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You don't have to be a Communist to be part of this effort or make important contributions to it, but it helps!

That is because the Communist Party is an organization of activists in every part of the expanding labor-led coalition and can therefore help unite and strengthen the overall movement against the ultra-right danger. It is also because the Party has a rich experience and history, a deep understanding of the long-range forces that are at work and a clear vision of what is possible if the corporate-right-wing coalition is defeated and labor and its allies are able to take the offensive.

In this case, long-standing pent-up needs of the people can be addressed. Unions can get the same freedom to organize that exists in Canada and most of Western Europe. Discrimination against minorities and women can be sharply curtailed. Massive public works programs with affirmative action can be established to create jobs, revive basic industry, rebuild our cities and crumbling infrastructure and clean up the environment. Quality, integrated public education can become available to everyone from nursery school to graduate school. National health care, social security, housing and necessary utilities can be guaranteed as basic human rights.

The wealth and resources for these and other programs are abundantly available in our country but are monopolized in the hands of a tiny group of billionaires whose sole, overriding aim is to maximize private profits.

The struggle for the rights of the people takes place in many different arenas - economic, intellectual, cultural and political. But the result of the growing unity and mass mobilization, is that the privileged few will be defeated. Labor and its allies will become the dominant force in our country and will establish the structures needed to guarantee the rights and security of the people. To facilitate this revolutionary change and to make it as peaceful and painless as possible is the ultimate aim of the Communist Party. The outcome will be a society with social ownership of the means of production built on the progressive and democratic gains that our people have won in over 200 years of class struggle and on our own unique multi-racial, multi-ethnic culture, traditions and history.

Even before your membership is processed, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to the People's Weekly World (our weekly newspaper). Subscriptions are $30 per year and for $45 you can obtain a solidarity pack (2 copies) that you might share with a friend or co-worker.

Many, but not all, areas in the United States have local clubs. If there is one near you, you will hear from a local Party member soon after joining. In the event that there is no Party club in your area, you will receive a publication within the next few months offering advice on how to start your own club!