When the living cost goes high, while our wages sink, and the military soaks up every last dime, the fight against fascism, the fight against genocide, becomes even more relevant to our daily lives.
John Parker, the only socialist candidate for U.S. Congress District 37.
UNITE AND FIGHT!
UNITE AND FIGHT!
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What we stand for:
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Call for an immediate cessation of U.S. and Israeli wars and proxy wars and the funding of wars, occupations and genocide
Demand the immediate release of President Nicolas Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores
Divert the $100’s of billions for war to funding vital social programs and for use in programs to reverse poverty, homelessness and environmental damage.
End all foreign military assistance, especially to Israel, the Philippines, etc
End all sanctions, embargoes, and blockades
Shut down Guantanamo and all U.S. military bases
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Abolish Cops: Immediately call for a state of emergency in Black and Brown neighborhoods to address police & ICE agent murder, with the initial step of ceasing the use of deadly force. In addition, propose a change in the 10th constitutional amendment that does not allow the federal government to abolish a police force that has a pattern of civil rights violations and murder.
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Stop the war on trans people! Make Los Angeles Children’s and other hospitals reopen gender-affirming treatment for children and youth. Make hormone replacement therapy (HRT) over the counter and at cost for anyone who needs it. No to bathroom bans, book bans and sports bans, from schools to the Olympics. California must be a genuine sanctuary state for trans and queer refugees from other states – including housing assistance, guaranteed income and healthcare. Pass the Trans Bill of Rights introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington.
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Institute a referendum calling for the conversion of privately owned industries and corporations into people's ownership."
Bosses don’t really do anything – management, engineering, are all done by workers, everything is done by workers we don’t need the bosses stealing our wages
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Abolish the Pentagon
The US military's carbon footprint exceeds nearly 140 countries. The largest institutional contributor to global warming on planet Earth is the Department of Defense. The U.S. military adds more CO2 than any other single entity and more than most single countries in the world. Add to that the heat trapping toxins produced by the manufacture of trillions in weapons manufacture. Trillions of dollars are wasted on death and destruction in the quest to seize oil markets. This should be reallocated to sustainable energy research and development and mitigation of climate change.
Peace Driven Manhattan Project for Climate ChangeAs the U.S. did in developing the atomic bomb, all out research and development should be done by leading scientists. Universities should end all research and development for weaponry.
Mass Transit
From the forties through the fifties, General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil and other companies conspired to destroy mass transit and build freeways across the country. When proven guilty of this criminal profit-grab, General Motors was fined $5,000. Now the situation calls for immediate reversal. There must be a multi-trillion investment to build a new mass transit system.
Eliminate Profits as a Factor in Energy Production
Science must be the determining factor on how to build a new, global system of sustainable energy. Coal, fracking and offshore oil drilling must end, oil pipelines must be shut down. Profit as a guide in energy production must be eliminated. Science in the service of the people must determine the way forward.
Incentivize food autonomy
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When a parent is stolen from their child right before their crying eyes for simply being undocumented, whether being here legally or not, is nothing less than a fascist act. Now, 47 have died in the ICE prisons and several have been shot to death for simply being someone who fits the profile; or guilty of being in solidarity with migrant and immigrant peoples. Most of the migration from Mexico and Central and South America is due to both economic and military wars waged by the U.S. against these regions, forcing workers to come over the border, risking life and faced with the constant terror of being deported. Migrants in this country contribute to the vast wealth of this country without benefit of social security or pensions, yet they pay taxes. And, instead of making the lives of migrants worse, reparations should be due for the destabilization of their countries.These fascist dehumanizing acts by DHS and their thugs – ICE – have nothing to do with stopping drugs in this country.
When fishing boats are targeted with assassination by the U.S. – it is blatant murder and a war crime, and real evidence of drugs smuggling is not even given as an unjustifiable justification for such murders – total - 157 people.
The current worldwide refugee crisis is a direct result of the U.S. war on Iraq, Libya and Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and the entire Global South with sanctions and embargoes that are acts of war against sovereign countries.
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Trump recently asked for another $400 billion for the war on Iran that encourages not only theft of resources and the lives of the targeted in sovereign countries – but a most careless and dangerous incitement to a World War III.
The Pentagon budget should be cut to zero until the people have a say in how it is spent. We must end the priorities of profit over humanity by the military industrial complex – whose corporate stock prices jettison with every U.S. imperialist war, Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela and now Iran. U.S. wars and proxy wars must come to a halt.
From 2000 to 2024 the U.S. policies of war and proxy wars have turned our $100 to $42 in spending power. Costs for gas and food and everything that needs to be transported rises while the GDP continues to fall in relation to the world. In another words, gambling on Wall Street has replaced the production needed for infrastructure and services. And, with the downward amount of jobs created – all of this does nothing but create poverty and homelessness.
To keep the anger of our working class in check, more military is spent domestically on police and especially now ICE, which has a budget larger than most militarys, using fascist terror and encouraging fascism against our working class here and home and our international working class.
As we recently saw in Minneapolis, a general strike shutting down a city makes the government act. Every congressperson needs to encourage that and do what is needed: use the laws that exist and create the laws necessary to stop the ruling class’ race towards fascism and genocide. And, most importantly, help build a working class movement demanding systemic change.
