***Politburo Elections*** Labor Party Fall 2013 Convention! (user search)

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The Pillars of Labor.

| Protect |

The protection of Our Society is an imperative and must always be seen as a priority if we are to remain civilized human beings. To protect the innocent from abuse, injury or wrongdoing by others through the enforcement of responsible, proportionate criminal and civil penalties is a characteristic of a well-round, mature society. To protect each Atlasian's human rights by ensuring society honors them is the only way in which Our Society can continue to live up to its most idealistic and progressive vision. When we protect the right of other civilized nations to thrive and exist democratically, we help provide a more stable world in which Atlasia can exist. By protecting the right for both Church and State to operate separately, we guarantee that neither can be contorted nor abused. Ensuring that each and every Atlasian has the natural right to determine what he or she does with their body must be protected without exception. Finally, we believe there can be no protection of today's and tomorrow's People without protection of the environment we live in, and that no social progress can be made at the expense of environmental conservation and vice-versa.

| Provide |

When we provide for those who currently cannot provide for themselves, we strengthen our economy through increased demand and ultimately, increased job and economic growth. When government acts on behalf of the people without motive of financial gain, we provide the opportunity for great things to be done within Our Society – great things that no private entity would ever embark upon without prior compensation. When energy is decoupled from profit and is provided to the people at its baseline cost of production, the national economy will thrive better than it does under a private model. By providing a quality education to our children, we pave the way for innovation and enlightenment as our children become the leaders of the next generation. By providing a level playing field and demanding basic dignity via fair trade, we ensure our best ideals are projected and enforced throughout the world without need for diplomatic or military action. By protecting the right of workers to organize and guaranteeing them a voice on the job, we make industrial democracy a possibility. When we provide access to public broadcasting and other free forms of information and assistance, we embolden individuals to improve and better themselves, as well as those around them.

| Prosper |

We prosper when each and every person in Our Society has access to affordable, quality health care and when the environment in which we live is protected, clean and conserved. When taxes are decreased, valuable infrastructure and maintenance is ignored while fiscal responsibility is abandoned in the name of tax spending; when taxes are increased, businesses re-invest and grow their companies, while government is able to innovate and plan projects of common purpose. No nation can expect sustainable prosperity while relying on finite fuels that pollute and destroy our environment, all the while being tied to the whims of other nations who supply us with it. Prosperity for the worker must be bargained for – collectively, that is – in order to ensure its perpetual existence. Ultimately, we prosper not from the whims of big business, but from the skill and hard work of the lowliest among us. When labor is allowed to come together and bargain collectively for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions, we all do better.

Labor's October '13 Manifesto.

Our Society.

The Labor Party supports the creation of an affordable national childcare program, to offer parents an alternative to highly-priced private childcare services. The establishment of a national childcare program, along with the establishment of universal access to pre-kindergarten for our children, will help the next generation of Atlasians grow and prosper like never before.

The Labor Party calls for the creation of public power utilities, providing affordable competition of an essential resource we believe all Atlasians should not be charged a penny more than necessary to acquire. We further believe that natural resources, should be the common property of all Atlasia, and should not be held up in the hands of those who would deprive Atlasians of access to energy or gouge the Atlasian worker to line their own pockets.

The Labor Party implores the regional governments to utilize the powers of the SEDZI Act, creating Social & Economic Development zones for the areas of this nation that have been left behind.

The Labor Party supports the readjustment of farm subsidies to the family farmer, at the expense of sprawling corporate farm operations.

The Labor Party seeks the creation of a robust Credit Card Owner's Bill of Rights, to protect the average Atlasian against a litany of credit card company abuses. The Labor Party also favors the establishment of public and co-operative banking alternatives to the private banking sector and will do all in its power to reduce bank fees, end predatory lending primarily targeted at the poorest of the poor, and provide every Atlasian with free access to basic checking and savings accounts.

The Labor Party supports a broad national stimulus program designed to kickstart the Atlasian automotive and manufacturing industry.

The Labor Party believes it is imperative that the national government begin a massive energy saving program in all sectors, beginning with public sector, that will fund research, development and expansion of nuclear, wind, hydroelectric, and solar energy generation.

The Labor Party believes in drawing down our excessive and needless troop presence abroad, as well as once and for all ending the practice that has sent many a working class son to an untimely end - that of conscription.

The Labor Party firmly does not believe that corporations should have the same rights of political speech and action as do people, and seek an Amendment to affirm this once and for all.

The Labor Party asks for all governments in Atlasia to increase support for free community clinics and adoption agencies, to further increase access to general health and family planning to the poor. The Labor Party recognizes the right of women to choose whether or not they shall have an abortion and oppose additional restrictions on women accessing that right.

The Labor Party believes that workers should have the right to organize a union free from employer interference.

The Labor Party believes that, as the Atlasian market has changed to be one of national firms competing with international firms, so should our process of collective bargaining, to allow for industry-wide bargaining and national labor contracts.

The Labor Party believes that workers should have a voice when it comes to the management of their firms beyond the bargaining table. We support the establishment of fair and representative co-determination processes that will require worker representation on every corporate decision-making board.

The Labor Party recognizes that although all Atlasians may be equal on paper, they may not be equal in practice. This, the result of centuries of discrimination, bigotry, and other ills that affect our society, should be corrected with the adoption of colorblind programs of economic and social redress, which the Labor Party stands in firm support of.

The Labor Party favors the passage of a law guaranteeing equal treatment and protections for Trans* Atlasians.

The Labor Party stands firmly in support of a renewed focus on rural healthcare and education sectors, increasing construction of rural schools and hospitals, and increasing pay for those who seek employment in these fields in Atlasia's countryside.

The Labor Party supports commonsense drug regulation that keeps dangerous substances out of the hands of minors, abortion laws that make abortion easily accessible, and minimal regulation upon sex. This includes the legalization and regulation of sex work, psychedelic drugs, and the decriminalization of hard drugs, with rehabilitation, rather than retribution, as a means of combating drug addiction in Atlasia.

The Labor Party believes that all Atlasians are entitled to a quality public education. We therefore support policies that make education more easily accessible from pre-kindergarten to university, and support all appropriate measures to establish and maintain a universal preschool program, equalize funding for school districts across Atlasia by assuming federal funding of public education, and abolish tuition fees at public Atlasian universities, as well as enact strict controls on classroom size and provide new incentives for those who wish to enter the teaching profession.

The Labor Party is a socialist party dedicated to the idea that society should be structured in a democratic fashion. We reject the argument of those who say that human nature is inherently fixated upon self-interest alone and instead seek to build a society that reflects the most fundamental impulse of human civilization – community.

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