Jeff Mackler for president; Karen Schraufnagel for VP A FIGHTING SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN!

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VOL. 34, NO. 7, JULY 2016 WWW.SOCIALISTACTION.ORG U.S. $1 / CANADA $2 Vote Socialist Action!

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 exploit­ ing employers and ruthless bankers. In the U.S., this tiny minority rules through a two-party political mo­ nopoly, 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 Mack­ ler 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 Paris Climate Treaty last year are insufficient to stop global warming short of catastrophe for future generations. • We would declare a Climate Emergency and begin a massive crash program to achieve needed conver­ sion to 100 percent clean renewable energy sources—such as solar, wind, tidal. This ef­ fort requires a democratically planned mas­ sive restructuring of our economy.

• We would also launch a new Climate Emergency public sector by socializing the energy, transportation, and finance sectors of the economy. This new sector would de­ velop an achievable plan for conversion by scientists, 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 present jobs tied to fossil fuels would be eliminated. But there would be many more new jobs created as we switch to a cleaner, sustainable econ­ omy. 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, Tony Savino / Socialist Action (Archives photo above) Socialist Action was at the scene when thousands of New York City high schoolers held a protest against the August 2014 police violence in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere.

This month, once again, people chanting “Black lives matter!” filled the streets in outrage over the wanton police shooting of Black people. Alton Sterling was killed by Baton Rouge, La., cops on July 5. Video shows that Sterling was on his back, pinned to the ground, when police shot him point blank several times. Then, on July 6, a Falcon Heights, Minn., officer shot and killed a Black kitchen worker, Philando Castille, in his car as he was reaching for his driver’s license. A woman and child were inside the car at the time. The 2016 Socialist Action Campaign joins in demanding an end to these racist police killings. Jail killer cops! Black lives matter!

Iraq, Libya, and Syria have been waged as part of the geopolitical strategy of corporate America. “Regime (continued on page 7, in “The 2016 socialist platform”)

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INSIDE SOCIALIST

Court on immigration — 2 Sanders: What’s left? — 5 Orlando shooting — 3 2016 Campaign — 6-7 Abortion / Labor — 4 War in Syria — 8 SHOOTING

Book: To the Masses — 9 Brexit / Films — 10 Canada — 11 Climate — 12