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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 60, No. 6 Feb. 8, 2018 $1 Unite to say ‘No war on Korea!’ By Deirdre Griswold

The progressive movements in the United States — those struggling for the rights of people of color, low- wage workers, women, immigrants, the LGBTQ and disability rights communities, the environment and much more — need to take note of the discussion going on within U.S. ruling circles about whether to launch military measures against north Korea that could lead to a nuclear war. They call it the “bloody-nose option.” We could say that starting a nuclear war is unthink- able. But they are thinking about it. And planning for it. The evidence is abundant. Victor Cha, who was a leading candidate for the po- sition of U.S. ambassador to south Korea, was dropped from consideration for the post after he wrote an op- ed piece for the Jan. 29 Washington Post in which he rejected “as some Trump administration officials have suggested, a preventive military strike.” Cha, a former Bush administration official, is no dove. Nor did he express any sympathy for the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the north- ern, socialist half of the Korean peninsula, in the event of such a war. Cha proposed in his op-ed what he called African Americans vs. imperialism • Civil Rights hero Ruby Sales • “a forceful military option available that can address the Takiyah Thompson: Toppling white supremacy • threat without escalating into a war that would likely kill tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Americans.” Black Liberation & Socialism tour: Feb. 11 - 13, pages 6 - 7 Even suggesting that the U.S. should not provoke a nuclear war was enough to get him barred from a post in this administration.

Trump’s State of the Union address An article in The Atlantic of Jan. 31 was headlined “Is Market turmoil: Trump Preparing for War with North Korea?” It begins, “The more closely you read Donald Trump’s comments As we write this — noon on Tues- about North Korea in his State of the Union address, the day, Feb. 6 — the global financial What it means for workers more plausible it becomes that he is preparing for war.” markets are in their third day of tur- The magazine noted that in his speech, “Trump devot- moil. It is reported that stocks have already lost at least As far back as the early 1980s, three-fourths of the ed a mere sentence to Russia and China. He devoted 23 $2 trillion in value. This is not the first, or the fifth, or people in the U.S. owned shares of corporate stock or words to Israel, 34 to Afghanistan, and 48 to Iran. Even even the tenth time such a contraction has happened. stock mutual funds either directly in their own names or the war against ISIS, which Trump cites as the main for- Indeed, periodic crises in the stock market have oc- indirectly through their pension funds, insurance poli- eign-policy achievement of his first year in office, gar- curred repeatedly throughout the history of capitalism. cies, savings accounts, etc. A deep drop in the markets nered only 302 words. North Korea received 475. In the capitalist media, everything is focused on can make all this go up in smoke. “Second, there are the things Trump didn’t say. The which companies are the biggest losers and which large As Workers World Party founder Sam Marcy wrote Olympics begin in South Korea in 10 days, and the investors will be hit hardest. Not one word addresses the after the crash of 1987: “The stock market, which had South Korean government hopes participation by ath- impact this will have on workers all over the world. Continued on page 10 letes from the North will ease hostility on the Peninsula. But Trump didn’t mention the games. In fact, he didn’t mention diplomacy at all.” 3 Henry Kissinger’s testimony to Senate THEN: In defense of DACA, TPS & Chicano Park Henry Kissinger, in testimony to the Senate Armed Continued on page 10 Labor walks out in W. Va., Seattle 4

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NYC forum ‘Smash women’s oppression’

Special to Workers World  In the U.S. Unite to say: ‘No war on Korea! ...... 1 “Women and the Fight for So- cialism” was the theme of a fo- NYC forum: ‘Smash women’s oppression’ ...... 2 rum held on Feb. 3 in New York Harvard U. workers unite to defend immigrants . . . . 3 City sponsored by the New York Detroiters defend immigrant rights ...... 3 branch of Workers World Party. Chicago: Celebrate and release Ahed Tamimi! . . . . . 3 The following questions and more San Diego: In defense of Chicano Park ...... 3 were discussed. West Virginia: Education workers fighting back . . . . . 4 In this period of mass resis- tance by women against sexual Seattle: School bus drivers strike for health care . . . . 4 harassment, misogyny and sex- Strategies for workplace organizing ...... 4 ism, the question looms large of Buffalo, N.Y.: Labor support for Puerto Rico ...... 4 how to end women’s oppression. Trump, the generals and the FBI ...... 5 How can we take the recent victo- Read this book! ‘Generals Over the White House’ . . . . 5 ries against sexual predators and Close Guantanamo naval base – U.S. OUT! ...... 9 serial sexual assaulters further? How can working-class and trans Cleveland: Partial victory against racist sports symbol . 9 women benefit from the progress U.S. conducted biowarfare against DPRK ...... 11 made in Hollywood and by other WW PHOTO: BRENDA RYAN  Black Liberation Month more privileged sectors? Julie Varughese, Taryn Fivek, Teresa Gutierrez, Monica Moorehead and Cosmia How can the women’s movement Bohannan-Blumke, Feb. 3. Black Liberation and the Vietnamese struggle ...... 6 unite with trans women to fight ‘DO IT LIKE DURHAM’: Takiyah Thompson speaks . . . . .6 against this extra oppression and build unity between cis- summed up with a talk on “Women in Cuba show how so- Civil Rights hero Ruby Sales and white supremacy . . . . 7 women and transwomen? How do other forms of oppres- cialism is the only solution to end women’s oppression.” sion like white supremacy intersect with sexism? What ad- Taryn Fivek chaired the meeting. To view these talks, go  Around the world vancements have been achieved by women in socialist Cuba to tinyurl.com/y7dkt5uf/. Ecuador at the crossroads ...... 8 and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Women’s oppression is the oldest oppression of all, New York protest says ‘Puerto Rico is not for sale!’ . . . . .8 Opening remarks were made by Workers World Party rooted in the origins of class society. It is a complex and  Editorial members. Monica Moorehead reviewed the issue of “Vi- intricate web that is inculcated in every facet of life. It olence against women at Michigan State University – iso- permeates every single part of society. Sexism exists in Market turmoil: What it means for workers ...... 1 lated or systemic.” Cosmia Bohannan-Blumke addressed the boardroom and the bedroom, in the office and in the Lessons of the 1968 Tet Offensive ...... 10 the “Fight for Trans Liberation.” Julie Varughese reported fields, in Hollywood and at McDonald’s. It can only end  Noticias en Español on “Women’s status in the DPRK,” and Teresa Gutierrez when we end capitalism. Trump y la clase dominante, de Davos a DACA y Mueller 12

Workers World Party announces with sorrow the death of Milt Neidenberg -1922- 2018, founding member of the Party, steel worker, labor organizer, teacher of ­orga­n­- Workers World izers, and revolutionary communist leader. Memorial plans will be announced by 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. the Party. A tribute to his life will appear in a future edition of Workers World. New York, NY 10011 Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 60, No. 5 • Feb. 1, 2018 Closing date: Jan. 30, 2018 Join us in the fight Editor: Deirdre Griswold Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, for socialism! Kris Balderas Hamel, Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party is a revolutionary Marxist-­ Wages are lower than ever, and youth are saddled with Minnie Bruce Pratt; Web Editor Gary Wilson Leninist party inside the belly of the imperialist beast. seemingly insurmountable student debt, if they even make Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; We are a multinational, multigenerational and multigen- it to college. Black and Brown youth and trans people are Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash dered organization that not only aims to abolish capital- gunned down by cops and bigots on a regular basis. 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By Phebe Eckfeldt that TPS would be terminated for Nica- dents at breakfast and the last to see de- short bios of seven workers and their Cambridge, Mass. ragua, Haiti and El Salvador. These de- parting researchers each evening. Like families, which detail the political, social, cisions affect 5,300 Nicaraguans, 59,000 many from Haiti and El Salvador across economic and emotional anguish and Sixty workers marched on Harvard Haitians and about 250,000 Salvador- the country, we cook, clean and provide hardship that canceling TPS will have University President Drew Faust’s office ans, with potentially more terminations for [U.S.] American children that dream on them. Put together by TPS workers on Jan. 31, demanding she take action on coming in the future, such as for Hondu- of more opportunity than we had back the coalition committee, this narrative is behalf of those who hold temporary pro- rans and others. home. We also actively contribute to the designed to confront Faust with the real- tected status. “Haitians and Salvadorans, who are economy: we buy cars and take on mort- ities of workers’ lives. The narrative will The newly formed Harvard TPS Co- the majority of TPS workers at Har- gages, start businesses and pay into So- be used as an outreach tool to workers alition consists of members of UNITE vard, also have, respectively, 27,000 cial Security. and their unions at other universities and HERE Local 26 representing dining hall and 195,000 children who were born in “However, opportunity is not our only will also provide information for unions workers, Service Employees Union 32BJ the United States. Since the devastating concern. We will be targeted for violence rallying and lobbying in Washington, representing custodians; the Harvard earthquakes in 2001 in El Salvador and and could even be killed if we return to D.C., on Feb. 5. Union of Clerical and Technical Workers; 2010 in Haiti, these hard-working immi- what, for many of us, are unfamiliar The Harvard TPS Coalition is deliber- American Federation of State, County grants, many who arrived here eight to 17 countries. We are Americans who de- ately and methodically talking with oth- and Municipal Employees Local 3650; or more years ago as kids, have become serve permanent residency here in the er union members on campus to educate the Harvard Graduate Student Union; very connected in their local communi- United States.” them that an attack on TPS workers is an plus faculty and student supporters. ties. Most Salvadorans have been here The letter, signed by more than 300 attack on the unions; that the same forces Two Latinx lead organizers, Martha much longer, for 20 or more years since union members, students, student groups pushing “right to work” legislation, which from UNITE HERE and Doris from fleeing the civil war, and we all should and faculty, asks that Faust hold a press will demolish unions, are the same forces SEIU 32BJ, both of whom are from El remember America’s role in this conflict. conference supporting the transition to pushing attacks on immigrant workers. Salvador, led the group to the door of “The Boston area is a center of the Sal- permanent residency for TPS workers; The Harvard TPS Coalition has vowed Faust’s office to deliver a letter with their vadoran and Haitian communities, and write a letter to Congress, the Senate and to continue to build on campus, join allies demands. The letter said in part: we Harvard workers are also part of the U.S. president advocating permanent on other campuses and unite with other “As you know, the Department of university community. Between feeding residency; and encourage other college unions to stop these vicious attacks on Homeland Security announced, between Harvard students and cleaning Harvard presidents to take these same steps. immigrant members, on all immigrant November 6, 2017, and January 8, 2018, offices, we are the first to greet the stu- At the end of the letter are photos and workers and on the existence of unions. Detroiters defend Celebrate and release immigrant rights Ahed Tamimi! Chicago Frigid weather in downtown Detroit A group of radicals gathered Jan. on Feb. 3 did not deter defenders of the 30 outside the Israeli Consulate in Dreamers and the Deferred Action for Chicago to do two things: celebrate Childhood Arrivals law, which relates the birthday of Ahed Tamimi and to immigrants brought to the United demand her release. Activists wore States as children. Activists in the “Show birthday hats, brought balloons and Up for the Dream” march and rally de- made noise with party kazoos. The manded an end to the raids and depor- action was called by Jewish Voice for tations and defense of immigrant rights. Peace, the US Palestinian Communi- The protesters marched from Roosevelt WW PHOTO: JERRY GOLDBERG ty Network and American Muslims Park in Corktown, a neighborhood once for Palestine. Various other groups filled with Irish and Mexican immi- ­African-American pastor Rev. W.J. Ride- supported the protest, including grants, down Michigan Avenue to the out III. Workers World Party members Workers World Chicago cadre. The ac- birthday card to be sent to her. McNamara Federal Building. The action, were among the activists. tion ended with everyone singing happy — Report and photo by called by Michigan United, was led by — Workers World Detroit bureau birthday to honor Ahed and signing a Thomas Tellgren-Leng

