Socialist Equality Party statement on the California recall election

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Socialist Equality Party statement on the California recall election
Vote “no” on the California recall. Vote John Christopher Burton for governor, for a socialist solution to the crisis
Jobs for the unemployed! Billions for education, health care and housing! US troops out of Iraq!
30 August 2003

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60. The role of the SEP is to build a new political leadership among working people. We are fighting, through our daily international journal of political analysis and commentary, the World Socialist Web Site, to educate workers and prepare the way for the emergence of a mass movement against the profit system. Our candidate for governor, John Christopher Burton, is a longtime civil rights attorney and defender of the rights of victims of police abuse. We stand for these basic principles:

* The international unity of the working class: Under conditions of a globalized economy, no section of workers in any state or country can be indifferent to the conditions of workers in other parts of the world. The brutal exploitation of workers in China by transnational corporations, for example, has direct consequences for workers in California and throughout the US. The answer to the globalized economy is not protectionism and trade warfare, but rather a policy of international solidarity and a strategy for raising the living standards of workers all over the world.

* The political independence of the working class: Working people, the vast majority of the American population, are effectively disenfranchised by the political system, with no influence within the Democratic or Republican parties, which are both controlled by corporate interests. Nor can their interests be defended by the existing labor organizations, which have been unable to elaborate any coherent response to the crisis and cling to the semi-corpse of the Democratic Party. New workers organizations are required, which will mobilize working people as an independent force. Above all, the Socialist Equality Party must be built as the mass political party of the working class.

* Social needs before private profit: The basic principle upon which the program of the SEP is founded is that social needs take priority over private wealth. There are two alternatives: either working people will pay for the crisis, and suffer a further loss of jobs and wages and a further decay in conditions, leading to a social catastrophe; or they will compel the ruling elite to disgorge the wealth which is the product of class exploitation.

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http://wsws.org/articles/2003/aug2003/cali-a30.shtml

[TreasonousBastard]

1. "Socialist Equality Party"?

Kewl.

[dudeness]

2. now thats what I call a party policy platform

clear concise and irrefutable..

[skyzics]

3. Fantastic piece..

www.wsws.org has become my first first source of daily news and analysis.