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Workers Viewpoint Newspaper May Day 1975 Supplement


We Demand

As the economic crisis deepens, working people have angrily risen up to fight layoffs, budget cuts, inflation, attacks on national minorities, women, and “illegal” aliens. We must fight within the unions to expose the bankrupt programs of the union misleadership and win support for demands that really advance and represent the interests of working people. We propose the following program as fighting demands–a guide in our struggle to win concrete gains for all working people.

1 End Fascist Attacks On the Working Class!
• End all attacks on the workers that split the working class. End to forced busing plan, attacks on “illegal” aliens, forced retirement, and pitting women workers against men.
• End all attacks on trade unions. No government binding arbitration. No re-opening of contract or “contract regression”, no ENA, no wage freeze. No cuts in benefits.
• End all police repression against workers & minorities.
• Smash all decadent culture, racism, pornography, mysticism and cop-movies.

2 Make The Trade Union a Fighting Organization, Build a Militant Rank & File: We demand full union democracy, end to the bureaucratic rule of the union misleaders. We demand an end to collaboration with the capitalists. Throw out all sell-out leaders. We demand the trade unions fight for the workers’ interests, wage increases, benefits, job security, job safety, etc.

3 Jobs For All: Workers provided with public jobs should be brought into the union with union wages. They shall be guaranteed with the right to strike, and with job security. Special consideration shall be paid to the oppressed nationalities and women.

4 Tax Cut For the Working Class & the Poor, Make the Corporations Pay: We demand a cut in income tax, cut in sales tax and gasoline tax; and a cut in property tax for the small home owners. Tax the corporations.

5 Guaranteed Family Income of $15,000: We demand a guaranteed income of $15,000 or higher depending on the union wages. It shall cover all workers, employed and unemployed; workers on social security; veterans, people on welfare, all aliens, including “illegal” aliens.

6 Guaranteed Free & Quality Health Care: We demand free and quality health care provided under a national health program which eliminates profit-making hospitals, nursing homes, drug and insurance corporations. This must be financed fully by the corporations, not by taxing the working people.

7 End to All Budget Cuts & an Increase in the Budget for All Social Services!

8 End to the Use of War to Resolve the Economic Crisis!

9 End the Attack on the Democratic Rights of the Working Class, the National Minorities, the “Illegal” Aliens and Women!

Support All Socialist Countries, All National Liberation Struggles, Struggles of Workers All Over The World! We Support Struggles of Minorities & Women. Workers & Oppressed People of the World Unite!!!