Alliance Programme for
Health, Peace and Social Justice

Programme

The “International Alliance for Health, Peace and Social Justice” is a political movement whose programme is absolutely intrinsic to it. We regard ourselves as an international movement aimed at establishing a healthy, peaceful and just world.

Our programme and goals are in harmony with important fundamental values enshrined in the basic laws of many countries – such as the inviolability of human dignity, the right to life, freedom from bodily harm, social responsibility associated with property ownership, and the prohibition of wars of aggression. Our movement is dedicated to ensuring that these fundamental values enshrined in countries basic laws are comprehensively realised in practice and benefit all the people of the world.

Our programme and our work as a movement is guided by the principles of scientific enquiry, objective analysis of problems in all social domains and the implementation of long-term solutions. We are not tied to ideologies, irrespective of their orientation.

In realising our aims we work together with people of diverse origins, skin colour, religion, and organisations of all kinds which support the objectives of our movement.

To specifically delineate these aims and describe the means to attain them, we have outlined this programme under the following points:

1. Health Is A Human Right

Health is a human right. Every person has the right to life, freedom from bodily harm and optimum health.

Exploding health costs and rising ancillary wage costs are the most important reasons for mass unemployment and economic stagnation. From this it is clear that fundamental restructuring of the health system is the precondition for solving modern social problems, in particular for tackling mass unemployment. To remedy this problem it is essential to undertake a careful analysis of the existing deficiencies of today’s health systems.

1.1. The pharmaceutical industry’s “business with disease”

While the most important domains of society are subject to public control, the realm decisive for every community – that of health - is withdrawn from this control. Largely unnoticed by the public, and in a creeping process that has continued for decades, an investment industry has appropriated a worldwide monopoly on health and illness, and made the earth’s people literally dependent on it. This is the pharmaceutical industry.

This branch of industry is commercially underpinned by the continuation and spread of diseases as billion-dollar markets for patented, synthetic pharmaceutical drugs. Usually treating symptoms alone, these drugs are almost invariably associated with severe side effects. Prevention and eradication of disease, above all through effective natural remedies, is endangering the survival of the pharmaceutical “business with disease”, which is therefore fighting such remedies with all the means at its disposal.

Through its “business with disease” the pharmaceutical industry has become one of the world’s biggest speculative investment industries. Via its billion-dollar profits this industry has gradually made almost every country in the world dependent on it, purchasing itself influence in key areas of society such as the media, social welfare and politics.

Millions of people have paid with their lives for the failure to prevent this appropriation of the health sector by the pharmaceutical industry, and the world’s countries have sacrificed their economies to it and are now faced with the threat of financial ruin. The most significant political and social development at the beginning of the 21 st century is, arguably, the unmasking of the pharmaceutical “business with disease” as the biggest and bloodiest fraud in human history. Disseminating awareness of this throughout the world is a condition for making health a human right.

1. 2. Fundamental restructuring of health systems is needed

The most important measures involved in this restructuring are:

1. Public control of health systems. Health systems must be brought under public control immediately and irrevocably. Only by ending the investment “business with disease” will it be possible to eradicate today’s endemic diseases, saving millions of human lives and relieving public and private economies on a long-term and enduring basis.

Public control of the health system is the precondition for ending the business with disease, for eradicating endemic diseases and for saving billions. This fundamental restructuring of the health service is therefore a vital precondition for solving all other social problems, above all mass unemployment.

1.3. Programme for eradicating endemic diseases

Public control of the health system is an important precondition for eradicating TB, malaria, AIDS, heart attacks, stroke, disbetes and cancer as endemic diseases. Only when the financial imperative to make money from the perpetuation of diseases falls away, can consistent efforts be made to eradicate them. If this does not happen, every programme to eradicate endemic diseases will be opposed by those interest groups, in particular the pharmaceutical industry, which stand to make billions from the perpetuation of diseases.

The scientific basis for eradicating diseases

Open any textbook on biology and biochemistry and you will read about the importance of vitamins and other micronutrients for the prevention of illnesses. The fact that the vital health significance of these micronutrients has never become public knowledge and has not been used for effective prevention of endemic diseases throughout the world, is due to a clearly discernible cause. For decades, the pharmaceutical industry targeted medical universities, medical training courses, the mass media and politics, purchasing influence in all these domains. Knowledge about micronutrients and their importance to health was kept out of medical textbooks, and even fiercely opposed in the interests of the billion-dollar business with patentable pharmaceutical drugs.

This intentional withholding of vital information on vitamins and other micronutrients is unacceptable and must cease immediately for the sake of millions of people. Hundreds of thousands of people pay with their lives each year for this intentional disinformation in regard to people’s basic physical functions. No delay can be allowed in remedying this situation.

We regard it as our task to actively break down this ‘wall of ignorance’ for the sake of the health of millions of people. We will not rest until this wall of ignorance – like the Berlin wall before it – has been brought down. The free flow of information and the realisation in medical practice of basic biological knowledge will smooth the way for today’s endemic diseases to be largely unknown in future generations. We regard this ‘health emancipation’ in the interests of millions of people as the prime focus of our work.

The end of AIDS, heart attacks, cancer and other endemic diseases is in sight

We are a worldwide movement whose goal is to reduce today’s endemic diseases, including AIDS, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, to a fraction of their current extent.

This health programme requires collaboration from everyone, and has the following specific goals: during the next 15 years, up to the year 2020, we will do all in our power to reduce the following endemic diseases to below ten percent of their current extent: heart attack, stroke, cardiac insufficiency, high blood pressure, heart arrhythmia, circulatory disorders in diabetes, various types of cancer, osteoporosis, immune deficiency diseases including AIDS, and others.

No patenting of foods, health and life

Patents are the key tools of the pharmaceutical business with disease. Patent fees, artificially fixed at a high level by pharmaceutical groups, have made the pharmaceutical industry the most profitable speculative business in world trade. And for the same reason patent fees are the chief reason for health costs that can barely be funded any longer.

Health is not a commodity for speculative commerce. That is why we will work at an international level to abolish patents on health products of all kinds, thus invalidating the key tool used in the unscrupulous business with disease.

Abolition of the patent principle as applied to health, life and food is an international task of top priority. The multinational character of this patenting business requires an equally international approach to ending it, based on a worldwide education campaign. Wherever people understand the devastating consequences for their own health of the ‘patenting of life’, they will work with us to attain these goals.

Education and the development of a new health system

Medical and scientific preconditions for extensive control of the major endemic diseases already exist. What is missing is a health policy programme to implement them. With the support of affected patients and the population, and with the collaboration of those in the healing and nursing professions, we will implement national health programmes. These programmes have the following emphases:

With the aid of training measures, this programme will be supported in all areas of education and adult education. The goal is to radically improve the population’s knowledge of the function of the human body, and measures necessary for preventing illnesses. Health care and medical knowledge about the human body’s basic functions is no longer a privilege of the few but will become a universal and inalienable human right.

