| As a mass membership
organization, we are building a political party by and for working people, capable of
winning power and governing. Toward this end 1400 delegates, representing hundreds of
thousands of organized workers at the Labor Party’s First Constitutional Convention,
resolved to challenge corporate
domination of our lives. We resolved:
1. To run Labor Party
candidates in ways that will build the party and enhance the interests of working people.
2. To double our
membership each year through aggressive recruitment efforts by each and every Labor Party
member.
3. To build local
organizing committees that are easy to join, that bring the Party’s positions to the
vast majority of people who are alienated from political life, and that encourage them to
take part in our campaigns.
4. To build national
campaigns:
28th Amendment
Campaign to advance our solution to economic insecurity — a constitutionally
guaranteed right to a job at a living wage. |
Just
Health Care to fight for a national health program to provide everyone with
guaranteed quality care. Protect
Social Security to strengthen the best social program ever developed for
working people and to oppose any and all forms of privatization or reduction in benefits.
Fair Trade Campaign to oppose all
NAFTA-like agreements and to support penalties against corporations as well as countries
that violate international labor and environmental standards.
A Bill of Rights in the Workplace to fight
for the right of all workers to freely associate, speak freely on the job, form unions,
and engage in collective bargaining.
Our Labor Party
understands that our struggle for democracy pits us against a corporate elite that will
fight hard to retain its power and privileges. This is the struggle of our generation. The
future of our children and their children hangs in the balance. It is a struggle we cannot
afford to lose.
The
Bosses
have Two Parties.
We’re
Building
One of Our Own. |
