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  • We call for socialism, which we define as a political and economic structure that is oriented by and for the benefits of the entire society, as opposed to any specific part of it.
  • We call for socialization of the entire economy and the transfer of ownership of the means of production to those who work.
  • Nationalize the Fortune 500. The only way that the problems of ecological suicide, national and international healthcare, poverty and starvation, and wars across the globe can be solved is if the ownership of the Fortune 500 and large industry are brought under the democratic control and ownership of working people.
  • We call for a radical restructuring of the economy, to include the entire financial sector, to serve the needs of the People, not profit of the Capitalists.
  • We call for a Thriving Wage, as determined by local conditions. A Living Wage is no longer enough to provide workers and families enough to both provide necessities and have enough to meet higher order needs.
  • We call for a Federal Job Guarantee, through robust civilian National Service, and the cancellation of all public contracts to the Private Sector.
  • We call for replacement of all corporate governance with democratically-elected community and worker cooperatives.
  • We call for the repeal of all “Right to Work” and any other anti-union laws at the Federal, State or local level, and fully support the efforts of all workers to join unions, collectively bargain, and receive the full value of their labor for their work.

  • We call for immediate and radical systemic action to address the climate crisis. We need a global ecosocialist reconstruction.
  • We call for the US to adopt a major role in controlling global climate change.
  • We call for the adoption of climate restoration projects across the United States, and support for those efforts world-wide.
  • We call for Nationalization of the energy sector and a rapid shift to renewable energy creation, even if it comes at the expense of economic prosperity for capitalist actors.
  • We call for the adoption of environmentally friendly agricultural techniques, such as vertical farming, that conserve resources, allow the natural environment to be restored, and reduce pesticide and fertilizer usage and runoff.
  • We call for a strengthening of the Endangered Species Act and the end of factory farming processes.
  • We call for major conservation efforts through National Service aimed at restoring natural habitats, waterways, prairies, wetlands and aquifers.
  • We call for the widescale adoption of vertical development in major cities, increased usage of free mass transit, and a reduction in the usage of personally owned vehicles.
  • We call for democratic control over the Bureau of Land Management and the National Forest Service, to ensure that public lands are not transferred to private hands for the purposes of engaging in environmentally destructive capitalist exploitation.
  • We call for robust enforcement of health and safety regulations in all dangerous or toxic jobs.

  • We call for a fully socialized and publicly owned health care system which highlights preventative medicine. We call for a democratically-administered, publicly-funded, universally-available National Health Service (NHS) focused on meeting the critical needs of each locality and region.
  • We call for the prioritization of preventative medicine, and a wholistic approach to treating illness. We seek to prioritize nutrition, healthy living conditions and physical fitness as a core focus with the aim of reducing the need for medical intervention, but when intervention is needed, we encourage universal access to that life-saving treatment, regardless of one’s ability to afford that treatment.
  • We call for public ownership of the pharmaceutical sector, along with the release of all valuable and useful patents for production world-wide.
  • Mental health is essential health. All dental health is essential health. We call for full funding and expansion of all health programs, including mental health programs, as well as dental, vision, and gender affirming care.

  • We call for the replacement of the outdated, market-oriented Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security programs with a new democratically-administered and public-funded National Pension System (NPS).
  • When used in tandem with the NHS, will allow those with illness, temporary or permanent disabilities, those who have lost work due to layoffs or career transition, and those who are elderly to maintain access to quality health care and continue to have enough money to live comfortably.
  • The NPS will be a universal benefit, offered to all Americans over the age of 18 and can be expanded to offer families of dependent children money to help raise their kids as well.
  • All Americans would be eligible to receive a NPS account which would give them access to money equal to a thriving wage at full time, if they were employed.
  • To discourage hoarding and encourage spending, there will be no saving permitted in the NPS: While the money is there to use as needed, all money not used at the end of a term (whether it be at the end of a temporary period of joblessness, or at the end of some set amount of time) will be zeroed out and the fund will be replenished to the full amount at the beginning of the next term.

  • We call for major public investment of low-cost, high-quality housing.
  • We call for national rent control.
  • We call for the Housing-First approach to fighting homelessness.
  • We call for comprehensive, community based programs designed to prevent homelessness, including major investment in addressing the root causes of homelessness. Some of these causes include under-employment, wage theft, passive and active discrimination in renting and financing, requiring credit checks for rent, and lease laws that favor landlords against tenants.
  • We call for the rise of tenants’ unions across the country, with legal power to advocate on behalf of tenants and to address tenants concerns. A tenants union will be able to counteract the power of landlords’ consortiums and de facto cartels which are beginning to appear in this nation.

