A Militant Socialist Campaign!

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Jeff Mackler for president; Karen Schraufnagel for VP www.socialistaction.org • https://www.facebook.com/VoteSA2016 By THE EDITORS Working people around the world face are facing strong social, economic, and environmental crises. That’s true even in the richest country in history, the United States. The cause of these crises can be traced to a single source—a social system ruled by exploiting employers and ruthless bankers. In the U.S., this tiny minority rules through a two-party political monopoly, subverting real democracy.

Socialist Action fights for reforms of this system on the road to our ultimate goal—to replace capitalism with a socialist society in which the majority truly rules. That’s how we can assure a peaceful, ecologi­ cally sustainable, just, and prosperous world.

To advance this message, we are running Jeff Mackler for U.S. president and Karen Schraufnagel for vice president. Below is a summary of the main planks of the Socialist Action Platform. Urgent action to stop climate change!

The greatest crisis yet faced by humanity has been created by the global capitalist economy based on fossil fuels. The half-measures agreed to in the Par­ is Climate Treaty last year are insufficient to stop global warming short of catastrophe for future gen­ erations. • We would declare a Climate Emergency and begin a massive crash program to achieve need­ ed conversion to 100 percent clean renewable en­ ergy sources—such as solar, wind, tidal. This effort requires a democratically planned massive restruc­ turing of our economy.

• We would also launch a new Climate Emergen­ Photos by Tony Savino / Socialist Action cy public sector by socializing the energy, transportation, and finance sectors of the economy. This new sector would develop an achievable plan for conversion by sci­ entists, engineers, and data management professionals—and implemented in the workplace by management elected by the workers, who know how to get work done.

• We would leave no worker behind in this new economy. Certainly, many pres­ ent jobs tied to fossil fuels would be elimi­ nated. But there would be many more new jobs created as we switch to a cleaner, sus­ tainable economy. We would guarantee a Just Transition to provide those losing jobs with retraining and relocation assistance, while maintaining their living standards until they find suitable new employment. End the wars! Bring U.S. forces home now!

We live in a time of perpetual war—and with a real threat of nuclear annihilation, whether intentional or by miscalculation. Wars such as those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria have been waged as part of the geopolitical strategy of corporate America. “Regime change” imposed by U.S. military power and proxies leaves only “failed states” and is a recruiting tool for those seeking revenge in America and Europe. And these “failed states” have generated 65 million desperate refugees looking mainly in vain for some safe place to relocate. “Regime change” is the job of the people of those countries—not the U.S. military.

American workers have no interest in wars that serve only our bosses. The principle applies: “working-class solidarity has no borders.” As we divert the enormous sums spent on war to better use, we will share the “peace dividend” with those who have been victimized by wars of intervention. As the great pioneer American socialist Eugene V. Debs said at the time of the First World War—“For (continued on page 3, in “The 2016 socialist platform”)

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Socialist Action presidential candidate

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