Hilda Cuzco

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Whether or not to have an abortion is a medical decision that should be in the hands of the woman alone, without any state, federal or municipal restrictions on the safe availability of the procedure. The fight for widely accessible medical care, child care, and other social steps to reinforce the care and feeding of the future generations is key. Abortion should be something needed only when all other things fail. And I stand for decriminalization of abortions; women should not be victimized.

Neutral

More women find themselves forced to consider abortion when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. The decline in availability of affordable health care exacerbates the challenges workers face. Fewer than half of women in rural areas can find prenatal care within 30 miles. In 2021, more than 1,200 women died while pregnant or shortly after giving birth, the highest number since 1965. Medical care should be a human right from cradle to grave.

Disagree

We know that the Democrat or Republican party government is not going to do anything to change the conditions for working people. It's an illusion because the state and federal governments defend the capitalist ruling class and the bosses who exploit the labor of working people. The mass social movement that built the industrial unions in the 1930s, and then of the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 1960s is the example workers need to emulate.

Disagree

Older adults are the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population. We are for a massive federally funded program to build affordable and comfortable housing for all who needed it. Low-income housing, so desperately needed by millions of workers, is not being built by the billionaire developers because it doesn’t generate sufficient profits for them. The National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates there is a 7.3 million shortfall of such apartments nationwide.

Agree

The social reality of regressive taxation under capitalism. All sorts of levies are a very real burden on workers. The Socialist Workers Party opposes all taxation of working people including property taxes. Workers are weighed down by regressive payroll taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette and liquor taxes, homeowners' taxes, as well as fees for driver's licenses, schools, marriages, birth and death certificates, and many other things. Workers paid no income tax until 1943.

Agree

All people should be guaranteed rights against any discrimination by government.

Agree

I support the 1st Amendment on freedom of worship. My party's unconditional defense of the constitutional freedom of worship is indivisible from its defense of freedom of speech and assembly.

Disagree

Declaring sanctuary cities is not a step towards defending immigrant workers and unifying the working class. What is needed is the labor movement to organize a fight for amnesty for immigrants who live and work here. The divisions between undocumented workers and those born in the U.S. is used by the bosses to drive down the wages and working conditions. "Open borders" is not the answer, but solidarity with workers in other countries who are fighting to change their conditions.

The morals of this society are based on the dog eat dog mentality of the capitalist drive for gigantic profits and domination of the world. The world today is marked by deepening capitalist crises, trade wars which lead to shooting wars and the threat of WWIII and nuclear devastation. The Socialist Workers Party believes if the working class takes power we could build a society based on human solidarity among workers here and internationally. The Socialist Workers Party is the nucleus of the kind of revolutionary party necessary to lead future revolutionary struggles that can take power and transform all of society.

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The way the question is worded it could mean censorship of books and materials. Parents have the right to be involved in the education of their children including what kind of materials are used in the schools.

Disagree

People should vote in person whenever possible and photo identification should be made available for any one who needs it. I support the right of ex-prisoners being able to vote. All restrictions on voting rights should be ended.

Neutral

Disagree

Bond issues are another way to tax working people.

Agree

I agree with science that there are two sexes male and female.

Disagree

DEI programs have been a source of perks and class advancement for the middle-class layers who run them, and deepen racial and class divisions. They are the opposite of the affirmative action programs set up in the 1970s that opened the door to the hiring of Black and women workers into jobs they’d been excluded from, gains that grew out of the Black-led movement that overthrew Jim Crow segregation.

Disagree

The green new energy, including electric vehicles and their charging stations are based on making profits not finding real solutions to environmental pollution. Independent working-class political action and the conquest of power by workers and farmers is the effective defense of labor and the earth’s land, waters and atmosphere.

No

No. But I don't think that previous incarceration should be used against anyone getting a job or having all of the rights of full citizenship including voting or running for office.

Capitalism is a class divided society between the wealthy ruling class and the working class. Local, state and federal governments today defend the interests of the wealthy. Only the conquest of state power by the working class and the expropriation of finance capital can lay the foundations of a world not based on exploitation, dog eat dog competition, wars, violence, racial discrimination and Jew-hatred but solidarity among working people.

Neutral

None. I am a factory worker.

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I have been a member of the Socialist Workers Party for many years, a party made of workers and based in the working class since its founding in 1938. We have run candidates in elections for 75 years on a principled position of working class independence from all capitalist parties. For more information you can access information from TheMilitant.com or PathfinderPress.com.

2014 General Election 2016 General Election 2018 General Election 2020 General Election 2022 General Election

I have voted in these elections for Socialist Workers Party candidates.

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The simple fact is that under capitalism, the role of the cops isn’t to fight crime. It’s to protect the private property and political rule of the capitalist bosses and bankers. The U.S. state is the largest repressive apparatus in world history, with the highest — and increasing — incarceration rate of any country on earth. These institutions of class rule, of bourgeois “law and order,” brutally serve and protect the property, profits, and assumed prerogatives of the U.S. capitalist class.

I support the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Disagree

I am for the decriminalization but not in favor of legalization.

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1. Defending Israel's right to exist which includes the defeat of Hamas and fighting all manifestations of Jew-hatred and anti-semitism. 2. Supporting the sovereignty of Ukraine. Working people need their own foreign policy based on solidarity and not economic exploitation of other countries. 3. Fighting for amnesty for undocumented workers.