PHOTO: CHICANO PARK STEERING COMMITTEE FACEBOOK Defending San Diego Chicano Park in San Diego In defense of Chicano Park on Feb. 3

By Zola Muhammad and canx activists as they cried out to affirm Castro, Frida Kahlo and Carl Muhammad the liberation of Chicano Park. other revolutionaries. They San Diego That was the year the community of also evidently intended to Barrio Logan, one of the oldest commu- remove the flags of Aztlán Around 50 white supremacists were in nities in San Diego, began to fight for the and Mexico and replace the minority on Feb. 3, when an awe-in- park to be built. The city, however, had them with U.S. flags. spiring 1,500-plus Californians showed another idea for the use of the land un- The Chicano Park Steer- up to defend San Diego’s historic Chicano der the Coronado Bridge and began con- ing Committee organized Park. They came from as far away as the struction of a new State Highway Patrol a massive security team San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles station. Mario Solís, a Brown Beret, was that kept the white supremacists from Workers World Party candidate mem- to defend the park from racist attack by a the first to notice the construction under- harming anyone. Most of the people in bers Ryan Stray and Mickey Saldivar-So- group calling themselves the “Bordertown way on the previously unused parcel of the park were completely unaware of the to worked security detail and the medical Patriots,” Trump-style bigots who claimed land and immediately organized a protest small skirmish that resulted in a few ar- tent, respectively. to be coming there for a “patriotic picnic.” occupation of the construction site. After rests. Attendees at the defense event celebrat- In reality, these were right-wing reac- 12 days of confrontation, the city accepted But Chicano Park is also under assault ed the revolutionary park by beginning tionaries who planned to deface and de- defeat in the face of the Chicanx commu- from the city as well through gentrifica- with a Native blessing by Stan Rodríguez fame the beloved murals and the statue nity’s united opposition and reluctantly tion, since outside interests are moving from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel. of a Mexican revolutionary leader. They accepted the Chicanx community’s take- into the community under the guise of The event ended with a performance by have been emboldened by the rise of over of the land for the park. redevelopment. the Aztec Dancers, with the community Trump and angered by the heroic actions The Feb. 3 invasion of white suprem- Attendees and speakers at the Defense being asked to join in for the last dance. of Takiyah Thompson and Bree New- acists is the second recent targeting of of Chicano Park event included a Native The present writers and WWP organiz- some, two Black women, both of whom Chicano Park. In September 2017, a right- motorcycle club, Aztec dancers, Brown er Gloria Verdieu danced along with the boldly removed official symbols of white wing blog, Patriot Fire, called for a “pic- Berets, Unión del Barrio, members of the Indigenous dancers as Native elders sang supremacist oppression. nic” in the park, but they were run off by LGBTQ community who carried Mexican songs of prayers. “¡Tierra, Liberación y Revolución!” members of the community. flags with rainbows on them, Interfaith According to the “picnic” organizers’ (“Land, Liberty and Revolution!”) were The local press reported that these Ministries including Muslim, Jewish website, their ultimate goal is to close the words of Mexican revolutionary more recent racists wanted to remove a and Christian spokespeople, the Black Chicano Park. But white supremacy Emiliano Zapata, who is honored in the statue of Zapata and deface the murals Panthers for Self Defense, a Mexican low has lost another battle. The people have park with a beautiful bronze statue. In depicting the history of the Chicanx peo- riders club, Workers World Party and made it clear with their sheer presence 1970, they were also the words of Chi- ple and the images of Che Guevara, Fidel many, many more community members. that Chicano Park is here to stay. Page 4 Feb. 8 2018 workers.org

West Virginia Education workers fighting back

By Otis Grotewohl All state and education workers are facing unaffordable increases in health Teachers and school support staff are care premiums and deductibles through currently in motion in West Virginia. On the Public Employees Insurance Agency Feb. 2, roughly 2,000 teachers and ser- (PEIA). State employees are represent- vice employees from Mingo, Wyoming, ed by the Communication Workers and Logan and Raleigh counties staged a United Electrical Workers. PHOTO: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS-WEST VIRGINIA walkout and took their message to the In addition to increases in PEIA, a bill Teachers, staff, students and community rally Feb. 2 in Lewis County, W. Va., part of a wave of capitol. It was visually reminiscent of the was introduced to strip teachers of their protests against right-wing attacks on unions and public education. Wisconsin public employee mass pro- seniority, which is the primary factor in tests in 2011. In other counties teachers determining reductions and transfers ple feel that is a slap in the face, especial- The state does not have collective bar- held walk-ins or informational pickets each year. Eliminating seniority would ly considering the potential increases in gaining. The arch-reactionary legislature with additional school personnel, state permit administrators to openly practice insurance costs starting July 1. Carlene passed “right-to-work” (for less) legis- employees and parents that day. discrimination and favoritism. Rhodes, a special education teacher at lation in 2016, which negatively affects The American Federation of Teachers- For-profit charter school bills have Westwood Middle School, told the Mor- unions in the private sector. Education West Virginia and West Virginia Educa- also been introduced; at this time, char- gantown Metronews, “A one percent and state employees already worked un- tion Association have been working with ter schools do not exist in the state. raise doesn’t even cover the cost of the der RTW conditions. each other in a united front across the state West Virginia teachers rank 48th in healthcare.” (Morgantown Metronews, While West Virginia public workers in response to anti-union and anti-public the U.S. in pay. The billionaire governor 2/3/18). It is common for many teach- have no collective bargaining, teachers education attacks coming from the far- did introduce a 1% increase for teachers, ers to work second or third jobs to make did carry out an 11-day strike in 1990, right, Republican-dominated Legislature. which the Legislature passed. Most peo- ends meet. which brought many gains, including de- cent pay. Once again, education workers Material conditions in West Virginia are showing their strength. Union rallies Seattle Like all of the United States, West Vir- are being held across the state and are ginia is a state that rests on stolen Indig- expected to continue until the legislative enous land. It is a place that has been ex- session concludes on March 10. While School bus drivers ploited by resource extraction companies union membership is optional, most for centuries, where the politicians have workers belong. always prioritized the needs of coal, tim- As the people mobilize, legislators are strike for health care ber, oil and gas bosses over the needs of introducing more archaic and barbaric the people who live and work there. bills against the working class and op- By Jim McMahan $27 million a year for its contract with West Virginia is home to many histor- pressed. There will be a statewide rally at Seattle the company. First Student could easily ic class battles between coal miners and the capitol in Charleston on February 17. afford to include all drivers in the current companies. Gov. Jim Justice is a coal Before or around that time there may be Feb. 5 — Over 400 Seattle school bus health care plan without passing along baron himself and a personal friend of a statewide vote on whether to walk out. drivers, members of Teamsters Local 174, further costs to the district. Trump. He was elected in 2016 as a Dem- The state has already made some con- went on strike against First Student, the ocrat but switched parties after last year’s cessions in relation to PEIA policy pro- giant global school bus contractor, on Feb. Solidarity! legislative session. He is also the propri- posals, but there is still a long way to go. 1. They are still out as of today, buoyed by The 5,000 teachers of the Seattle Edu- etor of the Greenbrier resort in White The solidarity among union members strong labor and community support. cation Association voted to stage a half- Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where the GOP and between different unions is showing School bus operations for the city’s day walkout on Feb. 7, and will join the recently held its congressional retreat. the strength of the rank-and-file. public schools have been mostly shut Teamster drivers on their picket lines. down. Large numbers of drivers are “The bus drivers are who the kids see picketing at two First Student bus yards. first thing in the morning, so that kind Strategies for Dozens of Teamsters who drive recycling of sets the tone for how they come into trucks and other drivers have honked school. … We want to make sure that their solidarity while driving out of their they are healthy and have a secure re- workplace organizing yard at South Park in the mornings. tirement,” says SEA President Phyllis Local 174 members held a one-day strike Compano. (Seattle Weekly, Feb. 2) Sebre- By Workers World on Nov. 29. The drivers voted down by 85 na Burr, president of the Seattle Council NYC bureau percent First Student’s disrespectful con- Parent Teacher Student Association, as- tract offer in a packed meeting on Jan. 6. serts, “They can afford to pay health care A dynamic meet- The strike is protesting woefully inade- and retirement [benefits] for these peo- ing on workplace or- quate health care benefits and retirement ple and they’re choosing not to.” (click- ganizing took place plans. Only 7 percent of drivers — those lancashire.com, Feb. 3) Jan. 28, as members who work at least 30 hours weekly — Two school bus drivers’ union locals and friends of the qualify for the current health care plan, have passed resolutions supporting the New York branch of which is still expensive for them. First Seattle strikers and Teamsters Local 174. Workers World ­Party Student’s recent proposals offer no real They are the Boston School Bus Drivers, enjoyed a showing of improvement. United Steelworkers Local 8731 and the “Street Scenes/15.” This The company is the largest school bus San Francisco school bus drivers in the exciting 20-minute film WWW.FILMOURWAYFILMS.COM contractor in North America and oper- SMART Local 1741. documents the power­ ates 44,000 buses in 1,000 school dis- City Council members Kshama Sawant ful, multinational Fight for $15 and a going strike against media giant Spec- tricts with 50,500 employees. The Seat- and Teresa Mosqueda, as well as parents union movement in Boston during 2014- trum; racist Immigration and Customs tle School Board balked at paying $1.7 with their children, have joined the picket 16 (available at filmourwayfilms.com). Enforcement raids at job sites like the million more to cover health care for the lines. Supporters are bringing food, cof- A panel discussion afterwards featured 7-Eleven stores; and more. remaining drivers, as it is already paying fee, heat and solidarity to the strikers. filmmakers Bob Lamothe and Yvonne In addition to asking questions about Lamothe. Sue Davis, an editor of WW’s the film’s content, people raised re- “On the Picket Line” column, commented sourceful examples of how to get workers Labor support for Puerto Rico on trends in the labor movement, stating who are unemployed or underemployed, that workplace battles have been uplifted not in unions or not all in the same union and influenced by the Black Lives Matter to join together; how to assist coworkers Buffalo, N.Y. movement since the Ferguson uprising. in demanding their rights; and how to get An experienced incognito field organizer existing unions more active in communi- Members of the filled the audience in on how to expose ty issues. Puerto Rico Hurri- divisive, union-busting methods that Participants agreed that campaigns to cane María Relief bosses spend millions to perpetrate. Ad- raise the minimum wage must extend to Fund Committee ministrators of the social media project those excluded from the 1938 Fair Labor were at a Feb. 3, Labor Against Racist Terror encouraged Standards Act for the purpose of super Buffalo, N.Y., rally folks to spread the word about union and exploitation: people with disabilities, which called on the workplace efforts that oppose racism and prisoners, farm workers, domestic work- federal government white supremacy. ers, sex workers and tipped workers. to provide vital sup- Other struggles raised by the panel The consensus of everyone present port for Puerto Rico. The island is suffer- Federation, AFL-CIO and held at the Puer- included the People’s MTA, which fights was to hold monthly gatherings focused ing in the aftermath of the hurricane and to Rican community’s Belle Center. for 100 percent accessible transit, free of on workplace organizing that — like this — Report and photo by at the hands of predatory banks. The rally police harassment of riders and workers; one — combine culture, theory and prac- Workers World Buffalo bureau was called by the Western N.Y. Area Labor the heroic Florida prison strike; the on- tice, as we approach May Day 2018. workers.org Feb. 8, 2018 Page 5 Trump, the generals & the FBI

