For the past half century (and more), big capital has worked to privatize the whole infrastructure of our collective life, from the post office and parking meters to housing and education. That assault on the public sector has had disastrous consequences for organized labor, racially and nationally oppressed people, women, and the entire working class.
The rise of the MAGA fascist movement has intensified that process, not only gutting regulatory and civil rights agencies, but carrying out the largest act of union busting in U.S. history. Even among liberal and progressive forces, however, the fight for public ownership and people’s power sometimes takes a back seat to policies that funnel public money to private profiteers.
This Friday, host Anita Waters and housing justice activist Ben Bath are joined by a special guest: former CFPB financial regulatory expert and Maryland congressional candidate Alexis Goldstein. We’ll talk about public housing, public education, public sector jobs, and why the fight for democracy requires expanding public ownership of our social wealth.
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The Communist Party USA is a revolutionary working-class political party founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.
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