Towards
a Communist Party
Labor Program
6/20/17
http://www.cpusa.org/article/towards-a-communist-party-labor-program/>
I was thumbing through
some old magazine articles I read in 2017, and I came upon the list below. It
is a wish list of things the Communist Party of the U.S.A. published in that
year.
- Real national health care—Medicare
for All.
- Reform of labor legislation, creating a real right of workers
to organize without company interference, with stiff penalties for labor
law violations.
- Guaranteed income for all, paid for by taxing the top 1%.
- Free education for all.
- Green energy-based infrastructure, with basic industrial,
union jobs targeting minority communities.
- National program for building affordable housing, with
homes targeting minority communities.
- National industrial program, with public ownership of main
manufacturing facilities and national production goals.
- Cutting military, with jobs going into rebuilding inner
city communities.
- Apprenticeships with union jobs for inner city youth as
part of rebuilding cities.
- Real, guaranteed, retirement security for all.
- Shorten the workweek, maintain pay levels.
Does
this list look familiar to you? It is strangely reminiscent of the programs
being pushed by the liberal/progressive left, today. Oh, the names have
changed, the Communists have changed the name to “Democrats,” but we can
recognize them by their wish list. These goals are almost identical to the
goals of the progressive left. They are the same as the ideals being pushed
today by K. Harris, Joe Biden, Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders,
and Elizabeth Warren. Things don’t change much, they just become more
politically correct.
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