1. Workers Need a Real Raise — $25/Hour Minimum Wage

Biden and corporate politicians in Congress keep giving themselves raises but can’t pass a bare $15 federal minimum wage for working people. We strongly support the fight for a $25 an hour starting wage by workers trying to unionize their workplaces—in major cities that’s just a basic living wage. As prices skyrocket on everything from food to housing, we need at least a 20% raise for all workers with automatic cost-of-living increases above inflation going forward. Instead of long hours and multiple jobs just to pay the bills, we need to shorten the workweek with no loss in pay and benefits. We work to live, not live to work!

2. Good Union Jobs for All

With billionaires and corporations making obscene profits, there is no reason we cannot have good union jobs for all. Unions are the key tool workers have to fight the bosses for the things we desperately need. Organize the unorganized—unionize Amazon and every workplace! We need to rebuild a fighting labor movement that arms itself with clear, bold demands and is prepared to go on strike to win them. We need a massive green jobs program that can employ millions of workers in clean energy and prevent climate catastrophe. To succeed, we must take the big energy corporations into democratic public ownership, because we can’t control what we don’t own.

3. Fight Racism, Sexism & All Oppression

Only the bosses profit from divisions among the working class. We need to build a united, multi-racial, multi-gendered movement of working people. Fight back against the brutal anti-trans legislation in many states and against all right-wing attacks on LGBTQ+ people. We need to organize to win legal, safe, free abortions for all who need them. End racist policing—put police under the control of democratically-elected community boards with full power over department policy, hiring and firing. Movements are how change happens—we need to get organized to fight for our rights. An injury to one, is an injury to all!

4. Quality Affordable Housing & Free Healthcare for All

We face an epidemic of unaffordable housing—the rent is too damn high! We need strong rent control with no rent increases above inflation. Fund a massive expansion of publicly owned, high-quality affordable housing by taxing the rich. The private housing market has failed us—take the big real estate corporations and banks into democratic public ownership. We’re dying from unaffordable healthcare as the pharma bosses and for-profit health insurance industry make bank off our sickness. We need free, state-of-the-art, Medicare for All—owned and democratically run by working people.

5. End the Genocidal War on Gaza — No Military Aid, No Occupation

We oppose the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza and imperialist war everywhere. We call for an immediate end to all U.S. military funding for the Israeli war machine and to the brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. The roots of the crisis are in the Israeli occupation, which has been backed by U.S. imperialism for more than three quarters of a century because of the strategic interests of U.S. billionaires in the oil-rich Middle East. The Palestinian people have both the right to self-determination and the right to defend themselves. We oppose the terrorist acts of October 7th, but there is no equivalence to the unspeakable acts of state terrorism and war by Israel, which have led to genocide. This horrific onslaught against the Palestinian people is the greatest humanitarian disaster of our generation, and in reality it makes working people in Israel less safe. We also oppose the inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine. We don’t support U.S. imperialism, Russian imperialism, or Chinese imperialism in that bloody conflict, or either bloc in the larger US/China cold war. None of these imperialist powers represent the interests of working people in Ukraine, Russia, or anywhere else. We need to build a global antiwar movement made up of workers of all nations and ethnicities fighting against the bosses' wars and for our common interests. Working class action has stopped wars in the past. Today, working people and the labor movement need to organize a one-day general strike in the U.S., demanding an end to all military aid to Israel, and that those tens of billions be spent on things working people need like healthcare, housing, and jobs. 

6. No More Sellouts — We Need a New Party

The Democrats and Republicans both answer to the billionaires, that’s why working people keep getting screwed. Even so-called progressives in Congress have completely failed to fight against the establishment, and offer no solutions. We need a new, multiracial, working-class party that organizes movements and fights unambiguously for our needs. In such a party, all elected leaders would accept only the average workers’ wage, like Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant. We would need elected leaders to be fully accountable to our membership and our demands, or else be removed. We need a party that consistently opposes war and imperialism. Under capitalism, the bosses call the shots and have a dictatorship over our workplaces. We need a fundamentally different kind of society—run by and for working people, not the billionaires.