1.4. Overcoming opposition from the representatives of an outmoded medicine

In this programme to eradicate endemic diseases, our longer-term aim is to save millions of human lives. Application of this medical knowledge to relieve suffering and avoid the premature death of millions of people is, as stated above, an international task in which populations can fully participate through training measures. Resistance to implementation of this programme can be expected from the pharmaceutical industry and its representatives in certain media, and amongst certain government medical officers.

Such resistance and opposition, irrespective of the grounds, endangers human life and is thus unlawful. We will hold all those to account who impede the eradication of endemic diseases and thus the saving of human life. For this purpose we have submitted a suit to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which will be expanded in each new instance to include individuals or organisations against whom action is brought.

This action before the International Criminal Court does not address mere trifles but crimes against humanity. In a similar way, after the second world war, the Nuremberg trials charged and sentenced the directors of pharmaceutical groups (IG Farben) and also doctors who took part in corresponding research projects, with crimes against humanity. Knowingly combating and impeding the new possibility of eradicating endemic diseases is an equally grave crime and must be punished accordingly. In the interests of millions of patients we will do all in our power to advance these criminal proceedings as swiftly as possible, and to hold to account those who share responsibility for the premature death of millions of people.

Cornerstones of a new health system

The goals of a new health system can be summarised as follows:

The fundamental restructuring of health systems is a prime focus of our programme, and for good reason. Only when the unscrupulous pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’ is ended, can illnesses be overcome. Only by these means can private and public expenditure, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars per annum, be saved, and only then can great social problems be remedied in the long term.

The ending of the ‘business with disease’ is such a fundamental precondition for solving these social challenges of our time that every political programme which does not address these palpable root causes will inevitably fail.

2. Employment And Economy

2.1. Full employment instead of mass unemployment

Employment is a human right. Mass unemployment and poverty amongst millions of people is an unsustainable scandal in view of rising company group profits and investment returns. While the big company groups achieve outstanding business profits and pay out high investment returns to their shareholders, millions of people are not only financially ruined by inhuman technocracy programmes, but their human dignity as enshrined in articles of basic law is profoundly violated. What is especially outrageous here is that those who supposedly represent employee interests allow themselves to become the eager enforcers of company group interests.

A socially just economic system starts with employment for all. The chief goal of our employment and social policy is full employment. This is also possible, provided one makes the effort to correctly analyse the real causes of mass unemployment in countries around thw world. For example, the chief problem in industrialized nations is the rising burden of ancillary wage costs on companies and employees. These, in turn, have a clear prime cause: rising expenditure on sickness costs and health insurance provision.

Current health systems are conceived, constructed and controlled by an investment industry – the pharmaceutical industry – which has a vested interest not in the eradication but in the perpetuation of disease. When one observes this simple fact, one quickly recognises that working people, the economy and the whole system of government and welfare is being damaged in multiple ways by this fraudulent business:

2.2. Reducing ancillary wage costs instead of impotent taxation debates

Most current ideas for tackling unemployment in countries around the world focus either on raising or reducing taxes. We decisively oppose the illusion that more work places and full employment can be created through tax gifts to company groups. But nor is raising company taxes a viable alternative in an economic crisis characterised by uninhibited globalisation. This leads to the emigration of companies and transferring abroad of work places. The survival of smaller and medium-sized companies which do not have this flexibility is thereby put at risk.

Effective combating of mass unemployment requires radical rethinking and a new focus of political action. The first and most important precondition for creating new work places and for full employment is reduction of ancillary wage costs. We will achieve this by ending the pharmaceutical “business with disease” as described above, and by thus saving billions in health insurance and national insurance expenditure.

In this way we will break through the vicious circle embodied in the impotent debate on reducing taxation, which does nothing to end mass unemployment and merely deepens the social divide between employees and company groups.

Ending the pharmaceutical “business with disease” and consciously developing a health system based on prevention and the eradication of endemic diseases will, on the one hand, create work places through a reduction in ancillary wage costs. At the same time, higher tax revenues from a functioning economy that serves the people will give the public purse the funds it needs to maintain a healthy community, including infrastructure, education, leisure time and cultural activities.

For working people themselves this policy not only means effective reduction in unemployment and full employment in the long term, but also an opportunity to create more humane working conditions, with purposeful work, establishment of new models for working hours, shorter working hours, more leisure time and more time for cultural and socio-political activities.

2.3. Co-determination by employees

Co-determination rights of employees in businesses will be extended. Welfare state advances must not be sacrificed to supposed material necessities and the needs of global economic interests. Unions and other employee representation bodies are the result of historic movements. They are a necessary tool for public control of big economic units, and an indispensable principle on the path to a socially just world.

2.4. Promoting a just economic system

Economies must serve the needs of human beings and the interests of society. The goal of every economic system must be full employment, based on the principle of common interest before self-interest.

While this basic right forms part of the political programme of many parties, the opposite has in fact occurred. The interests of people, their right to employment, health and a life of dignity are increasingly sacrificed to global financial interests. This globalisation of financial interests is given an air of legality, and serves as a pretext for ever greater restrictions on the needs and rights of millions of working people.

The proponents of economic globalisation have already conjured up the picture of an 80:20 society. They predict that 80 percent of people will be long-term unemployed, and will need to be provided for by the 20 percent who still have work. It is up to us either to succumb to this globalisation vision or, instead, to reject it decisively and oppose it with a socially just future.

What is certain is that an economic system focused exclusively on satisfying the greed of individuals and providing them with economic advantages cannot do justice to the interests of the majority. Companies’ success should no longer be measured by their stock-exchange value, but above all by whether they create employment opportunities and meet their social obligations.

2.5. Analysis not ideology

We have analysed the causes of mass unemployment and mass poverty worsening over decades and documented them in this programme. There is no objective alternative to the following programme for a socially responsible economic system, including public control of big company groups.

The decimation of work places is not a ‘blip’ in the system but an intentional and merciless measure implemented to increase company group profits. Every programme for long-term reduction of mass unemployment is an illusion if it does not succeed in controlling those forces which increase their profits by means of mass redundancies. Public control of big company groups employing thousands of workers is an urgent precondition for full employment for this and all future generations. The actual causes of mass unemployment are clearly discernible to all. The conclusions to be drawn are not a question of ideology but of healthy common sense.

Our goal is a socially just economic system applicable throughout the world. Funding must be made available for such a comprehensive development programme which enables all of the world’s people to lead a life of dignity. Those who are unable to propose a credible funding concept are not serious about promoting human dignity either. The following programme is the only directly realisable means known to us that is capable of achieving social justice on a global scale.

2.6. Promoting private initiative in the economy

Promotion of private initiative should take place with a view to its contribution to the general good. Associative forms for smaller and medium-sized private initiatives, such as cooperatives and collectives, must be promoted in a targeted way. These can facilitate productive participation in economic life for a large number of people currently unemployed, and thus make an important contribution to full employment. As part of the concept of a mixed economy, a variety of company forms both private and public in nature can co-exist side by side and on equal terms.

