In California, voter registration is very important
to political parties. The very existence of a political party as "ballot-qualified"
is determined by the number of votes its statewide candidates receive
or by the number of voters registered with the party. As the only socialist/feminist
political party in California ballot, it is imperative that the Peace
and Freedom Party continues as a qualified party. Quite simply, the Peace
and Freedom Party will not be able to provide Californians with candidates
that will represent us unless we register and vote Peace and Freedom.
For more information about registering to vote in California, you
can visit the Secretary of State's website at http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm.
In addition to providing materials and services in English, California
also provide services to voters who require assistance in Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Some of these services include
multilingual voter registration telephone hotlines and translated election
materials. For more information, go to http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_multi.htm.
SOCIALISM
FOR SURVIVAL!
Human
life and progress is possible only in a world that is ecologically sustainable
and in which the global economy is democratically based to provide for
universal human needs.
For centuries capitalist greed has been the motivating force behind slavery,
racism, colonialism, and world wars. Today, with global warming, the U.S.
corporate ruling elite threatens to destroy the entire planet to maximize
greed and profit for itself. The natural and economic resources essential
to the vast majority of peoples for survival are being exploited and privatized
for the greed and profit of a few.
The 500 year reign of barbaric capitalism must end now if humanity is
to survive this century.
SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVES
from the Peace and Freedom Party
The following article, from The Partisan issue No.
27, is published by the California State Central Committee of the Peace
and Freedom Party at P.O. Box 24764, Oakland, California 94623. The
special election of May 19, 2009, is a California referendum on proposals
supported by the governor.
On May 19, the Governor and the Legislature are spending a lot of
our money on a special election they claim will solve the states budget
problems. The Peace and Freedom Party calls for a NO vote on the whole
process. Vote NO on Propositions 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E and 1F.
These propositions are part of a rotten deal made in Sacramento
to raise taxes on the poor, cut taxes on corporations, and slash social
programs. The Governor and the Legislature stole from the blind and
disabled to feed the movie industry. They raised the sales tax on working
people while giving huge breaks to multi-state corporations. They lowered
the tax credit for children to take $1.4 billion a year from working
families.
The politicians now come to us and ask us to ratify their deal and
lock parts of it into the State Constitution.
Just say "NO"
Peace
and Freedom Party Info
Preamble
to Our By-laws The Peace and Freedom Party is an open, multi-tendency, movement-oriented
socialist party. We are united in our common commitment to socialism,
democracy, feminism and unionism and our common opposition to capitalism,
imperialism, racism, sexism and elitism.
We recognize that we do not all agree on what we mean by "socialism"
or on the strategies and tactics of how to get it. We do agree that
it means we can have a world where we can all be part of the democratic
decision-making on how the wealth of the economy will be used because
we will be owners of it, as well as the cooperative self-managing co-participants
in producing it.
Newspaper decline rooted
in their corporate and class war bias.
The corporate and capitalist bias of all major and national newspapers
is so taken for granted that it is never considered as a major factor
in newspaper decline and demise.
The core income of profit-making mass media is advertising. The advertisers
want to reach readers with disposable income who can purchase their
products and services. The content of the newspaper must be geared to
supplying the needs of these affluent readers. Under no circumstances
must any newspaper content alienate or attack or conflict with the profit-seeking
advertisers and wealthy readers. Thus the class-bias of the major national
print media.
This class bias, decades old, has degenerated into the unending class
war propaganda against the economic interests of working people and
the working class.
Working people, especially with the 30 year decline and now collapse
of U.S. capitalism, have little or no disposable income for new cars,
expensive homes, or other non-essential goods and services. The national
newspapers no longer have sections of "Help Wanted" ads as
millions are unemployed. Why pay 75 cents a day for essentially useless
information?
Editorial pages and opinion columns scream about minimizing taxes and
all tax supported public services that increasingly impoverished working
people desperately rely upon. Uncritical support of unending wars, wars
which are highly profitable to the military-industrial investors and
coporations, wars that suck up funds for public services (public schools,hospitals,
health,etc.), are forever supported.
The national newspapers typically provide entire sections of interest
to the class of wealthy business owners, investors and corporate managers.
Stock market reports, investment strategy columns, economic reports,
etc. provide the readers interesting and useful information.
No such informational, educational or analysis opinion resources are
available in any newspaper to working people. There is never any "Labor"
column, or news about the labor movement. There is no information or
opinion column where the economic interests of working people are defended
or promoted.
Today the only place where information and opinion essential to working
people is readily available and free of charge, is on the web. One such
place is the World Socialist Web Site: http://www.wsws.org
- Jeremy Wells
(June 22, 2009)
Socialist
Perspectives from WSWS
The World Socialist
Web Sitefeatures daily news and analysis written from
a socialist perspective, and commentary on the arts, culture,
history, and politics. It is published by the International
Committee of the Fourth International.
FYI:
Links to More Socialist
Perspectives and Resources
Privatization:
Capitalism Run Amok The logical
result of privatization is the destruction of any government,
social institution or people that impedes or diminishes the maximization
of U.S. corporate power and profit.
Global
Class War: The Genocide of the Unprofitable.The needs of people who must work to live are becoming
impossible to fulfill. Jobs move overseas, cheap labor is
imported, wages and benefits are cut, all to maximize corporate
profit. Millions are dying world-wide. In the United States
45 million have no health insurance ( resulting in estimated
100,000 deaths a year) and 2 million are in prison. Our city
streets have become the "killing field" of the homeless,
mentally ill, disabled, aged, addicted, down-sized and displaced
unable to work or find affordable housing.
The
Mind-Wars Waged
by "neo-con" Capitalism
The Core Ideology:
The Project For a New American Century. Documentation. Analysis.
Links. History. Imperialism. Fascism.
The Weapon of Religious Belief.
The "neo-con" use of religious belief against scientific,
critical, rational and humanistic thinking.
Information Warfare. Mass-media propaganda,
dis-information and lies.
Culture Wars. Profit-driven values
control every aspect of cultural life. Destruction of the family.
Television.
The Education War against universal
free secular education.
Philosophical Warfare. Super-natural, metaphysical
belief systems vs. reality-based atheism and secular humanism.
Anti-social individualism and Social Darwinism. Idealism vs.
philosophical materialism.
Anti-Privatization
Struggle The US is rapidly becoming a "third world"
country as social programs needed by most of us for a minimal
standard of living are under massive attack: Social Security,
public education, affordable health care, affordable housing,
affordable utilities (water, electricity, etc.)
Class War Notebook
Human rights and economic rights. The criminalization
of addictions, mental illnes, and poverty.
The LabourStart home
page. Daily news updates show the world-wide struggle
to achieve a living wage. Select by country and language. LabourStart
US Daily Labor News. Here you can read the many labor
news stories from around the U.S. - news left out of your local
business newspaper.
LabourStart World Wide News
The Global Research webpage at www.globalresearch.ca
based in Montreal publishes news articles, commentary, background
research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social,
economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes.
Investigating
New Imperialism
Updated on a continuous basis 24/7, I'n'I covers the important issues of our time with the best news and analysis available from a progessive perspective with the focus on the critical issues of our time.
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