On 7/16/19, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Agreed. What I don't know is how to set it up, given human nature and all.
I keep remembering Pogo and Albert walking along together. Pogo looks
up and says, "We've met the enemy, and it is us!"
Carl Jarvis
On 7/16/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We need a reorganization of society. That's for sure. What we don't need
is
state socialism because first of all, we need to find a way of caring for
each other without nationalism dividing us and causing competition for
natural resources and wealth. We need systems of cooperation which
ensures
that all of our needs are met: housing, food, clothing, education,
medical
care, transportation, recreation, artistic expression, etc. And we need
to
find a way of doing all this while healing our environment and slowing
down
our climate catastrophe. It's just too simplistic to talk about ridding
the
US of capitalism. And I fear that given where we are, and given human
nature, we're just fantasizing.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] ‘Working people need to
break with Democrats, Republicans’
In fact, the Democratic Party abandoned the Working Class some years
back.
It probably became noticeable during Bill Clinton's reign, but the
transition to big money was well under way during the Ronald Reagan
years..actually, long before, if you believe as I do that the Working
Class
never has had a serious voice in this government. At best we have had
some
significant gains in who is represented and who gets to vote. Beyond
that,
the Working Class has little voice in the international activities of
the
USA. Nor do we really have much to say about social changes or building
public infrastructure, or the quality of our public education, or the
function of our Postal System.
In fact, the Working Class is almost without voice in the drafting of
Laws
and Rules and Regulations that control our lives.
If, in fact, FDR had not entered the White House following Herbert
Hoover's
disastrous four years, and injected a small dose of socialism into the
collapsing Capitalism's Expansionism that was running the nation into
ruin,
we might well be living under a very different sort of government today.
As
it is, we protest, gather in angry crowds, strike and make small
temporary
gains, only to have them eroded away.
The United States desperately needs a true working class party. But a
quick
check throughout our history will underscore that the American Oligarchy
will not permit such a threat to its position of control.
Look at the current efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Actually, to raise it to the level of the 1968 level, $2o would come
closer.
By the time the fighting is done and the dust settles, inflation will
make
$15 a starvation wage.
How can there be so much confusion when any worker can sit down with
paper
and pencil and figure out how much it takes to run a household?
Twenty-five years ago I was earning $25 an hour. Today secretaries in
the
same agency earn $25 per hour. That $25 is not enough in cities like
Seattle, to pay rent and feed a family of three. The job I was paid $53
thousand a year to do is now bringing down $85 thousand, and people
earning
that amount struggle without a second income. So, while I support a
raise
in the minimum wage, it is only a stopgap solution. Under Capitalism we
will never find a common meeting place with the Ruling Class, and agree on
a
way of ensuring a decent life for all Americans. We can't rely on the
Ruling Class. They have things going their way. All Americans need to
have
a government that cares for them like America cares for its Oligarchy.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/16/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/07/13/working-people-need-to-break-with-d
emocrats-republicans/
???Working people need to break with Democrats, Republicans???
By Nancy Boyasko
Vol. 83/No. 26
July 22, 2019
Militant/Roy Landersen
John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, and
Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, speak at
Militant Labor Forum in Union City July 6.
UNION CITY, N.J. ??? ???The 2020 presidential election campaign has
been launched by the Republicans and Democrats. Over the next 16
months the Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters
will present the need to break with the capitalist two-party system,
in discussions with workers on their doorsteps in cities, towns, and
rural areas and at labor and social protests,??? John Studer, SWP
national campaign director, told 28 people attending the inaugural
Militant Labor Forum at the new forum hall and campaign headquarters
in Union City, northern New Jersey, July 6.
The party is running a national slate of candidates throughout the
country advancing a fighting program for working people to confront
the economic, social, and moral crisis capitalism has created. The New
Jersey forum featured three of these candidates ??? Lea Sherman and
Candace Wagner, the party???s candidates for New Jersey General
Assembly and Seth Galinsky, its candidate for New York City public
advocate.