2.7. Promoting small businesses

Small trading and industrial companies have a special function as practitioners of socially responsible enterprise. This is the basis for a considerable amount of economic value creation, and at the same time fulfils further important functions in country’s social frameworks. In recognition of this role, small businesses should be promoted in a special way.

As a company grows its responsibility also increases for contributing to the well-being of working people and the community in general. This can happen in a variety of ways: through greater co-determination by company employees; through their participation in commercial success; through transfer of yields to a charitable foundation or through other models which place social responsibility above private interest.

2.8. Public control of big companies and multinational groups

The profits of big companies should no longer fall into the laps of small groups of shareholders, banks or speculators, but benefit the people who achieve them and society in general. Mass unemployment and economic crises will continue for as long as big multinational companies determine economic life and the policies of national governments. The only means to prevent this is to place these company groups under public control and to transfer them to public property.

The assets of company groups found guilty of committing crimes against humanity will be confiscated and used to compensate for damage or loss caused by these crimes. In this context it will be necessary to scrutinise the conduct of pharmaceutical groups knowingly selling pharmaceutical drugs to millions of people, which rarely have any benefit but are almost always associated with severe side effects.

Cartel law must be examined and tightened where necessary, to break up big and multinational companies, and place them under public control as described above. To achieve this we will work intensively with people and organisations from many countries that work for these same goals.

3. Making Social Justice A Reality

Our social policy stands, without concession, for social justice for all and protection of the weak and marginal groups in our society and throughout the world. Riding roughshod over others and social Darwinism (the law of the survival of the strongest) are the wrong path. Our analysis shows us that the material constraints that supposedly render it necessary do not actually exist. Instead what is needed is the political will to give our societies back the human face they have lost through untrammelled economic liberalism. This decisive insistence on a humane society also determines our policy in relation to people suffering from any kind of disability, whether physical or mental. Integration instead of exclusion is the core motto for us here.

3.1. Perspectives for the younger generation

The younger generation is increasingly dominated by anxiety and insecurity. For young people too, the subjection of almost all social domains to company group interests has led to fear of the future and lack of prospects and perspectives. Millions of young people are particularly badly affected by youth unemployment, which in many cases has appalling consequences for their future plans.

One of our most important goals is to offer a secure future for the younger generation.

The development of a healthy, peaceful and socially just world is a programme which appeals to young people from all walks of life. The young people of today will be the first to enjoy these goals once we have achieved them together. We are targeting younger people in this programme because we need their active commitment to realise it with us. In specific terms this means pursuing the following goals:

A right to schooling and training

Youth unemployment and lack of training places for young people is one of the biggest economic and social problems in throughout the world. Since young people carry no weight as a voting group, few of the established political parties (with notable exceptions) has a real interest in tackling and solving this problem. For millions of young people sufficient education and training places must be guaranteed. Offering training is part of responsible enterprise. The framework conditions must be structured in a way that renders it not only easy but also beneficial to train young staff members. Big companies that do not meet their duty to offer training will be compelled to make a contribution to the creation of new training places through an obligatory training tax.

Healthy children and adolescents in a healthy and just world!

Increasing numbers of children and young people are falling victim at an ever earlier age to avoidable endemic diseases. In ever more unscrupulous ways their bodies are becoming a market place for the pharmaceutical “business with disease.” AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer are increasingly affecting young people.

Against this, as a prime aim, we will set a comprehensive plan for disease prevention. Healthy nutrition, health insurance incentives (bonus programmes) for a healthy lifestyle, and effective natural remedies in patient treatment will ensure that children and young people are not rendered dependent on synthetic drugs from an early age, as happens in the case of chronic illnesses such as asthma or increasingly prevalent allergic diseases.

Product advertising, which makes children and adolescents into the physical and mental victims of consumer terrorist tactics, must be prohibited in a targeted way. It is indefensible to render children and adolescents dependent on substances proven to be harmful, supposedly so as to boost a flagging economy.

Children and adolescents must also be protected from exposure to violence in the media. Computer games, which run counter to education for peace and conflict resolution through dialogue, must be prohibited. A productive, creative relationship with the “new media” should be cultivated however.

In our view it is young people in particular who will be the architects of a new health system and a new, more humane world. To prepare them for this role, we must educate them for social responsibility rather than for elbowing their way egotistically to prime positions. The trust and self-confidence which young people need arises in the best and most positive way when they experience solidarity and reliable support, also as provided by the state and its institutions. Education for social responsibility is at the same time the best protection against consumer terrorism and flight into drug abuse.

Education for mutual solidarity and peace also includes the capacity to relate to and have respect for foreign cultures. Multiculturalism, a normal condition in tomorrow’s world, represents, in our view, the positive face of globalisation. While we are strongly opposed to uninhibited globalisation in the interests of company groups, we promote this positive globalisation in the interests of human beings.

A secure future for our young people also means, ultimately, not passing on burdens of all kinds – whether economic, ecological or political - to the next and all future generations. In the context of a covenant between the generations, it is not only the older generation that has a claim to appropriate welfare state provision. Young people too rightly deserve that sustainable use of the available resources will, in the long term, be able to offer a life of security and dignity to all.

3.2. Working people

Full employment, it is clear, must be achieved primarily through reduction of ancillary wage costs by ending the “business with disease.” But redistribution of work through new workplace models that take account of human needs must also be the goal of a reorganisation of the world of work. It is indefensible for ever fewer people to work ever longer hours, while increasing numbers of people have no work at all. All adults must have the opportunity to actively use their skills and capacities in their working and economic life. Employees must no longer be seen as mere cost factors in production sequences. The health sector will be one of the most important social domains of the future. In consequence, collaboration in the development of a new health system based on natural remedies will be one of the most important fields of work.

At the same time, creative models for flexible structuring of working hours must be pursued so that people can engage in cultural and social activities and develop all-round skills.

People’s leisure time should no longer be misused as a sales market for commercial goods. New, socially orientated provision of purposeful, enriching leisure time activities will contribute to personal development. This new “leisure time culture” will vanquish a consumer mentality and assure real and far-reaching renewal of energy for work.

As in the schooling and training field, international exchange programmes in the work domain will likewise contribute to understanding of international relations, and allow each individual to perceive his global responsibility. Thus all people who are interested in doing so will acquire the opportunity to actively participate in a healthy, peaceful and socially just world.

3.3. The elderly

Older people must have the right to a carefree, healthy old age. Here, health provision based on effective natural remedies will play a decisive role. This will be the basis for avoiding infirmity and physical and mental destitution, and for guaranteeing that the older generation participates actively in society.

Older people have rightly enjoyed high regard in all traditional societies, bringing their life experience and the “wisdom of old age” to bear on daily life. Even if the changes in industrialised society mean that the extended family is more or less a thing of the past, it is important to ensure that older people are not increasingly marginalised. The aim must be integration of old people rather than isolation. The extreme “glorification of youth” disseminated by media and advertising must no longer dominate. We must return to a new appreciation of old age.