By Fred Goldstein What does this mean politically for the racy was supposed to bar the use of the re- ruling-class struggle over the FBI. The generals, the Pentagon and the masses? pressive apparatus by one political faction Mueller investigation into alleged Rus- A most remarkable and telling indicator It means Trump’s Wall Street appointees in the ruling class against its opponents. sian attempts to influence the elections of where the ruling class stands today on have just as much at stake as the generals The idea of the “independent” FBI is a false inquiry, as far as the exploited the question of war and peace is the wide- in protecting the president. and Justice Department meant that the classes are concerned. The very premise spread acceptance of the Trump admin- As of this moment, until Trump’s cri- White House was not supposed to com- of the investigation is calculated to sow istration’s open surrender of civilian con- sis becomes far more serious, the brass in municate with the FBI or the Justice De- anti-Russian chauvinism and war fever trol to the military. Three high-ranking the White House and beyond will defend partment except under rare circumstanc- among the population. It is meant to bol- generals are his close aides in the White him against the Mueller investigation. es. For example, when Bill Clinton met ster the military buildup, including nu- House: National Security Adviser H.R. They will defend his draconian, repres- with Obama’s attorney general, Loretta clear weapons. McMaster, Secretary of Defense James sive immigration policies. They will de- Lynch, on the tarmac of a Phoenix air- Trump is trying from the right to over- Mattis and Chief of Staff John Kelly. fend his playing with nuclear catastro- port in June 2016 — while Hillary Clinton turn all the rules regarding political inter- An axiom of imperialist democracy is phe in Korea. They will defend him from was under investigation for using a per- ference, influence and bourgeois legality civilian control over the military. This anything that undermines his hold on the sonal email account as secretary of state — not just in the Mueller investigation but has never been honored. The military has White House. — Lynch had to recuse herself from the in many spheres. Undocumented workers always been able to make its influence felt investigation. The automatic assumption are kidnapped off the streets by Immigra- in the White House. But this facade has Trump vs. the FBI was that Bill Clinton was trying to influ- tion and Customs Enforcement agents. always been maintained as a matter of For example, in Trump’s furious strug- ence Lynch in favor of Hillary Clinton. Torch-bearing Nazis and Klansmen in doctrine in order to sustain the fiction of gle against the FBI, the Justice Depart- Lynch’s recusal followed protocol. Charlottesville, Va., were praised as “good U.S. democracy. ment and much of the capitalist estab- people.” Trump openly rakes in profits And the capitalist media, instead of lishment, the brass stood with Trump. Trump and military vs. capitalist legality from his businesses while he is president sounding the alarm about the danger Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosen- The fact that Trump is on a crusade and refuses to submit his tax returns. posed by the military, have praised the stein and FBI Director Christopher Wray to violate bourgeois legality is a matter Trump violates nuclear treaties by generals as “the adults in the room” who went to appeal to the White House to stop of concern to the workers and the op- commissioning new weapons. He uni- will restrain Trump. the release of an anti-FBI, anti-Mueller pressed. Trump’s crusade is open. The laterally pulls out of the Paris Climate The ruling class has been silent about memo drawn up by House Intelligence military has its own hatred and contempt Accord. He threatens to tear up the Iran Trump’s State of the Union speech. He Committee Chair Devin Nunes. The for bourgeois democracy — which can Treaty, which was signed by four imperi- attacked China and Russia as adversaries memo was designed to protect Trump stand in their way of launching war and alist countries plus Russia and China. His and promised to reverse the decades-long from Mueller’s investigation into his re- aggression — but they are quiet and act mode of operation is to overstep bour- policy of weapons limitation with a gi- lations with Russia. Gen. Kelly met with behind the scenes. geois norms and violate bourgeois legali- gantic nuclear weapons buildup to come. the two officials and turned them down, Our concern, of course, has nothing to ty in the interest of political reaction. Plans for “modernization” of the nuclear telling the public that the President wants do with defending the FBI or the Justice The only way to stop the anti-working- arsenal, begun at the end of the Obama the memo out “pretty quick.” Department. It is that Trump and the class lawlessness of Trump and his gen- administration, have been greatly ex- The chief executive of U.S. imperial- generals’ contempt for bourgeois legality, erals and bankers in the White House is panded by Trump. ism, with the consent of his entire admin- custom and protocol has been, and will to mobilize the masses in the streets for istration, together with the Republican be, turned against the masses, as exem- militant resistance. A place to start would Military as a Trump defender Party leadership in the House of Repre- plified by the open attempt to ban Mus- be a massive anti-war struggle demanding With Donald Trump, the military has sentatives, are in a campaign to discredit lims from immigrating to the U.S. “Hands Off Korea” and saying “NO to the attained a goal that it sought for years: the FBI as being partisan against Trump The workers and all the oppressed nuclear buildup,” which Trump and his a major share of political control at the and part of a “deep state” conspiracy. need to know what’s happening in the military handlers have put on the agenda. center of the capitalist government. This How should this fight between Trump occupation of the White House by the and the FBI be viewed? military brass is particularly dangerous The White House, the chief purveyor of as the Trump administration lays plans violence, war and reaction on the planet, Read this book! for a military attack on the Democratic is at war with the FBI. But the FBI is the People’s Republic of Korea. supreme capitalist institution of repres- The achievement of this long-sought sion and persecution. It is now operating ‘Generals Over the White House’ goal of the Pentagon has more than in 70 countries. It is the implacable en- just military implications. The three emy of the radical movement, liberation “Generals Over the White ian measures. Nothing escapes high-ranking generals in the White organizations and all the oppressed, House” is a book that should their long, grasping reach.” House have political input on both mili- as well as the unions and other work- be read and reread. It was Marcy describes how the tary and domestic policy. These generals ing-class organizations. It has persecuted written in 1980 by the late military drains the resources of — and the entire military — need Trump. communists, socialists, anarchists, Black Sam Marcy, who founded society and contributes to the They can count on his bellicose, bellig- liberation organizations, civil rights or- Workers World Party in 1959. physical decay of the infrastruc- erent bluster to give them cover for their ganizations and anti-war activists ever Its main subject is the take- ture and the intensification of aggressive, expansionary military plans. since its inception after WWI. The FBI over of the Carter administra- the poverty of the masses. He Furthermore, he is the one who let them and the Pentagon are twin enemies of the tion by the military at the end dwells on the economic crisis of in the door and enabled them. workers and oppressed worldwide. of the 1970s. But this history capitalism and how it contrib- Trump gave them more troops for the But the more Trump tries to discredit is only part of its value. utes to the advance of capitalist battlefields in Afghanistan, Iraq and Af- the FBI and the Justice Department, the The book’s greatest value militarism and the military. rica; more authority to carry out military more he is accused of violating the “in- lies in its Marxist analysis of the military Marcy’s book, written in 1980, could operations without oversight; full au- dependence of the FBI and the Justice in relation to the civilian government not be more timely. thority to launch drone strikes without Department.” — and this sheds piercing light on the At this moment, Trump has opened the having to check with Washington. Above Trump administration today. door wide to the military in the executive all, he promised them a vast increase in Post-Watergate rules and protocols Marcy shows how, under capitalism, branch. He is threatening war against the military budget and authorized a $1.2 Why is it that the Trump administra- the military never stops striving to take the Democratic People’s Republic of Ko- trillion nuclear buildup. He has been the tion and the Republican Party are be- over the capitalist government and has rea and plans a nuclear military buildup arms salesman in chief, making $110 bil- ing condemned by the anti-Trump press contempt for capitalist democracy, which against Russia and China. lion in deals for arms to Saudi Arabia. and the Democratic Party for violating stands in its way of carrying out the most The U.S. capitalist establishment is This dangerous escalation of milita- long-standing protocols against presi- aggressive military policies. praising the generals in the administra- rism has gone largely uncriticized in the dential meddling in the Justice Depart- For example, Marcy wrote: tion as “the adults in the room.” Mean- capitalist media. ment and the FBI? Indeed, the Demo- “The difference between civilian and while, Trump and the generals are trying The billionaires and bankers in the cratic Party has become the staunchest military control does not derive from to destroy capitalist legality. U.S. Immi- administration and beyond need Trump. defender of this reactionary spy agency, any fundamental class difference. Both gration and Customs Enforcement is kid- They thrive off his tax cuts, the destruc- the political police of the ruling class. the civilian and the military wings of napping undocumented workers in their tion of corporate and environmental reg- First of all, we must understand what the capitalist government are securely homes, at their jobs and on the streets. ulations, the giveaways of public lands the corporate media and politicians in the hands of the ruling class. There is, Muslims are being banned from the U.S. and the sea coasts to big oil, and the de- mean by an “independent” FBI and Jus- however, a basic difference in this very Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan are being struction of regulatory agencies. Gary tice Department. important respect: the more the mili- praised as “good people.” Cohen of Goldman Sachs, head of the During the Watergate crisis, Richard tary encroaches, the more it erodes every Understanding the relationship of the National Economic Council; Treasury Nixon tried to use elements of the CIA conceivable element of what remains of military to all this is crucial. And “Gener- Secretary Steven Mnuchin of Goldman and the FBI against the Democratic Party bourgeois democracy. als Over the White House” is invaluable in Sachs; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and, in general, against his political op- “The military in the imperialist epoch deepening our understanding of yesterday former CEO of ExxonMobil; and Com- ponents. This led to a strong movement organically tends in an anti-democrat- and today from a Marxist point of view. merce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a billion- in the ruling class and the political es- ic, totalitarian, if not fascist direction. —Fred Goldstein aire financier and buyout king — all have tablishment to prevent the use of the spy Wherever the military lays its hands, the You can read “Generals Over the circled around Trump to ward off any agencies against a president’s political en- more it invests its field of operations with White House” free and online at tinyurl. threats to his presidency. emies. To make it plain, capitalist democ- repressive, anti-democratic and totalitar- com/ybsk562f/ Page 6 Feb. 8 2018 workers.org CELEBRATE BLACK LIBERATION MONTH African Americans reject imperialism PART 1 Black Liberation and the Vietnamese struggle

