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Communist Party
Communistische Partij
Communistische Partij
共產黨
Parti Komunis
பொதுவுடைமைக்கட்சி
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” - Che Guevara
Statement of Principles | Verklaring van Vrincipes | 原則聲明 | Penyataan Prinsip
As a Marxist-Leninist party following the doctrines of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, we structure our party according to democratic centralist principles, allowing free discussion and debate according to democratic principles amongst our members before agreeing upon complete unity of action once the majority makes a decision, and consult and emphasize the mass line, organizing the proletariat and intensifying the class struggle, and formulating our ideology according to the organic, revolutionary instincts and ideas that the people harbor and distilling them accordingly. We also espouse the theory of People’s Multiparty Democracy, as Comrade Prachanda of the Nepali Communist Party formulated, which recognizes the validity of the parliamentary sphere as a legitimate arena of class struggle that communists must participate in, and does not equate socialism with the abolition of the parliamentary democratic system, instead calling for organizing the parliamentary democratic state according to proletarian, rather than bourgeois, lines.
Accompanying this reorganization of the state along proletarian, authentically democratic lines is a social revolution of, by, and for the working-class and the masses, as led and served by the Communist Party, which will establish a socialist society. We will end private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange and transfer these things into public ownership and democratic control by a Bandurian dictatorship of the proletariat - structured according to the principles of People’s Multiparty Democracy - that will coordinate economic planning of the means of production, distribution, and exchange through a mixture of industrial syndicates, facilitation boards, computers, and centralized bodies, and establish a rationing system through non-transferable labour vouchers.
However, this platform is merely our Transitional Programme, an intermediary economic stage of lower-stage communism and the socialist mode of production. As communists, we ultimately aim to transfer the means of production, distribution, and exchange into common ownership, as part of the commons, to be used by all and for all of humanity, by which point the Bandurian state will have long withered away and in its place will exist a classless, moneyless, and stateless communist society enveloping the whole of humanity: this is our Maximum Programme.
However, we also recognizes the necessity and desirability of pursuing certain reforms, which the Bandurian proletariat demand, allowing these proletarians to better mobilize and organize itself in preparation of the socialist, proletarian revolution, and as Communists, it is our duty to demand the immediate institution of these reforms in the context of the present parliamentary, bourgeois democracy. Accordingly, we have prepared the proletariat’s demands, according to democratic centralist principles and following the mass line, in the following Minimum Programme:
Minimum Programme | Minimum Programma |最低程序 | Program Minimum
Demands for a Homes Guarantee
- We demand the immediate nationalization of all rental properties, converting these properties to social housing.
- We demand an immediate program of slum clearance, entailing nationalizing all land currently occupied by shantytowns, demolishing these slums if residents consent, and constructing social housing at a 4:1 ratio to demolished housing units or 5 million social housing units - whichever is higher - and allowing residents of demolished slums to live in this social housing in complexes where they live amongst the community members of former slums.
- We demand a nationwide “right to return” law so that those whom gentrification displaced can return to their former communities, as social housing tenants, if they so choose.
- We demand capping tenants’ rents at one-fourth of their income.
- We demand immediately funding all necessary repairs to social housing.
- We demand banning “no-fault” tenant evictions, and only permitting just-cause evictions.
- We demand that the state construct all new social housing units as mid-rise, five-to-six story apartments, mixed-income, mixed-use developments, and according to the Danish cohousing principles, with ample community venues including childcare and healthcare facilities, communal kitchens and dining facilities, playgrounds, and green space.
We demand an immediate program of relief to impoverished and swindled homeowners, by nationalizing all underwater mortgages and foreclosed homes, and allowing homeowners to stay in their homes as social housing tenants. - We demand a right to shelter law, mandating that the state ensure all Bandurians have a roof over their heads at night.
- We demand a housing first policy with regards to unhoused Bandurians, ensuring that all unhoused Bandurians are immediately housed in a single-room occupancy hotel, studio apartment, or one-bedroom apartment.
- We demand a tax on all vacant properties equivalent to 2% of those assessed properties’ values.
Demands for Environmental Justice
- We demand that the government consider climate change the greatest threat to humanity and act accordingly.
- We demand transitioning Banduria to an energy system entirely based on renewable and nuclear energy by 2030.
- We demand a carbon tax, the proceeds of which would be given back to the people via a tax-free monthly check.
- We demand protection of the Bandurian natural environment, and hence demand that the state establish greenbelts on the urban periphery, declarate of large swaths of the Bandurian wilderness protected, reforest deforested areas and restore our nation’s wetlands.
- We demand that the state subsidise electric cars and prohibit imports of non-electric cars.
- We demand immediate ratification of the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol.
Demands for Livable Cities
- We demand a national high-speed rail system and light rail and bus rapid transit systems in urban areas.
