A lot of people can't afford to live in the city anymore because of high rents.
When I was growing up there, a very long time ago, we had rent controlled
apartments. My father was a factory worker, but we were able to take advantage
of all of the cultural and entertainment opportunities that Manhattan offered.
Now, New York is a rich person's city. Working people can't afford to attend
Broadway shows or eat in fine restaurants anymore. The city's financial
problems started under a Republican mayor, but they were due to complex causes.
Homelessness increased. Our wonderful free city university system was no
longer free. Housing costs increased. It was in the seventies that the
financial regulations which had protected our people, poor, working and middle
classes, began to be removed. Life has been becoming more difficult for most
people, but it would be wrong to blame one political party or the other for
such enormous changes. It's a superficial way to view history.
Miriam
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NYC is going down the tubes. My family are new Yorkers, and I still have
relatives there. I always had a special feeling for New York, but now it's
going down the tubes due to the neglect caused by the Democratic mayors,
presently Bill Di Blasio.
Everyone who can afford to are leaving the city. There's a saying in Spanish.
Sal Se puedes.
Get out if you can!
Andy
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Build a union movement in all plants, workplaces!
Fight for gov’t-funded public works program to create jobs
https://themilitant.com/2020/09/12/build-a-union-movement-in-all-plant
s-workplaces/
September 21, 2020
New York City unions Sept. 3 protest mayor’s threat to lay off
thousands of city workers.
THE CITY/JASON SCOTT JONES
New York City unions Sept. 3 protest mayor’s threat to lay off
thousands of city workers.
Sept. 9 statement by Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for president.
A fight by working people is needed to build a union movement in every
workplace and to win immediate protection from the widespread
unemployment and rising prices we face. Proposals to advance that are
at the heart of the Socialist Worker Party 2020 campaign — the only
campaign that starts from the capacities of working people to lead a
movement of millions to defend and advance the interests of all those
exploited and oppressed by capitalist rule.
From the strike by Dominion grocery workers in Newfoundland, Canada,
to countless on-the-job actions at workplaces across the U.S., workers
are finding ways to stand up to bosses’ insistence on pushing more
work on fewer of us, reduce wages and worsen conditions. Build
solidarity with their struggles!
To prevent bosses throwing more of us out of work the SWP campaign
says unions need to mobilize working people in a fight for a shorter
workweek with no cut in take home pay to spread work around and prevent
layoffs.
Our unions can mobilize a fight for a massive government-funded public
works program to put millions back to work at union-scale pay. They
can build hospitals, housing, schools and other things neglected by
bosses who put profits over workers’ needs.
As rising prices for food and other essentials make it harder for
working people to make ends meet, our unions can fight for automatic
cost-of-living clauses in our contracts and in government programs.
When prices go up, so should wages, pensions and unemployment and
Social Security.
A fighting union movement in every workplace will provide working
people with the strongest foundation possible to build the political
instrument we need, our own party, a labor party. By charting a course
to defend the interests of all those oppressed and exploited by
capital, a labor party prepares us for the struggles to come — the
fight to throw off the rule of the small class of capitalists and
their meritocratic enablers and establish a government of workers and farmers.
Working people in Cuba, led by Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement,
showed that socialist revolution is both possible and necessary. They
toppled the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959 and went on to
end the stranglehold of both U.S. imperialism and Cuban capitalists.
Workers and farmers established their own government, which organized
them to take control over the land, factories, banks and other workplaces.
Cuban working people used their government to organize a massive
literacy drive and to deepen struggles against racism and women’s
oppression. The toilers courageously defeated U.S.-backed mercenaries
at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and stood up to the unrelenting efforts by
the U.S. rulers to overthrow the revolution ever since.
In the course of these struggles, working people in Cuba transformed
themselves, as Che Guevara said, into “new men and women.” They looked
to aid working people everywhere fighting against colonial rule and
for freedom. They continue to provide unstinting international
solidarity, as thousands of Cuban medical volunteers are doing around
the world today to help combat the spread of coronavirus.
The Democratic and Republican parties and all who uphold capitalist
rule try to “teach” us that working people are incapable of taking and
exercising political power. They consider us things to be administered
and held in check, not makers of history, as we will become in the
deepening working-class struggles ahead.
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joined SWP Senate candidate Joel Britton and other campaigners here to
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