[cs_edworkers] Re: [marxist_study] What´s behind MORE´s disgraceful refusal to march with Garner family?
- From: Richard Bucci <rizzierobucci@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Study group <marxist_study@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:42:27 -0400
In opposing the UFT's participation in the protest march in Staten Island
MORE says: *"Rather, with our brother and sister officers we should seek
improved practices and policies that will result in equal and just outcomes
for all our students and their families."*
By "brother and sister officers" they mean the NYPD murderers of Eric
Garner, Amadou Diallo, Malcolm Ferguson, Patrick Dorismond, Ousmane Zongo,
Tim Stansbury, Sean Bell, Ramarley Graham, Tamon Robinson, Kimani Gray,
and the brutalizers Abner Louima and of the thousands of blacks and latinos
who have been beaten and choked by the NYPD. MORE also calls for UFT-PBA
solidarity in deciding what to do. The PBA--like the prison guards "unions"
at Riker's Island and throughout the gigantic prison-industrial complex--is
not a union of workers, but a protection racket of the racist thugs
guarding the capitalist order. Whenever even the slightest oversight of
cops is proposed by some deluded liberal, the PBA lashes out, even to the
point of mounting an armed demonstration against the city's only black
mayor (Dinkins). The guards unions have enforced procedures in the prisons
that have allowed them to murder hundreds legally. The PBA hires the
lawyers and mounts the menacing propaganda campaigns to ensure than cops
never found guilty for their many bloody crimes. And indeed, the courts are
part of that racist order.
We have a crisis in the racist, capitalist system right now, and MORE has
come down on the side of the blue-uniformed enforcers of the white
supremacist order. They are part of the rulers' response to the crisis. The
capitalist politicians are seeking black police and security guards as
cover, and phony leftists calling for order and support of the police are
useful as well. MORE has proved that it stands with the sadistic torturers
of the NYPD rather than their victims. This must be remembered.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Marjorie Stamberg
marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx [marxist_study] <marxist_study@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>
> Building a so-called "opposition" caucus that deliberately avoids taking
> positions on the crucial issues of race and class has brought MORE to this
> debacle. Opposition? They are to the right of the UFT leadership here,
> something that should make any leftists in MORE start thinking hard. In
> their statement, they claim "neutrality" but actually do take a side --
> with the cops against the black population of this city.
>
>
> To further this discussion, here are comments from Class Struggle
> Education Workers member Sandor John, on his Facebook page:
>
>
>
> The UFT MORE Caucus calls for uniting with -- the PBA ! While the MORE
> Caucus of the UFT is promoted and lionized by many on the "left,"
> class-struggle activists have always characterized it as a case study in
> opportunism. (Needless to say, this is derided as "sectarianism" by those
> whose principle is "anything goes.")
>
>
>
> Racist police repression is an elementary litmus test. Today people
> throughout the U.S. are confronted with the basic, urgent need to take a
> stand with African American targets of murderous racist repression and
> military occupation. This is ABC for any decent unionist or opponent of
> oppression. Yet MORE has put out the following unspeakable statement
> (justifying its refusal to back the union's decision to march with Eric
> Garner's family on Saturday) in which MORE literally states "we encourage
> the leaderships of the UFT and PBA [Patrolmen's Benevolent Association], to
> find ways to work together and unite us".
>
>
>
> There is so much more in their statement that is absolutely grotesque.
> Read it below
> http://morecaucusnyc.org/2014/08/21/the-march-for-justice-and-unity/
>
>
>
> This disgrace from a supposed oppositional union group backed by
> purported leftists is the direct result of the policy of building caucuses
> on a lowest-common-denominator basis that deliberately evades the key
> class/race/political issues -- like the unions' subjugation to the
> government party, real struggle against racial oppression, and how to free
> the labor movement from domination by the politics, politicians and
> institutions of the ruling class. After this statement from MORE, how could
> anyone with a shred of consciousness (or conscience) remain in that group?
>
> I would add one point:
>
> American capitalism is built on a bedrock of racist oppression -- from
> slavery to Jim Crow to segregated schools, and the school-to-prison
> pipeline in NYC today. Trying to "dodge" this with a gazillion words about
> "teacher priorities" is actually somewhat obscene. What are we as
> educators if not advocates for our kids who are stopped and frisked in the
> streets everyday, and sometimes shot.
>
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