For older people in particular, effective, economical healthcare is a fundamental need. Here too, effective, economical natural remedies without side effects must replace harmful pharmaceutical medicine - which considers it unnecessary to treat causes rather than symptoms of disease in the elderly. On the basis of natural remedies, carefully designed health programmes must be developed and offered to the elderly, allowing people to grow old in health and vitality, at the same time relieving the pressure on welfare resources. Thus, for the elderly too, a dignified old age and active participation in social and cultural life will be possible.

3.4. National insurance

With the end of the pharmaceutical “business with disease” through public control of health services, and the consequent restructuring of society in the interests of all its people as described in previous sections of this programme, large-scale social welfare systems will be given long-term sustainability.

The discrepancy between the billions of profits of company groups and the empty pockets of social welfare funds is leading to ever-increasing misery for broad swathes of country’s populations, to increasing child poverty and intentional “dismissal” of a whole section of society. Today already, pension fund obligations are covered to a small extent only, and it can be foreseen that their means will be insufficient in future to make required pension payments. Compulsory contributions to pension cover will, for many, be a tax they have paid in vain.

This state of affairs can only be ended by a political programme that undertakes profound restructuring of country’s economic and social frameworks.

The ending of the pharmaceutical “business with disease” will smooth the way for extensive eradication of endemic diseases. In the long term this will release hundreds of billions that can be used to secure pension funds and expand, rather than restrict, the national insurance system.

4. Education For All

4.1. Education is a human right

We stand for complete equality of opportunity in the education system, with the aim of involving all people in a creative process of education. Education is a lifelong process, starting in the home and continuing from nursery, primary school and secondary schools through to colleges, universities and the various types of adult education. The aim of education is not just optimum qualification for work and economic life. In order to build new, socially just economic systems, we need above all to engage in political education which critically evaluates the errors of the past, and educates the critical faculty. To do this we need comprehensive democratisation of the education sector, by means of which students will increasingly acquire the capacity to take on the role of teachers.

4.2 Equality of opportunity

The right to education for all means that we work to break down all barriers that stand in the way of this fundamental right. Children from socially disadvantaged families must have the same access to education as those from wealthier backgrounds. The obstacles that make it difficult for girls and young women to have an equal opportunity of education must also be dismantled. Ultimately there can only be one option for children and young people from immigrant families: that of full integration into the education process, with respect accorded to their respective cultural values.

In our view however, equality of opportunity goes further than this. In order to bring about a socially just world, we must also be aware of the responsibility we all bear for transferring knowledge to disadvantaged developing countries. We propose a comprehensive programme enabling young people and students from developing countries to close the knowledge gap between poor and wealthy, and thus also, in the long term, overcome economic inequality as well. Corresponding exchange programmes will enable young people from the developed world to experience the first-hand reality of poverty and under-development, and perceive their responsibility for developing a just world.

4.3. Democratisation of education

For us, democratisation of education means giving all people unrestricted access to education. A socially just society distinguishes itself from a society that reinforces social differences through the way it relates to its children and young people. In specific terms this means that we work to establish enough nursery places, particularly in socially disadvantaged regions and municipal areas. Comprehensive schools, which help redress social differences between pupils, will become the standard school model in order to exclude inherent barriers to education from the very outset.

We are not intrinsically opposed to private initiatives in the education sector if they educate our children to be critical, creative and mature citizens. However we are radically opposed to privatisation of the education system based on economic and big company interest groups. The founding of so-called “elite universities” to train up a compliant workforce in the interests of multinational companies is something we are decisively opposed to. These “elite universities” merely further reinforce the social injustice that is a characteristic feature of our contemporary world.

4.4. A knowledge and information society

At the beginning of the 21 st century a fundamental change is occurring, from an industrialised to an information society. We must acknowledge that information and knowledge in all their forms will be the most important driving force of the future. Growth of information and transfer of knowledge will be key factors for innovative research, development and thus also for the growth of every national economy.

The new information technologies such as the internet are an outstanding means to meet the challenges of this new era. Mastery and use of these technologies is a precondition for active participation in social and economic life, and will therefore be promoted in all areas of education. Special attention must be given to the fact that appropriation of knowledge should not only serve as preparation for work but also to develop young people’s critical awareness of the background to our world’s major social and political problems.

4.5 Promoting critical and creative education

Education and knowledge do not exist in a value-free vacuum, but always serve particular interests. People need to decide whether they want an education policy that almost exclusively serves the interests of a globalised economy and the expanding power of multinational groups; or whether, instead, we should work together to implement an education policy that enables a healthy, peaceful and just world to develop. In our view there is no alternative to this stark choice.

Developing a new and just world and economic order is impossible without creative people. That is why measures to encourage the critical and creative education of young people are at the core of our programme. The critical faculty is an indispensable precondition for analysing our planet’s current economic, social and political problems. Creativity is the prerequisite for developing new approaches to solving these problems.

4.6 Democratisation of the content of education: enlightenment not obfuscation

The content of education must serve the interests of human beings. Curriculum content which is opposed to these interests must be swiftly removed from syllabuses. For instance, it is no longer acceptable that medical training focuses almost exclusively on imparting knowledge about dangerous, useless pharmaceutical drugs, while knowledge about effective natural remedies is intentionally suppressed in the interests of the pharmaceutical industry.

The content of education must correspond to historical truth, for only those who know the facts of history can shape the future to serve human interests. For instance, it is no longer acceptable that history books still represent the Nazis’ rise to power as a ‘mishap’ of history; that they conceal how the second world war was a campaign of conquest serving the interests of the biggest German economic cartel, the chemicals and pharmaceutical giant IG Farben (Bayer, BASF and Hoechst); that Auschwitz was not only a death camp but also initially a slave camp for Europe’s biggest industrial complex, the 24 square kilometres of IG Auschwitz, a 100% subsidiary of IG Farben; that even after the break-up of the IG Farben cartel and its dismantling into BSF, Bayer and Hoechst, several post-war chancellors were brought to power through the intentional manoeuvres of these commercial groups.

4.7 Promoting science and research in the interests of human beings

Science and research must serve human beings. This principle applies not just to medicine but also to chemistry, biology, economics, law and all other academic disciplines. The concept of “freedom of science and research” has all too often been misused to commandeer whole areas of research to serve the interests of big company groups.

Particularly disreputable is the influence which the pharmaceutical industry exerts on medical faculties and medical training courses, for it touches directly on the fundamental right to life. Financial support from the pharmaceutical industry to doctors applying for a professorship at a medical university (so-called “third-party funds”) is an official criterion for their appointment. In other words, the better their contacts with the pharmaceutical industry, the greater their chance of becoming a professor of medicine. These and other forms of influence by commercial interests on research and science must be swiftly ended.