As Martin Luther King Jr said – the greatest purveyor of violence: my own government. Madeline Albright admitted that U.S. sanctions killed 500,000 children in Iraq. U.S. atomic bombs killed at least 140,000 in Hiroshima, and then again in Nagasaki. Millions more have been killed and poisoned by Agent Orange in Vietnam – perhaps we shouldn’t trust the Penatagon and the ruling class to use the military against humanity time and time again.
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Fight for Ethnic Studies NOW!
“Know History- Know Self”
It has been confirmed that an Ethnic Studies curriculum increases student attendance, grades, participation and overall interest in school. In schools where an Ethnic Studies Curriculum has been implemented, teachers see the improvements in students learning about who they are in relation to the world.
Fund the movement for an inclusive ethnic studies curriculum for all public schools from K to 12th grade.
A little bit about John
FROM THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES TO THE FIGHT AGAINST GENOCIDE
My name is John Parker. I am the coordinator of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice and a leading member of the Struggle for Socialism Party. The Harriet Tubman Center is a steering committee member of the Community Self-Defense Coalition, because we understand that communities under attack—whether in Gaza, the Global South, or our own neighborhoods—have the right to organize and defend themselves.
I learned the power of organizing when I was 18 years old, helping workers at a small steel plant in New Jersey to form their union. I taught in public schools in Newark. I fought for working families here in Los Angeles—I authored and initiated the $15 minimum wage ballot initiative in 2013 - because a job should be enough to live on.
I have seen the damage of U.S. foreign policy firsthand:
I accompanied former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark on anti-war delegations.
I opposed the 2009 U.S.-supported coup in Honduras and was invited to the inauguration of President Xiomara Castro for my solidarity work.
In November 2023, I was detained in Egypt for attempting to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza.
I went because the same system carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people is the same system that wages war against Black and Brown communities through police violence, terrorizes immigrant and migrant communities through ICE, and attacks the very existence of our Trans community. The fight against U.S. imperialism abroad and the fight against oppression at home are one and the same.
A FIGHTER, NOT A POLITICIAN
I am a Black worker who has spent a lifetime on the front lines. I am not looking for a career in politics. I am looking to use this campaign to build the movement we need to take on the billionaires and the war machine.
If you want a representative who will:
Oppose sanctions and military threats against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and the Global South
Fight to defund the war machine and fund housing, healthcare, and education
Stand with immigrant and migrant communities against the terror of ICE
Defend the Trans community from political attacks and violence
Support the right of oppressed communities to organize for self-defense
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Statements from John
We will fight for our voting rights!
What we are witnessing in Louisiana right now is not just a legal dispute. It’s a coordinated attack on the fundamental right to vote, and it’s being led from the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court didn’t just issue a ruling on April 29; on May 4, it took the extraordinary step of rushing its judgment to give racist Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry the cover he needed to cancel an ongoing election.
Its action on May 4: allowing racists to throw out congressional votes for Black candidates. A new map was rushed through before voters could organize a response. Each step comes dressed as law. Together, they are a ruling-class attack on Black voting rights.
Let’s be clear about the sequence of these events. The Court struck down a map that finally gave Black voters a fairer shot at representation. The very next day, the governor suspended the congressional primary. Absentee ballots were already in the mail. Over 42,000 votes were denied. And now, those legally cast ballots are being thrown out by not allowing the usual 32 days before the Court’s orders were to be implemented.
As the ACLU of Louisiana said, a court has allowed Landry “to suspend part of an election already in progress and disenfranchise voters who have already cast their ballots.” This is what a modern coup by law looks like. No troops at the polls, just a court ruling and an emergency order. They are using procedure to achieve what Jim Crow once did with terror and literacy tests: diluting Black voting power. They are telling us that even if you vote, even if your ballot is already in, the ruling class can simply refuse to count it if they don’t like the potential outcome.
Louisiana is the test run. They want to see if they can get away with this so they can export this model across the South. That is already happening in Tennessee, where lawmakers are moving to break Memphis – the largest Black-majority city in the United States – into three congressional districts and erase the state’s only majority-Black district. Black struggle was at the heart of winning the Voting Rights Act in Selma and Montgomery, and Black representation is the special target now because it’s a central part of every struggle of our working class. The Supreme Court’s robe may give it an air of neutrality, but its record from Dred Scott in 1857 to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 to today’s actions screams the truth: it is intervening to win a political fight for the ruling class and put a rubber stamp on white supremacy and slavery by other means.
The Dred Scott decision enabling slavery by the Court was based primarily on the denial of “citizenship” toward people of African descent in the U.S. – our immigrant, migrant and Indigenous families’ struggle against the weaponization of citizenship has roots in the Black struggle. Also, these rulings expose a Court that is not elected but chosen by a ruling class that relies on the division of our working class.
Courtroom appeals are necessary, but they are not enough. Real change will only come from organized resistance. We will not let Louisiana be the test case for furthering disenfranchisement of Black people. I stand with the voters whose ballots are being silenced, and I call on every union, church, progressive organization, and community member to say clearly: our votes will not be erased, and we will fight by any means necessary.