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To win central and local government elections in
Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar in order to form and exercise control of
both the central and local governments in the United Republic of
Tanzania on the one hand and Zanzibar on the other.
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To consolidate and defend the independence of our
country and the freedom of its citizens.
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To promote the building of socialism and
self–reliance on the basis of the Arusha Declaration.
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To supervise implementation of CCM’s policies and to
maintain and carry forward the ideological line of the founding fathers
of TANU and ASP as enunciated in various writings of the two parties.
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To ensure that every person has the right to receive
from society the protection of his or her life and of property held in
accordance with the law.
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To ensure that every able-bodied person in our
country works; and work means any lawful activity through which a person
earns his or her livelihood.
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To oversee and protect the right and development of
the peasants, workers and other people engaged in lawful self-reliance
activities; and especially to ensure that every person has the right to
receive a fair and just return to his labour.
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To ensure that through the use of organs duly
established, every citizen enjoys the right to participate fully in
decision-making on national affairs and matters affecting him
or her; and that he or she has the right to freedom of expression, of
movement, of religious belief and of association within the context of
the law;
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To ensure that our country is governed in accordance
with democratic and socialist principles. To preserve, foster and
maintain the creed and revolutionary spirit among Tanzanians and
co-operation with fellow revolutionaries wherever they may be.
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To safeguard the inherent dignity of the individual
in accordance with the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. To ensure that the State is the custodian of the national
economy; To ensure that the Government and all public institutions
actively assist in the formation and development of co-operative and
socialist ventures, and other lawful self-reliance activities of the
people;
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To ensure that the national wealth is utilised for
the development of the people, and
primarily for the eradication of poverty, ignorance and disease. To
ensure that the Government and all public institutions provide equal
opportunities to all citizens, women and men alike, irrespective of a
person’s colour, tribe, religion or status;
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To ensure that our country is free from all forms of
injustice, intimidation, discrimination, corruption, oppression and/or
favouritism.
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To continue the fight against neo–colonialism,
imperialism and all kinds of discrimination. To strengthen fraternal
relations with all political parties in other countries with similar
ideological orientation and which truly oppose colonialism,
neo-colonialism, imperialism and any form of discrimination.
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To co- operate with other parties in Africa for the
purpose of bringing about African unity and to ensure that Government
promotes and strengthens good neighbourliness.