  • We call for full public funding of the K-12 education system, supported from the general fund and not from property taxes, and roll back of school choice policies.
  • We call for the defunding of private, for profit schools, as well as withdrawal of public support for religious education.
  • We call for free public day care, pre-K and post-secondary education.
  • We call for the immediate forgiveness of all student loan debt.
  • We call for a more egalitarian model of education in our K-12 and collegiate system that accommodates a wide range of teaching and learning styles.
  • We call for substantive student representation on all school boards.

  • We call for social, political and economic equality for all people in the United States.
  • We call for the end of all forms of legal discrimination against any person or group of people at all levels, to include workplace, housing, and education discrimination.
  • We call for public support for all gender-affirming health care and education.
  • We call for reparations to descendants of slavery and to Native Americans, at a rate determined by these communities themselves, as an effort to repay a debt owed by our whole society for stolen labor, stolen land, stolen traditions, and stolen human dignity, and as a measure to promote conciliation and economic equality.
  • We call for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, along with any federal, state or local laws or barriers that restrict a woman’s right to determine her own reproductive health.
  • We call for strengthening laws that combat violence against women and increase support for women’s and children’s shelters, and programs to protect all from sexual or relationship abuse.
  • We call for at least 24 months of paid federal parental leave.
  • We call for adoption of social organizational methods that promote women and minorities into positions of leadership and encourage participation in discussion and decision-making.

  • We call for the full public funding of all campaigns and the banning of private contributions, including self-contribution, to political campaigns.
  • We call for the introduction of proportional representation and ranked choice voting at all levels of government.
  • We call for the abolition of the Electoral College.
  • We call for the restoration of all voting rights for all.
  • We call for full representation in Congress for all reservations and recognized Native Nations, US territories, the District of Columbia.
  • We support the vigorous prosecution of political corruption and of destructive economic behavior by corporate executives.
  • We call for extensive civics education, with the aim of teaching Americans what their rights are from an early age, and to encourage people to demand those rights.
  • We call for the institution of substantive democracy in the United States, where people have the ability to actually influence, in a meaningful way, the policy of their government, to fully participate without barriers to that participation, and see their own policy preferences have an opportunity to even be considered in Government.

  • We call for a justice system focused on rehabilitation, and the end of for-profit prisons.
  • We call for the decriminalization of drugs and the end to the “War on Drugs.” mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines and “3 Strike” laws.
  • We call for the federal legalization of marijuana and all other naturally occurring substances that are currently criminalized. We call for the immediate release of all individuals held in federal and state prisons for non-violent drug offenses.
  • We call for the abolition of the death penalty and capital punishment, excepting only those officials entrusted by the Public who are found to be guilty of corruption.
  • We call for the release of all political prisoners held by the United States or any State and the immediate release of all non-violent criminals. We call for the immediate release and vacating the convictions of Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and all other prisoners of conscience.
  • We call for the rigorous enforcement of whistleblower protection, the end of federal prosecution of whistleblowers, and the dropping of all charges against any person, whether they be a US citizen or a foreign national, who have released or published classified material.

  • We call for an immediate 90% cut in the Defense Department’s Budget. We call for full funding of the Veterans’ Administration, to include the provision of mental health care to Veterans.
  • We call for the end to all US intervention abroad.
  • We call for the end of the War on Terrorism, the PATRIOT ACT and AEDEPA and the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
  • We call for the end to all US military and political intervention in Africa, and the abolition of Africom.
  • We call for the closing of the Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas.
  • We call for the immediate end of the illegal embargo against Cuba, and the immediate normalization of relations with the Government in Havana, without preconditions. We call for the immediate repeal of the Helms-Burton Act.
  • We call for the end of US participation in collective security arrangements and the dismantling of all US military installations overseas.
  • We call for the end of all US military aid to foreign governments, including supplying weaponry and training to both foreign governments and police forces here in the US.
  • We call for an international treaty outlawing the use and possession of all weapons of mass destruction and a unilateral nuclear disarmament in the US.
  • We call for the end of military recruitment in schools and an end in the requirement to register for the Draft.
  • We call for an end to the IMF and the World Bank, and call for the cancellation of all foreign debt.
  • We call for a ceasefire in Palestine, and support the Right to Return for Palestinians.
  • We call for the end to US support for the racist apartheidist Government in Israel its genocidal blockade of Gaza, its settlement in the West Bank.
  • We support the right of all people of self-liberation and self-determination.