In the U.S. today, nearly two-thirds of adults live paycheck to paycheck. Food insecurity is rising even though 40% of our food supply is thrown away every year. It is harder and harder to access dignified housing even though there are more empty homes on the market than homeless people in this country. Healthcare is so pricey that medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy, and yet health outcomes like life expectancy, maternal mortality, and infant mortality are worse in the U.S. than in countries with fewer resources. How is this possible?

We have enough wealth in this country to ensure a dignified life for every one of us. Instead, because we live in a capitalist system, the resources we create through our collective hard work are hoarded by greedy billionaires. The richest 900 people own as much wealth as the poorest 170,000,000 of us. This irrational system of inequality is administered by politicians, both Republican and Democrat, who claim to represent us, but really serve the billionaires.

We are fighting for a whole new system: a socialist system, where political power is in the hands of the working class and we plan the economy to meet our needs.

Socialism will make it possible to unleash society’s vast resources and people power to guarantee a dignified life for us all. We propose a set of National Emergency Acts to seize the top 100 corporations (worth over $30 trillion combined) and convert them to public property, along with a 100% tax on all assets above 10 million dollars. This will generate public revenue to fund quality housing, healthcare, nutritious food, education, childcare, and a dignified retirement for all.

The climate crisis threatens us all and should be treated as the emergency that it is. If the status quo is allowed to continue, we will see catastrophic consequences in the years to come. This crisis has been created by capitalism and cannot be solved under capitalism — the billionaires and the politicians who serve them will never sacrifice their profits, even to avoid global catastrophe. In order to save our planet, we need a new system.

Under a socialist system, we will prioritize our collective future. We propose a National Climate Emergency Act to seize and decommission the billionaires’ fossil fuel infrastructure, and to build a renewable energy grid in its place. This will be done through a national mobilization of workers akin to the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and 40s, which hired over 10 million workers to construct lasting public infrastructure. We will invoke that legacy to turn the billionaires’ pollution economy into the people’s green economy.

Why is it that in the United States there are tens of millions of people unemployed at any given moment, while at the same time there are millions of essential jobs left unfilled nationwide? For capitalism, unemployment is a feature, not a bug. It allows the billionaires to keep us scared of losing our jobs so they can drive wages as low as possible. Additionally, we as workers don’t have the power to decide what types of jobs are available to us, or which challenges of society are addressed through our work. 

Under a socialist system, not only would the economy be restructured to prioritize meeting the needs of people and the planet, but everyone would have the right to a meaningful job to contribute to this transformation. Through the National Employment Emergency Act, we will guarantee well-paid union jobs and job training so each one of us can take part in building the society we deserve. We will mobilize as workers to guarantee dignified housing, healthcare, education, nutritious food, childcare, and dignified retirement for all through the formation of an organized People’s Corps. 

The emergency act will also address the automating away of our jobs  — something that is only accelerating with the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Technological advancements should improve society, but under capitalism they lead to devastation for workers. Our National Employment Emergency Act will include points specifically pertaining to the use of AI and other advanced technology to ensure it is properly regulated and deployed to benefit society.

Since 2023, as the Democrats and Republicans have both funded and supported the genocide in Gaza, the narrative of the U.S. government as a “peacemaker” and “champion for democracy” has fallen completely flat. The truth is that both parties are determined to exert domination over the rest of the world. This is not simply a matter of policy, but a feature of the U.S. capitalist system.

Our campaign is completely opposed to this system of domination. We demand a system of solidarity — a socialist system in which working class people in the U.S. stand with working people all over the world. Our Emergency Act to End War and Militarism is the first step. It includes cutting the military budget by 90% (the U.S military budget is currently bigger than the next nine countries combined) and closing all 800+ military bases around the world. It will also guarantee all veterans job training and well-paid employment with union representation within the People’s Corps. Additionally, the emergency act will end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately and lift the cruel system of U.S. sanctions that make it difficult for countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran to import essential goods such as food and medicine.

We will usher in a new era of foreign policy based on solidarity and diplomacy, not domination.

The Trump administration is carrying out an all-out assault on our rights. They are conducting a war against Black America through thinly veiled attacks on “DEI”. They are waging a campaign of ICE terror against our immigrant communities. They are eviscerating women’s access to reproductive healthcare. They are demonizing LGBTQ people. They are attempting to restrict the free speech rights of all of their political opponents. All told, these attacks are part of a long-term project of the right-wing to overturn the rights won by movements of working people.

Trump and his administration justify these attacks by blaming vulnerable groups for the problems in our society — so we as working class people will point the finger at each other rather than at the billionaires and politicians who are truly responsible. Though these attacks are driven by Trump’s ultra-right agenda, the Democrats are not putting up any effective opposition. We need to combat their campaign of division with one of solidarity. 

We propose the Emergency Act Against Hate and Division: a massive public educational campaign to debunk right-wing propaganda, to teach people the true history of our country, and to engender values of unity between people of different backgrounds.

At the same time, our campaign proposes programs to rectify the historic and ongoing injustices against the groups that Trump demonizes. This includes:

• Reinstating and expanding affirmative action programs

• Reparations to Black America in the form of cash payments and community investments

• Prosecuting police officers who murder civilians

• Ending mass incarceration

• Guaranteeing voting rights for all citizens, including incarcerated people

• Abolishing ICE and providing a path to citizenship for every person living inside the United States

• Providing free reproductive health services including abortion

• Heavily investing in domestic violence prevention

• Ensuring the right to gender-affirming healthcare

• Honoring treaties with indigenous nations