Socialist
fights for working class
By Toby Lewis
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Socialist Party’s candidate for governor
of California, Nan Baily, visited the University
Student Union Thursday to discuss her campaign:
giving governmental powers back to the working
class.
Baily, who is a garment worker in Los Angeles,
said the Democrat and Republican parties
serve the wealthy and the ruling elite,
and that there is little or no difference
between the parties. She said the existing
two-party system only serves a small minority
of people and carries out the agenda of
the ruling class.
Baily criticized capitalism and said that
the system does not exist to serve those
who make the system work, namely, the working
class.
Baily called for an all-out revolution and
said that a new system is needed in order
for the majority of people to receive adequate
representation in the government.
She admitted that, for the most part,
political parties only serve the people
which each respective party represents.
“Even our campaign is for the class we represent,”
Baily said.
Baily said, however, that the majority of
the people in California are working class
and it is only through a government of workers
and farmers that all people will receive
fair treatment under the law.
“This is a class-divided country,” said
Olympia Newton, the Socialist Party’s candidate
for secretary of state, who was also at
the event.
A capitalist system cannot work for working
people, Newton said.
In addition, Baily called for a worldwide
revolution to build a different kind of
world.
“[We need a system] based on human needs,
not profit,” she said.
Baily advocated a system of socialized welfare
and said that working people have a right
to a social safety net, and that is not
provided under the capitalist system.
Baily also advocated a system of socialized
medicine and denied that socialized medicine
would not benefit doctors who pay thousands
of dollars for an education and receive
little benefit from it.
Socialized medicine would bring in a new
breed of doctors — people who are genuinely
concerned about human needs rather than
the amount of money they make, she said.
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