1. Strengthen The Labor Movement and Bolster Worker protections
    • Repeal Right to Work laws in SC.
    • Guarantee collective bargaining rights for both public and private sector workers.
    • Mandate worker positions on boards of directors for companies operating in SC.
    • Establish sectoral bargaining
    • Raise the minimum wage to $20/hr with automatic increases indexed to inflation.
    • Repeal “At-Will” employment.
    • Mandate the right to strike for all workers.
  2. Universal Healthcare
    • Pass the Palmetto Comprehensive Healthcare Act to create a publicly financed single payer healthcare program for all state residents.
    • Increased aid to Pine Hill Health Network, Edisto Indian Free Clinic and other health initiatives, in addition to all healthcare rights aforementioned
    • Protect trans youth. Allow minors to begin medical transitioning at the onset of puberty.
  1. Reproductive Rights
    • Pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion and contraception.
    • Create a DHEC taskforce for the proliferation of contraceptives and set evidence based standards for the pedagogy of proper sex education.
  1. Criminal Justice Reform
    • Mandate that all negotiated contracts with law enforcement unions provide for transparency and accountability in cases of professional misconduct.
    • End the war on drugs and qualified immunity.
    • Adopt the 8CantWait.
    • Fully fund social services.
    • Demilitarize law enforcement in favor of non-lethal methods, with a preference for nonviolent outcomes rather than a reliance on bloated arsenals.
    • Reevaluate the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED)
      1. Establish a third-party task force to re-examine the function of SLED and investigate alleged misconduct
      2. The task force will also be required to distribute SLED’s duties and allocated resources to relevant agencies
  2. Protect Working Families
    • Mandate 26 weeks paid family and medical leave
    • Compensate families for child rearing.
    • Institute Universal Childcare and Pre-K
    • Remove barriers to currently existing social benefits and create new ones based on need.
  3. Full Employment
    • Expand the department of labor or create a new department to also serve as a staffing agency.
    • Implement a state jobs program. 
  4. Combating Climate Change
    • Implement a state carbon emissions tax.
    • Ban the sale of single use plastics and enforce recycling laws currently on the books.
    • Invest in state-owned green energy infrastructure.
  5. Education Reform
    • Remove the property tax model for the local funding of schools. 
    • Make all public universities and technical colleges tuition free.
    • Include professional educators, researchers, and indigenous diversity on all boards establishing education policy and curriculum standards.
  6. Housing For All
    • End homelessness.
    • New Development and conversion projects which radically expand multi-family housing in SC. 
    • Use eminent domain to obtain housing property.
    • Enact strict rent control laws
    • Build social housing complexes
      1. Democratically run by tenants
      2. Rent set to only cover costs of upkeep and repair
    • Enshrine in law right of first refusal and mandate rent to own leases whereby renters build equity in proportion to their tenancy and, ultimately, take full ownership, should they so desire.
    • For the purpose of homestead exemptions on property taxes, to define a homestead as any property which serves as a primary residence for one or more persons, whether they own or lease said property.
    • Abolish nonrefundable application fees for prospective tenants.
    • Amend the state constitution to add housing as a human right
    • Establish collective bargaining rights for tenant unions and mandate right to rent strikes.
    • Establish good cause eviction laws.
  7. Food For All 
  • Food given in good faith by either voluntary donation or compliance with zero waste laws is to be given to local mutual aid projects and food banks. 
  • Allocate resources for the expansion of local mutual aid projects, community gardens, and food banks across SC.
  • Amend the state constitution to add food as a human right.
  1. Expand Public Transportation
    • Connect urban areas in SC with passenger rail connections.
    • Build a high speed rail system in the state.  
    • Allocate resources towards local transportation such as buses and rail cars.
    • Fully subsidize mass transit.
  2. Fighting for Democracy
    • Establish a parliamentary system, with proportional representation in a unicameral legislature. Create a new constitution to replace the Jim Crow constitution of 1895.
    • Introduce a process for recall of elected officials. 
    • Restructure the SC Commission for Minority Affairs, making the Advisory Committees the decision-making body rather than the Board of Trustees
  1. Queer Rights
    • As long as queerphobia, transphobia, homophobia, and other bigotry against the LGBTQIA+ community exists in this state, we will be organized together to fight it.
    • Create and enforce lgbtqia+ protections for renting, employment, medical care, etc.
    • Protect trans athletes. Allow trans athletes to compete in the gender category that aligns with their gender identity.
    • Repeal the state constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. Pass amendment to protect marriage equality in South Carolina.
    • Ban the legal enforcement of social gender norms (Bathroom bills, athlete bans, etc).
  2. Indigenous Rights
    • Start the process of returning of public lands and properties to the state-recognized tribes; repeal the section of the 2005 law that states tribal recognition cannot be used to sue for the return of land
    • Visitation by clergy to incarcerated persons should be extended to tribal and spiritual leaders for every recognized tribe and group in South Carolina.
    • End “documentary genocide” 
    • Give complete control and protection of tribal graveyards and other sacred sites to the local tribe(s) upon discovery and in perpetuity, providing State resources for the aim of protecting these locations.
    • Change and repeal laws that place unnecessary restrictions on Native persons trying to create and sell Native crafts. Remove requirements that a Native person must live on a reservation to qualify for items from the Government Surplus Warehouse. 
    • Restrictions in place on what the Secretary of State may charter referring to Native issues, bringing them in alignment with the state’s recognition process. Review and revise, through tribal leadership, that process. 
  1. Internationalism and Solidarity with the Global South
  • As we seek justice for the working class of South Carolina, we shall never compromise our internationalist principles. Injustice anywhere is unacceptable everywhere and we stand with all the oppressed, whether in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, exploitation through human trafficking, or child and slave labor.
  • End cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the state.
  • We demand an end to the transport of weapons and other military aid to other nations through SC ports.
  • End weapons production in the state and all state subsidies to defense industries.
  • Enact strict auditing of companies which operate in both civilian and non-civilian industries for possible violations.
  • End state business with companies based in Occupied Palestine. 
  • Eliminate the need for nuclear facilities in the state.
  •  Safely dispose of nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vehicles.

16. Create Self-Sufficient Communities

  • Expropriate unused land under eminent domain for use in state-sponsored co-ops and community gardens.
  • Invest in state sponsored industrial development.