for cllmate victims of Hurricane Katrina and elsewhere. Immediate support for cllmate refugees. Free the land!
Global warming and its destruction fueled by profit-driven corporations is not a future problem; it's here now. Millions of people are affected by loss of homes and livelihoods. And poor communities -already exposed to racial and class ex­ploitation -are the most affected in the U.S. and worldwide. The banks, multinational corporations and the Pentagon - the world's worst polluter - must be held accountable. But we can't wait for them to stop climate change. We need socialism. Only a socialist system can handle the worldwide crisis of rising sea levels, droughts, extreme weather, lack of food and water, etc. The number one sustainable country in the world is a socialist one: Cuba. All of humanity, including non-human species, is at risk, and only extreme measures can save us and other species. Socialism is the only system capable of taking those measures.

8. Defeat imperiallsm. Shut down the Pentagon. U.S. hands off Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Bulld international solldarity!
U.S. imperialism has 1,000 military bases and the largest military budget in history-all to impose capitalist domination globally. We oppose all U.S. wars, invasions, occupations and drone attacks, regardless of the media lies and justifications. We oppose sanctions, economic destabilizations and all U.S. "free trade" agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which breaks unions, wrecks the environment and violates national sovereignty. We demand independence, reparations for countries like Haiti and canceling the debt from Puerto Rico to Africa to Greece. We oppose NATO, the war on Syria and the encir­clement of Russia and China, threats against People's Korea and the revolutionary movement in Venezuela. We demand justice for the Ayotzinapa 43 and an end to the drug war in Mexico and everywhere. We support the Palestinian peo­ple's full national liberation, sovereignty and right to return. We call for an end to all U.S. aid to Israel and all reactionary governments worldwide.

9. Full employment and decent jobs or income for all regardless of race, religion, age, gender, disability orarrest history. End all forms of austerity worldwide. Support the movement for $15 and a union. Abolish "right to work" (for less) laws. Repeal Taft Hartley. Stop killing disabled people, especially those with emotional disabilities.
Wall Street owes the people for the destruction the 1% has caused. Stop privatization and defend pensions. A trillion­dollar plan is needed to rebuild cities like Detroit and Balti­more that have been destroyed by criminal predatory lend­ing and capitalist restructuring that eliminated millions of union jobs. Workers produce all of society's wealth, yet only get back a small fraction in wages. A fighting union for every worker. All workers have the right to strike. Equal opportu­nity in transportation, housing, education and employment for people with disabilities, and accessible wheelchair ramps, elevators and buses to provide equal access. Minimum wage laws must include disabled people, who sometimes earn only 22 cents an hour. Cops who kill with impunity disabled people of color and disabled LGBTQ people, particularly the emotionally and psychologically disabled, must be brought to justice. We demand a system where all contribute accord­ing to their abilities and receive according to their needs.

10. End the prison-industrial complex and mass incarcera­tions of Black and Latino youth. Abolish solitary con­finement and the death penalty. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ana Belen Montes, Leonard Peltier, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Rev. Edward Pinkney, Aafia Siddiqui, Rasmea Odeh and all political prisoners. Stop FBI harassment of activists.
Prisons are internment camps for working-class people, especially Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples. Tear down the prison walls! People who are incarcerated need housing, job training, health care, and social services, none of which are offered in prison camps or the probation system. The GEO Group, Corrections Corporation of America and deten­tion centers for immigrants should be shut down. Dismantle ICE and release all immigrant detainees. Meanwhile, prisoner demands for decent food, an end to solitary confinement, minimum wage for labor, etc., must be met. The U.S. gov­ernment has systematically attacked freedom fighters who organize and fight for a more just society. Free them all! Stop NSA spying programs, government surveillance and sabotage of political movements.


ABOUT WWP
Workers World Party was formed in 1959, the same year as the Cuban Revolution. We are a Marxist/Leninist revolutionary socialist party that believes the working class and the oppressed are agents of change. With global unity and solidarity of people's movements against imperialism, capitalist exploitation, racism and all forms of oppression, a new world can be created: a socialist order. The only thing that can save humanity at this critical juncture is worldwide revolution, with
the goal of abolishing capitalism.

We fight for socialism. Socialism means the workers, the oppressed communities, students and youth take over the economy and run it in a planned way for human need and not profit. Socialism means that quality health care, housing, education and jobs are fundamental human rights. Socialism means getting rid altogether of the banks, the capitalists, the exploitation of workers and all forms of oppression. Socialism means an end to borders between working people and international sol­idarity, not endless war and intervention. Nothing short of socialist revolution will do.

So why run? The Moorehead/Lilly campaign is not about elections, because elections under capitalism never change anything substantial. It's not about fake promises to offer slightly more crumbs to workers and the oppressed. It's about organizing to change the whole system. It's about reaching out to workers, young people, the oppressed communities across the country to say: Join us in the biggest, most important campaign of all. The campaign for a revolutionary socialist future.

Our ideas for the future are very different from those of candidates who talk about "democratic socialism." They're for leaving capitalism, with its inherent racism, oppression and exploitation, in place. We fight instead to overturn capitalism root and branch and replace it with a planned economy run by the people. People's power.

Join us!
To contact the campaign, to book the candidates to speak at your campus, union hall, community group or house meeting, or for more information, contact the Moorehead/Lilly Campaign Manager Teresa Gutierrez at 917.740.2628. Visit workers.org/wwp/ or email wwp2016@workers.org.

Program Issued February 24, 2016


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