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SAVE OUR NATION          DAVIS

In other words, the monopolies must no longer be allowed to lean on sexism as a companion source, with racism, of outrageous super-profits.  Women workers have special needs such as maternity leaves and affordable childcare to facilitate their ability to work.  In urging aggressive struggle against sexism, the Communist Party calls for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, emphasizing at the same time the special needs of working women.
  Considering the billions of dollars in taxes the people of this count-ry channel each year into the federal budget, it would seem that our society should be able to meet the particular needs of its women, youth, seniors and of the population as a whole.  But, of course, the irrational priorities of the monopolies direct the funds, which ought to be used for social services, into the war budget.  The proposed federal budget as a whole amounts to nothing short of a double declaration of war.  According to Carter and his Congress, the mili-tary budget should be increased to $158 billion, and $15 billion should be cut from social services.  Four hundred million dollars are to be cut from health services, $700 million from public transporta-tion, $900 million from welfare, $1 billion from job training and affirmative action, $1.2 billion from energy development and al-most $2 billion from revenue sharing programs which pay for schools, libraries and hospitals from Maine to Hawaii.
  The Communist Party proposes that we drastically reverse this anti-human pattern of cuts.  Let the people of the United States de-mand that $100 billion be cut from the military budget, and that those funds be rechannelled into human services.  This has literally become a matter of life and death.
  The program of the Communist Party calls for aggressive anti-monopoly measures as the key to solving the major ills which afflict our society.  While our ultimate goal is the creation of a socialist society - only then can the working class be truly emancipated - im-mediate and radical reforms can be achieved by severely restricting the power of the monopolies.  (In some instances, we must even raise the demand for nationalization: The dangerous nuclear power plants should be shut down and the energy industry, as a whole, should be immediately nationalized.)  Our program is an anti-

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