On 10/18/20, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This article highlights so many urgent unmet needs. And yet it only
scratches the surface.
Nonetheless, as much as I support such a platform, first and formost
we must defeat the current administration. Even understanding that
Joe Biden is the "kinder, gentler" face of the same Ruling Class. But
the return of Donald Trump will destroy any hope of change for the
better.
Donald Trump is the negative Robin Hood, robbing the poor and giving
freely to the rich. His administration will drain our economy,
leaving the USA in deep debt to the Ruling Class.
But I hold out little hope for the USA. We have been so programmed by
mass propaganda that far too many Americans cheer wildly as The
Trumpsters shaft the American economy, and with it, the American
Working Class.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/18/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fight against rulers’ attacks on workers’ health, wages
https://themilitant.com/2020/10/17/fight-against-rulers-attacks-on-workers-health-wages/
October 26, 2020
This statement was released by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party
candidate for president, Oct. 14.
Working people need to join together to fight for protection from the
impact of the spreading capitalist social and economic crisis and to use
all the resources available to stem the effects of the coronavirus
pandemic.
We should demand the government ramp up production and distribution of
the three-drug package President Donald Trump received when he was
hospitalized that helped reduce the impact of the virus. This should be
made available to all those stricken with the virus, free of charge.
Until a vaccine is developed and tested, it will be working people,
especially the elderly, who are most exposed to the disease.
The U.S. rulers let bosses inflict a deadly toll on elderly residents in
nursing homes, housing them in close proximity, alongside patients with
COVID-19, while cutting staff in their drive for profits. Such
conditions guaranteed the spread of the virus, epitomizing the callous
values of the ruling capitalist families, for whom the lives of workers
they can no longer exploit have no value.
The only section of the working class hit harder has been those who find
themselves ground up by the criminal “justice” system and thrown into
prison.
The Democratic and Republican parties and their candidates are committed
to defending the for-profit U.S. health industry of hospitals,
pharmaceutical monopolies and insurance behemoths whose every decision
is based on maximizing their take. Millions in this country are left
without medical coverage.
Access to health care cannot be based on an individual worker’s ability
to pay. Health care must be a human right. Working people and our unions
need to fight for a social solution, for cradle-to-grave health care for
all. The SWP campaign starts from what working people need, not what the
bosses say is “possible” under their dog-eat-dog capitalist system.
One inspiring example for workers here and worldwide to emulate is the
way the Cuban Revolution — despite the pressure of decades of economic
warfare from Washington — organizes to assure its people get health
care. Clinics are located in workers’ communities, and all the resources
of the country are organized equally to reach every Cuban, at no cost.
As they say, “No one is left on their own.”
And they offer their medical services to any country that asks, an
example of selfless internationalism.
More workers are finding ways to stand up to attacks on our jobs, wages
and working conditions — organizing strikes and protests in the face of
the bosses’ unquenchable drive to dump the costs of today’s crisis onto
our backs. These battles — like strikes at Newfoundland’s Dominion
grocery stores, at NLMK Steel in Pennsylvania, by hospital workers in
Northern California — deserve widespread solidarity.
Workers need to unite around a program of action that can meet our needs
at all levels, including to halt the debilitating impact of rising
joblessness. The SWP campaign says workers need to use our unions to
fight for a shorter workweek with no cut in pay, to spread the available
work around and prevent layoffs.
We need to fight for a government-funded public works program to put
those cast out of work back in a job at union-scale pay, to build the
things we need — hospitals, housing, schools and more.
To combat the inflation that is growing at the grocery store, we need
escalator clauses in all union contracts and programs like Social
Security that guarantee our wages go up to match any rise in prices.
To advance this course of struggle workers need our own political party,
a labor party, that we can use to fight the rulers’ assault on all those
who are exploited and oppressed by the workings of their system.
The Socialist Workers Party acts on the capacities of working people to
fight together to change these conditions. As we do so we can build a
self-confident and class-conscious movement of millions to bring an end
to capitalist rule, and replace it with a workers and farmers government.
Join us!
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