“Socialism Is the Only Way to Meet the Ecology Crisis" - Jack Mundey, National Leader, CPA Senate Team

VOTE RED FOR A GRBN AUSTRALIA

“Socialism is the only way to meet the ecology crisis" - Jack Mundey, national leader, CPA Senate team.

Australia is among the world's rich countries. Society should be able to meet the economic, social and human needs of all, and generously to help the underdeveloped world. BUT .... IN F L A T IO N erodes workers' hard-won living standards while PR O FIT S soar to all-time records PO LLU T IO N is destroying the environment around us, resources are wasted in needless consumption, our cities are choked and destroyed - all in the interests of P R O F IT IN E Q U A L IT Y is growing, despite the Labor Government: U N E Q U A L distribution of W EALTH ; U N E Q U A L opportunity in education and social welfare; U N E Q U A L rights for women, blacks and migrants. D E M O C R A C Y is eroded by the capitalist controllers who own the media and manipulate opinion. Capitalism is a mess which can only be cleaned up by mass people's action for real social change. The Communist Party is the only party contesting the elections on a S O C IA L IS T POLICY, THE O N L Y A L T E R N A T IV E TO CAPIT ALISM .. THE ISSUES ARE CLEAR ...... The Liberal-Country Party-DLP alliance represents the narrow class interests of the wealthy and powerful, bitterly opposed to A N Y change which threatens these interests. They have used their Senate majority to block even the mild reforms of the Labor Government, given a mandate in 1972 to carry them out.

PUT PAID TO CONSERVATISM - VOTE CPA FOR THE SENATE - PUT LABOR BACK! A S A h JS T FOR AGAINST THE UNEQUAL SOCIETY FOR RADICAL REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH In this so-called "Lu cky Country", with a Gross A new wage structure for a social minimum wage Domestic Product of $8,000 per person in the work sufficient to meet people's needs, paid to all force in 1973: workers irrespective of sex or age 200.000 are V E R Y RICH - the TOP DOGS, who own, Restriction of high incomes to NO MORE THAN control and run the economy. Their wealth grows all FO U R T IM E S this minimum, through a radical / the time, through boom and recession. Inflation doesn't taxation policy which taxes capital assets and not worry T H EM - it just increases their capital gains. just income; abolition of all direct taxes on the minimum wage, and indirect taxes on necessities 500.000 are RICH ..... these are the upper middle of life class FA T CATS, whose incomes keep ahead of inflation. Stabilise prices and beat inflation by stopping monopoly pricefixing and socially wasteful spend ing such as on armaments, freeways, huge comm 1.500.000 are VERY POOR, with a family income of ercial buildings and advertising under $70 a week. 1,000,000 are POOR, with family incomes around $70 a week. Inflation is disastrous for Social control of investment to meet people's this 20 per cent of Australians. real needs and rational world development The remaining 10,000,000 people are caught in the Shorter working time, to be taken either in rat race of dull work and overtime just to keep up shorter week or year, with educational and with inflation. cultural opportunities for all workers.

FOR SOCIALIST AUSTRALIA The Labor Government is NO T socialist, despite all the conservative scare stories. In fact, the capitalists are doing very well under Labor. Mr. Whitlam sees the Labor Government as a partner of Big Business, aiming only at reforming capitalism.. The need is to change capitalism, not reform it. Only socialism can create a truly human society, with new social values and priorities, based on co-operation instead of competitive individualism, eliminating poverty, sexism and racism. This would create conditions for a new and truly hum an morality.

AGAINST FOR

W O R LD IM P E R IA L IS M which spends huge FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION AND PEACE sums on keeping down the peoples of the A FO R E IG N P O LIC Y of full moral and Third World, wages war against national lib material support for all national liberation eration revolutions, and perpetuates the arm movements aments race R EC O G N IT IO N of the Provisional Revolut GLARING UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION of ionary Government of South Vietnam world resources which condemns two-thirds of the world's people to poverty, famine and E Q U A L D IST R IB U T IO N of world resources disease between all peoples

AUSTRALIA'S CONTINUED SUPPORT for EN D IN G TH E US A L L IA N C E and getting the Thieu regime, the US puppet. Australia all US bases out of Australia is still tied to US policy, and still has milit ary bases on its soil, in preparation for EN D IN G A L L N U C L E A R T E ST S and des nuclear war. truction of nuclear weapons. T M\ AGAINST FOR

P O LLU T IO N by capitalist industry FOR A NEW LIFE STYLE H U N G R Y D E V E L O P E R S killing our cities C L E A R A IR and clean water P U B LIC T R A N S P O R T left to die while the costly car chokes our cities CITIES FOR PEOPLE to live in DESTRUCTION of the environment by Big Business A FREE, EFFICIENT public transport system R E C K L E S S P L U N D E R of resources to make profits C O N SE R V A T IO N of the natural environment for SO M E C A R E F U L U SE of resources in the interests of A L L WASTEFUL and NEEDLESS production with low SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and PRODUCTION to quality goods, inbuilt obsolescence. be used for the R E A L needs of ALL..

