Written Voters' Pamphlet Statement Submitted by Candidate
I am the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Seattle.I am a packing house worker and have been a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union for many years. The Socialist Workers Party candidates present a working- class alternative to the Democrats, Republicans, and other capitalist parties.
What the Socialist Workers Party stands and fights for:
Support workers' struggles to organize trade unions and to use and extend union power to defend themselves and other working people from the bosses' assaults. Defend the labor movement from the continuing offensive by the employers and their twin parties of capitalism— the Democrats and Republicans. Build a labor party, based on the unions, that fights in the interests of working people.
Support the efforts of semicolonial countries to acquire and develop the energy sources necessary to expand electrification—a prerequisite for economic and social advances. Expose the drive by Washington and its allies to prevent the nations oppressed by imperialism from developing nuclear power and other sources of energy needed to bring much of humanity out of darkness.
For the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of U.S., UN, and other imperialist armed forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Korea, Haiti, Colombia, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
For a massive federally funded public works program to put millions to work at union scale.
No cuts in present or future Social Security benefits, Medicaid programs, or workers compensation. Extend Social Security to cover universal, government-guaranteed, lifetime health care for everyone in this country.
Working people face an unrelenting offensive by the employers, who are intensifying speedup, lengthening work hours, eroding job safety, cutting pensions and health-care coverage, and seeking to undermine Social Security and break down working-class solidarity. The wars abroad by Washington and its allies are an extension of the employers' assault on the working and living conditions of workers and farmers at home.
The resistance today by working people to these assaults points to the road forward: to rely on our collective power and solidarity and organize independently of the capitalists and their parties to advance the common interests of workers and farmers worldwide. We need to build a revolutionary movement that will lead a fight by working people and their allies to take power out of the hands of the ruling billionaire class, establish a workers and farmers government, and join a worldwide struggle for socialism.
The above statement was written by the candidate, who is solely responsible for the contents therein.
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