GSOP Policy Paper | Green Socialist Organizing Project

Time for the Internet to be Controlled by the Public, Not Corporate Interests

by Howie Hawkins | Mar 15, 2023 | Green Socialist Discussion Papers, GSOP Policy Paper

It is time for the public to take back control of the Internet, a technology that was created with public dollars, so it serves the people’s interests. Under President Trump there have been backward steps for the Internet and mass communication. The Federal...

Public Housing is the Solution to the Affordable Housing Crisis

by Howie Hawkins | Mar 13, 2023 | Green Socialist Discussion Papers, GSOP Policy Paper

This statement is based on a talk given by Howie Hawkins at the Fight for NYCHA Town Hall at PS 33 in Manhattan, New York City on February 5, 2020. The US had a shortage of 7.8 million units of affordable housing for very low income (7.5 million) and homeless...

From Protest to Power: Organizing for Change in Policing in Your Community

by Chris Blankenhorn | Feb 1, 2023 | GSOP Policy Paper

We stand in solidarity with the righteous national uprising for racial justice sparked by the police lynching of George Floyd. It will take more than cries for justice that appeal to the power structure in the vain hope that it will respond and reform itself. We must...

Community Control of the Police: An Idea Whose Time Came and Never Left

by Chris Blankenhorn | Feb 1, 2023 | GSOP Policy Paper

Their [the police] real power is manifested in the organized guns and force. But we’re saying that the people in this community, the people in this country, don’t have any control over that organized guns, force, and power. We’re saying that the capitalist, the...

Medicare for All as a Community-Controlled National Health Service

by Chris Blankenhorn | Jan 22, 2023 | Green Socialist Discussion Papers, GSOP Policy Paper

The United States has a growing health crisis. Almost 30 million people have no health insurance and another 86 million adults are underinsured – meaning they have inadequate health insurance or can’t afford the co-pays and deductibles required before their insurance...

Towards a Broad Left Party

by Rick Greenblatt (GSOP) | Sep 14, 2022 | Green Socialist Discussion Papers, GSOP Policy Paper, Independent Politics

Introduction Contemporary US politics are characterized both by a profoundly undemocratic electoral system and by the historical absence of a mass, working class, socialist party. The Socialist Party of the early years of the twentieth century or the Communist Party...