A3M N ST FOR D O M IN A T IO N by the FEW in their own interests C O N T R O L by the M A N Y in the interests of B O S SE S ' C O N T R O L and capitalist power -- con society and the individual trol by a few Top Dogs and Fat Cats of people's W O R K E R S ' C O N T R O L in the factories and lives offices; student-staff control of universities and C O N T R O L of what we see, hear, and read, by schools; people's control of their own the wealthy and powerful few communities G R E A T E R D E M O C R A T IC RIGHTS, civil and C R E E P IN G R E S T R IC T IO N S on rights and liber personal liberties -- really democratic elections ties; censorship; growth of spying and snooping with proportional representation and the right into personal affairs; discrimination on grounds to recall elected representatives. Election of all of class, sex and race; gerrymandered elections; public officials, managers and administrators, B U R E A U C R A T IC government. with limited tenure of office.

AGAINST FOR O W N ER SH IP and C O N T R O L of the nation's life W O M EN 'S L IB E R A T IO N with equal rights and opp blood by the wealthy and powerful ortunities; one rate for the job; abortion on request; W O M E N 'S SE C O N D C L A S S ST A T U S and their free, safe contraception; 24-hour child care centres oppression as a sex; lack of community child care S O C IA L IS E D M E D IC IN E -- free health care for all, facilities with emphasis on prevention of disease C H A O T IC M E D IC IN E and health for private profits REALLY FREE EDUCATION open to all - equal CO ST LY, E L IT IS T E D U C A T IO N and state aid to opportunity for all children - state aid for ST A T E wealthy schools which need it least schools which need it most B L A C K R IG H T S and dignity - black land rights R A C ISM and D IS C R IM IN A T IO N against black and and black control of black communities coloured people F U L L R IG H T S FO R M IG R A N T S - recognition DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MIGRANTS in employ of qualifications - right to cultural and community ment, housing, education independence -- special training and language programs D IS C R IM IN A T IO N against homosexuals LIBERATION for homosexuals VOTE CPA FOR THE SENATE! PUT LABOR BACK! ROUT REACTION!

Every vote for the C PA Senate team warns the owners- main differences with Labor's policy are: controllers that people are demanding militant action for The Labor Government ACCEPTS CAPITALIST radical social change - FO R S O C IA LISM : A S O C IE T Y VALUES AND WORKS WITHIN THE SYSTEM FOR PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT. Labor's announced policy of partnership with The C PA fights the reactionary capitalist parties - Big Business is wrong, self-defeating and anti Liberal, Country, and DLP. Their control of the Senate socialist, W H A T E V E R T H E IN T E N T IO N S M A Y has been used to obstruct the Labor Government's BE program of much-needed reforms within the system, forcing a general election. They cannot reconcile them Despite Labor's welcome reforms and intentions selves to losing office after 23 years. IN E Q U A L IT Y H A S G ROW N - profits and inflation ARE RISING MORE QUICKLY THAh The CPA works for DEFEAT OF THE REACTIONARY WAGES PARTIES, FOR RETURN OF THE LABOR GOVERN MENT. Only militant action OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT can force really radical reforms NOW, and The C PA supports the Labor Party's progressive ref CHANGE SOCIETY IN THE INTERESTS OF orms, while advocating a really socialist program. Its WORKERS AND ALL PEOPLE

ON MAY 18 - VOTE FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY, HUMAN LIBERATION, WORKERS' CONTROL AND SELF-MANAGEMENT ...... FOR SOCIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE.

S O C IA L IS M means H U M A N F A C E means social, co-operative ownership and control of main full democratic rights and liberties for individuals resources, means of production and mass media and groups, with the widest freedom of speech, S E L F -M A N A G E D means association, belief, artistic expression, travel, strike, exercise of decisive political, economic and social and other democratic rights. power by the people through a system of work The CPA opposes all bureaucratic distortions of SO C ers' and community councils subject to recall IA L IS M where basic rights are denied and R E A L power and direct democratic processes is exercised only by those at the TOP.

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1 MUNDEY 2 MILLER 3 McGAHEN

GIVE SECOND PREFERENCE TO LABOR. VOTE FOR LABOR CANDIDATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION. VOTE YES TO THE FOUR REFERENDUM PROPOSALS which are designed to make all parliaments more representative and effective.

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