There appears to be a misunderstanding among working class Americans.
There is the feeling that the Elite Class is just like us, only rich.
They do sort of the same things to distract them from the hardships of
having to live among their ill gotten gains.
The real story is that the Elite Class is highly organized and solidly
against the working class's efforts to form collective bargaining
units(Unions). While we dance away the summers, spending our few
leisure hours at ball games or in Sports Bars, chatting about the butt
on the girl two stools over, the elite rulers are gathering their
young in lectures and study groups, teaching them the finer techniques
of screwing the stupid workers. Then they are sent to acting class,
where they learn to act as friends to the dumb slobs. Donald Trump is
the perfect example. He treats Muslims as so many sheep, proclaiming
that he will have each one pass the test of Patriotism, or be sent
"back home". He will put working class men and maybe even a few
working ladies, to the task of building a wall to keep those crooked
Mexicans home. Of course Donald says he "Loves" some Mexicans...just
not Ted Cruz. And he loves the working class so much that he wants us
all to be employed. That is why he is opposed to a raise in the
minimum wage. It would work such a hardship on the business community
that they would lay off thousands of employees and even close their
doors. Could Walmart actually go away? If only!
Carl Jarvis
On 7/25/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2016/8028/802820.html
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Vol. 80/No. 28 August 1, 2016
(editorial)
Organize! Unionize! No deportations!
We’re all Americans, we’re all in this together,” say the bosses,
their news media and their politicians — from Donald Trump to Hillary
Clinton — when they want us to accept concessions, supposedly to “save
American jobs,” or to give up democratic rights to “fight terrorism,” or
to go fight their wars.
But when workers stand up for higher wages and safer work conditions,
when working people of different nationalities join protests against
police brutality, or begin to chafe at government intrusion into our
lives, all of a sudden the “we” disappears.
Instead, the bosses invent a “white working class” who they claim are
mired in despair, addicted to Oxycontin and racist toward Blacks and
Latinos. They pit men against women, Black against Caucasian,
native-born against foreign-born, employed against unemployed, young
against old.
There are two Americas: the America of the ruling capitalist families
and the America of working people. But there is just one working class —
with different skin colors and speaking a variety of languages.
As the world capitalist economic and social crisis intensifies, the
bosses use every division they can to increase competition among workers
and drive down our wages. The only way to counteract this is to organize
the unorganized. It’s more important than ever today when less than 7
percent of private sector workers are organized in unions.
To increase these divisions — and keep us from seeing that capitalism is
the source of our problems — they label our immigrant brothers and
sisters as “illegal aliens.” In an editorial in the Militant two weeks
ago, we called for “legalizing” undocumented immigrants — a term we have
not used for several years, and will not use again.
In the eyes of the capitalist rulers all workers are outlaws. Isn’t that
how the cops view African-American youth they stop and frisk? Isn’t that
how they treat “felons” who are denied the right to vote? Isn’t that how
the bosses view workers on strike who refuse to go back until they win a
better contract?
The Socialist Workers Party will never ask to see your papers. Every
union and organization of the working class should say: “We don’t care
what language you speak, what side of the border you were born on or
whether you did time in prison. We don’t care if you are Muslim,
Christian, Jewish, Hindu or no religion. Let’s join together and stand
up to the bosses and their parties.”
This is a life-or-death question for the working class and the unions.
Stop deportations and all other measures such as E-verify that are
directed at immigrant workers and that divide the working class! Release
our fellow workers who are in prison for not having immigration papers
or work permits! Organize! Unionize!
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