By Abayomi Azikiwe led by Marcus Garvey to Northern, Midwest- The Vietnamese Revolution Editor, Pan-African News Wire known as the Univer- ern and Western cities, and challenges to imperialism sal Negro Improvement becoming a social force During the height of the genocidal war Association and African in the struggle for free- Ho Chi Minh left the U.S. and trav- waged by the United States against the Communities League, dom and democratic eled to other parts of the world including people of Vietnam during the 1960s and headquartered in New rights whose impact ­Europe. In 1930, the Indochinese Com- early 1970s, African Americans were in- York City at its zenith in extended beyond their munist Party was formed, encompassing volved in a life-and-death campaign in the the early 1920s. own population. revolutionaries from Vietnam, Laos and U.S. aimed at reclaiming their national Ho reflected on his This same pamphlet Cambodia who were battling French co- identity, human rights and racial dignity. observations conduct- emphasized the signif- lonialism. Later Vietnam was occupied by January 30 was the 50th anniversary of ed just six decades af- icance of this transfor- both France and Japan. the Tet Offensive that shook the founda- ter the conclusion of mation: “The victory The struggle for national liberation and tions of the U.S. war strategy in Vietnam. the U.S. Civil War and of the federal govern- unity consequently took on an interna- In a surprise move, the forces of the Na- the legal dissolution of ment had just freed tional character. After the defeat of Japan, tional Liberation Front and the People’s chattel slavery, in a pe- the Negroes and made the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was Army of Vietnam attacked more than 100 riod of extreme state them citizens. The ag- proclaimed in December 1945, prompt- cities and towns across the country. repression, widespread riculture of the South, ing another guerrilla war against French The U.S. anti-war movement during this institutional racism and deprived of its Black la- ­imperialism. period is often portrayed as led by white arbitrary violence, in a bor, was short of hands. By 1954, France had been humiliated at university students who had left-wing po- 1924 pamphlet entitled Former landlords were the battle of Dien Bien Phu. Ho Chi Minh litical leanings, with African Americans ”On Lynching and the exposed to ruin. The had become a hero in the international being almost exclusively preoccupied with Ku Klux Klan.” The work documents var- Klansmen proclaimed the principle of the movement for independence and socialism. Civil Rights and Black Power demands ious aspects of social conditions prevail- supremacy of the white race. Anti-Negro However, U.S. imperialism took over within a domestic framework. ing in African-American communities was their only policy. the war of domination from France, and The reality of the period proves to be throughout the U.S. “The agrarian and slaveholding bour- by the early 1960s President John F. Ken- quite the contrary. From the early 1960s, geoisie saw in the Klan a useful agent, al- nedy was deploying “advisors” in the form ‘The Black race is most oppressed’ leading figures in the Civil Rights and most a savior. They gave it all the help in of military personnel to South Vietnam, Black nationalists movements expressed Ho Chi Minh noted in this important their power. The Klan’s methods ranged which was under U.S. occupation. The their opposition to the U.S. role in Vietnam. work: “It is well-known that the Black from intimidation to murder. The Klan is U.S. refused to allow free elections and The most advanced elements offered race is the most oppressed and the most for many reasons doomed to disappear. the war continued. concrete acts of solidarity with the Dem- exploited of the human family. It is well- The Negroes, having learned during the African-American opposition to the ocratic Republic of Vietnam in the North known that the spread of capitalism and war that they are a force if united, are no Vietnam War and solidarity with the NLF and the National Liberation Front operat- the discovery of the New World had as an longer allowing their kinsmen to be beat- and the government in Hanoi were embod- ing in the Pentagon-occupied South. immediate result the rebirth of slavery. en or murdered with impunity. They are ied by Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El-Shaba- Both Vietnamese and the African- What everyone does not perhaps know replying to each attempt at violence by zz) and the Nation of Islam (NOI). They American people were subjected to im- is that after 65 years of so-called eman- the Klan. had been against U.S. involvement in Viet- perialism and national oppression by an cipation, American Negroes still endure “In July 1919, in Washington, they nam since the early 1960s. enemy that sought to crush their respec- atrocious moral and material sufferings, stood up to the Klan and a wild mob. The After leaving the NOI, Malcolm X ad- tive entitlements to peace, social justice, of which the most cruel and horrible is battle raged in the capital for four days. In opted a decisively revolutionary position self-determination and sovereignty. the custom of lynching.” August, they fought for five days against related to world revolution and spoke Dating back to at least 1924, the man Ho chronicles the history of racial ter- the Klan and the mob in Chicago. Seven frequently of solidarity with the People’s who became known as Ho Chi Minh ror against African people from the end of regiments were mobilized to restore or- Republic of China and the Vietnamese (Nguyen Ai Quoc) had lived in upper the war between the states over the future der. In September the government was Revolution. Manhattan as an activist among the Afri- of slavery to the burgeoning resistance of obliged to send federal troops to Omaha Next: The rising tide of the Black can-American community during the pe- the people following World War I. to put down similar strife. In various oth- Liberation Movement and international riod known as the Harlem Renaissance. During the war and afterward, Afri- er states the Negroes defend themselves struggles for national liberation and Ho had worked with the organization can Americans migrated in the millions no less energetically.” socialism. ‘DO IT LIKE DURHAM’: Takiyah Thompson speaks on toppling white supremacy

By Workers World Boston bureau Mahtowin Munro of the United Ameri- centuries, so it is especially meaningful vard University, in UNITE HERE Local can Indians of New England talked about when we are united in tearing down these 26 and Service Employees Union 32BJ, “Do It Like Durham!, Workers Soli- the struggle to abolish Columbus Day and hated symbols.’” were welcomed with cheers when they darity — Tear Down White Supremacy” celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead: Christine Renee of the WWP Trans spoke of their organizing to defend tem- was the theme of a Workers World Par- “When we go into [City Council] hearings Caucus and Stonewall Warriors told the porary protected status for immigrants ty forum in Boston on Jan. 27. The Black to talk about why we need to get rid of Co- audience: “Right now, the legal status and and elevate TPS to permanent residen- History Month event brought together lumbus Day, we are told by bigots … that livelihoods of over 300,000 people from cy. Andre Francois, president of United working-class organizers who are chal- we were cannibals and that Columbus Haiti, Honduras and El Salvador are cur- Steelworkers Local 8751, representing lenging and toppling the racist, sexist, brought civilization to us. When we talk rently at risk. Just today there was a rally Boston and Randolph school bus drivers, anti-transgendered ideas and institu- about genocide, they say that we all died for Siham Byah, a local activist who was also spoke. (See “Bus drivers’ leader on tions of capitalism. off from diseases as though untold num- deported last month to Morocco. Also at Trump’s attack on Haitians,” WW, Feb. 1.) Featured speaker was Takiyah Thomp- bers of massacres never occurred. risk now are the livelihoods of transgen- Tonight’s meeting was chaired by Ha- son, a Durham, N.C., freedom fighter who, “And they say, ‘Why don’t you people der people here in Massachusetts. zel of the WWP Trans Caucus. Delicious along with their comrades, tore down a get over it?’ To which we respond: “Three weeks ago, in North Adams, home-cooked Haitian food was provided racist Confederate statue in that city on “‘We can’t get over something that Mass., Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien by Chantal Casimir of USW Local 8751. Aug. 14. Thompson spoke about the deci- you remind us of every single day, with was killed by her husband. This marks the sion to act and the need felt for concrete your white supremacist holidays, settler beginning of yet another year stained with BOSTON action to underscore that anti-racist ac- whitewashing of our experiences and anti-trans violence. Last year was report- tivist Heather Heyer‘s death at the hands history, and physical manifestations of ed by many news outlets to be the dead- of Nazis and KKK members in Charlottes- our oppression. We can’t get over some- liest year to be transgender on record, ville, Va., two days before was not in vain. thing that continues to impact our lives with about 28 trans people being killed. Thompson described the toppling and through oppression and intergeneration- The culprit behind the struggles of im/mi- the reverberations across the country, as al trauma. We can’t get over the fact that grant and transgender in America is the more racist statues were taken down in this racist garbage continues to be forced exploitative capitalist system.” following months. on our children as history. Describing the discrimination she Thompson told the crowd the move- “‘So we seek to tear down the symbols faces as a young person with disabilities ment that started in Durham will not stop of Columbus, just as Takiyah Thompson searching for a job, Kristin Turgeon of until all charges against Durham activists and so many others are tearing down the WWP called on people to fight the dead- are dropped, all monuments to racism hated symbols of the slavocracy. As In- end system of capitalism that oppresses have been removed, and white supremacy digenous and Black people, our struggles all poor and working people. has been destroyed. and lives are linked, as they have been for Two Latinx union leaders from Har- workers.org Feb. 8, 2018 Page 7 CELEBRATE BLACK LIBERATION MONTH WW COMMENTARY PART 1 Civil Rights hero Ruby Sales and white supremacy

By Mikisa Thompson the steps of a convenience store, having Sales said, “White suprem- Durham, N.C. been released from jail that same day. acy is a death sentence for the Daniels died from the shotgun blast fired oppressor and the oppressed. It For Black History Month, I would like by a county deputy sheriff. The deputy creates unnecessary fear.” This to introduce or reintroduce you to Ruby sheriff was later acquitted. instilled an “aha” moment for me. Nell Sales. Born July 8, 1948, in Jemison, At the sham trial, Daniels was vilified The pseudoscience of white su- Ala., Ruby Sales is the founder and direc- for reading “Communist literature while premacy is derived from eugen-

tor of the Spirit House Project. She is one in jail and for wearing colored under- ics, which in 1883 was given the WW PHOTO: TAKIYAH THOMPSON of 50 African Americans to be spotlighted wear.” Despite receiving death threats, racist definition of “improvement Ruby Sales (left) and Mikisa Thompson, Durham, N.C., in the new Smithsonian National Muse- 17-year-old Sales stood her ground and of the human race germplasm Feb. 1. um of African American History and Cul- faced her oppressors, testifying in the through better breeding.” Geno- In November 2017, I attended the Work- ture in Washington, D.C. face of many racists and white suprema- cide was, and is still, allowed due to a be- ers World Party National Conference in I met Ruby Sales for the first time when cists. She stood in the long line of Black lief in eugenics — and fear. (DNA Science Newark, N.J. The conference was held to she spoke at a Feb. 1 forum with commu- women speaking out against injustice, Blog, Sept. 21, 2017) “Chart Our Next Steps in the Struggle to nity leaders and activists in Durham. Lat- like Mrs. Recy Taylor in Alabama in 1944 In the U.S., an early legal upholding of Smash White Supremacy, Capitalism, Im- er, she spoke at North Carolina Central and Erica Garner in New York in 2014. eugenics came in 1927, relating to Carrie perialism — Fight for Socialism!” University, a historically Black university. Sales has said of Daniels: “He was the Buck. As the blog noted, Carrie Buck had Sales was a reminder to me to keep this Sales’ visit for Black History Month was first white person who had said to me that been sterilized because her own child, fight going into 2018. “Movement is pain- sponsored by many local organizations. I had pretty hair. It did take me aback a her mother and Carrie were all said to be ful, and it is continual,” said Sales. As a teenager in 1965, Ruby Sales par- bit. Not that I didn’t think my hair was “feeble-minded.” Supreme Court Justice Revolution is a daily call to action. Ag- ticipated in the Selma-to-Montgomery pretty. I had grown up being told that by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in the itations that help to decimate the racist march, answering a call put out by the other Black people. But I had never heard ruling against them: “Three generations counterrevolution are essential to our Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other a white person say it. In some real ways, of imbeciles are enough.” movement. Your call to action is to smash organizers. Later that year, during orga- he was the first person I’d heard who said Fear makes it easy to create a system capitalism and smash nationalism. Sales nizing for the Black Civil Rights move- Black was beautiful, the first white per- that systemically kills. Either you are lit- said: “It creates the king’s foot soldiers.” ment, Sales and activist Jonathan Myrick son.” (Howard Mansfield, “The Move- erally killed by police because of the fear Nationalism is the tool used by white Daniels were jailed for trying to register ment’s Unheralded Hero,” Washington Black skin has been said to create. Or you supremacists to create Immigration and voters in the Lowndes County town of Post, Nov. 6, 1990) are killed by many other forms of geno- Customs Enforcement internment camps. Hayneville, Ala. During the forum talk, Sales touched cide, such as being penalized for being Checkpoints to verify citizenship, as well Daniels pulled Sales out of the way and on many topics, but what stood out to me poor. Or your people are being bombard- as the denaturalization of citizenship are took a bullet that was meant to kill her on was white supremacy. ed with billboards in disenfranchised, byproducts of white nationalism. For in- redlined and gerry- stance, this January an Indian-born man, mandered neighbor­ Baljinder Singh, was the first person ever hoods that promote to be stripped of his American natural- abortions for Black ization status under a new ICE initiative, and Brown women. Operation Janus. This is in stark con- We all must continue to agitate for the trast to what is found eradication of ICE. When we do this, we are in white neighbor- in turn against white nationalism, white hoods where the supremacy and the vile wheels of capi­tal­ billboards tell you to ism that do not benefit us as workers. find an alternative to We cannot and must not go back. Fear ­abortions. can only lead us to death.

