With the next federal election
now set for September 14th, there will be many opportunities in
coming months to discuss with families, friends, workmates and others the real
issues confronting the Australian people and the poor regard given to their
concerns by the main parliamentary parties.
The Communist Party of Australia
(Marxist-Leninist) has developed a number of demands which, we believe, put
people before profits and Australian national independence in place of the
interests of US imperialism. These demands can be raised in an appropriate way,
when organising or taking action on many issues.
Workers/union
rights and democratic rights
·
Empower workers with the right to
strike!
·
Scrap the ABCC – Stop criminalising
workers demanding decent wages and conditions!
·
Guarantee workplace rights!
Right to job
security
Right to a safe
workplace
Right to organise
Right to collective
action
Right to union OH
& S representatives
Right to full entitlements
when companies fail
Environment
- Make the polluters pay!
Cap and tax carbon emissions – no
“market solutions”
No emission reduction costs passed
on to the people
- Phase out coal!
Create clean power using
renewable energy
Retrain workers for new clean,
sustainable industries
- Water belongs to all – it’s
not for trade or sale!
- No uranium mining – unsafe
for workers, communities and humanity!
Manufacturing,
jobs, mining tax
·
Stop nation-wrecking by multinationals –
nationalise and build the nation for the people!
·
Regulate and control foreign investment
- reject unequal “free trade” deals!
·
Tax the profits of the mining monopolies!
Keep the wealth in Australia
Develop renewable
energy production
Build
clean, safe, sustainable manufacturing and value-adding industries
Improve
services and amenities in mining communities and regional areas
Health,
education, and livelihood
·
Serve the people – no privatisation!
More and better public schools
More and better public hospitals
More and better public housing –
implement rent controls
More and better public transport
More and better community-run childcare
centres
·
Nationalise the banks!
Regulate
interest rates, Cut bank fees
·
More affordable private housing!
·
Scrap Negative Gearing!
·
Increase pensions and entitlements!
Aboriginal sovereignty and the ‘intervention’
- End the racist Intervention
now - Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs!
- Stop land grabbing by mining
companies!
- Scrap compulsory ‘Income
Management’!
- A just Treaty with the
Aboriginal and
Foreign
policy
·
For an independent and peaceful foreign
policy!
·
No more support for American wars – get
out of Iraq , Afghanistan and the Philippines
·
No US
Alliance
·
Nuclear free Australia
Social issues
- Equal rights for women!
Equal
pay for equal value
Make
equal opportunity a reality
Right to choose legal,
safe abortion
Parental
leave paid at full wage
- For a multicultural
No to racism
Stop
demonisation of asylum seekers and refugees
- No discrimination on grounds
of sexuality!
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