What Are Our Rights?

What are "rights"? What are our rights?

What do we mean when we say that people have a "right" to something?

That's a good question I just raised.

Simply put, a "right" is something that you are entitled to. Many countries have constitutions that enumerate rights. For example, the United States has a few piddling "rights" -- most of which are routinely ignored by the nation's fascist ruling class.

So let's look at a better example, like the 1936 U.S.S.R. Constitution. The rights of the Soviet people were exhaustive; they included the right to:

- Work
- Rest
- Leisure (Reduced work weeks, paid vacations, and more!)
- Free health care
- Free education
- Free child care
- Free religious worship
- Freedom of anti-religious propaganda
- Free speech
- Free press
- Freedom of assembly and protest
- Freedom to form trade unions, cooperative associations, youth organizations, sport and defense organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies

And in addition, the Soviet people were guaranteed gender equity, protection from racial and ethnic discrimination, and complete privacy!

In the 1990s, the great Soviet People were finally worn down by the incessant attacks of the fascists, and are now only beginning to recover their precious rights of generations ago.

But other countries still grant all of the rights encoded in their constitutions. The Cuban Constitution, for example, guarantees schooling, healthcare, access to culture and sports, comfortable housing, and much, much, much more.

And yet, the United States, as an "imperialist, is the promoter and supporter of all fascist, colonialist, neocolonialist and racist manifestations, is the main force of aggression and of war, and the worst enemy of the people." And yes, that quote is taken directly from the Cuban Constitution. And it is accurate.

How can Amerika change? For starters, by granting more rights. Believe it or not, there is almost nothing in the Amerikan constitution that guarantees the people's rights to all of what is available (free and guaranteed!) in socialist states. Where is the right to our free health care? Our free housing? Our free food? Where is our constitutional guarantee that everyone be treated equally -- regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, skills, education, prison history, and so many more aspects of us that are routinely used by others to form unwarranted judgments?

All it takes is a signature to make these things happen. A law promising the RIGHT to free food will result in the immediate abundance of food in everyone's home. And a law promising the RIGHT to free money will result in universal wealth. But, no, the crushing Christian theocracy that rules Amerika will not give us these rights. They say, "You are not entitled!" Really? Well, they are not permanently entitled to keep us down. I have a dream. We will fight -- and we will smash capitalism, Christianity, exploitation, oppression, and Zionism.

These are out rights.