‘DO IT LIKE DURHAM’: Takiyah Thompson speaks on toppling white supremacy

By Kaitlyn Griffith Dani Boachie from WWP (far left). All the WW PHOTO: KAITLYN GRIFFITH Chicago speakers focused on the need to build a CHICAGO .. movement to fight white supremacy and try’s shores together. Takiyah Thompson, a member of Work- the system that fosters it. No one can have a ers World Party in Durham, N.C., and a Thompson noted the necessity of a more pointed criti­que student at North Carolina Central Univer- “sustained effort to build a movement of capitalism in this sity, spoke to over 70 people on Feb. 3 at and protect those who were arrested” as country than its first the United Electrical Workers hall in Chi- a result of the people’s Aug. 14 remov- exploited workers.” cago about resistance to white supremacy al of the Confederate statue in Durham. The program ended and toppling its monuments. The event Thompson was the first person arrested. with Takiyah’s moth- was sponsored by WWP, Black Youth Proj- Several hundred people turned them- er, Mikisa Thompson, ect 100 and Black Lives Matter Chicago. selves in at the sheriff’s office the day af- reciting a poem she Thompson participated on a panel with ter the arrests, saying they too opposed had written for her Inez White from BYP 100 (second from white supremacy. They showed up again daughter. right), Maria from BLM (far right) and to fight back against the Ku Klux Klan, who tried but failed to march through PHOTO: ALLEN RUFF Durham a couple days later. MADISON, WIS. . While felony charges against the Durham arrestees have been dropped, By Workers World they still face misdemeanor charges and Madison bureau need solidarity. “I don’t need more allies. I The Madison, Wis., branch of Workers statues which dotted the landscape until need comrades,” Thompson told the crowd. World Party hosted Takiyah Thompson recently. The speaker referred to “institu- When asked what should be done on Feb. 4 as part of their national speak- tional, political and economic legacies,” with the torn-down statues, Thompson ing tour for Black Liberation Month. such as mass incarceration and severe replied: “Melt them down into urinals. Thompson is one of the freedom fighters income disparities between different ra- That’s an important first step. Then re- who led the people’s removal of a Confed- cial groups in the U.S. Attendees includ- place them with something that uplifts erate statue in Durham, N.C., on Aug. 14. ed community residents, supporters of the community [the racist statues] were Thompson spoke about the connec- the broad-based Wisconsin Bail Out the meant to oppress.” tion between the symbolic dimensions People Movement (WIBOPM) and Work- Thompson further explained: “Racism of white supremacy, exemplified by the ers World Party members from Madison,

WW PHOTO: STEVAN KIRSCHBAUM and capitalism washed up on this coun- Durham statue and other Confederate Chicago and Milwaukee. Page 8 Feb. 8 2018 workers.org Ecuador at the crossroads

By Michael Otto power brokers. resigned as presidential secretary after extremely critical of Moreno’s alliance Quito, Ecuador Not only Moreno, but the banks, the his taped words went viral, saying that with the bankers. oligarchy, the privately owned media, the Moreno made secret deals with an oppo- Dominant capitalist relations on the Feb. 4 — The air was almost festive imperialists and some 40 social organi- sition party prior to the election. continent, however, were fundamentally this balmy morning in Quito when Zoila zations, including the unions, which rep- Moreno even invited the FBI sever- unchanged, leaving capitalists in control Ramírez went out to vote against a sev- resent 4 percent of the working class, the al days ago to investigate a bomb attack of most industry, banking and media. en-point referendum that would decide Socialist Party and the Comunist Party in Esmeraldas Province. A free trade In Ecuador, unions and social organiza- if Ecuador moves further away from Ecuatoriano — which is being denounced agreement with the U.S. is in the works. tions, including some infiltrated by the its “Citizens’ Revolution” led by former by Ecuador’s original CPE for its oppor- Moreno is allied with bankers deter- CIA, fell into conflict with Correa. The President Rafael Correa. All was calm tunism — supported the “Yes” vote on the mined to maintain “dollarization” at all lack of mass organizing for struggle and as the current President Lenín Moreno’s referendum. The only social organization costs. Moreno calmed the bankers’ fears weaknesses on the national question re- call for a “Yes” vote prevailed by 64 to 36 supporting the “No” was the National by putting the private banks in charge of garding Indigenous nations became Cor- percent, according to CNE, the National Women’s Forum, which was prevented electronic money. The paranoid bankers’ rea’s Achilles heel. Electoral Council. from running their video spots on TV. nightmare was that electronic money Though Ecuador is an incredibly beau- The “Yes” vote prevents Correa, who That 36 percent of the people ques- would end Ecuador’s use of U.S. currency. tiful country, one never knows when the was president from 2007 to 2017, from tioned the official discourse and voted Moreno has usurped dictatorial con- next big earthquake will shake it up, like running for president again in 2021. This “No” on the crucial unconstitutional trol of the state, and only a mass struggle the one that struck the coast on April 16, is important because despite the setback referendum question #3, which was de- will reverse the counterrevolution. Vot- 2016. on the referendum, Correa remains the signed to grant dictatorial powers to the ing or passive support for the old Cor- Zoila Ramírez is proud of Correa’s single most popular political leader in new president, was still significant. reistas won’t change things. Correa told powerful response to that earthquake, Ecuador. He is identified with the gains Nevertheless, there are fears that the TeleSUR in the Feb. 4 interview that the which took hundreds of lives. Ramírez of the Citizens’ Revolution, which led to regime will prevent Correa from return- youth must carry on the struggle. returned with this writer to the country social and economic advances for the ing home and that he will join former of her birth in 2015, after many years masses. Vice President Jorge Glas as a political Correa’s history in New York, because she admired what Correa, who led a popular, month-long prisoner. Glas was convicted in Decem- More than 2 million people emigrat- economist Rafael Correa and his Alianza caravan through Ecuador starting Jan. 7 ber on alleged corruption charges. Many ed after Ecuador’s dependent neoliberal PAIS movement had accomplished in 10 that contested Moreno and the referen- people consider this a legal lynching in economy collapsed in the late 1990s. Their years. Zoila never doubted that Ecuador’s dum, tried to rally his supporters after this land of 16.4 million people, similar remittances saved thousands of families commitment to bettering the lives of its the vote. He tweeted, “Congratulations to the “soft coup” or “lawfare” which the from destitution. The political upheaval people would change. to all of our militants. No movement by oligarchy and imperialists used against from that disaster sparked the Citizens’ itself can achieve the 36 percent that we Lula da Silva this year and Dilma Rous- Revolution that united the people and ul- Moreno’s treachery achieved, even more unlikely in so little seff in 2016 in Brazil. A setback for the timately put Correa in office in 2007. But things did change for the worse. time and in such an unequal struggle. left in Ecuador will have consequences Correa was also swept into power by Engineer Jorge Glas, who had managed The struggle continues. ... Ever forward for all of Latin America. the so-called “pink tide” of popular upris- the earthquake reconstruction as vice to victory.” The popular ex-president of Uruguay, ings against military dictatorships in Lat- president under Correa, campaigned suc- Correa was emphatic in a TeleSUR José “Pepe” Mujica, worries that the peo- in America and the neoliberal Washing- cessfully to win the coast population. But interview after the vote that he’s not in- ple of Ecuador are too quiet. ton Consensus at the turn of the century. people on the coast rewarded the party of terested in running again and that he Rafael Correa is compared favorably Rafael Correa for coming to their aid by only returned to campaign for “NO” on Moreno turns to the right with the great President Eloy Alfaro. who supporting Moreno in the second round crucial question #3. That allows Moreno After running as the candidate of introduced progressive changes in the of a close presidential election. to replace the 10 constitutionally elect- Alianza PAIS, Correa’s party, and win- early 20th century that benefitted Indig- For his efforts, Glas was rewarded with ed members of the powerful Council for ning a narrow victory over banker Guill- enous, women and poor citizens at the a six-year prison term. He was framed in Citizen Participation and Social Control ermo Lasso, Moreno abandoned his cam- expense of the oligarchs and the church. the Supreme Court and convicted with- (CPCCS) and through the CPCCS to re- paign promises and adopted the program After Correa was elected, the Alianza out proof by an amazing constellation of place another 150 state officials in what of the right wing starting in March. PAIS movement founded a new constitu- retrograde forces. The president of the amounts to a dictatorial power grab. The Now Correa denounces Moreno as a tional order in 2008 with the framing of National Assemby and 44 National As- CPCCS was established to institutional- professional impostor, a liar and a traitor. the Constitution of Montecristi. During sembly members from Glas’s own party, ize the appointment of state officials and Moreno’s circle includes Jaime Durán Correa’s presidency, the rule of law was members of the opposition and the en- empower citizens to participate in their Barba, who also advises right-wing Ar- established, the infrastructure was de- tire “judicial” system of prosecutors and nomination, which had historically been gentine President Mauricio Macri in the veloped, and education and health care judges have magically fallen into line a matter of dividing the spoils between art of dirty politics. Eduardo Mangas were expanded. Government policies lift- behind Moreno and the media, public as ed 2 million people out of poverty during well as private. a period when oil prices were high. The Jorge Glas is the scapegoat, but he is Correa government refused to make the also a whistleblower who had to be si- New York protest says people pay for the crisis of capitalism lenced after he exposed a corrupt deal with austerity and made Ecuadorians that Moreno made with disgraced former proud of their country. President Abdalá Bucaram. ‘Puerto Rico is not for sale!’ In the following years, Ecuador put Moreno has betrayed not only his par- an end to neoliberal relations with the ty, but those who voted for him. After his United States. Correa expelled the World inauguration eight months ago, Moreno Bank representative, renegotiated the halted the quake reconstruction process foreign debt, and established trade and and diverted $300 million of designat- financial relations with China. Correa’s ed aid to the general budget, explaining government reversed the terms of oil that the funds were “idle.” Moreno has contracts with multinational corpora- used the judiciary against his political tions so that 80 percent of revenues now enemies in a superficial anti-corruption benefit the country. campaign, which is apparently designed In an important move, the contract first to destroy Correa and second to roll for the U.S. military base in Manta was back the Citizens Revolution. not renewed in July 2009. Friendly re- Moreno was caught on video joking in lations were established with Fidel Cas- a “dialogue” with bankers. The big-wig tro, Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales, along sitting next to him observed that Moreno with membership in CELAC (the Com- would have to start supporting the presi- munity of Latin American and Caribbean dent he once hated. Moreno replied that he States) and UNASUR (the Union of South would have to start hating his supporters. American Nations). Many Ecuadorians in Zoila now reflects, “I would think twice Puerto Ricans and supporters held an When protesters and journalists de- North America and especially in Europe or even three times before coming back early-morning militant protest Feb. 1 at manded entrance to the Junta meeting, appreciated the support they got from under these conditions.” She voted “No” the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom they were met with brutal treatment by Correa’s government, and they are now — seven times “No”! House in lower Manhattan. armed, white supremacist Department They were there to confront the U.S.- of Homeland Security goons. Neverthe- Capitalism at a Dead End colonialist-appointed Financial Over- less, the bankers and other members of Job destruction, overproduction sight Board (“La Junta”) which was the board were forced to run a gauntlet of and crisis in the high-tech era meeting to plot the further privatization angry protesters chanting “U.S.A., out of Fred Goldstein of Puerto Rico’s utilities and resources in Puerto Rico!” the wake of last September’s Hurricane Organized by A Call for Puerto Rico, High Tech, Low Pay Sam Marcy María. The Puerto Rican people also the action was supported by many com- with an updated introduction by Fred Goldstein continue to suffer from a genocidal lack munity, labor and left organizations. Both free online at workers.org. of disaster relief from the Trump regime. — Report and photo by Greg Butterfield Available at all major online booksellers. workers.org Feb. 8, 2018 Page 9 Close Guantanamo naval base– U.S. OUT!

