Design your own political party

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If you were to design a political party from scratch, what would you call it and what would its program be? I did this kind of thread a few years back on AH.com and it got some rather typical responses for that website (given that its even more of a liberal echo chamber than we have here), so I figured I'd try it again here, since we have a little more ideological diversity. I've included a modified version of the template I posted there to help flesh out ideas.

NAME OF PARTY:
AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS¹:
IDEOLOGY:
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION²:
OFFICIAL COLOR(S):
OFFICIAL MOTTO:
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS³:
POLITICAL POSITION⁴

POLITICAL PROGRAM<sup>5

1</sup>Basically, any organizations not directly (or directly, I guess it depends on how you personally would run your party) run by the party but linked to it in a formal way. Like the College Democrats or Young Republicans or Young Labour, etc. Many parties have specific wings for students, youth wings, women's wings, etc. So that's your prerogative here if you'd have anything like that.
²Would your organization be affiliated with the Socialist International, International Democrat Union, etc?
³Parties in places outside of the U.S. tend to have either an official paper or one that is unofficially supportive of them. Include one or more if you'd like.
⁴Not technically the same thing as ideology. This is more or less whether or not your party is on the center-left, far-left, center-right, far-right, etc.
⁵I'm going to leave the part below this blank, because I don't want to pigeonhole what you might come up with as important or something that you'd in particular advocate if you were designing your own political party. You can post what you'd like there. Where your party stands on the issues, what it would do if it were in power, etc.

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Here's what I've come up with:



NAME OF PARTY: Workers' Party
AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS:

• Young Workers' League¹
• Young Pioneers²
• Spartacus League³

IDEOLOGY: Marxism
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION: None⁴
OFFICIAL COLOR(S): Maroon
OFFICIAL MOTTO: "Workers of the world, unite!"
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS:

• The Daily Worker⁵
• Appeal to Reason⁶
• The Masses⁷
• Various local party publications⁸
• Various specific issue publications⁹

POLITICAL POSITION: Far-Left

POLITICAL PROGRAM

Political Demands
1. Absolute freedom of the press, speech, and assembly.
2. Abolition of the right of inheritance.
3. Abolition of all copyrights, patents, and other forms of so-called 'intellectual property.'
4. Unrestricted and equal suffrage for all persons over the age of 15.
5. The adoption of the initiative, referendum, and recall at the federal level and at all lower levels of government in which they do not currently exist.
6. Abolition of the Senate, the Presidency, and the Vice Presidency and the transfer of their powers to an expanded House of Representatives.
7. The reapportionment of the House of Representatives inline with those requirements for representation established in the Constitution of the United States.
8. The election of all judges, including members of the United States Supreme Court.
9. The renunciation of the Supreme Court of the power to declare laws null and void, as this has no legal constitutional basis.
10. The re-drawing of all existing state boundaries.
11. Independence or democratic self-government for all United States territories, commonwealths, or nations in free association with the United States, including the right to send representatives to Congress.
12. Absolute separation of church and state.
13. Abolition of the standing army in favor of the universal arming of the working class and the formation of democratic workers' militias.
14. Abolition of all police forces in favor of democratic workers' militias.
15. Abolition of the FBI, the CIA, and all other agencies that exist to spy on or otherwise harass American citizens or engage in covert warfare at home or abroad.
16. The election of all public officials for short terms at salaries no higher than that of the average working person. The abolition of all special privileges for elected officials.
17. Socialization of the financial sector under workers' control and the forgiveness of all debts owed by the working class to the banks or the capitalist state.
18. Election of all legislatures by proportional representation.
19. Immediate closure of all military bases on foreign soil. Withdrawal from all existing military alliances, international financial institutions such as the WTO and IMF, and the United Nations.
20. Immediate release of all non-violent persons currently imprisoned.
21. Abolition of all immigration restrictions and laws impeding the free movement of people on the North American continent.
22. Legalization of all drugs.
23. Full legal equality for persons of all races, religions, colors, creeds, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
24. Socialization of the media under workers' control.
25. Right of all workers in socialized industry to elect managers and manage their own work.

