Our goal in this brief report is to lay bare the relationship between the fight for women's equality and the struggle of the working class, to highlight why the ultra right targets women, and, lastly, to challenge the Party to recast its understanding of the new reality of the importance of the Woman Question in light of the significant emergence of women as members of the paid work force as...
Resolutions were presented to the Convention prior to our arrival at Milwaukee.
The Program Committee sees its work as a major contribution toward building political and ideological unity and mass fightback against the all-out assault of the extreme right wing. We project developing a Program for our times, which builds on our Programs of past periods, and projects into future periods including socialism.
Our Party is committed to and actively working for greater political independence of the working class and all the progressive forces. We are working for the establishment of a united multiracial labor-based independent people's electoral party that could ultimately challenge and win against the dominant capitalist parties, in every state in the union. We consider it a necessary goal, on the road to Socialism.
The struggle against the corporate domination of the media is a cornerstone of the fight to defend democracy.
The Internet is just a tool among many we have, like the printing press, the telephone, or the television. But because the Internet is new, it is transforming the way we work internally and with our allies and the general public. We all need to quicken the pace and make using the Internet a completely everyday experience in the Party's political life.
Coalitions burst forth in a new way at the end of the century, and in many ways coalition building is defining the strides of progress in the 21st century. In Seattle, when Teamsters walked with turtles against the WTO, a whole new level of coalition appeared with global potential.
The bond between the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party of Vietnam is enduring, especially as a result of the movement against the U.S. imperialist war. Yet, that bond continues to grow and flourish with time. The comradeship for our Party at the Congress was overwhelming.
The Party Program is not a legislative program or an immediate projection for what we're doing this year. It is a longer range document, and should be more of an overview - addressing the stage of struggle at present, yet linked to more advanced stages including Bill of Rights socialism.
Political Affairs interviewed Ali Fischer, President of the United States Student Association's (USSA), on March 11, 2001 during the USSA's annual legislative conference and lobby day in Washington, DC.