In developing a new, just economic and social order, the universities will play an important role. Teaching staff and students will bear joint responsibility for ensuring that the training of academics occurs in the interests of all society.

5. Renewable Energy And Protection Of The Environment

5.1. Renewable forms of energy

The biggest single factors in global environmental pollution are car exhaust fumes and other waste products from fossil fuel combustion. The development of new forms of energy and the reduction of environmental pollution are therefore inseparable. Without a national programme to introduce environmentally friendly and renewable energy, all attempts to decisively reduce atmospheric pollution in cities is bound to fail. In view of the medical consequences of air pollution, such as asthma, this is also a prime task in relation to health policy issues.

Access to a supply of environmentally friendly and economical energy is a fundamental right which should not be provided at the cost of our planet’s ecological equilibrium. Wherever possible, forms of energy must be promoted and implemented which are not only environmentally sustainable but also renewable. This is an important prerequisite for acknowledging, now already, our responsibility to the needs of future generations.

These environmentally friendly and renewable forms of energy are already available. The question is why they have not long since become the basis of all country’s energy supplies?

The answer is a sobering one. The energy field is the second largest after the pharmaceutical industry, and is intentionally used to create economic and political dependency in the international arena. Like the pharmaceutical industry, the oil industry is also purely an investment industry. The global, billion-dollar interests of both these investment industries are essentially controlled by the same centres of economic power: the Rockefeller Group in the USA, and the Rothschild/J.P. Morgan Group in the United Kingdom.

We have already seen in the health system domain that these unscrupulous investment circles have, by withholding vital information and alternatives, succeeded in building up the billion-dollar pharmaceutical investment industry. The systematic and strategic suppression of knowledge about the importance to health of vitamins and other natural substances has provided the basis of survival for the billion-dollar pharmaceutical investment industry.

Since the backers of the pharmaceutical and oil industries are the same investment circles, it is hardly surprising that the billion-dollar turnover of the oil industry is also based on manipulative tactics. Still worse, these same financial circles have invested billions in nuclear energy, likewise in the expectation of using energy provision as an instrument of global and political influence.

We have known for years that there are alternatives to noxious fossil fuels and radioactive nuclear energy. We need to target and promote these, and make them available and economical.

5.2 Promoting solar and wind power

The prime natural, environmentally friendly and renewable forms of energy are solar and wind power. We will promote these forms of renewable energy with all the means at our disposal, and develop their technology further. However these technologies are still associated with a fundamental disadvantage: they are dependent on prevailing climatic and weather conditions, which makes it difficult to plan national energy supplies and yield.

5.3 Promoting hydrogen energy (energy from water)

These ‘disadvantages’ are completely absent in the case of hydrogen energy, another natural and renewable energy form. Hydrogen energy is one of the most promising forms of energy for the future. It is obtained from water and its waste product is again water.

Hydrogen energy is thus a natural, environmentally friendly, renewable energy that can be produced everywhere, at any time and in any quantity. The costs of hydrogen energy are far more economical than any other power source, with only minimal production costs.

If one considers this scientific fact it is hardly surprising that we, the people, have not yet heard of it. If this knowledge became more widespread, the oil market would sooner or later collapse, and the Rockefeller and Rothschild Groups would lose hundreds of billions.

It is immediately apparent why this knowledge has so far remained the preserve of the few, and is still practically ignored in the whole sphere of influence of western company groups. It is only a question of time however before hydrogen energy technology develops to the point where it can supply whole cities and countries with power.

This form of energy is already being used in various countries. In some countries there are already fuel station networks which supply vehicles with environmentally friendly hydrogen energy, and pilot projects in which whole localities are supplied with energy primarily from this source.

We will promote hydrogen energy in a targeted way, thus not only contributing to the long-term protection of our planet for the sake of future generations, but also, at the same time, ending financial dependency on the oil industry.

The shift of energy supply to renewable energies is a decisive step that must be realised immediately and thoroughly in the interests of all people. Everything so far undertaken in this sphere is nothing more than lip service.

By introducing hydrogen energy and other renewable energies in the transport field and for electricity supply, companies, governments and individuals will save billions. These funds will be used to finance comprehensive programmes for creating employment in the fields of health, education and other social projects.

In addition the comprehensive introduction of these technologies will drastically reduce environmental pollution in cities. This will be a major contribution to fulfilling the Kyoto agreement, smoothing the way for a further tightening of international guidelines.

Political and financial groups that oppose this programme of energy provision in the interests of the oil cartel must be held to account at courts such as the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

5.4 Broadening environmental protection

The introduction of environmentally friendly forms of energy is a fundamental precondition for effective protection of the environment. Besides the atmosphere, we also primarily need to protect rivers, lakes, and soils used for agriculture and other purposes, from pollution and chemical residues. We will work to reduce maximum levels of all toxic substances through regulations to a standard that removes all risk to health.

Healthy nutrition through healthy cultivation methods. In the field of agriculture we will work to promote organic cultivation methods which exclude the use of artificial fertilisers and chemical pesticides. In this way we will not only help protect the environment but also provide a better quality of food and improved health for millions of people. The use and sale of genetically altered foods will be prohibited by law.

Comprehensive nature conservation. As part of a comprehensive programme of environmental protection, we will work to promote increased nature conservation. Reducing the use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides is an important basis for proactive nature conservation. We will give particular attention to the problem of worsening groundwater pollution from non-degradable pharmaceutical products.

6. Transport And Telecommunication

The emphases arising from our energy policy will have direct impact on transport policy.

Promoting and introducing renewable fuels. It is untenable that a handful of countries already offer fuel station networks with environmentally friendly hydrogen energy, which facilitates transport at a fraction of the cost of petrol and diesel, while this remains unavailable in most other countries. The further development of this technology and realisation of a fuel station network for hydrogen energy will be promoted with all urgency. As a transitional stage, so-called hybrid technologies should be promoted, allowing the combined concept of traditional fuels and hydrogen.

Promoting local and long-distance public transport. In the transport field local and long-distance public transport must be promoted as opposed to private cars. Public transport companies should no longer focus on their stock-exchange and shareholder value but instead serve passenger interests. Private goods transport, which has become an unsustainable burden on the roads network and the environment, can and must be shifted to the railways.

No health risks from mobile phone radio waves. There are increasing indications that mobile phones and widespread development of the mobile phone network is associated with considerable health risks. We will intensify independent and public research into the health risks of this technology. As long as no long-term studies on the consequences of such technologies have been completed, strict regulations should be put in place as a preventive measure. In particular no transmission masts should be erected in the vicinity of nurseries, schools, hospitals and similar institutions. Citizens and local authorities must be informed of the evident risks of this technology, and must have a say in determining the siting of mast equipment. In this sphere too, the common good of all people must come before the self-interest and profits of individual company groups.