By Cheryl LaBash 1927 U.S. Navy museum photo cap- tained an ongoing presence since 1898. tures of the vastness of Guantána- The U.S. intervened militarily after the The U.S. has occupied part of Cuba mo Bay. The photo shows a U.S. Cuban people already had been fighting for over 115 years. On Feb. 23, 1903, fleet at anchor where the U.S. naval for independence from Spain for 30 years the U.S. coerced Cuba into signing a base sits, astride the entrance to and were near victory. lease agreement ceding land in east- the huge bay, blocking Cuban ac- Then Cubans were excluded from the ern Cuba for the U.S. Guantanamo cess to the sea and to the best fish- Dec. 10, 1898, Treaty of Paris, in which naval base called GTMO. ing areas in the bay itself. Spain relinquished Cuba, Guam, Puerto The naval base still sits astride, More than 200,000 people live Rico and the Philippines to the U.S. dominates and restricts entry to in Guantánamo, the capital city of Cuban independence was finally won ­Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay. Guantánamo province. Since 1959, on Jan. 1, 1959, when the U.S.-backed Now the Coalition to Close U.S. the Cuban revolution has protect- Batista dictatorship fled Havana and Foreign Bases has unanimously ed the Cuban people living close the July 26 Movement triumphed. Led called for the U.S. to return that land to the base from the predation by Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Che Gue- to Cuba. At its Jan. 12-14 Baltimore con- tanamo naval base. Since that time, an and exploitation feared and experienced vara, Camilo Cienfuegos, Vilma Espín, ference, CCUSFB adopted a resolution for outcry has exposed the inhuman and il- by communities near U.S. foreign bases Celia Sánchez, Haydee Santamaría and days of action on or around Feb. 23 to end legal conditions, including force feedings in countries still allied with U.S. impe- a host of other revolutionary heroes, they the U.S. occupation. dramatized by well-known rap recording rialism. In a 37-minute documentary, birthed a Cuba on the path to the better This important call is the first time in artist and actor Mos Def, now Yasiin Bey, “All Guantánamo Is Ours,” filmmaker socialist world we know is possible. recent memory that an organization out- who endured such torture on video to in- Hernando Calvo Ospina uses historical The U.S. military and capitalist ruling side the Cuba solidarity movement has form the world. photos and testimony to demonstrate the class continue their attempt to dominate called for a united action defending Cu- But this movement against the GTMO conditions before the socialist revolution. the Caribbean, Latin America and the ban sovereignty. prison has failed to make a demand that (youtube.com/watch?v=XKEs4mE7INs) world through blockades, sanctions and The 1903 agreement, renewed in 1934, would prevent the imperialist monster Yet the corporate U.S. news media ignore threats of nuclear war. Cuba continues granted U.S. domination over the area of from desecrating Cuban territory with the people of Guantánamo. to show the way forward through unity the Guantanamo naval base without an anti-human actions that would never be and solidarity with the workers and op- end date. The agreement requires both allowed on territory under Cuban sover- U.S. interrupts Cuba’s fight pressed of the world. parties to agree to end the lease agree- eignty. The demand should be to return for independence U.S. out of Guantánamo! ment, according to material produced Guantanamo to the Cuban people, the In June 1898, U.S. troops landed at End the genocidal U.S. blockade by MOVPAZ (the Cuban Movement for rightful owners, where it can never again Guantánamo Bay. Although the U.S. na- of Cuba! Peace and Sovereignty of Peoples). be used for such a purpose. val base was leased in 1903, according End all U.S. travel restrictions Since the 1959 revolution established According to the 2018 State of the to Cuban historians, the U.S. has main- and regime change programs! Cuban sovereignty and self-determi- Union address, the current U.S. pres- nation, the Cuban government has de- ident seeks to expand the U.S. use of manded that the U.S. vacate its illegally GTMO. Everyone concerned about Cleveland held naval base and return control of that U.S. crimes should demand: U.S. out of land to Cuba. The U.S. has issued lease Guantánamo, now! payments — now $4,085 per year — but Partial victory against these pile up, uncashed by Cuba, except Guantanamo, more than a prison for the first one before the revolutionary The 45 square miles occupied by U.S. government was fully consolidated. The Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (the racist sports symbol Cuban position is clear: “All Guantánamo base’s official name) is less than 0.2 is ours.” percent of Cuba’s 2,389-square-mile By Susan Schnur Seventeen years ago, on Jan. 11, 2001, Guantánamo province. The bay itself is Cleveland a notorious special torture prison for U.S. 12 miles long and six miles across. detainees was placed in the U.S. Guan- But more than these numbers is what a After decades of struggle, the hated racist symbol of Cleveland’s profession- al baseball team will finally be removed from uniforms, caps and promotional ma- terials. The team and Major League Base- IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH – ball announced on Jan. 29 that the racist mascot will be eliminated in 2019, but the bigoted name of the team will remain. support WW Leaders of this struggle consider this a partial but important victory. Why is there a one-year delay? It is probably a business Fighting racism in February 2018, neo-Nazi, KKK rampage in Charlottes- decision to make money so merchandise Black History Month, means starting ville, Va., that injured dozens and killed a can be sold to the hardcore racists who at the top and denouncing the openly rac- courageous anti-racist protester. miss the “good old days” of white suprem- ist, white supremacist in the White WW bases our weekly coverage of the acy and genocidal theft of Native land. House. It means opposing and exposing ongoing Black struggle here and our cov- The first demonstration to ban the the bigot in chief’s racist policies, like erage of the struggles in Africa to throw caricature was held in 1971. The size ramping up Immigration and Customs off imperialist chains on the principle of and militancy of opening day actions in Enforcement raids on 7-Eleven stores all self-determination: that oppressed peo- Cleveland grew after 1991, with the for- around the country and deporting Hai- ple have the right to fight to end all forms mation of the Committee of 500 Years of tian and Salvadoran workers after slan- of inequality and injustice — by any Dignity and Resistance. dering them and the entire African conti- means necessary. At the 1997 World Series, Vernon Bel- nent in vulgar terms. If you appreciate such coverage, it’s lecourt, a leader of the American Indian Workers World makes a big deal of time to join the Workers World Support- Movement and president of the National One of many ongoing protests against the Black History Month because racism per- er Program. We established it in 1977 so Coalition on Racism in Sports, was ar- continued use of racist symbols by big busi- meates and corrodes every aspect of life in readers could help us publish anti-racist, rested for setting fire to a stuffed doll, ness sports teams. this country today. Everything, from fight- working-class truth and build campaigns which symbolized the despicable mascot. ing for living-wage jobs to ending mass in- needed to make qualitative, revolution- He did this while protesting outside Ja- dropped. (Workers World, April 12, 1998) carceration, to having affordable housing ary change that crushes capitalism and cobs Field, now called Progressive (In- Demonstrations, lawsuits and mass and decent schools, is rooted in the cen- fights for socialism. surance) Field. Juan Reyna and Juanita media articles continued to press for the turies-long struggle to end this country’s For a donation of at least $75 a year — Helphrey from the Committee of 500 elimination of the Cleveland team’s racist brutal history of slavery and racism. and much more if you can — members Years of Dignity and Resistance were also name and mascot. That’s why every month, not just Black receive a year’s subscription to WW, a arrested. At the 2016 Cleveland vs. Toronto History Month, this newspaper chroni- monthly letter about timely issues and After charges were dropped in 1998, American League playoffs, Canadian cles the struggles of African Americans five free subscriptions to give to friends. another attempt was made to burn the ef- activists sued to stop the use of the logo to eradicate institutionalized racism, Write checks (either monthly or once a figy. Bellecourt and Reyna were arrested based on the Ontario Human Rights root and branch. 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editorials Market turmoil: Lessons of the What it means for workers out. An economic collapse was prevent- Continued from page 1 ed only when Alan Greenspan, who was 1968 Tet Offensive been an example of capitalist prosperity, appointed head of the Federal Reserve now will turn out to be the instrument in August 1987, poured tens of billions of to facilitate the wholesale expropriation dollars into the financial system to sup- This Jan. 30, revolutionaries of millions of workers and middle-class port the banks and the stock market on around the world marked the 50th people through the loss of their savings, an emergency basis.” anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a pensions and other retirement funds, in- Right now, the budget for the Penta- popular uprising backed by armed surance funds and other institutions, all gon is eating up funds needed for medical forces that changed the course of the of which have played the stock market.” care, safety, environmental protection, U.S. war against Vietnam. In another article about that crash, he the infrastructure, job training and other Totally surprising the U.S. govern- said that “it confirms the Marxist con- services already sorely underfunded. If ment and the military command of ception of capitalist economics. It shows more layoffs follow this financial crisis, as its occupation army of more than a that, in the final analysis, all the most has happened in the past, government as- half-million U.S. troops, tens of thou- skillful manipulators and financial wiz- sistance will be needed for millions more sands of fighters of the National Lib- ards on a global basis, with all the most people. But even as it transfers over $1 eration Front of Vietnam (NLF), sup- sophisticated technological communica- trillion to the richest people through the ported by an ample civilian network tions, cannot control the forces of capi- new tax laws, the administration can be and by their fellow Vietnamese from talist anarchy and chaos.” expected to cry poverty as it pours billions the north, launched a powerful pop- We have no crystal ball. But we can into shoring up the capitalist market. ular uprising in 140 cities and towns say this: If the markets continue to tum- This market turmoil, no matter how it across Vietnam. ble, Wall Street will demand a govern- turns out in the short term, cries out for a Many liberation fighters laid down ment bailout, as it did in 1987 and again strong response to protect the immediate their lives to free their country from in 2008. Fred Goldstein of WWP wrote interests of the workers and oppressed the deadly U.S. occupation. But they in 2009 in the introduction to his book while building for an overturn of the de- made the Pentagon and the puppet “Low-Wage Capitalism” that “several tril- structive and outmoded system of capi- Saigon army pay a heavy price. The lion dollars of paper wealth were wiped talism itself. offensive killed 500 U.S. soldiers each doomed to failure. And so did the people week from February into March and even of the U.S. more troops in the puppet army. The Tet Offensive galvanized the an- The Tet Offensive shook the U.S. es- ti-war movement at home and opened tablishment to its core. As March ended, the eyes of tens of thousands of GIs. Be- Unite to say ‘No war on Korea!’ President Lyndon Johnson announced ginning in 1968 and growing in number that he would not seek another term. The each year through 1971, ordinary GIs Continued from page 1 quired nuclear weapons in order to de- top U.S. commander in Vietnam, Gen. might roll a live hand grenade into the Services Committee on Jan. 25, admit- fend itself against attack. Yet they turn William Westmoreland, who had prom- tents of any officers or sergeants who ted that “North Korea acquired nuclear that into a reason to carry out such an ised his political and Wall Street masters were too zealous about sending their weapons to assure its regime’s surviv- attack. that the end of the war was in sight, was troops into battle. al; in its view, to give them up would be What has the DPRK done to warrant sacked in June. What does this mean 50 years lat- tantamount to suicide.” Nevertheless, he an attack by the U.S.? Has it attacked Among the objectives attacked were er? Of the many activists who protested went on to argue that any negotiations anyone? No. Has it sent troops outside its all four zonal headquarters of the pup- Trump’s inauguration, who protested at with the DPRK “need to be steps towards borders? No. Does it have nuclear-capa- pet Saigon Army, eight out of eleven di- both the 2017 and 2018 massive women’s this ultimate goal: the dismantlement of ble ships, planes and submarines circling visional headquarters and two U.S. army marches, who shut down airports across Pyongyang’s existing arsenal. They must the globe? No. field headquarters. In Saigon, the capital the country to oppose Trump’s racist an- not repeat the experience of the Vietnam- The imperialist U.S. government, so of the south, NLF fighters attacked the ti-Muslim policy, who faced off against ese and Korean negotiations, which were totally an arm of the billionaire ruling U.S. Embassy, the Presidential Palace, the Klan and the Nazis in Charlottesville, used as means to buy time to further pur- class, is the aggressor, not the DPRK, the joint U.S.- Saigon armed forces head- Va., who toppled the Confederate statue sue their adversarial objectives.” which for decades has endured U.S. quarters and the South Vietnam naval in Durham, N.C. – many of their parents Kissinger’s hawkish testimony got little threats of invasion through annual war headquarters. weren’t born by 1968. mention in the U.S. media. But the right- “games” simulating an attack. The NLF liberated the ancient coastal Nevertheless, the explosive impact of wing British tabloid Daily Mail of Feb. 2 A Feb. 1 editorial in the New York city of Hue in the northern part of south the Tet Offensive has echoed through was excited and wrote: “Former Secre- Times, “Playing with Fire and Fury on Vietnam. They hoisted the NLF flag over the years. It showed that a determined tary of State Henry Kissinger has said North Korea,” ended with this admission: the main tower there and freed some people, led by a thoroughly trained cadre that the temptation to launch a pre-emp- “The United States has been at war con- 2,000 prisoners. Before they retreated, of leaders steeped in years of anti-colo- tive strike on North Korea ‘is strong and tinuously since the attacks of Sept. 11 and they held the city for a month against a nial struggle as well as Marxist-Leninist the argument rational’. He told a meeting now has just over 240,000 active-duty torrential rain of bombs and artillery ideology, can defeat the most technical- of the Senate Armed Services Commit- and reserve troops in at least 172 coun- that completely destroyed the city. ly advanced military in history. As the tee last week that North Korea poses the tries and territories. Enough.” To the south, where the U.S. military Black Panthers said at that time, “The most immediate threat to global security, This was written only two days after used bombs, rockets and napalm on the power of the people is greater than the arguing that denuclearization of the re- the same paper, in a Jan. 30 editorial on town of Ben Tre, killing more than a man’s technology.” gime must be a ‘fundamental’ American the State of the Union speech, said that thousand civilians, the commander told That thought underlines the lesson of foreign policy goal.” Trump “deserved to take a bow” for “tight- a reporter, “It became necessary to de- the Tet Offensive for activists today. By ening sanctions on North Korea.” Now, stroy the town in order to save it.” (New organizing and training ourselves in the DPRK has no right to defend itself? however, the war danger has finally sunk York Times, Feb. 8, 1968) art of struggle, by educating ourselves What it all boils down to is this: There in. The Times editors may argue that sanc- Much to their chagrin, from the hall- about the freedom fighters of the past are forceful elements in the Trump ad- tions are an alternative to war. But, in fact, ways of the Pentagon to the halls of Con- and present, by communicating a clear ministration and the Pentagon who refuse they are a prelude to war, in the thinking gress to the mansions of the Wall Street message of solidarity with ongoing strug- to accept the existence of the Democratic of Trump and much of the military. masters of high finance, a large number gles erupting around the globe and here People’s Republic of Korea and are willing Letter of Korean foreign minister to U.N. of U.S. ruling-class figures realized the at home, we can defeat the warmakers to engage in a nuclear war against it. imperialist adventure in Vietnam was and overturn this rotten system. They admit that the DPRK has ac- This was underscored in a letter sent Jan. 31 by DPRK Minister for Foreign Af- fairs Ri Yong Ho to U.N. Secretary Gener- MARXISM, REPARATIONS & the Black Freedom Struggle al António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres. An anthology from Workers World newspaper. Edited by Monica Moorehead. After referring to the “inter-Korean di- • Racism, National Oppression & Self-Determination Larry Holmes alogue” that has led to the “continued eas- • Black Labor from Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery Sam Marcy A Voice From ing of tension on the Korean peninsula,” • Black Youth: Repression & Resistance LeiLani Dowell Harpers Ferry Minister Ri says that the U.S. is “seeking • The Struggle for ­Socialism Is Key Monica Moorehead Osborne P. Anderson’s • Domestic Workers Demand a Bill of Rights Imani Henry to intentionally aggravate the situation by account of the raid on introducing the strategic assets including • Black & Brown Unity Saladin ­Muhammad Harper‘s Ferry appeared • Harriet Tubman Mumia Abu-Jamal in pamphlet form in 1861 right nuclear powered aircraft carrier groups • Alabama’s Black Belt ­ Consuela Lee after the start of the Civil War. into the vicinity of the Korean peninsula • The 1965 Watts Rebellion John Parker at a time when north and south are chart- Available at all major online booksellers. The Klan & Government: Foes or Allies? Examines the special relationship with the state ing a course of peace together.” WHY COLIN KAEPERNICK IS RIGHT that has allowed the Ku Klux Klan to exist for Ri says that “the scope of troop and war over a century despite its criminal history of equipment being introduced” and “the Articles from Workers World/Mundo Obrero Newspaper lynchings, murders, and intimidation. Learn more. Available online without charge. Find them at: www.workers.org/books Continued on the next page workers.org Feb. 8, 2018 Page 11 U.S. conducted biowarfare against DPRK

