The death penalty is a tool for whoever is in power. In our
Capitalist System, it is under the control of powerful corporations.
Even if we could put an end to the death penalty itself, the Court
System is still rigged against the Working Class. We live in a
violent world, where it seems to make no difference who is in power.
Justice is replaced by vindictiveness, and Law and Order are whatever
helps to keep the powerful in control.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/31/21, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trials, what is this trials you speak of? The real death penalty is what is
happening on our streets every day. Many, many more folks are killed by cops
that gas chambers each year. Those people don't get the luxury of atrial
they are just executed by the sworn knights of capitalism.
Frank
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As long as w have the legal system we now have, the death sentence is
nothing more than vindictive. A system that holds trials based on who can
afford the best legal supports, and a system thast turns justice into a game
show, and a system that favors wealth, this is not a system that any working
class citizen can support.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/29/21, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Abolish the death penalty, a tool of capitalist oppressionAs long as w have the legal system we now have, the death sentence is
https://themilitant.com/2021/01/23/abolish-the-death-penalty-a-tool-of
-capitalist-oppression/ Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist
Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor Jan. 20.
“An enormous machine for grinding people up,” is how Cuban
revolutionary Ramón Labañino described the capitalist “justice”
system. Labañino was one of the Cuban 5, framed up and imprisoned in
the U.S. for up to 16 years for acting to defend their revolution.
Nowhere can that be seen more clearly than in 13 federal executions
carried out over the last seven months, after a 17-year hiatus. The
two most recent were sanctified by a big majority of the black-robed
“justices” on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Jan. 13 execution of Lisa Montgomery — a woman diagnosed with
serious mental disorders and kept in solitary confinement since 2007 —
is just one example of the barbarity of the capitalist rulers.
They use the death penalty as a class weapon to terrorize and break
the spirits of workers and farmers. It has been used against
working-class militants who stand up to bosses in decades past, like
the Haymarket martyrs and Industrial Workers of the World militant Joe
Hill. It will be used again in the future as workers and farmers
defend ourselves and rebel against attacks by the bosses and their
government.
Thousands more are sentenced to death by the dangerous speedup and
working conditions imposed by the bosses in search of higher profits
at factories, warehouses, construction sites and railroads across the
country. All working people have a stake in fighting for workers
control of production and safety on the job. And demanding an
immediate end to the rulers’ use of the death penalty and joining
actions to protest its use.
Alongside executions and the deadly violence cops mete out, the U.S.
rulers incarcerate a higher proportion of the population than any
other country in the world, overwhelmingly working class and
disproportionately Black. Prisons, rife with the abuse of inmates’
rights, are tools of ruling-class retribution. The capitalist ruling
families are only a small minority of the population. To maintain
their rule, they use a court system rigged against working people.
Onerous bail terms ensure thousands languish in jail for months, and
even years before trial. Prosecutors use threats of long prison
sentences to force workers to cop a plea bargain so only a tiny
fraction of those charged with a “crime” ever get to court. This is a
blow to the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The injustices and brutalities inherent to capitalist rule can be
checked for a time as a result of working people’s struggles. But the
foundation for sweeping them away can only be established when we
organize ourselves independently to fight in our millions to replace
the dictatorship of capital with a workers and farmers government, as
working people have done in revolutionary Cuba.
That’s the most powerful tool our class has to deepen the struggles
necessary to wipe out all exploitation and oppression.
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nothing more than vindictive. A system that holds trials based on who can
afford the best legal supports, and a system thast turns justice into a game
show, and a system that favors wealth, this is not a system that any working
class citizen can support.
Carl Jarvis
