Carl, as I have, perhaps cynically, have asked much in the past 48 hours ...
how? I'm afraid old chap that I feel handicapped, emasculated, and abandoned.
Even my own primary vote, that last piece of empowerment that I had appears now
to be rejected by someone who turned their back on me and my state. Worse still
after reading that interview with Sanders where even he admits to having no
specific plan to deal with the right wing other than to call for the public to
rush in with some sort of nondescript revolution and save him , indicates that
we are all as emasculated as I feel this weekend.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 4:34 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] SWP: Workers need to organize
independent of, bosses’ parties
Here's more proof, as if we need any, that the Ruling Class'
propaganda is effective. There can be no other explanation as to how working
class men and women draw back from organizing independent labor unions.
In disasters such as floods, fires, or tornadoes, we all drop what we're doing
and rush in to lend a hand.
But when we, and our neighbors, are watching our jobs go overseas, our dollars
purchasing less and our children being burdened in debt for their education, we
stand around and say, "there's nothing we can do about it."
Well there is. We can declare a National Disaster and drop what we're doing
and rush in to help ourselves and others out of this growing oppression.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/26/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2016/8013/801303.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 80/No. 13 April 4, 2016
(front page)
SWP: Workers need to organize independent of
bosses’ parties
Militant/Don Mackle
“No capitalist party has solution to world economic crisis,” Mary
Martin, left, SWP candidate for Washington governor, told Keith
Fiorino and Ashlynn Kolidakis at Seattle Sanders rally.
BY SETH GALINSKY
Socialist Workers Party candidates across the country are joining
protests against police brutality, walking picket lines with fellow
workers, campaigning door to door, and engaging in discussions with
workers about the need to organize independently of the capitalist
class. Those who agree with that perspective should join the Socialist
Workers Party.
Mary Martin, SWP candidate for governor of Washington, campaigned with
supporters among thousands of people at a March 20 rally for Bernie
Sanders in Seattle.
Many of those she spoke with were interested in her view that working
people need to learn from the example of the Cuban Revolution and of
the need to take political power out of the hands of the capitalist class.
“A lot of what you say is true but I don’t think the American people
are ready for real socialism,” said Keith Fiorino, 28, a musician.
“Don’t you think that Sanders is basically going in the right direction?”
“None of the capitalist politicians have solutions to the grinding
effects of the world economic crisis on working people,” Martin replied.
“The working class is the only force that is capable of fighting for
our own interests. That’s why we need a labor party based on the
unions for workers to have an independent voice.”
Dave, a railroad worker and union member who didn’t want to give his
last name, said he knows about engineer Tom Harding, who is facing
frame-up charges for the 2013 oil car train crash in Lac-Mégantic,
Quebec. “They say he didn’t set enough brakes, but once the fire crew
cut out the brake lines, the cars were going to roll,” Dave said. “I
don’t think it was his fault.”
“Workers need to have control of safety on the job,” said Martin. “We
need to use union power to stand up against frame-ups of Harding and
others.”
Shavon Hayes, a public transit bus driver and member of the
Amalgamated Transit Union, was glad to hear Martin had joined some of
the bus drivers’ informational picket lines protesting split shifts
and lack of breaks.
In an indication of the interest in the communist alternative, 15
people bought copies of the Militant, two subscribed and two got
copies of The Cuban Five Talk About Their Lives Within the US Working
Class: “It’s the Poor Who Face the Savagery of the US ‘Justice’
System,” one of several books campaign supporters are using in
discussing what way forward for working people.
Sam Manuel, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in
Georgia, joined Felicia Thomas, Delisa Davis and dozens of others at
the Smyrna, Georgia, City Council meeting March 21 to protest cop
brutality and the promotion of officer Kenneth Owens to lieutenant.
Owens fatally shot Thomas’ son Nicholas in the back while the
23-year-old was at work at a tire shop a year ago. Davis’ brother
Kevin died Dec. 31, 2015, two days after being shot by a DeKalb County
cop in his apartment after calling 911.
“For Owens to be promoted is like spitting in my face, rewarding him
for killing my child,” Thomas told Manuel.
“The Socialist Workers campaign in Georgia and nationally will be a
voice for all those fighting to oppose killings by cops,” said Manuel.
Supporters of Eleanor García, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, joined a
March 19 protest in Bakersfield, California, against killings by the
police.
“García has been a part of the fight against police brutality, as well
as standing up against deportations,” SWP campaign supporter Laura
Garza told the crowd. “She will be discussing the fights here as she
joins the nurses striking at Kaiser in Los Angeles, the port truckers
and workers demanding a raise in the minimum wage. We can strengthen
our fights by joining others standing up.”
California’s Secretary of State informed García March 17 that she will
be on the ballot for the June primary.
Janice Lynn in Smyrna, Georgia, and Bill Arth in Bakersfield,
California, contributed to this article.
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