Economic Demands
1. Reduction in the working week from 40 to 30 hours with no loss in pay.
2. Transfer of all regulatory power concerning wages and hours, workplace safety, etc. from the state to workers' organizations.
3. A legal minimum wage equivalent to the cost of maintaining a healthy diet, the cost of housing, and all costs associated with raising at least two children, as determined by a special commission established and maintained by the workers.
4. Abolition of all guest worker programs.
5. Equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex, race, color, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
6. Universal access to education from pre-kindergarten to graduate school, at no cost to students or their families. A stipend for students over the age of 15 equivalent to the minimum wage and state payment of all costs incurred for textbooks, housing, etc. Education should be polytechnical, emphasizing both technical and academic work in order to break down the division of labor between brain and brawn work. Management of all schools by elected committees of students, school employees, and community members.
7. The transformation of Social Security into a universal basic income equivalent to the minimum wage, paid to all persons aged 15 and up.
8. Abolition of all government interference in and controls upon labor unions. Immediate repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, the Landrum-Griffin Act, and the staffing of all industrial dispute boards with elected representatives of the workers.
9. Socialization of all industries dependent upon taxpayer subsidies for their operation and all natural monopolies.
10. Socialization of the land and the promotion of cooperative farming methods.
11. State aid to cooperatives and incentives for small businesses to convert themselves into cooperatives under workers' control and management. Ban on the issuing of new corporate charters that allow for one-man management.
12. Democratic planning and management of the economy by socialized industries under workers' control, workers' self-directed enterprises, and self-proprietorships.
13. Abolition of all regressive taxation in favor of the application of rent payments by socialized industries to the state in order to fund its operations.
14. Universal access to medical care, free at the point of use, including mental, dental, and other forms of scientifically proven care. Socialization of the entire medical sector (including Big Pharma) under the control and management of hospital employees, patients, and communities.
15. Universal access to housing. Promotion of communal living by the state and the establishment of housing cooperatives.
16. Establishment of worker-owned and controlled cafeterias, laundromats, and daycares as a step toward women's liberation. Socialize domestic work insofar as possible to free women from the double-shift of the patriarchal family unit.
17. Guaranteed right to employment. A massive public works program to retrofit buildings to make them energy efficient, combat climate change, and revitalize run-down areas.
18. Immediate seizure by the state of all abandoned worksites and their re-opening for use-production under workers' control.
19. Equalize all workers and environmental standards at the highest possible level with all nations the U.S. is currently party to a 'free trade' agreement with. Withdraw from any agreement in which those nations refuse to comply with said adjustments.
20. Aggressive investment in labor-saving technology to reduce the working week. Implement 3D printing on a massive scale and invest heavily in automation, with a just transition to a new job or a place in education for all workers put out of a job by these innovations.


¹An organization for persons aged 15-25. Internally democratic and free from the control of the mother party. The Young Workers League elects members to represent itself to the National Executive Committee of the Workers Party in proportion to its numbers. The YWL would probably fill the role of regular high school and college clubs, fraternities, etc.
²An organization for the children of party members and interested youth, aged 5-15. Kind of a combination of an alternative scout movement (think the Radical Brownies but turned up to 11) that would also run summer camps, socialist sunday schools, socialist sports leagues for children, etc. Basically a mass organization to educate the young and provide for some community where there currently is none.
³A halfway house between a paramilitary organization and a gun club, the Spartacus League would instruct party members on the proper use of firearms, teach self-defense courses, and patrol working class communities as a means of monitoring police actions and defusing situations between workers as necessary.
⁴Supports of the creation of a 5th International.
⁵Daily newspaper covering pretty much everything your regular newspapers cover, but from a Marxist perspective.
⁶Monthly theoretical journal. Similar to International Socialist Review
⁷Literary-artistic monthly magazine not unlike The New Yorker
⁸Specific publications for major metropolitan areas
⁹Specific publications focusing on one or two major issues. More or less socialist versions of Cosmo, Scientific American, etc.