Repeal "Individual Working Freedoms"
Category: Repeal | Target: 302 GA | Proposed by: United Massachusetts
Committed to waging undying war against the poverty, exploitation, and misery of human individuals the world over,
Determined to carry the inextinguishable flame of liberty ever-forward, tearing down the obstacles in its way to the liberation of humanity, and deliver long-awaited justice to all purveyors of human degradation,
Disdaining to conceal the chief agent of this degradation -- a select group of greedy parasites, who, when not enslaving the masses in serfdom, enslave them in debt, long working hours, and humiliating labour practices,
Making the subversive observation that the forces of reaction, egged on by those very same leeches, have hijacked this august Assembly to preserve this, the status quo, in the form of a General Assembly resolution designed for the sole and exclusive purpose of preventing progress on labour rights,
Calling for a comprehensive, carefully-crafted resolution that sets forth a framework for workweek regulation, not based on hours, but rather on the mental and physical health and freedom of the working class,
Calling, furthermore, for an ambitious, comprehensive resolution to establish a system of paid family leave across member states, lest the gospel of mammon, a death cult in itself, rip parents from their children's arms,
Asserting, therefore that so-called "Individual Working Freedoms," for both its misleading title and reactionary contents, ought to be purged from the legal records of this Assembly, and cast aside into the dustbin of history, for it serves no purpose but to halt progress,
Casting aside their chains,
The working class of this most august General Assembly, acting through their respective Delegates, strikes 302 GA, so-called "Individual Working Freedoms" from the records of its laws, rendering it null and void.
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.
All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
