It is ready-made for social ownership and economic planning. Workers are highly skilled and have great experience organizing a division of labor. The economy is so productive that surpluses exist in everything. Under socialism, increased productivity would be reason to celebrate because it would mean more leisure time for all, more social investment in culture, in the environment and so on. Under capitalism, however, abundance means layoffs.
Workers fighting for their jobs and livelihoods have to challenge the property laws of capitalism.
Workers World Party has over 40 years of experience in uniting workers on the job to fight for their rights. It has promoted class solidarity among different nationalities, genders and sexual expressions. It has fought to build unions, and it has fought to make them fight. Its members helped organize many of the cutting-edge struggles in this period. You've seen us trying to stop the executions of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Shaka Sankofa and all the others on death row.