
Whether our Issues Working Group or our Education Working Group or Howie’s prolific writing, the Green Socialist Organizing Project has been working on various policy papers that can help inform organizers on issues and form the basis for broader education and training resources on the issue. This page will grow over time as our Working Groups produce more Policy Papers.

Time for the Internet to be Controlled by the Public, Not Corporate Interests
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Green Socialist Organizing Policy Paper: Debt Relief
Debt Relief Mountains of debt – student debt, medical debt, rent and mortgage debt, foreign debt – are a burden on working people around the world and a drag on the economy. Extracting debt payments in the financial economy instead of producing goods and services in...
Green Socialist Organizing Policy Paper: Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked Choice Voting for Proportional Representation Whether you are a socialist who believes in a clean break, a dirty break, or no break from the Democratic Party, ranked choice voting for proportional representation should be a top priority. Single-member...