7. Media Responsibility

While the basic law in most countries does not impose any censorship on the media, during the last few years - chiefly in the wake of radio and TV privatisation - the media have increasingly come to tow the line dictated by the interests of big company groups, above all the pharmaceutical cartel. In the case of some media, dependency on the pharmaceutical cartel is particularly apparent. Here the same people chair both executive committees and supervisory boards, ensuring the cartel direct access to hugely powerful newspapers. As was necessary in the case of the IG Farben company group in its day, these structures must be disentangled and made distinct from each other.

Broadcasts by independent radio and above all TV stations increasingly take the form of dumbed-down “comedy” formats. In their concealment of a country’s social reality and their conjuring of fantasy worlds, they directly comply with the interests of an advertising-based economy, which wastes billions on useless commodity advertising. The independent media must therefore be subject to stricter public control. In the case of both public and independent media this will ensure that they heed their social obligations as purveyors of education and information, and also exercise critical control on the power wielded by economic and political spheres. Here prime importance will be given to information relating to health prevention, and natural remedies that combat diseases without incurring side effects.

In the context of a combined public and independent media company system, public radio stations with programmes more strongly focused on the common good must be encouraged. In particular, however, smaller initiatives and units such as local newspapers, citizens’ radio projects and other basic means of communication should be promoted as “media by the people for the people”.

The so-called “new media” such as the internet must not be misused and left beyond reach of the law. In particular, child pornography and other forms of human exploitation must be prevented with the cooperation of these media.

Media which actively and knowingly oppose health education and the ending of the business with disease must be held to account before international institutions such as the International Criminal Court.

8. Extended Democracy Instead Of Restricting Citizens' Rights

Democracy is no abstract concept but must be lived, developed and protected. The greatest threat to democracy comes from global financial interests determined to restrict citizens’ rights throughout the world in order to maintain and develop their power.

The current threat to democracy

The greatest danger here derives from financial circles and vested interest groups which have earned hundreds of billions of dollars from the pharmaceutical “business with disease.” Throughout the world people have woken up to this fact and now recognise that this investment industry is intentionally hindering the prevention and eradication of diseases, since it relies on the perpetuation of these diseases for its billion-dollar profits.

Over decades this investment industry has built up an illusory business which consists, in a nutshell, of promising health but creating more illness - and thus new markets for its products. Millions of people have paid with their lives for this organised fraud by the pharmaceutical industry, and whole economies have been ruined by it.

The billion-dollar investment circles behind the pharmaceutical industry know that the fraudulent business they have built up over decades has blown up in their faces. Ever more pharmaceutical drugs are withdrawn from the market because their fatal side effects can no longer be kept secret. Increasing numbers of pharmaceutical companies are facing mass claims for billions in compensation from aggrieved patients. Ever more pharmaceutical groups are being found guilty of price fixing and other criminal machinations, and we need make no bones about calling them ‘criminal’. Increasing numbers of books unmasking the fraudulent pharmaceutical business are filling international best-seller lists.

The loss of this industry’s credibility is leading inevitably to the loss of hundreds of billions for its investors. Over and above this, those responsible will have to face criminal charges for the damage they have caused to the health of millions and to the economies of almost all countries in the world.

In this situation it is not merely the investment circles directly affected that are gripped by great alarm, but also those who represent their interests in the media and politics in the key countries of pharmaceutical business, primarily the USA, Great Britain and Germany.

The ‘terrorism debate’ as pretext for creating a surveillance state

In August 2001 the pharmaceutical company group Bayer had to withdraw the cholesterol inhibitor Lipobay from the market. Over 50 patients had already died, and a time bomb was ticking in over 6 million patients who had taken the drug. Bayer found itself faced with national rage to an extent hitherto unknown. Thousands of compensation claims and charges filed against Bayer threatened to ruin the group. But then came 11 September 2001. The terrible events of that day in New York immediately diverted media attention from all Bayer Group problems. If the fury in Germany against Bayer and the pharmaceutical groups had not been deflected by the 11 September tragedy, the fraudulent pharmaceutical business would no doubt long since have ended.

We have to recognise that the pharmaceutical industry has drawn greater financial advantage from the current terrorism debate than anyone else. This debate is intentionally used by governments and politicians representing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry in countries that are key to its business. The terrorism debate is misused for the following self-evident goals:

We are not blind to the terrorism issue, but this problem too will only be solved in the long term if its root causes are tackled. Terrorism is the consequence of social injustice in many countries. Hunger and mass destitution render people susceptible to violence motivated by religious, ethnic or political ideologies.

The best protection against terrorism is to create social justice in these countries, in particular. By promoting development and eradicating mass destitution, the breeding ground for these extreme views is withdrawn. This international development programme will be funded by the hundreds of billions released when fraudulent economic dependency on pharmaceutical and oil company groups comes to an end.

Protecting democracy against the dictatorship of global financial interests

In the context of the terrorism debate, fundamental citizen’s rights are being gradually eroded in various countries around the world. Those parties which are most closely linked with the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and other big company groups are calling most loudly for further tightening of so-called anti-terror laws. This should give us pause for thought.

The aim of these vested-interest politicians is to restrict and repeal the most fundamental basic laws that are enshrined in the constitution. These include the right to human dignity, personal freedom, free expression, freedom to associate, confidentiality of letters and telephone calls, inviolability of the home and other basic rights.

It is apparent that our basic rights and normal freedoms are to be sacrificed to the development of a dictatorship serving global financial interests. In the wake of the terrorism debate surveillance states are to be constructed on a scale previously unknown. We will prevent this.

We will do all in our power to safeguard and defend the basic rights in the constitutions of our countries. We will reveal the financial interests underpinning the planned restriction of citizens’ rights. Politicians who promote the restriction of citizens’ rights in the interests of financial power and company group profits will be held to account.

Protecting democracy means learning from history

In European history a terrible event was used on a previous occasion to cancel citizens’ rights, abolish democracy and set up a dictatorship. In 1933 the Berlin Reichstag was set on fire. This event was used by politicians as a pretext to pass a whole series of Enabling Acts which would never have been agreed under normal circumstances.

We are not equating today with the world of 1933, but there are clear parallels nevertheless. Then as now fundamental citizens’ rights were revoked in the interests of big company groups and global financial interests. At that time people realised too late what was happening to be able to offer resistance. But we have learned from history and we will not permit any erosion of citizens’ rights and the destruction of democracy.

The most important step for protecting democracy is to end the pharmaceutical “business with disease”

The biggest threat to democracy is the imminent collapse of the pharmaceutical “business with disease” and the efforts of this investment industry to prevent it. Accordingly, the most important measure to protect democracy is to end the “business with disease.” Here too our Alliance programme is the sole effective and lasting means to prevent the comprehensive dismantling of democracy. No party political programme is credible that pays lip service to ‘democracy’ without naming the threat to it from global financial interests.

The development of new health systems independent of the pharmaceutical business, based on the active involvement of broad swathes of the population, is also an important step in developing democracy, and has implications far beyond the health domain.

