Social Security

Report to the National Committee, Communist Party USA January 29, 2005. The inauguration is over, but the battle for hearts and minds, for the future of our country, is raging. As Linda Chavez Thompson put it so eloquently during the Martin Luther King celebration in Los Angeles: “Things can turn around much sooner than anyone can imagine … if we fight smart, and if we fight hard and if we fight creatively, and if we fight tough.”

Financially, social security is sound for the indefinite future, and it would even be possible to increase benefits. The attack on social security is a ruling class attempt to realize immediate and long-term profits, and also to shift the ideological climate decisively to the right.Expanded from a report to the National Board of the Communist Party, USA, January 6, 2005

This report made to the CPUSA National Board in January gives tactical thought to the forces, the message and the outlook necessary for a sucessful defense of Social Security.

People's Weekly World
Polical Affairs

Over the past two decades, the entire structure of retirement security, as well as other public and social programs, has come under increasing attack from corporations, White House administrations and the ultra-right. This assault has greatly increased under the administration of George W. Bush. (From the People's Weekly World Newspaper)