[Marxism] http://peaceandfreedom.org/

[dwalters@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

> I second the puzzlement...but having scant knowledge about the PFP I made a
> search and found this link   - see below - to an indymedia report
> (http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19165/index.php) . It seems >
like this
> (zionist?) guy, Akin, ran for congress in 2004 with an endorsement from > >
> Americans for Democratic Action so I don't know what sort of 'socialists' the
> article is refering to ...

You really ought to go to the Peace and Freedom Party web site at:

http://peaceandfreedom.org/what_is.htm

Here is a portion of the program. I differs from the Green party because P & F
is a *socialist* party and sees itselft as a workers organization.

The PFP from the very beginning has been a strong advocate for the protection of
the environment from pollution and nuclear waste. We honor all treaties with
Native Americans. We support the right of all people to self determination. We
recognize each person's right to determine her or his own sexual preferences.
We respect the right of all individuals to control their own bodies, including
free abortion on demand. We call for free access to a full education for every
person at any point in life. We fight for each person's right to be well
clothed, well housed, and well fed. We want free high equality health care as a
right, not a privilege. The PFP envisions a full employment economy based on
peacetime production to provide for the needs of all people. Since 1974 the
Peace and Freedom Party platform has been feminist and socialist. We want a
socialist economy, one where industries, financial institutions, and natural
resources are owned by the people as a whole and democratically managed by the
people who work in them and use them. This would be a big change from the
present corporate capitalist economy. The richest 1% of the population has half
of all privately©owned stock in U.S. corporations and controls most of
theinstitutional stock. They control the policies of business, government, and
the media. The capitalist economy starts out with competition for personal
profit and ends up with huge monopolies which waste resources. They don't care
if they endanger the planet by making useless or even harmful products, so long
as they make money. Under capitalism, millions of people are jobless, homeless,
often hungry, and without proper medical care. Even those with decent jobs live
with the fear of war, nuclear destruction, and environmental pollution of our
food, air and water.

As a feminist party, the Peace and Freedom Party actively supports the struggle
to eliminate oppression and discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation.
Sexual oppression, abuse, and violence in our personal lives are intimately
related to authoritarianism and hierarchical institutions, oppression and abuse
on the job, and to the violence of war. The struggle against sexism and the
struggle for democratic and nonviolent human relations cannot be delayed but
must be pursued actively at the same time as the struggle to eliminate
oppression and discrimination based on class, race or nationality, age, or
hysical disability.




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