- We demand an end to all fares in public transportation.We demand car bans in very dense urban areas, assuming public transportation infrastructure is satisfactory.
- We demand car bans in very dense urban areas, assuming public transportation infrastructure is satisfactory.
- We demand massive expansion to our cities’ bicyling infrastructure, including a massive expansion of cycling paths and protected bike lanes and a subsidized bikeshare similar to Paris’s whereby bike rides for less than 30 minutes are free.
- We demand the institution of Barcelona-style superblocks in highly congested and polluted areas.
Demands for Communal and Social Equality
- We demand government recognition of civil unions for same-sex couples, with all the equivalent benefits of marriage thereof.
- We demand the recognition of Indonesian, Tamil, and Mandarin as official languages.
- We demand that social housing complexes prize the integration of various communal and ethnic groups amongst tenants.
- We demand that the state institute a programme of year-long Universal Service, either entailing military or non-military service, where individuals interact with groups of all varied ethnic backgrounds.
- We demand an end to the divide-and-conquer tactics of the bourgeoisie, aiming to divide the working-class on communal grounds.
- We demand the immediate institution of unrestricted birthright citizenship, helping to prevent the formation of a native exploited underclass.
- We demand an immediate amnesty for all currently undocumented immigrants, and giving all such immigrants a path to citizenship.
- We demand a policy of open borders, except with respect to those who have committed what would be crimes in Banduria.
- We demand a programme of nationwide civics education to minimize communal tensions.
- We demand the prohibition of abortion after 20 weeks except in circumstances threatening the mother’s life, or and before that except in cases of rape, incest, fetal defects, threats to the mother’s mental or physical health, or socioeconomic circumstances.
Demands for an Anti-Imperialist Foreign Policy
- We demand that Banduria’s foreign policy is not aimed towards appeasing either Chinese or American imperialists, nor towards advancing the interests of the national, non-comprador bourgeoisie, but rather towards advancing the interests of the international proletariat and combatting imperialism everywhere.
- We demand Banduria’s membership in ASEAN and the United Nations.
- We demand Banduria’s non-membership in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund - mere agents of American imperialism - or in the Belt and Road Initiative - a mere agent of Chinese imperialism.
- We demand that Banduria support national liberation movements worldwide; therefore, we demand the immediate recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, the State of Palestine, and the Republic of Somaliland as sovereign states over their claimed territories.
- We demand Banduria’s immediately sanction individuals known to be complicit with gross human rights violations, including individuals associated with the ongoing programme to end all semblance of liberty and democracy in Hong Kong and individuals associated with Saudi crimes against humanity in Yemen.
- We demand Banduria use all measures possible - while remaining cognizant of Banduria’s position in the world - to stop genocide internationally by directing the Bandurian Foreign Ministry to closely monitor situations deemed to have a high risk of resulting in genocide, including Saudi Arabia’s invasion of Yemen and treatment of the local Shiite population, Indian detention of alleged Muslim non-citizens, particularly Kashmiris, Chinese detention of Uyghurs and Hui, and family-separation policies and constructing of immigrant detention camps in the United States.
- We demand Banduria recognize all genocides as genocides, including the Armenian Genocide and the American Indian Genocide.
- We demand Banduria reject any foreign military bases on its soil and not intervene except as part of peacekeeping missions, to defend its sovereignty, or to defend human rights.
Demands for Workers’ Rights
- We demand a minimum wage of at least 50% of the mean national income, and tying this minimum wage to inflation.
- We demand mandatory, national-level negotiations between capital and labour, as in Scandinavia, mediated by the government, which shall generally support labour’s position by default.
- We demand mandatory workers’ councils managing large and medium-sized businesses and state-owned industry at the shop level, and supervisory works councils in small businesses.
- We demand codetermination, so that workers, through their unions, shall elect half of all corporate board members.
- We demand a modified version of the Meidner Plan, whereby workers, through their unions, shall purchase shares equivalent to 20% of a company’s annual profits until workers own at least 30% of a company.
- We demand a jobs guarantee, achieved through giving unemployed workers jobs in various sectors, according to their relevant skills and identified economic needs, and through rigorous active labour market policies.
- We demand the establishment of Industrial Syndicates, whereby workers, through their unions, shall give non-binding recommendations to the government in their relevant economic sector.
- We demand a 1:12 corporate ratio, whereby executives may earn no more than 12 times the mean or median wage at that company, whichever is lower.
- We demand a Ghent system of unemployment insurance, whereby the state distributes funds for unemployment insurance to trade unions, which then distribute such unemployment benefits to their unemployed members; we additionally demand that unemployment benefits cover at least 80% of income.
- We demand trade unions enjoy full rights to organize and strike, including the right to institute a secondary boycott, sympathy strike, sit-down strike, closed shop, or hiring hall.
- We demand the use of hiring halls in gig work and forms of work which are gig-like, such as dockwork.
