OUR PROGRAM

END CAPITALISM BEFORE IT ENDS US

WHY WE NEED TO BUILD A SOCIALIST MOVEMENT

Every issue dealt with in this platform, and every injustice working people experience in society, boils down to the question of who has power. Under the current capitalist system, a tiny handful of ultra-wealthy bankers and corporate executives have the power and will to do anything to maintain it. We stand for socialism — a system where poor and working people hold political and economic power and use it to meet the needs of all people and to preserve the planet. So many problems could be solved by measures that are common sense to any worker, but are unthinkable under the rule of the billionaires. 

Humanity is hurtling off the tracks towards massive existential crises — climate catastrophe, massive job losses due to unmanaged artificial intelligence, and war between the US and other nuclear-armed powers. The capitalist government has no answers to these crises, and is in fact driving them forward, acting as a servant for the Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Oil and the Military-Industrial Complex. In every crisis that the people face, whether it’s hurricanes, wildfires or pandemics, the government has proven itself to be totally inept and to only care about profit. They can’t steer us away from crises — they are part of them. 

The government made concessions in 2020 to prevent the system from collapsing, which actually helped people –— a moratorium on all evictions and utilities shutoffs, suspended student debt payments, expanded Medicaid, expanded unemployment assistance, and stimulus checks, among other things. But instead of extending these measures, it rushed to immediately eliminate them, and now housing, public health and debt are in even worse shape than before. 58% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the cost of everything has skyrocketed, and the ten richest men have doubled their fortunes. But both parties are saying that nothing can be done — that this is just how the economy works. 

That’s a lie. The resources exist to resolve the problems humanity faces. The only things that stand in the way are the politicians that manage affairs for the billionaires who generate super-profits from workers all over the globe. 

Instead of a tiny clique of billionaires and hedge funds running and deciding everything, the diverse working class needs to control the commanding heights of the economy and come up with long-term plans to get out of the mess they created. Only a revolution, not an election, can end the rule of the billionaires once and for all, but this program shows how we can get started.

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