The Anastasian Democratic Assembly's Plan of Action
The Anastasian Democratic Assembly has announced a new plan of action, which will guide their activity in parliament. It is as follows:
COST OF LIVING MEASURES
We will work to reduce prices in Anastasia City. We will focus on establishing internal agricultural production, which will be managed by the workers through state-owned labor organizations prevented from joining the agricultural cartels. We will further seek to set price ceilings on basic goods, in particular foodstuffs and fuel. In order to reduce the burden elsewhere, we also will work for a significant reduction or wholesale elimination of consumption taxes, as well as on taxes on social enterprises, small businesses, and cooperatives.
We will work to generally increase industrial production within Anastasia City. We want the city to establish a Development Planning Board which will be tasked with constructing new, green industry, particularly for consumer goods but not ignoring heavy industry. Ideally, these new industries will be managed by the workers through state-owned labor oragnizations. Our goal is to reduce the dependence of the city on imports, increase employment, and also to ameliorate the high cost of living by allowing for a higher degree of control over the price of consumer products.
We will work to increase the minimum wage to at least 15 Dux Libra an hour, with compensation for social enterprises, small businesses, and cooperatives as a result of possible losses to revenue.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MEASURES
We will work to develop the economy in Anastasia City in general; in every sector we will establish labor organizations which will be tasked with establishing self-managed firms in their respective sectors; the organizations will be responsible to the state and will have full ownership over the enterprises they establish. In this way, employment is increased, the economy is stimulated, social responsibilities in the economy are emphasized, finance is made fairer and more equal, and democracy is expanded.
We will work to encourage social entrepreneurship and the development of the social and solidarity economy, by establishing subsidies for social enterprises and cooperatives. We see this as discouraging abuse while increasing democracy in the workplace and the fair distribution of both goods and wages to the people. Our final goal is the development of a new economic conception, in which the economy is made to serve the public and which profit is secondary to social responsibility.
We will work to establish an Anastasian Investment Board, which will purchase and sell stock from companies operating in Anastasia City. The revenue will be distributed as an equal payment to all residents of the city over the age of 18, while control over investments will be exercised by the municipal council. We want to encourage investment in Anastasia City while maintaining local control, all the same continually advocating for a more equal and fair economy.
LABOR MEASURES
We will work to establish economic associations which will bring together employees and employers in different sectors, for the purpose of establishing norms for competition, workplace relations, the labor market, and benefits, reducing the constant state of warfare which characterizes most modern economies. We want Anastasia City to be a much more harmonious place in this regard.
We will work to continuously increase the power of workers in Anastasia City. We want workers to be able to veto major decisions made by a company's board; we also want to work to establish co-determination within internal management, eventually leading to completely democratic "day-to-day" management.
Through the state labor organizations, we will seek to establish an employment guarantee in Anastasia City.
HOUSING MEASURES
We will work to assess the safety of housing in Anastasia City, which has been put into question by a series of suspicious gas explosions occurring since the attacks of January. We want every house fo be insulated, structurally sound, and well-serviced by all utilities.
We will work to ban absentee landlords, to encourage the development of independent housing cooperatives, to allow for the continuous construction of new social housing in Anastasia City, and to establish rent controls in order to reduce costs and improve autonomy and democracy.
POLICE AND ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES
We will work to establish public vigilance committees in every neighborhood of Anastasia City to decentralize and thus increase the efficiency of law-enforcement, while at the same time allowing for a higher degree of citizen participation, making it more likely for criminals and terrorists to be apprehended.
We will work to significantly expand the size of the police while decentralizing it. Police command will be placed under the control of neighborhood committees, although centralized command will be retained, while the police itself will be at least doubled in size. The police therefore becomes more efficient by working "closer" to communities while being expanded in size.
We will seek to allow for the establishment of a specialized anti-terrorism corps in Anastasia City, which will be armed and which will continuously patrol the city. These corps will be militarized but placed under the control of a special Anastasian ministry. We want, by this, to increase enforcement while also increasing Anastasian autonomy over Anastasian affairs.
MEASURES FOR AUTONOMY
We recognize that independence is infeasible and not a possibility at this time; we therefore will merely seek greater autonomy under the terms of the Treaty of Porterdam. We will therefore demand that our full rights as stated in the Treaty are given; namely, full control over "public services, education, utilities, transport, policing , emergency services, social laws, and local economic laws," with "local economic laws" being interpreted as the right to pass any economic laws so long as they do not heavily conflict with Duchian law.
We will further continue to call for the detachment of Anastasian surveillance from the Duchian central system, in order to increase Anastasian control over Anastasian data and Anastasian lives.
We will continue to call for separate Anastasian ID and passports