Demands for Educational Equity
- We demand an education system free at the point of use from the pre-kindergarten to tertiary level.
- We demand an emphasis on egalitarian and democratic values in the education system, according to the pedagogy of John Dewey.
- We demand cooperative and vocational education, especially at the upper-secondary and tertiary levels, and consequently support creating cooperative education and apprenticeships at such levels, in close cooperation with trade unions.
- We demand an advisory Pedagogical Board for each school, half of whose members shall be elected by that school’s teachers and half of whose members shall be elected by that school’s children’s parents, as we believe education’s beft left in the hands of experts: teachers and parents.
- We demand an education system that is crafted to each student’s ability, and therefore support creating gifted education programs in the vein of the Avery Coonley School.
- We demand a system whereby parents may send their children to privately-run schools in the vein of American educator and trade unionist Albert Shanker’s proposal, provided that such schools are non-profit, do not charge tuition, have a Pedagogical Board, are wholly funded by the state (barring religious education programs), and fulfill all state-mandated academic requirements and pedagogical methods.
- We demand the prohibition of all private schools, barring those fulfilling the requirements listed above, should be prohibited.
- We demand education serve as the great equaliser.
- We demand funding of all schools designed to maximize equity, by funding schools with predominantly poor students or schools with students who disproportionately have special needs, more than other schools.
- We demand practices designed to maximize school desegregation between communal groups and social classes, especially desegregation busing.
- We demand an affirmative action program which preferences individuals from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, rather than individuals from certain communal groups.
Demands for Democratic Empowerment
- We demand a ban on lobbying Parliament.
- We demand a democracy voucher program, whereby every voter can spend a certain amount of money granted by the state on campaign donations.
- We demand a prohibition on all political donations except those from this campaign finance stipend, public financing, and political donations accrued through party or organizational membership feeds, provided that such fees do not exceed an amount equivalent to $100 annually.
- We demand citizens enjoy the rights of initiative, referendum, and recall, provided that such initiatives and referenda do not violate the Constitution.
- We demand compulsory voting.
- We demand individuals have the right to cast a vote “against all” candidates; if “against all” garners a majority of the vote, we favour holding a new election.
- We demand mixed-member proportional representation, as this maximises local representation and fairly represents all citizens’ voices.
Demands for Economic Equality
- We demand state ownership of the commanding heights of the economy, namely public utilities such as energy, water, telecommunications, public transportation, waste management, and railways, and other commanding heights, namely mineral and extractive resources and banking.
- We demand a highly progressive tax system and a highly aggressive wealth tax at the most extreme wealth levels, both to raise revenue and to reduce inequality.
- We demand using a mixture of direct and indicative planning, all of which shall be highly computerised, similar to planning now used by many modern corporations.
- We demand the establishment a sovereign wealth fund, funded by 50% of the wealth tax. This sovereign wealth fund shall not only accrue revenue for the government but also serve as an economic stimulus; the fund shall be focused on investing in Banduria itself, and will serve as an active, voting shareholder, focused not on advancing shareholders’ interests but rather on advancing the interests of the nation, consumers, workers, the environment, and other stakeholders.
Demands for Ending Poverty
- We demand a universal childcare and daycare system free at the point of use based upon the Abecedarian Early Intervention Project in the United States, demonstrated to greatly increase cognitive and economic potential, especially in working-class children.
- We demand a universal stipend to all parents based on the number of children rather than income level; we also support doubling that stipend should at least one parent be unemployed.
- We demand a stipend for low-income families which cannot afford food, and we support creating communal restaurants charging very little money and available to all, based upon WWII-era British Restaurants.
Demands for a Prosperous Countryside
- We demand land reform whereby no individual or family may own more than 100 hectares of farmland.
- We demand mutualising all plantations and immediately granting tenant farmers the right to lease their land in perpetuity, while banning the sale of agricultural land or banks foreclosing on agricultural land
- We demand banning corporate ownership of land, barring land owned by workers’ cooperatives.
- We demand the creation of a Bandurian Agricultural Board, which shall enjoy a monopoly on all Bildan food processing and a monopsony on all Bandurian agriculture, in the Canadian Wheat Board’s vein; the HAB shall be composed of 18 board members, eight elected by farmers, five elected by food-processing workers, and five appointed by the government.
- We demand the state promote agricultural techniques, and support distributing modern technological equipment, sustainable fertilisers and GMO seeds, etc., to farmers via the BAB
Demands for a Healthy Banduria
- We demand a single-payer healthcare system, free at the point of use and managed by the government.
- We demand the creation of the Bandurian Pharmaceutical Agency, which would enjoy a monopsony on all prescription drugs in Banduria. Prescription drugs, when at least two doctors consent, would then be free at the point of use through the healthcare system.
- We demand banning all private healthcare in Banduria, in order to prevent elite politicians from using a private healthcare system while starving our public system of cash.