No to patient data recording in the interests of the pharmaceutical industry

With the onward march of economic globalisation, people are increasingly degraded to mere objects. To further consolidate its fraudulent business, the pharmaceutical business is currently undertaking data recording of whole populations.

The recording of patient data on microchips and discussion of the so-called ‘transparent patient’ is also related to this. In view of the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the whole health sector, we must fundamentally question the argument that this enables a health system to run more efficiently. Patient data thus recorded are not only available to the health insurers but are also targeted by the pharmaceutical industry in order to control and develop their markets. We oppose all such recording and uncontrolled release of personal health data, which throws wide the doors to misuse serving the interests of the pharmaceutical “business with disease.”

Referendum as prime tool for direct democracy

Alongside the election of representatives, the people must also have the opportunity to exert direct influence on important social issues, and to decide on them. The tool for practising this ‘direct democracy’ is the referendum. We will work to enshrine in law this possibility of holding referendums and to promote the widespread use of other forms of people’s democracy.

9. Lasting Global Peace Is Possible

In an age of atomic weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, every thinking person will acknowledge that wars are anathema as a means of solving international conflicts. Even regional conflicts can degenerate into global war through the use of weapons of mass destruction. The truth is that either we human beings abolish war or it will abolish us. Maintaining peace is the supreme commandment for every government and every responsible person. For this reason safeguarding peace is the cornerstone of our programme.

Safeguarding peace means learning from history

Wars do not fall from the skies but are made by men. The chief cause of wars and the cause of both world wars was the unrestrained greed of global financial interests. Safeguarding peace means primarily learning from history. It is no longer acceptable for millions of young people to grow up in Germany with the expedient lie that the first and second world wars were a kind of ‘mishap of history’.

Those who wish to understand the cause of wars must expose the lies of the past. Those who wish to secure peace must recognise the financial and political circles which have withheld the truth from us for decades, out of fear that this might endanger their vested interests.

The First World War. The first world war was primarily a war that aimed to make Germany a colonial power and thus a world empire. The war in Europe was intended to secure economic dominion on a world scale. German company groups sought global dominion for the uninhibited exploitation of raw materials and of the people of Africa, South America, and Asia. The military adventurism of the first world uselessly sacrificed millions of people in Germany and Europe to these unscrupulous financial interests.

The Second World War. The second world war primarily served the interests of Europe’s biggest oil and pharmaceutical cartel of the time, the German IG Farben company, an amalgamation of Bayer, Höchst and BASF. IG Farben was the biggest single industrial donor to Hitler’s rise to power, and gained the greatest economic advantage from the Wehrmacht’s conquest of Europe. The chemical industries and the oil and raw materials of the conquered countries of Europe were all appropriated and handed to the IG Farben cartel. IG Auschwitz, one of the world’s biggest industrial sites at the time, and main exploiter of the Auschwitz concentration camp, was a 100-percent subsidiary of the IG Farben company group.

At the Nuremberg trials, the IG Farben Group was dismantled and divided up into its subsidiaries Bayer, BASF and Höchst. Leading managers of IG Farben were charged with crimes against humanity and sentenced. The charge laid before the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal summarised the chemical, oil and pharmaceutical multinational’s responsibility for the unspeakable suffering of the second world war by stating that without the IG Farben Group the second world war would not have been possible.

The oil and pharmaceutical interests of the Rockefeller Group “rule” the world. After the end of the Second World War and the break-up of the German chemical, oil and pharmaceutical cartel, the Rockefeller Group in the USA acquired a kind of global monopoly in this commercial sector. Today, at the beginning of the 21 st century, this financial group controls not only the global oil and pharmaceutical market, but also, via its banks, the financial markets and via its media groups (CNN, Time Warner), public opinion throughout the world.

The Rockefeller oil and pharmaceutical investment group’s political influence goes still further than this. The “Council of Foreign Relations” founded by Rockefeller counted all US presidents of recent decades among its members – long before they were ever elected. Via international associations such as the “Trilateral Commission” and the “Bilderberg Group”, the Rockefeller Group has influenced current political and economic life throughout the world. The ‘junior partner’ of the Rockefeller trust is the British Rothschild Group, with shares in oil and pharmaceutical groups worth hundreds of billions of euros.

The Iraq war and its global repercussions

It is no accident that a war of aggression on Iraq was driven by the USA and Great Britain – by those countries, in other words, whose governments follow the dictates of the billion-dollar oil and pharmaceutical cartel. As in the Second World War, economic interests of the oil and pharmaceutical industry were once again the motivating factor in the war against Iraq.

This war has clearly demonstrated that global economic interests, in their boundless greed, are nowadays willing to sacrifice thousands of human lives, break international law and conquer foreign countries. This is something not only recognised by the people of Germany but above all also by the people and governments of over 120 developing countries in the world. Since the Iraq war it has been clear that developing countries rich in raw materials are easy prey for global economic interests and the military forces acting on their behalf.

Securing lasting peace requires clear analysis and strategies

For us, peace is not a theoretical point in a programme. We name the three chief causes of wars and offer clear, practical strategies to remove these causes.

Cause of war: the commercial greed of multinationals. Driven by the desire of a handful of shareholders for continually increasing profits, these company groups know no bounds in satisfying their insatiable greed.

Our answer: The sole means to remove this cause of war in an effective and lasting way is to place these companies under public control. This is the only means of ensuring that human rights are respected and peace is secured. The first groups that must be brought under public control are the oil and pharmaceutical groups, the motivating force for and commercial beneficiaries of the great wars of the past.

We can no longer accept that branches of industry continue to expand which earn billions from disease and war. To transfer multinational groups to public control will of course require collaboration from people of many different countries. To this end we will intensify information work about the billion-dollar business with disease and war in an international context.

Cause of war: social injustice on a world scale. A further prime cause of wars is social injustice. As long as a North-South divide is perpetuated, as long as two-thirds of human beings live in poverty, malnutrition and destitution, no lasting peace is possible. This social injustice is, additionally, a breeding ground for ethnically and religiously motivated conflicts.

Our answer: Social justice on a world scale is a decisive prerequisite for a peaceful world. Both goals are indivisibly linked and are therefore cornerstones of our programme. We will work ceaselessly to promote social justice throughout the world and will not rest until the right of all the world’s people to a life of dignity has become reality.

3. Cause of war: destruction of the UN Charter and international law. The war against Iraq in contravention of a UN Security Council resolution was a violation of international law. UN tolerance of this aggressive war, and the subsequent UN Security Council resolution to accept the occupation of Iraq, destroyed the UN charter and the system of international law underpinning it.

The UN, originally founded with the main aim of preventing aggressive wars, was thus used to legitimise such a war. The UN charter, which assures over 120 developing countries the right to protection from attack, and to self-determination, has been irrevocably destroyed. This lawless state of affairs is an invitation to further campaigns of conquest serving multinational interests. These will without doubt occur if we do not succeed in halting such plans. A UN world parliament, in which the economically powerful industrialised nations exercise the decisive voting and veto rights, leaving the majority of other countries without a vote, has no future. A UN, whose legal basis has been destroyed, cannot be reformed.

