Stop the War at Home
From SP Boston
[edit] May Day 2009 -- Stop the War at Home
Stop the attacks on immigrant workers, on the unemployed, on students, on working people swindled by the banks, on women facing all the consequences of human service budget cuts, on veterans of U.S. wars and occupations. Enough!
We demand an end to the policies and practices of the U.S. government that ignore our right, and deny us our ability, to survive.
We stand in solidarity with the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, and Mexico who are casualties of U.S. and U.S. –funded wars of conquest and occupation (including the so-called “war on drugs”).
We, the Women’s Commission of the Socialist Party USA, call for
- U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan now! No war on Iran; no military aid to Israel.
- Immediate redirection of at least 50% of the military budget to national healthcare, social services, mass transit, and low-cost housing.
- Uncompromising defense of minority rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, and immigrant rights.
- Full-funding for high-quality public education from Pre-Kindergarten on up.
- Steeply graduated state and federal income taxes and an array of luxury taxes; tax the rich!
- Independent political action: Dump the Democrats!
Capitalism’s time is up. It is our right and our duty to create a different economic system—one that is of, by, and for the working people of all nations. Join the movement for a global democratic socialist society.