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Platform of the Peace and Freedom Party (Adopted March 2003, Last Modified November 2013) Platform of the Peace and Freedom Party (Adopted March 2003, last modified November 2013) The Peace and Freedom Party, founded in 1967, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony. We offer this summary of our immediate and long-range goals: Socialism We support social ownership and democratic management of industry and natural resources. Under capitalism, the proceeds of labor go to the profits of the wealthy few. With socialism, production is planned to meet human needs. To us, socialism is workers' democracy, including the principle that all officials are elected, recallable at any time, and none receives more than a worker's wage. Socialism can only be brought about when we, the working class, unite and act as a body in our own interests. Our goals cannot be achieved by electoral means alone. We participate in mass organization and direct action in neighborhoods, workplaces, unions and the armed forces everywhere. While organizing for the future, we work in the present, challenging the system with the following immediate and transitional goals: Labor and Full Employment • No prison labor for private profit. Living wage and full union rights for any prison labor. • We demand a socially useful job at union pay Defend workers' rights to organize, form union levels or a guaranteed dignified income for • caucuses, strike, and boycott. everyone. • No replacement of striking workers. • We support the establishment of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to alleviate poverty and • Federally-funded public works programs to homelessness. rebuild the nation's infrastructure and restore the environment. • We call for a 30-hour work week for 40 hours' pay and abolition of forced overtime. • International solidarity of workers against international capitalist schemes such as NAFTA • We demand a legally mandated annual paid and WTO in defense of jobs, wages, working vacation of at least 4 weeks. conditions and environmental laws. • We demand expansion and enforcement of job International trade agreements must guarantee the health and safety laws. We call for the restoration • protection of workers and democratic rights in all of all labor rights previously won by women and participating countries. their extension to men as well. • A rank and file socialist-oriented labor movement • We demand paid parental leaves and time off to mobilize working-class people to assume work for childcare. ownership and control of the economy. Peace and Freedom Platform, Page 2 of 6 society. We must ensure equal rights and Peace and International Justice responsibilities in child raising. Unions must do more to organize women and promote women's The drive for greater profits by multi-national leadership. We demand: corporations which direct U.S. foreign policy is a major cause of war. We stand for peace between • Adoption of an equal rights amendment. nations and the right of all peoples to self- • Equal pay for equal work, and for work of determination. We support an ongoing socialist comparable worth. transformation everywhere. We therefore call for: • Enforce non-discrimination in hiring and • The U.S. to renounce nuclear first strike, and take promotion with affirmative action where the initiative toward global disarmament by necessary. eliminating all of its nuclear, chemical and Provision of free, high-quality, community- biological weapons. • controlled child care. • No U.S. intervention anywhere. End all support Convenient provision of safe, free birth control and aid to repressive regimes and all military and • information and materials to men and women of police training aid everywhere. End efforts to any age. destabilize foreign governments. End U.S.- directed economic warfare against other countries. • Free abortion on demand. Abolish the CIA, NSA, AID and other agencies • No forced abortions or sterilizations. for interference inother countries' internal affairs. Withdraw all U.S. troops and weapons from all • Safe prenatal care. other countries. • End violence against women. • Stop all U.S. arms exports and trade. Ending Racism and National Oppression • Dissolve all military pacts. • Convert from military to peaceful production; Accompanying the continuing economic crisis, we reallocate the resulting "peace dividend" for social see a rise in racial discrimination, increased benefit. terrorism against racially and nationally oppressed people, and retrenchment in civil rights. Minority • Abolish the Selective Service System. families are disproportionately victimized by • No weapons in space. cutbacks in health care, education, child care, welfare, food stamps and jobs. We demand: Equal Rights and Liberties • End all forms of racial discrimination. The capitalists use every difference in society, • Enforce non-discrimination in hiring and including sex, ethnicity, language, sexual promotion with affirmative action where orientation, age, and physical abilities to divide necessary. workers in order to depress wages, maintain a • Prosecute and punish police and prison officials surplus labor pool, and prevent working-class unity. who brutalize and murder. We demand equal treatment of all people by employers, businesses and government. We stand Language Rights for a world free from all forms of oppression. Restore to the State Constitution co-equal status for Women Spanish as an official language of California in recognition of its cultural, historical, economic and We demand full equality for women in all aspects demographic importance to the people of this state. of life. Sexism is a major instrument for teaching relations of domination and inequality and for • Abolish all English-only laws and policies, keeping one-half of the workforce underpaid or including those of private employers. unpaid. We work to end oppressive sex roles in Peace and Freedom Platform, Page 3 of 6 Undocumented Workers Retired Workers Immigrant workers are hounded by government Retired workers must be guaranteed a decent living authorities, worked and housed in substandard at union wage levels. We demand: conditions by unscrupulous bosses, and blamed by • Immediate improvements in economic benefits Republican and Democratic demagogues for and social services. society's problems. • Free, quality, multi-lingual and multi-cultural • We call for open borders. medical and home health care. We demand an end to deportations of immigrants. • • Accessible transportation. We demand full political, social and economic • • An end to all forced retirement. rights for resident non-citizens. • Stop the segregation and isolation of senior Native Americans citizens. We support self-determination of indigenous Defense of the Environment peoples and sovereignty for Native nations. We demand: The same corporate forces and economic system that exploit and brutalize the world's working class • Honor treaty obligations with Native American people are destroying the world's biosphere. These nations and recognize California tribes. social policies and ecological destruction often • Stop the theft of natural resources located on overlap. Socialism is necessary to end the reservation lands. ecological destruction caused by capitalism. Our goal is a society that is in harmony with nature as it • Honor Native American water, hunting and fishing rights. is in harmony with its own people. • Free the prisoners of the FBI/BIA war against We therefore favor: Native Americans, end all harassment. • Planning for urban and regional environment • Stop destruction of sacred burial sites. based on principles of sound ecosystems management. Sexual Orientation • Create public open spaces in all communities. • Equal treatment and benefits under the law for all Tighter regulation of pesticides, herbicides, families. Guarantee equal child custody, adoption, • industrial wastes and genetically modified foods to visitation privileges, and foster parenthood rights protect human food, air and water, employees in for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. the workplace, and species habitat. No release of • Equal treatment for all people in the military genetically engineered or transgenic organisms regardless of sexual orientation. into the wild. No patenting of life forms. • The right to gay marriage and partners' benefits. • A multi-source energy system, development of • Accurate sex education courses in public schools. solar technology and other renewable, non- Truthful information about sexuality in society polluting energy sources. Eliminate nuclear power and history. plants. End fossil fuel dependence. • Public ownership of public utilities. People With Disabilities • Protect species habitat such as old-growth forests People with disabilities are entitled to equal rights to preserve biodiversity. to education, housing, health care, recreation, and • Massive development of free public transportation. Attendant care and other services or transportation. adaptations must be provided to enable fuller participation in all aspects of society. • International trade agreements must guarantee the protection of the environment in all participating
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