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Socialist Action is a nation-wide group of revolutionary socialists.  We fight for a society organized to satisfy human needs, rather than corporate greed. We seek to revitalize the anti-war, labor, student and other social movements, and to bring activists together from different backgrounds into a revolutionary party that can successfully challenge the wealthy elite. As socialists we seek to understand the theory of Marxism, but as an activist group, we also seek to put those ideas into practice.  Join us in the struggle to make a better world!    

Philly Workers’ Voice is a publication of Philly Socialist Action: for a socialist revolution in which working people will organize to take economic and political power from the capitalist class and create an environmentally sustainable, democratic, socialist society. Views expressed in signed articles are not necessarily those of Socialist Action or its members.

A WORKERS’ ACTION PROGRAM TO FIGHT THE CRISIS

 We propose an EMERGENCY CONGRESS OF LABOR to discuss and take steps to implement the following demands:

• Bail out the People, not the bankers, Open the account books of the banks to full public inspection. Nationalize the banks to be supervised by workers’ committees
• No Foreclosures! No forced evictions! Cancel Usurious debt payments, and   reduce mortgage payments in proportion to their capitalist-caused decline in value
• Full employment at union wages! An emergency public works program to employ all jobless workers and youth! Employ people to build what we need– low-cost quality housing, efficient mass transportation, cheap and renewable sources of power, schools, clinics — and to Conserve Our water, forests farmland and open space.
• Immediate and full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq & Afghanistan. Close U.S. bases abroad! No money for the military — use funds instead for public works! Convert the war industries to making products for people’s needs and to combat global warming.
• Reduce the workweek to 30 hours with no cut in pay, and cut the retirement age to 55. Provide unemployment and retirement payments at the level of union wages and benefits.
• To combat inflation: A sliding scale of wages and pensions that matches the rises in consumer prices. To combat high medical costs: A free, universal, public health-care system.
• Immediate citizenship for all undocumented workers. No job discrimination; — equal pay for equal work – regardless of gender, sexual orientation, skin color or national origin.
• Nationalize manufacturing, big agribusiness, energy, and transportation  corporations and place them under the control of elected committees of workers.
• To mobilize support for the demands it adopts, the EMERGENCY CONGRESS should organize ACTION COMMITTEES in every workplace and neighborhood threatened by the crisis. These committees can draw up more concrete demands than the ones outlined above.
• To put all these measures into effect, we need a LABOR PARTY — based on a fighting union movement and all people who are oppressed and exploited. For a workers’ government!