By Mike Kuhlenbeck the U.S. military. During the three-year hibiting bacteriological warfare which invasion, the U.S. dropped over 635,000 was re-stated in the Geneva Protocol of The U.S. government denies using bi- tons of explosives on numerous villages 1925.” ological warfare during the Korean War in a massive carpet-bombing campaign, Another investigation, conducted by (1950-53), but mounting evidence re- destroying farmland and demolishing the International Scientific Commission veals the Pentagon is lying. infrastructure. led by British scholar Joseph Needham, Biological weapons had been used In February 1952, the foreign min- published a report on “Facts Concerning by the German Army in World War I to ister of the DPRK announced that the Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China” contaminate livestock, animal feed and U.S. Air Force had dropped plague- and in 1952. According to the report, “The humans. Given the horrific effects, this cholera-infected insects in the north, en- peoples of Korea and China have indeed weaponry was widely condemned. How- cased in bombshells. The governments been the objective of bacterial weapons. ever, the U.S. and Japan refused to sign of the People’s Republic of China and the These have been employed by units of the treaties prohibiting this type of warfare. Soviet Union also found evidence sup- U.S.A. armed forces, using a great vari- The Japanese military conducted porting these allegations. International ety of different methods for the purpose, biowarfare in the 1930s and 1940s, with investigators examined the evidence and some of which seem to be developments China their primary target. The U.S. ob- reached conclusions that countered those of those applied by the Japanese army tained a Japanese report on such exper- of the Pentagon. during the second world war.” iments in 1941 and built on this research at the U.S. Army Medical Research In- The ‘monstrous war’ against Korea For U.S., ‘Korea a preview for Vietnam’ stitute at Fort Detrick, Md., as early as Australian correspondent Wilfred Canadian historians Stephen Endicott 1942. After World War II, many Japa- Burchett was the first Western journal- and Edward Hagerman co-authored “The Chinese poster from Korean war period nese scientists were spared (including ist to enter Hiroshima United States and Biological Warfare: Se- showed danger of U.S. biowarfare to people chief germ warfare expert Gen. Shiro unescorted by the U.S. crets from the Early Cold of both countries. Ishii), courtesy of efforts spearheaded by Army after the dropping War and Korea” (1999). Gen. Douglas MacArthur. of the atomic bomb. His Examining the top-secret Nicknamed “The Institute,” this Mary- U.S. and Western allies turned to fight- report to the London history of biological weap- land facility became the nerve center for ing socialist countries. The Korean War Daily Express of Sept. 5, ons during the Cold War, biowarfare research during World War II (the “Forgotten War”) was launched on 1945, called “The Atom- their research corroborat- in a joint effort of the U.S., Canada and June 25, 1950. The Democratic People’s ic Plague,” alerted the ed many of the conclusions Britain. Republic of Korea still lives with the world to the lasting ef- made by the DPRK, includ- After the Axis forces surrendered, the haunting memories of crimes inflicted by fects of radiation. ing the use of contagious Burchett lat- pathogens. the destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of er penned the book As noted in a press re- Unite to say ‘No war on Korea!’ Continued from page 10 Tonkin. But an article in Naval History “This Monstrous War” lease for the book, “The ev- based on his experi- idence points to the conclu- U.S. current moves of military reinforce- Magazine of February 2008 by U.S. Navy ences during the Ko- sion that the United States ments are designed to make preemptive Lt. Commander Pat Patterson admitted rean War. Australian government lied to both strike against the DPRK” and “drive the that “once-classified documents and tapes National University Congress and the American situation of the Korean peninsula into an released in the past several years, com- professor Gavan Mc- public when it claimed that unpredictable dangerous phase.” bined with previously uncovered facts, Cormack says that the manuscript was t h e American biological warfare He asks that “the issue of welcoming make clear that high government officials seized by U.S. Customs “and dumped in program was purely defensive and for re- the process of improved inter-Korean re- distorted facts and deceived the American the sea on its arrival in that country later taliation only.” lations and discouraging the neighboring public about events that led to full U.S. in- in the same year [1953], and as a result Dr. Endicott told this writer in an countries from disturbing the process” volvement in the Vietnam War.” no major American library possesses a email on Sept. 17, 2017: “I still stand by be taken up in the U.N. Security Council. The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, claim- ing it had “weapons of mass destruction.” copy to this day.” the judgments we made in that book. No A history of U.S. pretexts for war But the Iraq Survey Group of the U.S. De- In the book, Burchett described the other information has appeared to make use of biowarfare on the Korean pen- me change my mind.” Many historians have exposed the pre- fense Department itself issued a report insula in a chapter titled “The Microbe In the book “Terrorism and War” texts that U.S. imperialist governments on Sept. 30, 2004, reporting: “The ISG War.” During a televised interview, Bur- (2002), historian Howard Zinn wrote, have manufactured in the past to rally has not found evidence that Saddam pos- chett stood by his reporting: “Germ war- “Most Americans have no idea what we the people of this country behind wars sessed WMD stocks in 2003.” fare was carried out. There’s no doubt, did in Korea, but Korea was really a pre- that benefitted only the ruling class and Phony pretexts for war have worked in nothing can shake me on that.” view of Vietnam, particularly in the use cost the lives of so many working people the past. Are the White House and Pen- In March 1952, the International As- of napalm and the bombing of villages, on both sides. tagon secretly plotting to create a pretext sociation of Democratic Lawyers pub- which contributed to more than 2 million The explosion of the battleship Maine for an attack on the DPRK? lished its “Report on U.S. Crimes in people dying, most of them civilians.” in Havana harbor was the pretext used to We must not wait for an unthinkable Korea,” including the discovery of “as- The U.S. has denounced the DPRK’s start the Spanish-American War in 1898, disaster to happen. Progressive move- phyxiating and other gases or chemical current weapons program, meanwhile in which the U.S. grabbed Cuba, Puer- ments must be alerted now to the real weapons” by the U.S. ignoring its own crimes. A brief track re- to Rico and the Philippines away from possibility that the U.S. is planning an The IADL report concluded: “By the cord includes using Agent Orange during Spain. U.S. naval investigators in 1976 attack on the DPRK. In addition to the deliberate dispersion of flies and other the war in Vietnam (1962-75), depleted concluded that the explosion had been catastrophe this would mean for all the insects artificially infected with bacteria uranium munitions during the first Gulf caused by a fire onboard the Maine that Korean people, a byproduct would be a against the Korean People’s Army among War in Iraq (1991-92) and white phos- ignited munitions stocks — not by a Span- huge setback for every struggle for social the civilian population of North Korea, phorus in Fallujah during the second ish mine, as charged by the war-monger- justice. War breeds repression at home — with the intention of spreading death Iraq War (2004). ing Hearst newspapers at the time. in the name of “national unity.” and disease, a most grave and horrible The Pentagon continues to impose The U.S. escalated the war in Viet- Unite behind Trump and the Penta- crime has been perpetrated by U.S. forc- sanctions and threatens war against the nam in 1964 after claiming that North gon? No! Let’s all unite to say, “No war, es in Korea, contrary to the provisions DPRK. The unpleasant truths suppressed Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked no way — Hands off Korea!” of the Hague Convention concerning the by the ruling class must be exposed in or- laws and customs of war on land of 1907, der to halt the grinding gears of the war and to the universally accepted law pro- machine. Turn the Guns Around El capitalismo Mutunies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions Trump y la clase dominante, en un callejón “If schools in the United sin salida States really wanted to de Davos a DACA y Mueller impart historical truth, Fred Goldstein John Catalinotto’s ‘Turn utiliza las leyes de Continua de página 12 vestigación a favor de la guerra de Rusia The Guns Around’ para obtener influencia contra Trump. Lo la acumulación would be required reading. He tells the true las/os oprimidos bajo la sociedad capital- que necesitamos es un movimiento ma- capitalista de Marx, y la tasa decreciente story of this epoch. Few participants know ista, estos derechos se truncan, se limitan sivo para hacer retroceder toda la agen- more about the ­massive GI rebellion against de ganancia, para estrechamente y se les ataca constante- da derechista de Trump y desafiar a la the Vietnam War, the anti-war ve­ terans’ move- demostrar por mente. Los patronos son los que están ment or the history of soldier revolts from the policía, el ICE y el FBI que son opresores qué el capitalismo Paris Commune to the Portuguese coup.” en una lucha constante para desechar los del pueblo. global ha llegado derechos democráticos que la clase tra- – Pvt Larry Holmes No nos beneficiamos cuando una fac- finalmente a un GI resister and organizer for the American bajadora y las/os oprimidos han ganado. ción de la clase dominante elimina otra punto de inflexión. Serviceman’s Union 1972-74. Las/os trabajadores con conciencia de facción si las masas se quedan sentadas Available at online booksellers clase no deberían caer en esta falsa in- indolentemente. LowWageCapitalism.com Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

