“While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
— Eugene V. Debs
This is the core principle of CLAW, we cannot be free while workers, the poor, and oppressed communities remain exploited and disenfranchised. Capitalism concentrates wealth in the hands of a few parasites, while millions are denied control over their labor, land, and resources. CLAW fights for a society where economic power is shared, communities govern themselves, and all people have the opportunity to live with dignity, equality, and autonomy.
We will win by any means necessary.
Establish a Workers’ State with democratic councils and community-controlled institutions.
Political Power of the Working Class
Replace the legislature, judiciary, and policing with elected, accountable bodies under working class control, ensuring stability through internal party democracy rather than capitalist style party competition.
Guarantee jobs, a living wage, and worker ownership of major industries.
Workers’ Power & Socialist Economy
Expand unions, cooperatives, and collective farms while transitioning key sectors to public ownership, with a right to employment and protecting workers’ rights.
Protect and expand civil, political, and human rights for all.
Democratic Rights & Liberation
Ensure voting access, LGBTQ+ equality, migration as a right, and protections against discrimination and violence, while banning fascist, reactionary and white supremacist groups.
Build sustainable, publicly owned infrastructure and housing.
Infrastructure, Housing, & Rural Reconstruction
Expand public transit, housing, and renewable energy; protect renters; modernize cities; and tax speculative investors to prioritize community needs.
Provide free, democratic, and practical education at all levels.
Education for Liberation
Abolish student debt, eliminate private schooling, and implement curricula rooted in class analysis, literacy, and vocational skills.
Rapidly decarbonize the economy and socialize agriculture.
Environmental Justice & Agriculture
Protect the environment, shift to sustainable farming, welcome climate refugees, and hold polluting corporations accountable.
Guarantee free, universal healthcare for all residents.
Universal Healthcare
Publicly own healthcare, abolish medical debt, and provide equal, high quality care including reproductive and gender affirming services.
End imperialist interventions and support Southern autonomy.
Anti Imperialism & Southern Self Determination
Withdraw from foreign wars and alliances, reinvest in local communities, build a new union that unites workers across the south, recognizes historical and ongoing dispossession, and organize democratic militias to defend our communities.
Committee of Labor for Arkansas Workers Party 