WORKERS WORLD PARTY
Who we are and what we stand for
A great social earthquake is coming. Our
21st-century global economy is being run by a 19th-century
class of robber barons. Their unbridled greed is leading
humanity and the planet we share toward catastrophe. As poverty
and misery grow, the rich keep getting richer. A small group of
imperialists are sucking out profits from all over the
world.
This boss class is cutting millions of jobs while promoting
every vile prejudice to try to turn worker against worker. It
is in a union-busting frenzy, attempting to root out any form
of worker organization. This big business government has
rounded up thousands of immigrants. And it's using the economic
draft to militarize the youth and send them to war yet
again.
This increasingly repressive rule of a wealthy oligarchy
just can't go on forever. There's a fightback coming.
Workers World Party was built on the confidence that regular
working people CAN overcome capitalism, can take back from the
class of exploiters the wealth they have created, and create a
society that meets the needs of all.
Can't we control technology to make work lighter and our
lives better, instead of having it threaten our jobs?
Can't people of different nationalities, sexes and genders
cooperate and share the resources equitably in our increasingly
diverse societies?
Can't we radically restructure the economy and put billions
into solving basic human needs--food, housing, health care,
education--instead of letting the wealth be channeled into
private fortunes and into armies, weapons, prisons and police
that protect this unjust status quo?
Workers World says YES! There is a way to do all this. If
workers organize to fight, nothing is impossible. The key is
class solidarity and the building of a mighty movement for
socialism.
Solidarity against all forms of oppression
Since its founding in 1959, this party has been putting into
practice what it means by solidarity. It has supported the
struggles of all oppressed peoples. It has recognized the right
of nations to self-determination, including the nationally
oppressed peoples inside the United States. It supports
affirmative action as absolutely necessary in the fight for
equality. It opposes all forms of racism and religious
bigotry.
Solidarity means fighting for an end to sexism and women's
oppression. Women's right to control their bodies must not be
restricted. Women must be able to decide freely whether or not
to have children--which means having access to legal, safe
abortion as well as to free quality healthcare and childcare.
Women need equal pay for comparable work, and
recognition/compensation for housework.
Solidarity means support for the struggle of lesbians, gays,
trans and bis for full social rights and an end to harassment
and discrimination. Love is not a crime and should not have to
be in the closet.
Solidarity means guaranteeing immigrants the same rights as
all other workers, no matter how they got here. Many immigrants
leave home because the same banks and corporations that oppress
workers here have taken over their countries. Discrimination is
unjust, especially on this continent where everyone except the
Native peoples came from somewhere else. Solidarity means
building bridges to workers' struggles in other countries.
When one section of our class is held back, all suffer
eventually. Uniting to fight against all forms of oppression
helps raise the whole class.
Where is the world going?
A new internationalism is developing. As problems go global,
so does the people's response. We have demonstrated together by
the millions to stop U.S. imperialism's war on Iraq. Worldwide
protests have condemned the unjust world economic order and the
colonial occupation of Iraq and Palestine and supported the
peoples' resistance there. How can we build on that
international solidarity?
Workers World respects the many social revolutions of the
last century. Some were for national liberation from
colonialism. Others went further and tried to build socialism.
Their biggest internal problem was starting out from a level of
extreme underdevelopment. Every revolutionary state immediately
became the target of subversion, sanctions and often outright
military aggression by hostile and powerful imperialist powers.
Many have received terrible setbacks.
Nevertheless, these revolutions inspired the workers and
oppressed of the world. They showed that it's possible to kick
out the bosses and reconstruct society without them. WW
supports those trying to hold on to the gains of those great
mass struggles and resist the tide of reaction and corporate
globalization washing over the world. We want to learn from the
mistakes and from the accomplishments in order to build a
socialist future.
The U.S. rulers have used their victory over the Soviet
Union in the Cold War to launch a new and "endless" war for
total domination of the globe. They claim "Marxism is dead" and
U.S. empire is all that's left. But Marxism is based on the
class struggle, and that is growing every day along with
capitalist globalization.
It is time that we in this rich, powerful, oppressor country
do our share to revive the hope of humanity that a better world
is possible for all. The key to transforming the world is here,
in the "belly of the beast."
The corporate bosses are handing this task to us. They are
bringing back home the kind of super-exploitation they have
imposed on the Third World. They are dragging off our young
people to oppress others in wars of plunder and profit. They
are forcing the working class to organize and fight back just
to survive.
Join the fight for socialism!
So Workers World has been building a party, based on the
great revolutionary concepts of Marx and Lenin, which learns
from the mass movements while helping them grow and develop. It
works with others to build the broadest mass actions while
promoting the struggle for socialism and exposing the
deceptions of both Democrats and Republicans--two capitalist
parties that have always supported imperialist war and
plunder.
Read Workers World newspaper-in print or on the Web at
www.workers.org --and you will see what we are doing in the
struggle movements. You will see that this is a party that
welcomes everyone who wants to fight for socialism and against
oppression. You will see how we bring a revolutionary analysis
to current events.
You're welcome to write us or contact our branches to ask
questions, learn more about the Party, and find out how to
join.
Reprinted from the Oct. 9, 2003, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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