[GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread

[Alduria]

NPC SUBMISSION FOR THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF ALDURIA:

Working people around Micras have always sought a future without war, exploitation, inequality, and poverty. They strive to build a brighter future, one based on democracy, peace, justice, equality, cooperation, and meeting human needs. That future is socialism, a system in which working people control their own lives and destinies, and together build a better world.

The Communist Party of Alduria is dedicated to the struggle of the Aldurian people, and of socialism in this country.

The working class and all who work for a living – the vast majority of the people – face a relentless, vicious, and amoral enemy: the capitalist class. Our country is oppressed by one of the most controlling, despicable, entrenched capitalist ruling classes ever, concentrating enormous political, economic, and military power in the hands of a few transnational corporations. These corporations seek to steal, embezzle, extort, and scheme all wealth from the tens of millions of working people, from small businesses and family farmers, from men, women, and children, from seniors and youth, and from the employed, underemployed, and unemployed. They exploit people as workers on the job and the same people as consumers at the checkout counter. Their foremost weapon to maintain their dominance is racism, used to divide working people and achieve extra profits. They work hard to extend ultra-right control over the government and government policy.

The Communist Party of Alduria will work to:

• Consider which aspects of production and distribution will be socially owned and how;
  
• Strive for strategic planning which maintains necessary balances in the economy between the production of goods and commodities, heavy industry, and the production of machinery;
  
• Seek the proper combination of material and moral incentives at all levels of the economy from the individual worker and work collectives in specific industries through city, state, regional, and national levels;
  
• According to circumstance, this may include market mechanisms in combination with strategic planning and regulation;
  
• Seek mechanisms for the daily functioning of the economy such that the quality, variety, flexibility, and efficiency of production are constantly increased;
  
• Removal from the electoral system of the financial contributions of monopolies, to be replaced by public funding and guarantees of honest elections where each vote counts and all votes are counted;
  
• Establish a foreign policy of international cooperation to solve problems of war and aggression, poverty, education, environment, health, and development;
  
• Ensure the complete separation of church and state;
  
• Full legal protection from hate crimes and racial profiling, and the outlawing of oral and written racist propaganda;
  
• Implementation of affirmative action and compensatory programs to achieve actual equality for the racially and nationally oppressed and women;
  
• Prevention of the freedom of monopolies to move assets in ways that harm workers and communities without full compensation; the guaranteed right to a job at living wages or full income through public works and public service jobs; the growth of public ownership of industries;
  
• Elimination of management prerogatives coupled with the expansion of workers and union rights to prevent socially harmful management decisions;
  
• Full funding for education, affordable housing programs, day care, social security, a universal health care program, youth job training and recreation programs, and cultural programs;
  
• Creation of a national social fund to make up for past and continuing wrongs and to help achieve equality in facilities and infrastructure for communities of the racially and nationally oppressed;
  
• No taxes for workers and low and middle income people; progressive taxation of the wealthy and private corporations;
  
• All media to be free of monopoly ownership.