We are using the editorial space this week to publish the Socialist Workers Party 2005 election campaign platform. A list of the 22 SWP candidates running in 14 states appears below.

• Support the efforts of semicolonial countries to acquire and develop the energy sources necessary to expand electrification—a prerequisite for economic and social advances. Expose the drive by Washington and its allies to prevent the nations oppressed by imperialism from developing nuclear power and other sources of energy needed to bring much of humanity out of darkness.

• For the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of U.S., UN, and other imperialist armed forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Korea, Haiti, Colombia, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

• For a massive federally funded public works program to put millions to work at union scale.

• No cuts in present or future Social Security benefits, Medicaid programs, or workers compensation. Extend Social Security to cover universal, government-guaranteed, lifetime health care for everyone in this country.

• Fight cop brutality. Abolish the death penalty.

• Defend and extend affirmative action in employment, education, and housing.

• No national ID card. End all federal and state regulations aimed at turning a driver’s license into such a document.

• Repeal federal and state laws mandating immigration-document checks by employers.

• Defend a woman’s right to choose! Oppose restrictions on access to abortion.

• End Washington’s economic war against Cuba! U.S. hands off Venezuela!

• Defend the constitutional right of GIs as citizen-soldiers to engage in political discussion, debate, and activity.

• Stop farm foreclosures! Government-funded cheap credit for working farmers and price supports to cover production costs.

It’s not who you are against. It’s what you are for!
Support the Socialist Workers campaign! Vote SWP in 2005!

The Socialist Workers Party candidates present a working-class alternative to the Democrats, Republicans, and other capitalist parties.

Working people face an unrelenting offensive by the employers, who—driven by the need to reverse the decline in their profit rates—are intensifying speedup, lengthening work hours, eroding job safety, cutting pensions and health-care coverage, and seeking to undermine Social Security and break down class solidarity. The imperialist wars abroad by Washington and its allies, from Iraq and Afghanistan to others they are preparing, including threats against Iran and north Korea, are an extension of the war on workers and farmers at home.

The resistance today by working people to these assaults points to the road forward: to rely on our collective power and solidarity and organize independently of the capitalists and their parties to advance the common interests of workers and farmers worldwide. We need to build a revolutionary movement that will lead a fight by working people and their allies to take power out of the hands of the ruling billionaire class, establish a workers and farmers government, and join the worldwide struggle for socialism.

Support the 2005 Socialist Workers campaign! Join the petitioning efforts to get the SWP candidates on the ballot. Organize speaking engagements for the socialist candidates. Contribute to the Socialist Workers campaign.

(For more information contact SWP campaign supporters nearest you. See directory).
 
 
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