Believing we can shape the existing System through compromise, is sort
of like asking the fox what he'd like to have for dinner. The System,
so far as the working class is concerned, is broke. And it can't be
tinkered with. The Ruling Class will continue to take what they want
because they understand that they have the power and control to do
just that. As long as we dance around, believing that we can gain
some benefits from them, we will continue to watch our dream of a
better world, crumble.
So why would I vote for Bernie Sanders? Well, if enough of us vote
for Sanders, it will make a statement that is visible. Voting for any
other Party will bring no notice. But that is in the primary. The
general election is another can of worms entirely. The Ruling Class,
through its Two-Headed Party, will control whoever wins the election.
The Party is also bent on making certain that Sanders is not one of
the finalists. Although they would easily block any efforts on his
part, as president, to improve life for the workers, at the expense of
the Ruling Classes profits.(Plunder)
Remember, it has taken the Ruling Class many years to come to this
point of near total control. We must begin building over the long
haul for a revolution that ends in a People's World.
Carl Jarvis
Carl Jarvis
On 3/8/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2016/8010/801001.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 80/No. 10 March 14, 2016
(lead article)
Socialist Workers Party: Defend right to abortion!
SWP candidates join March 2 protests
Militant/Willie Cotton
Supporters of right to abortion rally outside Supreme Court hearing in
Washington March 2.
BY DAN FEIN
CHICAGO — Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy
demonstrated with hundreds of other supporters of women’s right to
choose abortion here March 2. Vice presidential candidate Osborne Hart
joined a similar rally in Washington, D.C., the same day, as the Supreme
Court heard arguments in a challenge to a Texas law severely restricting
access to abortion. Campaign supporters distributed a new statement (see
accompanying text) calling for a nationwide campaign of public action in
defense of women’s right to choose abortion, explaining why this is a
fight for the labor movement.
The protests came one day after primary elections in a dozen states
where Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump consolidated
leads for their parties’ nomination.
Along with liberal hysteria about his “fascist” views, Trump’s advances
have provoked a sharp debate within the Republican Party. Sen. Ben
Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, issued an open letter saying that if
Trump becomes the nominee “conservatives will need to find a third option.”
Others have decided it’s better to join him. New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie endorsed Trump Feb. 26 and stood at his side at a March 1 press
conference after his “Super Tuesday” victories.
Trump’s statement to the press showed where some of his appeal lies. He
focused on employment, attacked the Barack Obama administration for
losing “millions and millions of jobs” and promised to bring
manufacturing work back in the U.S. Clinton talks about wages and jobs,
he said, but she’s been part of the Obama administration and in
government for a long time. “She’s not going to straighten it out in the
next four years.”
He also praised Planned Parenthood, saying the group had done “very good
work for millions of women.”
The Socialist Workers Party candidates told marchers working people need
to break from all of the capitalist parties and politicians. The SWP
urges workers to join in fights that strengthen the working class
worldwide.
Kennedy joined dozens of supporters of the fight to free Oscar López
Feb. 27, holding banners and waving Puerto Rican flags at Logan Square,
near one of Chicago’s large Puerto Rican communities.
Organized by 34 Women for Oscar, participants chanted “Women, women,
women for Oscar! We must free our jailed compatriot!” López has been
imprisoned in the U.S. for more than 34 years, much of it in solitary
confinement, for his actions in support of independence for Puerto Rico.
He was arrested in 1981 and framed up on “seditious conspiracy” charges.
“The SWP campaign is about the struggles of working people and actions
like this,” Kennedy told participants in the action. “To step up the
fight to free Oscar López, we can build on victories — winning release
of the Cuban Five from U.S. prisons in December 2014 and their
triumphant return to Cuba, and winning freedom for Albert Woodfox, a
member of the Black Panther Party imprisoned in the notorious Angola
prison in Louisiana for 43 years. I’ll be spreading the word and
building the June 20 international actions demanding Oscar’s release.”
Kennedy and a team of supporters took the Socialist Workers Party
campaign to workers and young people who turned out to hear Democratic
Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at Chicago State University
Feb. 24.
Sanders blamed “rigged capitalism” for the economic crisis millions face
today. “The problem working people face isn’t ‘rigged capitalism’ or
‘crony capitalists,’” Kennedy told people after the program. “This is
the way capitalism works. The worldwide economic depression we are
living through today is what happens when the bosses’ profit margins
shrink. They stop putting money in plants and production, and the
economy contracts. They zero in and attack our jobs, wages, working
conditions and social and political rights.
“None of the capitalist politicians have any proposals to change this
reality,” she said. “Sanders’ talk about higher taxes on the 1 percent
won’t make a dent.
“Our class, the working class, has to organize ourselves independent of
the bosses’ parties,” Kennedy said. “Our unions have to fight for a
massive public works program to provide jobs and build things workers
need, from infrastructure to schools to medical and child care centers.
And, as we fight we change, we become different people, capable of
forging a revolutionary movement to take political power and build a new
society.”
“It’s the grinding depression conditions workers face that fuel Sanders’
campaign, as well as that of Donald Trump on the Republican side,” she
said.
“The Cuban Revolution is the best example of what we can accomplish when
we organize and fight,” Kennedy said. “Working people in Cuba, led by
Fidel Castro’s July 26 Movement, defeated the Washington-backed Batista
dictatorship, made a revolution and took control of their destiny. The
have fought and defended that revolution for 57 years and continue to do
so today.”
At the rally 27 people got copies of the Militant and one bought a
subscription to read more about the Socialist Workers Party’s activities
and campaign.
Related articles:
Socialist Workers Party campaign statement: Defend abortion rights!
No miner has to die, in Russia or US!
SWP candidate Eleanor García joins warehouse workers’ fight
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