There's a video of Michael Moore on the Morning Joe program on Alternet.
Eddie Glaude and some other folks were also involved in that discussion. But
listening to Michael Moore who identifies himself with the white males over
35 with no college education who voted for Trump and who live in mid
America, is very instructive when he talks about how the people who voted
for Trump, think and feel. He had predicted that Trump would win. He
understood why so many Democratic voters stayed home on Election Day. He
talked about why Sanders and Trump reached people while Clinton didn't, and
about why the elites on the coasts never understood what was happening. One
of the things he emphasized is that simple language about things that affect
people's every day lives, works. Philosophical ideas, don't.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers take party to working class
Given the fact that the working class is too fragmented and too
issue-confused to put together an effective political party, I would say
that in order to educate themselves, members of the working class would be
well to consider the social workers party. But still, I'm convinced that
this would need to be an interim phase on the road to establishing a
People's government. I'll have to bring up the SWP platform and think about
it.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/13/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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The Militant (logo)
Vol. 80/No. 44 November 21, 2016
(lead article)
Socialist Workers take party to working class
SWP deepens door-to-door discussions with workers
Militant/Edwin Fruit
High school student Tabitha Osborne-Rich joined Socialist Workers
Party member Mary Martin, center, talking about politics and party
with workers in Snohomish, Wash., Oct. 24.
BY MAGGIE TROWE
Across the country members of the Socialist Workers Party are
deepening their political activity in the working class, knocking on
doors to introduce the party, discuss the causes of the grindingworkers.
economic and social crisis and how we can organize to unite our class
and fight for workers' power. The SWP is in the middle of a 10-day
effort Nov. 3-12 to take advantage of the publication of The Clintons'
Anti-Working-Class Record: Why Washington Fears Working People, by
National Secretary Jack Barnes, to advance this course.
SWP members present the party's program and record of struggle as the
way forward out of capitalism's march toward war and depression and
invite others to join them.
Many workers and young people respond to the appeal. Tabitha
Osborne-Rich first heard of the Socialist Workers Party when Mary
Martin, the party's candidate for governor of Washington, spoke at her
high school in Snohomish in October. A few weeks later, she joined
Martin to knock on doors in the working-class neighborhood where she
lives, enjoyed the experience, and did it again on Nov. 4.
That day they met Denise, who works at an assisted living center for
the elderly and makes just above minimum wage. "I just moved into this
rental house from an apartment, but it's impossible to buy a home!"
she said.
Osborne-Rich said neither of the capitalist parties solve the problems
workers face and showed her The Clintons' Anti-Working-Class Record.
Denise told her to come back with the book early in the week when she
gets paid.
Osborne-Rich wants to continue joining with party members to reach
capitalism.
The SWP rejects the rulers' contemptuous portrayal of our class as
"deplorables" or "irredeemable," as Hillary Clinton called us and the
pro-Clinton media repeated. The rulers' fear the working class, fear
its potential to gain confidence through struggle and rise to end the
dictatorship of capital, to build a new society on proletarian bonds
of solidarity.
There are no sustained labor or social struggles to join and help lead
forward today. But there is a wide-ranging and angry discussion going
on about the crisis conditions the bosses and their government are
pushing on our backs - in workers' homes, bars, barbershops and
elsewhere. The SWP is joining this discussion to win workers to the party.
On Nov. 11 Militant Labor Forums across the country will discuss the
results of the elections and the political course the party is on. The
gatherings will point to the example the Cuban Revolution sets about
the capacity of working people to transform themselves in
revolutionary struggle and overthrow the dog-eat-dog social relations of
York.
Along with other members, New York SWP leader Jacob Perasso visited
the picket line of workers at the Momentive Performance Materials
plant in Waterford, New York, Nov. 4 to express solidarity. The 700
members of IUE-CWA Local 81359 had walked off the job two days
earlier. The socialists discussed how the capitalist crisis spurs
bosses to attack unions. They described how the SWP goes door to door
in working-class areas to promote its program, recruit and build
support for struggles such as theirs.
"I have friends and family that would be interested in what you are
saying," striker Brandon Gulneck, 23, told them. "You should come to
Stillwater, where I'm from, to knock on doors."
"We'll be back in a couple days," Perasso responded, "and it will help
if you can join us." Gulneck said he looked forward to it.
Members in New York have gone to workers districts in Brooklyn, the
Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island and Yonkers; to Weehawken, Jersey City
and Elmwood Park, New Jersey; and to Vermont. They have joined party
members in Philadelphia to show solidarity with the SEPTA transit
workers who were on strike there.
"People are eager to discuss what workers can do about the economic
and moral breakdown of capitalism," said Emma Johnson from SWP in New
"We met a Dominican-born woman in Washington Heights who was quite
interested," Johnson reported. "She works making sandwiches and
doesn't make enough to pay the rent so she shares an apartment with
several roommates. We discussed how the crisis affects workers in the
Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and how Cuba's workers and farmers
made a revolution. She bought a copy of The Clintons'
Anti-Working-Class Record and thanked us for coming. We're organizing
to get together again and talk some more."
Jacob Perasso in New York and Mary Martin in Seattle contributed to
this article.
Related articles:
Election reflects effects on workers of capitalist crisis 'NY Times'
asks SWP supporters to vote for Clinton SWP campaign fund over the
top!
Build the SWP, the party workers need
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