Science for the People expresses solidarity with a workshop organized by the International League of Peoples' Struggle Commission 13 around the increasing vulnerability of the world's peoples to ecological crisis due to plunder and war. While unable to attend, Science for the People wishes to collaborate in building a better world where science serves the people. The document argues that science has been used to maximize profits, expand empire, and perpetuate racism and sexism, resulting in human suffering and environmental degradation. Science workers are directed to develop technologies used by imperial forces to maintain corporate and financial control globally. Science for the People stands in solidarity with efforts to struggle against destructive capitalist practices and imperialist plunder in the Philippines and worldwide.

1. Solidarity Greetings
Science for the People (USA)
November 14, 2015

2. Science for the People
• Arose in 1969 out of the anti-war
movement and lasted until 1989.
• With a Marxist analysis and non-
hierarchical governing structure

3. • Issues tackled include:
militarization of scientific research,
corporate control of research
agendas, political implications of
scientific theories, environmental
consequences of energy policy,
inequalities in health care
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4. Solidarity Greetings
Science for the People stands in solidarity
with your efforts to organize the
November 15, 2015 workshop in Manila
around the theme of struggling against
increasing vulnerability of the world's
peoples to ecological crisis due to plunder
and war. While we are unable to attend
this workshop, we wish to collaborate
with you all in building a better world in
which science serves the people.
Science for the People

5. Solidarity Greetings
The use of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics to
maximize profits, expand empire, and
perpetuate racism and sexism has
resulted in human suffering through
violence and war, while destroying the
planet through environmental
degradation, climate change, and the
squandering of precious natural
resources.
Science for the People

6. Solidarity Greetings
All around the world, dominant political
and economic forces direct science
workers to develop machines and
strategies used by imperial war machines
to maintain control of the international
economy for corporations and financial
institutions.
Science for the People

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Part of this imperial strategy has been
directed at defeating popular resistance
movements in the Philippines, such as the
National Democracy Movement.
Science for the People

8. Solidarity Greetings
Science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics provide powerful ways for
understanding nature and society that
can positively impact how people
navigate the complex issues facing the
world today.
Science for the People

9. Solidarity Greetings
Science workers and educators can
contribute to radical and positive change
by using science to serve the world’s
people, empower them with technology
and knowledge, and aid them in solving
the problems of global ecological crises.
Science for the People

10. Solidarity Greetings
It is imperative that science workers and
educators contribute to human liberation
through both struggling against continued
ecological destruction and developing
sustainable and democratic practices for
agriculture, energy, and health.
Science for the People

11. Solidarity Greetings
As you gather with comrades for the ILPS
Commission 13 workshop this weekend,
know that Science for the People stands
in solidarity with your efforts to struggle
against the destructive practices of
monopoly capitalism and to resist
imperialist plunder in the Philippines and
all over the planet.
Science for the People

12. Solidarity Greetings
We hope to continue to engage with ILPS
Commission 13 in comradeship and
friendship to heal the planet and serve
the people.
- In friendship and solidarity,
Science for the People
Science for the People