Our strategy: The international community, in particular the large number of developing countries, must create a new world parliament, in which each country has equal rights and which observes the principle of ‘one country – one vote’. The world’s people need a new international legal system that prohibits aggressive wars and deals consistently with violations of international law. Section 12 contains further discussion of this.

Implementation of these strategies is a precondition for peaceful co-existence between nations and the legacy of a peaceful world to future generations.

Securing peace involves specific aims

For us, the securing of peace involves specific aims:

Peace begins with education for peace

Peace is not just the responsibility of governments but also of the people. We will advance peace and the development of a just world as the precondition for lasting peace, through education measures in all domains. These include:

Promoting international cultural exchange. For adults too, exchange programmes with people from other countries will be organised in the spheres of cultural, academic and leisure activity. This of course depends on a willingness to accept increased numbers of guests from other countries. This invitation programme will also be promoted as part of comprehensive mutual understanding between nations.

10. Promoting A Just War

The effects of economic globalisation are not only creating growing social injustice in many countries but also an ever greater gulf between rich and poor nations. The multinationals have seamlessly substituted themselves for the former colonial powers. They draw most of their financial power from uninhibited exploitation of the resources and people in developing countries. The economic dependency of whole countries and continents on multinationals has replaced the military occupation of the colonial era. A prime tool to maintain the gulf between rich and poor countries is the stranglehold of national debt borne by almost all developing countries.

Social justice must become global reality

Our goal is to overcome this gulf between rich and poor, as a precondition for a just world order. For this reason we also oppose the uninhibited globalisation of company interest groups and the exploitation of developing countries. The chief emphases here are as follows:

We are decisively opposed to the argument that debt cancellation for developing countries is too expensive or even unjustified. For centuries the industrialised nations have exploited the countries of Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia. Debt cancellation is nothing other than compensation for real crimes. It is not only justified but long overdue, and a prime condition for building a socially just world.

4. We promote a development policy which helps consolidate functioning, democratic civil societies in developing countries. This step will only really be possible if national debts are reduced and the conditions are created for reinvigorating the economic and social systems in these countries. As part of this overall concept the governments of developing lands must also ensure that their countries are no longer misused as a cheap employment market for multinationals.

5. We will make social justice a reality throughout the world. By intensifying exchange programmes and partnerships with developing countries, awareness of the issues will spread, and practical measures will be developed for overcoming the gulf between rich and poor.

As a first project for worldwide social justice a partnership is developing between the people of Germany and South Africa. Health and education are key features of this partnership. The people of Germany are in the process of emancipating themselves from endemic diseases such as heart attack and cancer with the aid of healthy nutrition and micronutrients. At the same time people in South Africa and surrounding countries are freeing themselves from the immune system disease AIDS and other avoidable illnesses with the aid of targeted dietary supplements. The key to health for millions of people in both North and South lies in education and information work about the importance to health of micronutrients and the ending of a redundant dependency on the pharmaceutical industry.

Human dignity must apply everywhere!

Every politician who states that all people on earth are equal and have a right to health and a life of dignity, without saying how this can be realised and financed for all people, has no credibility. The rights to life, health, education and employment are inalienable human rights for all. Every political programme that demands adherence to these human rights throughout the world, but does not say clearly how resistance should be overcome from those who profit from the commercial exploitation of under-developed countries cannot be taken seriously.

Parties in particular that appeal to Christian and humanist values must say how far their humanism really extends. Does it just reach to the borders of a country, or to the boundaries of Europe, or does it apply to all human beings? As long as these parties do not present a consistent plan and means of funding for helping millions of people in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia to lead a life of dignity, any claim by them to Christian and humanist values is mere hand-wringing and voter deception. Young people in particular, who wish to work with enthusiasm to create a better and more just world, must not become victims of such party-political smokescreens.

When we speak in our programme of developing a socially just world, and a life of dignity for all people, this applies equally to a laid-off industrial employee in Berlin or Warsaw and to unemployed agricultural workers in destitute areas of Cape Town, Nairobi, Mexico City or Manila.

The strength of our programme is that we not only demand these far-reaching steps but can present specific, quantifiable means to realise them. The more people who support this comprehensive and far-reaching programme, the more our goals will become reality. The sooner global human suffering is alleviated, and millions of human lives are saved, the sooner a new, more just world can arise.

11. A New World Parliament Of Equal Nations

A new, just world order also requires a new, democratic world parliament, in which not only a few powerful countries have a voting and veto right, but in which all nations of the earth work together on an equal basis. The programme for such an alliance of equal member nations was presented to the world public in June 2004 for the first time. This was the moment that the UN Security Council destroyed the charter of the United Nations and the code of international law based on it by retrospectively legitimising the Iraq occupation – and thus the illegal Iraq war.

The idea of this fundamentally new alternative of equal collaboration between the world’s countries has initiated debate about ‘reform of the UN’. Now that the UN Security Council has itself broken international law, the United Nations and its sub-organisations lack any legal legitimacy. No ‘reform’ of the UN, however thorough, can revive the UN charter and the UN’s legal status.

Any so-called ‘reform’ of the UN by expanding the Security Council to include, principally, the most important industrialised nations, is a farce. This merely further consolidates existing global injustice and makes the UN a political tool to advance their commercial interests against the interests of over 120 developing countries.

The world’s people have an historic opportunity to end a chapter of world history, which was marked by the fact that five nuclear powers appointed themselves as sole members of the UN’s ‘world government’ after the end of the Second World War. From the very beginning the great majority of almost 200 countries in the world had no right to vote in the UN’s sole decision-making committee, the Security Council. In contrast, the resolutions of the UN General Assembly, to which all nations belong, have no binding authority whatsoever. This is no basis for a just world order with future potential.

As part of a just world order we propose creating a new world parliament based on the principle of equal rights accorded to all the world’s nations. This “Alliance of Nations” has the following principles, which we will also promote in the international arena

Preamble

The quicker the “Alliance of Nations” is founded, and the more nations there are that support it, the quicker international security will be re-established and the sooner we and our children will be able to live in a world of lasting peace, health and social justice.

TASKS AND BASES

The “Alliance of Nations” is founded as a world government by the people for the people, on the basis and with the task of embodying a lasting global government which exclusively serves the interests of the world’s people.

The eradication of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and the control of global epidemics such as tuberculosis and AIDS is primarily dependent on global dissemination of this fundamental health information. By spreading “world health literacy”, the “Alliance of Nations” will end ignorance in the field of health, thus eliminating the basis for most of today’s endemic diseases. This will save billions of human lives and immense costs in countries’ health systems.

We present our programme with a sense of responsibility for our own lives and those of our fellow human beings. We invite all people to work with us to forge this healthy, peaceful and socially just world – and also to benefit our children and all future generations.