The American Empire's Ruling Class has apparently been successful in
brainwashing a large portion of the Working Class. It's the only
explanation I can find as to how so many people act against their own
interests.
I swear we're living in the world of Alice in Wonderland. Working
folks voting for the likes of Donald Trump; women joyfully allowing
men to control their bodies; and Liberals wandering around singing,
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood".
Carl Jarvis
On 5/16/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/05/11/working-people-have-nothing-to-gain-from-the-us-rulers-wars/
‘Working people have nothing to gain from the US rulers’ wars’
By Terry Evans
Vol. 83/No. 20
May 20, 2019
Donkinna Hightower, a skycap at Atlanta airport, speaks with SWP member
Janice Lynn as she went door to door with Militant and revolutionary
books in Jonesboro, Georgia.
Militant/Rachele Fruit
Donkinna Hightower, a skycap at Atlanta airport, speaks with SWP member
Janice Lynn as she went door to door with Militant and revolutionary
books in Jonesboro, Georgia.
“U.S. troops wouldn’t help people in Venezuela,” temp worker Patricia
Flores told socialist campaigner Dean Hazlewood when he showed her the
call to action in the Militant — “US Hands Off Venezuela! US Hands Off
Cuba!” They met when he knocked on Flores’ door in Blue Island,
Illinois, May 4.
“The U.S. military is an imperialist army that goes into other countries
to pave the way for U.S. bosses to exploit and oppress, not for freedom
and democracy as the government claims,” Hazlewood said, agreeing with
Flores. “Working people here have nothing to gain from Washington’s wars
in Afghanistan and Syria, nor its threats against Venezuela and Cuba.”
Dean Hazlewood with Patricia Flores May 4 in Blue Island, Illinois.
Hazlewood agreed with Flores when she said, “U.S. troops wouldn’t help
people in Venezuela.”
Militant/Dan Fein
Dean Hazlewood with Patricia Flores May 4 in Blue Island, Illinois.
Hazlewood agreed with Flores when she said, “U.S. troops wouldn’t help
people in Venezuela.”
“And look at the way veterans are treated when they return from
service,” Flores said. Hazlewood invited her to join a picket line May 6
at the Federal Building in downtown Chicago to protest the U.S. rulers’
war threats.
“I’ll try to make it,” she said, signing up for a subscription to the
paper.
Socialist Workers Party candidates across the country explain why the
crisis and cutthroat competition built into the workings of the
capitalist system will inevitably mean more wars until working people
can unite to overturn the dictatorship of capital that confronts us and
take power into our own hands.
The SWP, alongside sister Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and the U.K., is on a seven-week drive to expand the readership
of the Militant and revolutionary books and win contributions to the
$115,000 Militant Fighting Fund. The drive is aimed at meeting people
who get attracted to the party’s program and ongoing political work
together.
“Our party opposed the U.S. rulers’ entry into the Second World War,”
Socialist Workers Party member Róger Calero said when he spoke with a
World War II veteran named Ed at his home in Mineola, New York, April
28. The party explains that the slaughter was above all a fight between
the dominant imperialist powers for the redivision of the colonial world
and its plunder. The rulers used working-class youth as cannon fodder to
defend their interests, Calero said.
Ed, a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the Pacific war, said he had
written a small book about his experiences as a worker and a sailor on a
U.S. Navy ship and gave a copy of it to Calero, who said he would read
it and call him back for further discussion.
“In his book, Ed describes how he and other sailors who supported the
rights of Blacks in the U.S. got into ongoing debate about the outcome
of the Civil War with others who defended the position of the slave
owners,” Calero told the Militant. “Once deployed they put this aside to
work to ensure their common survival in combat.”
A few days later, Ed mailed in $5 for a subscription to the Militant.
Militant Fighting Fund
The Militant Fighting Fund total now stands at $56,985 sent in. Over the
past week some $13,000 has been collected, with a further $3,482 in the
mail. To be on course we should have raised $65,550. Further
contributions this week can help put the paper in a strong position to
make the $115,000 goal by May 28.
The call to action in last week’s issue urging pickets and other events
to oppose Washington’s attacks on the sovereignty of Venezuela and Cuba
has been well received and a number of protests have been organized. You
can help fund the Militant — a voice of uncompromising opposition to
Washington’s wars — by making a contribution online at
www.themilitant.com. The Militant’s only source of funds is its
working-class readership.
Donkinna Hightower, a skycap at the Atlanta airport, told socialist
campaigner Janice Lynn that in the 16 years he had worked at the airport
for different companies his wages and benefits had steadily declined.
Lynn spoke to him at his home in a trailer park in Jonesboro, Georgia.
Lynn described the recent 11-day strike by some 31,000 Stop & Shop
workers in New England against the bosses’ moves to cut monthly pension
payments, increase workers’ costs for health care and stop overtime pay
for Sunday work.
“We need to depend on ourselves and to build a movement independent of
the capitalists’ two parties,” Lynn said.
“The politicians of both Democratic and Republican parties are corrupt,”
Hightower said. Socialist campaigners hear comments like this often as
they campaign in cities, towns and rural areas. Millions are convinced
that the U.S. government is immoral and the bosses’ twin parties are
self-serving. A road forward to end the source of these problems — the
rule of the capitalist class and the crisis for workers their system of
exploitation breeds — is what they can find in the books by
revolutionary leaders and the Militant that SWP members have to offer.
“I’d like to find out more about your party,” Hightower told Lynn as he
subscribed to the Militant.
The SWP urges others to join the party’s campaigns and to fight for the
steps along that course that are possible today. To join the party
campaigning, or to get books or a subscription, contact the party branch
near you.
In This Issue
Front Page Articles •Demand US hands off Venezuela and Cuba!
•Uber, Lyft drivers strike across US for pay, dignity
•Latest fighting shows need for recognition of Israel, Palestine
•One of 3 Florida prison bans on ‘Militant’ overturned, two to go
•‘Working people have nothing to gain from the US rulers’ wars’
•Moves by UK gov’t to scuttle leaving EU deepens crisis, angers workers
Feature Articles •Sankara’s revolutionary legacy discussed at New York
forum
Also In This Issue •Thousands demand licenses, amnesty at May Day rallies
•Political censorship by Facebook threat to working class
•Canada: Deadly rail disaster is result of bosses’ drive for profits
•School workers in Carolinas rally for pay raise, better conditions
•New Florida law restricts ex-felons voting rights victory
•Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund April 6 - May 28
(week four)
Editorials •Fight Fla. prison censorship of ‘Militant’
Books of the Month •‘Proletarians have a world to win. Workers of all
countries unite!’
25, 50 and 75 years ago
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moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the
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― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
