Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Immediate Demands

Vanguard September 2013 p. 8


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, resource super-profits 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 housingimplement 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!
  • Unconditional restoration of the Racial Discrimination Act – scrap compulsory ‘Income Management’!
  • Leave Land Rights alone - recognise Aboriginal sovereignty!
  • A just Treaty with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples!
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 – no foreign military bases on Australian soil!

·         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 Australia!

         No to racism

                      Stop demonisation of asylum seekers and refugees

  • No discrimination on grounds of sexuality!

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