There is widespread interest in finding a road forward among working
people, Studer said, a break from the crisis-ridden capitalist system,
with its wars, economic crises and the carnage it inflicts on our class.
In this context, he said, the party is organizing Alyson Kennedy, the
SWP candidate for president in 2016 and its candidate for Dallas mayor
this year, and Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City
Council, on a series of national trips to campaign across the country.
They will campaign in Kentucky July 12-14 and the following weekend in
Pittsburgh, helping put Jarrett on the ballot.
???They will join the party candidates Amy Husk and Samir Hazboun for
Kentucky governor and lieutenant governor, campaigning in coal-mining
areas in both eastern and western Kentucky,??? Studer said, ???and
bring solidarity to striking workers who drive ready-mix trucks and
pour concrete at Irving Materials in Evansville, Indiana.???
Militant/Maggie Trowe
Amy Husk, SWP candidate for Kentucky governor, talks with factory
worker Jason McCray in Evansville, Indiana, July 6, campaigning in
support of Teamsters on strike against Irving Materials there. Bosses
are pushing to cut dental and other benefits in new contract.
Lea Sherman pointed to the U.S. government???s most recent war threats
against Iran. ???Washington maintains troops and bases all over the
world to defend the ruling class???s political and economic
interests,??? she said.
???The sanctions they impose on Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba weigh
heaviest on the working classes,??? Sherman added. ???The SWP demands
???U.S. rulers
hands off!??? and unconditionally defends the sovereignty of countries
under attack from Washington and demands an immediate end to the
economic war being waged against workers there.???
Galinsky described how he joined a rally of striking taxi drivers May
8, and said the SWP campaign is a voice for solidarity with drivers
looking for ways to fight assaults on their wages. There are 100,000
taxi and app-based drivers in New York City that the bosses have
pitted against each other in their drive for profits.
???Drivers need a single union for all???
???Drivers need a single union for all, whether yellow cab, black car,
Uber, Lyft, or other e-hail drivers,??? he said. ???In the course of
coming
together to fight we can transform ourselves, and change society from
top to bottom.???
Wagner, a rail worker, described discussions among her co-workers
about the contenders for the Democratic Party???s presidential
nomination.
???Several Democratic candidates back the Green New Deal, which is
modeled on President Franklin Roosevelt???s New Deal ??? put in place
to convince working people that the capitalist government held the
solution to the crisis workers faced during the Depression in the
years leading up to and through the second imperialist world war,??? she
said.
The SWP campaign points in the opposite direction ??? to workers???
capacities to unite and struggle together against the bosses and the
parties that serve them to change the conditions they face. A
working-class road forward, she said, points to the need to overturn
capitalism and replace it with a workers and farmers government.
Amnesty for undocumented workers
Erika Remegio from the immigrant rights group Cosecha, which has been
leading the fight in New Jersey to win access to driver???s licenses
for undocumented workers, also addressed the meeting, describing the
fight that group is waging. ???We want respect, we came here to
work,??? Remegio said.
Some immigrants, she noted, ???have lost family members because they
were afraid to go to the hospital or lacked transportation to get
help.???
Drivers without licenses face steep fines, jail and even deportation.
She invited those at the meeting to come to Cosecha Family Day in
Matawan, New Jersey, July 14.
Sherman described her participation in several of Cosecha???s actions
for driver???s licenses, and how the Socialist Workers Party calls for
the unions to fight for amnesty for all workers in the U.S. without
papers.
???This is the road to overcome divisions imposed by the ruling class
and to build the labor movement and unions,??? she said. ???The
capitalists rake
in massive profits by keeping us divided.???
Participants at the forum kicked in over $1,000 towards the
refurbishment of the new hall and the expansion of the stock of
revolutionary books SWP campaigners will use to introduce the
party???s program.
If you???d like to find out more about the SWP campaign, contact the
branch nearest you.
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