Well, that's defeat. The point is that the powerful control what is happening.
People organize and work for change. Sometimes change occurs. Then the elites
push back and much of what we've gained, is lost. Then we fight again to win
back the ground we've lost. Look at our history. The racism is still there. It
keeps taking different forms, but it's still there. Everything; the anti
immigrant sentiment, the male chauvinism, the abuse of workers for the sake of
profit, the limits to whom may vote, the use of military power on behalf of
American business.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 12:50 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] ‘Workers need to build their
own party — independent of the bosses’
Rather than a sign of defeat, the lack of success by the several Worker's
Parties over the years, should be seen as proof of the Ruling Classes control
on Public Education and the Mass Media. The Working Class has been so
fragmented and turned on itself, that it is nearly impossible to unite a solid
front against the plunder that has been going on for generations.
Carl Jarvis...wondering why the Drones are still running the Beehive.
On 8/13/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/08/10/workers-need-to-build-their-own-par
ty-independent-of-the-bosses/
???Workers need to build their own party ??? independent of the bosses???
By Janet Post
Vol. 83/No. 30
August 19, 2019
Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in Canada, speaks at
rally in Ottawa Aug. 3 against continued military rule in Algeria and
for release of those arrested during protests there.
Militant/John Steele
Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in Canada, speaks at
rally in Ottawa Aug. 3 against continued military rule in Algeria and
for release of those arrested during protests there.
The 20-plus candidates vying for the Democratic Party???s presidential
nomination want to compete with President Donald Trump over who should
be the chief executive officer for the capitalist class and command
its armed forces in the wars the U.S. rulers wage around the world.
In the course of the Democratic Party debates each candidate offers
ways to patch up the system of exploitation and oppression, the
opposite of the course presented by candidates of the Socialist
Workers Party to unify and mobilize working people to overthrow that system.
???Capitalism has long outlived any productive role in society. We
need to build a working-class movement, independent of the two
capitalist parties, that fights to advance the working class to take
political power,??? Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City
Council, told the Militant.
Jarrett is one of several SWP candidates around the country presenting
this political perspective as they campaign door to door in
working-class neighborhoods, at labor protests and picket lines, and
other protest actions. He submitted 240 signatures July 30 to get on
the ballot for District 1 of the City Council.
???We can use the campaign to give voice to working people involved in
social struggles, and fights against the back-breaking working
conditions being imposed by the bosses,??? Jarrett added.
Amnesty for undocumented workers
???My campaign demands an amnesty for undocumented workers,??? Rachele
Fruit, SWP candidate for Atlanta School Board, told construction
worker Phillip Whiting at his home in that city Aug. 3. Whiting gave
Fruit a ???high-five.???
Malcolm Jarrett, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for
Pittsburgh City Council, filed to get on ballot July 30, with
supporters. ???We need to build a movement independent of the two
capitalist parties, that fights to advance the working class to take
power,??? Jarrett says.
Militant/Phil Norris
Malcolm Jarrett, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for
Pittsburgh City Council, filed to get on ballot July 30, with
supporters. ???We need to build a movement independent of the two
capitalist parties, that fights to advance the working class to take
power,??? Jarrett says.
???The government wants to make it harder for us to organize unions by
keeping a section of the workforce afraid they could be deported,???
Fruit said.
???And let me tell you ??? they don???t want to deport them all,???
said Whiting, describing how bosses at construction sites he has
worked on assign jobs based on workers??? race, sex and country of
origin. He got a subscription to the Militant?? and a copy of Are They
Rich Because They???re Smart??? by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes.
The day before, Fruit joined a demonstration in northwest Atlanta to
protest the emission of a cancer-causing compound, ethylene oxide, by
the Sterigenics plant, which sterilizes medical products.
Georgia Health News and WebMD issued a report July 19 that emissions
of the compound from the plant are way beyond what the Environmental
Protection Agency considers to be ???acceptable.??? A town hall
meeting of
200 followed on July 30.
Judy Renfold, 46, who lives a half-mile from the plant, told Fruit at
the demonstration that she is worried about her 6-year-old son???s health.
???I don???t want to sell the house to another family that would face
the same emissions. It???s not ethical. The company should buy out
these homes.???
Barry Goppman, 72, told Fruit, ???The plant has been here since 1972.
Why did it take so long for this to become public knowledge????
???The government protects the interests of the bosses,??? Fruit responded.
???That???s why it???s necessary to break with their two parties and
organize an independent fight.???
The SWP campaign explains why workers and their unions need to fight
for workers control over production and safety.
In Quebec, Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in the
federal election in the constituency of Longueuil-St. Hubert, recently
walked the picket lines of United Steelworkers on strike at the
Galvano plating plant (see article on page 5). He also joined with
Service Employees International Union Local 298 workers who struck for
a $15 an hour minimum wage at senior residences in Quebec.
???The biggest obstacle facing us is our tendency to underestimate
ourselves, to underestimate what we can accomplish, to doubt our own
value. That???s why we need to build our own party, independent of the
bosses??? parties,??? Filion told Jean-Guy Touchette, an office worker
at Bombardier, while going door to door in Montreal Aug. 2.
Filion has joined weekly rallies held in solidarity with protests in
Algeria, demanding an end to military rule there. In April President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign. The army postponed a
presidential election due on July 4, refusing to set a new date. Tens
of thousands took to the streets demanding the removal of interim
president Abdelkader Bensalah July 19.
Filion addressed an Aug. 3 rally in Ottawa, where protesters demanded
the Algerian authorities release those arrested during the
anti-government demonstrations. He explained that the imperialist
rulers in Canada exploit working people worldwide. ???What they do in
Algeria and other countries is an extension of what they do to working people
here,???
he said.
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family vows to continue their fight
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