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dards of living killing the air traffic controllers' union, massive taxes for workers, new tax-breaks for the rich, cutbacks on social services used by working peoplecan be blamed equally on Republicans and Democrats.

Clinton's so-called economic plan does not address the gross special tax giveaways Women cannot redress their inequality in the framework of the capitalist parties. They need a workers' party that can put the needs of women at the top of its priorities.

Black and Latino people likewise have no friend in Clinton. The Los Angeles rebellion brought forth no solutions from either capitalist political party. What's required is a massive program of public works (housing, mass transit, schools) to rebuild the cities; full employment at union wages; a shorter work week with no cut in pay to make sure everyone has a job; taxes on the rich, not working people; and an immediate conversion of all military production to production for human needs.

Clinton proposes cutting welfare but without having a plan for full employment. This is no solution at all. Furthermore, full employment is impossible in the capitalist system, which needs a large body of jobless workers to drive down the wages of the employed (and drive up the profits of the bosses).

Clinton's proposal for reducing the military budget is similar to Bush's. Both proposals are in the framework of keeping the United States poised for the new wars of aggression that both candidates support-like the U.S. war against Iraq. Clinton wants to cut $50 billion more than Bush—a drop in the bucket for the U.S. military machine. The "New World Odor," under Bush or Clinton, still stinks.

The simple truth is that no political party or candidate can represent both the exploited and the exploiters, oppressed and oppressor. Anyone who says otherwise is not a leader but a misleader. A vote for Clinton (or Bush) is a wasted vote.