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Workers show power, need to organize to win
??Editorial
Vol. 83/No. 34
September 23, 2019
Working people around the world have demonstrated their capacities to
engage in sustained struggle, courageously facing down repressive
regimes and even toppling governments in Sudan, Algeria, Puerto Rico and
elsewhere in recent months. In the course of organizing massive
mobilizations they have won solidarity from far and wide and provided an
example of the potential power of working people to others facing
intolerable living and working conditions.
The hated regimes of Omar al-Bashir in Sudan and Abdelaziz Bouteflika in
Algeria have been forced out of office by protests involving millions,
but governments that defend the rule of the exploiters remain in place
in both nations.
Fifteen days of massive demonstrations in Puerto Rico forced the
resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosell?? in July. His replacement is as
dedicated to maintaining U.S. colonial rule and imperialist plunder as
he was.
In recent years we have seen other mass working-class mobilizations that
toppled despotic regimes, like in Egypt and Ukraine. They share the same
lesson.
What is in front of working people involved in these battles and workers
elsewhere is forging a revolutionary leadership. One that explains that
workers can throw off the self-image we are taught by the capitalist
rulers and recognize we are capable of taking power into our own hands.
A leadership that explains that the problem workers face isn???t simply a
few corrupt politicians, a particularly ruthless boss, foreign
interference, but the rule of an exploitative and oppressive social
class. The propertied capitalist rulers ??? who own the factories, the
land, the banks, the mines and mills ??? hold state power and use it to
defend their interests. To reverse the long-term decline of their system
they have no choice but to launch assaults on workers??? jobs, living and
working standards, our political rights, and to unleash wars abroad in
search of markets and resources.
We need to build our own party ??? one that can lead working people to
overthrow the capitalist class???s dictatorship. In the course of
revolutionary struggle workers gain a sense of our own self-worth, and
we begin to generalize our needs as a class with common interests that
are irreconcilable with those of the exploiters.
Such a course is not only necessary but is possible, as the conquest of
power by workers and farmers in Cuba shows. Under the leadership of
Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement millions fought to oust the
U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and established their own workers and
farmers government. They used state power to expropriate the land,
factories and other bourgeois property of both U.S. and Cuban
capitalists; transforming social relations to meet the needs of the vast
majority and joining struggles by working people worldwide for a
socialist future.
As Socialist Workers Party members organize other workers to join union
fights and social protests, they explain that working people can unite
and fight, and win. The SWP campaigns for workers to break with the
capitalist rulers, their political parties and their government, to
organize to take power into our own hands. Join the Socialist Workers
Party campaign
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Clarence Darrow
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God was the end of wisdom. ???
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