FIVE POINT REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
BY MARK EVANS
A five-point platform today, as the basis for non-violent, revolutionary
political change on a national and global level, could address the times
and pressing needs of not only wheat farmers in the Dakotas, but of all
the common people in North America and indeed all the people of the world.
A "non-party" party, organized along the lines of the Non-Partisan
League, could wield a considerable positive influence in national and global
affairs. The following five-point program could be a possible agenda for
a resurrected Non-Partisan League of the present:
1. The federal government should issue sufficient non-interest bearing,
U.S. notes to purchase back the capital stock of the Federal Reserve Bank
from its current private owners.
2. The government of the people and by the people should, henceforth, in
agreement with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5, of the U.S. Constitution,
control its own credit by issuing non-interest-bearing greenback dollars
to pay off all outstanding government securities, bonds and notes as they
come due, but not in excess of $100,000 to any person, corporation, or trust
holding such securities. Also, there should be no further issuance of government
bonds or securities.
3. The American people, cleaving to the principles of the Constitution of
1787 and realizing the bankruptcy of imperialism and of national chauvinism,
shall henceforth avoid all foreign wars and entanglements. We refuse to
be the grunts and the soldiers for the debt collection schemes of the international
commercial banks, the International Monetary Fund, and the multinational
grain, industrial, mineral and oil cartels. We move for immediate legislation
to cancel all international debt owed to First World banks and call for
a symbolic Year of Jubilee of the release of all nations from the bondage
of debt to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund, and to the Bank for
International Settlements and to their "capital pool," the international
commercial banks.
4. Realizing that the Cold War is over and that we have few, if any, "enemies,"
who have not, as the Soviets, Red China, and Saddam Hussein, been propped
up at one time or another by our own corrupt State Department, we move to
take decisive steps to dismantle the military budget and to press towards
immediate peace-time conversion of the industrial sector towards the pressing
needs of our own decaying infrastructure and millions of homeless citizens.
5. Having nationalized credit, the government of the people must subsequently
address the issues of land reform, of nationalizing the millions of acres
given to the timber barons in 1908, negotiating with the International Indian
Treaty Council to make restitution for lands stolen from Native Americans,
and reopening the South and North-West to homesteading, rebuilding the decaying
infrastructure and inner cities of our nation, rebuilding our education
and health-education institutions, thus creating millions of well paying
jobs and creating housing for millions of homeless people who have fallen
through the cracks under the excesses of the current system.
A thousand citizen-candidates and ten thousand workers from coast to coast
can organize and win the Congress and the Senate to put over a program like
this. Will you put your own shoulder to the wheel?