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Por Fred Goldstein romper la alianza entre EUA y Europa, ha La propuesta de la Casa Blanca lim- sponsabilidad legal, rechazó la orden. La debilitado todo el campo imperialista en itaría el patrocinio familiar a cónyuges cantidad de testigos entrevistados llevó 29 de enero - Donald Trump, el jefe ambos lados del Atlántico, especialmente e hijas/os menores. Eliminaría una serie incluso a Fox News a confirmar la historia. ejecutivo racista, intolerante, autoritario en el lado de los EUA. de categorías existentes, incluidos hijas/ La historia ha sido objeto de intermina- y derechista del imperialismo estadoun- El Pentágono necesita a la OTAN, junto os adultos, tanto casados ​​como solteros; bles programas de entrevistas en la red, idense, quien es despreciado por las/ con el imperialismo alemán y francés, en padres de ciudadanos estadounidenses programas de noticias y la prensa capital- os trabajadores y las masas oprimidas su lucha por subordinar a Rusia y comple- adultos; y hermanas/os de ciudadanos es- ista. del mundo, estuvo operando en varios tar la conquista de Ucrania. El Pentágono tadounidenses adultos. Los expertos han El objetivo de la discusión es que el frentes la semana pasada. y el Departamento de Estado necesitan estimado que reducir estas categorías intento de despido de Mueller concuerda Trump fue a Davos, Suiza, para asistir la colaboración del imperialismo francés reduciría aproximadamente el millón de con los esfuerzos de Trump para lograr a una reunión de millonarios y multimil- y británico en África, donde ambas an- tarjetas verdes entregadas cada año en que el jefe del FBI James Comey no fuera lonarios. Los representantes de la clase tiguas potencias coloniales tienen pro- un 25 a 50 por ciento. duro con el asesor de seguridad nacional dominante europea jugaron con su ego, fundas raíces. Y Trump necesita la co- Un documento obtenido por CNN entra Michael Flynn. Cuando Comey se negó, halagándolo y tratándolo como un em- operación del imperialismo europeo si en más detalles: “El marco [del proyecto Trump lo despidió. perador. espera socavar el tratado nuclear de Irán. de ley] podría permitir detener a perso- Los moderados y liberales anti-Trump Al mismo tiempo que se codeaba alre- Ninguno de los dos bandos puede lidi- nas indefinidamente mientras esperan la están analizando una y otra vez las di- dedor de Davos, frotando hombros con ar con la parte socialista, planificada por deportación durante meses y años, algo versas posibles violaciones legales, viola- otros miembros de la clase dominante, el estado, de la expansión económica, que se ha reducido como resultado de las ciones de procedimientos, violaciones del los dos halcones inmigratorios de Trump, comercial y diplomática de China. China preocupaciones constitucionales en los tri- protocolo, etc., que Trump ha cometido. General John Kelly - jefe de gabinete - y está progresando constantemente con su bunales. Las propuestas también podrían Sin embargo, no lo combatirán políti- Stephen Miller - asesor, estaban en Wash- proyecto Iniciativa del Cinturón y Ruta de ampliar enormemente las definiciones de camente por su racismo, su misoginia, ington trabajando en su draconiana pro- la Seda para establecer una red interna- delitos que podrían someter a un individ- su patriotería militarista, sus amenazas puesta de inmigración, el punitivo proyec- cional de ferrocarriles, carreteras, oleo- uo a la deportación”. (26 de enero) de guerra nuclear, su chauvinismo anti- to de ley que ha sido denunciado por el ductos y redes de servicios públicos que El movimiento por los derechos de las/ inmigrante, su apoyo a la supresión de movimiento de inmigrantes como una ley vinculen a China con Asia central, Asia os inmigrantes y las/os representantes votantes, etc. Cuando hablan de socavar de rehenes de “supremacía blanca”. occidental y partes de Asia meridional. de los Soñadores han denunciado la pro- “nuestra democracia”, siempre se refieren Cuando Trump aterrizó en Davos, fue En una concesión, Trump incluso habló puesta de Trump, negándose a poner a a que los rusos supuestamente interfieren confrontado por los cargos, corroborados sobre la posibilidad de volver a compro- otras/os inmigrantes en riesgo con el fin con las elecciones. Pero no plantean la in- por numerosas fuentes de noticias, de que meterse con la Alianza Trans Pacífica, de obtener un beneficio para ellas/os. terferencia más seria con la democracia había intentado despedir ilegalmente al una señal segura de que la fortaleza de Greisa Martínez Rosas, directora de capitalista: la supresión de las/os votantes. asesor especial Robert Mueller en junio China y la debilidad de Washington están defensa de United We Dream y benefi- Millones de afroamericanas/os, lati- pasado. Su respuesta: “Noticias falsas”. comenzando a evidenciarse. ciaria potencial del Dream Act, comentó: nas/os, nativas/os y blancas/os pobres Sin embargo, los banqueros europeos Y a medida en que la administración “Llamemos a esta propuesta por lo que no han podido votar debido a las leyes le dieron a Trump un tratamiento de Trump se acerque cada vez más a la guer- es: una nota de rescate de la supremacía de identificación con foto, la redistribu- realeza, siguiendo el ejemplo de los prín- ra con la República Popular Democrática blanca. Trump y Stephen Miller mataron ción de distritos para reducir el peso del cipes saudíes que proporcionaron un gru- de Corea, y potencialmente con China e al DACA y crearon la crisis que enfrentan voto en barrios pobres y áreas urbanas, po de músicos para tocar para él cuando incluso posiblemente Rusia, necesitará las/os jóvenes inmigrantes. Han toma- el cierre de casillas electorales, la desca- ingresó en la sala de conferencias. Fue el respaldo o al menos la neutralidad del do a jóvenes inmigrantes como rehenes, lificación de personas con condenas por elogiado por los financistas corporativos imperialismo europeo. enfrentándonos contra nuestros propios delitos graves, etc. por sus recortes de impuestos y desreg- Ninguno de los campos imperialistas padres, inmigrantes negros y nuestras co- Todos los comentaristas burgueses ulación, que elevaron los precios de sus –EUA ni Europa - es capaz de tratar con munidades a cambio de nuestra dignidad. siguen refiriéndose a la renuncia de Rich- acciones. Corporate Europe organizó una las/os oprimidos y la clase trabajadora del “Para la propuesta de supremacía blan- ard Nixon, que se enfrentó a un juicio cena para él con los jefes de las 15 princi- mundo, sin el otro. Ninguno de los dos ca de Miller y Trump, los jóvenes inmi- político por el allanamiento de Water- pales corporaciones europeas. bandos es capaz de contener los antago- grantes decimos: No”. (unitedwedream. gate. Pero hasta ahora Trump no ha Su objetivo era aplacar a Trump lo su- nismos inter-imperialistas o evitar que es- org, 25 de enero) dado indicios de que honre la legalidad ficiente como para evitar que lanzara un talle una guerra que pueda desestabilizar El destinatario de DACA, Juan Escalan- burguesa. Además, la Cámara de Repre- ataque contra los imperialistas europeos, el sistema imperialista capitalista. Trump, te, en un comunicado de America’s Voice, sentantes está muy a la derecha, y es ésta la Unión Europea y la OTAN, los tradi- por supuesto, puede volver rápidamente a escribió: “No es ningún secreto que Miller, Cámara la que se encargaría de iniciar el cionales sacos de arena de su arrogancia su vieja arrogancia. Pero, por el momento, junto con el General John ‘el adulto en el proceso de acusación. chovinista e imperialista. En esto, tu- eso es lo que explica el comportamiento salón’ Kelly, ha estado redactando algunas Estos comentaristas y la dirección del vieron mucho éxito. Trump mantuvo un “moderado” de Trump en Davos. de las políticas de inmigración más atroces Partido Demócrata repiten una y otra vez discurso suave de 15 minutos redactado que salen de la Casa Blanca. Uno incluso que Rusia trató de “subvertir nuestra de- por sus manejadores. Pero fue abucheado Propuesta DACA de Trump: ley de podría preguntarse si Miller y Kelly, y no mocracia”. Sea lo que sea que Putin hizo o cuando se salió del guión y denunció a la rehenes de supremacía blanca el presidente Donald Trump, están diri- dejó de hacer, la democracia en este país es “prensa mentirosa”. Antes de irse a Davos, Trump anunció giendo el gobierno por el lado, explotando una versión muy restringida de la democ- Trump tomó crédito personal por el que tenía una propuesta que resolvería la el corto período de atención de Trump. ... racia capitalista. La clase capitalista tiene aumento en el mercado bursátil y los re- crisis de la Acción Diferida para los Lle- “Lo que la Casa Blanca está vendien- acceso a todos los niveles del gobierno, las cortes de impuestos. Sin duda, los bonis- gados en la Infancia (DACA por las siglas do al pueblo estadounidense no es más comunicaciones y los poderes del estado. tas parásitos europeos estaban eufóricos. en inglés) ofreciendo un camino a la ciu- que una lista de deseos que reduciría la Es su democracia. Los derechos democráti- La línea clave de Trump era “Estados Uni- dadanía para 1,8 millones de Soñadores cantidad de inmigrantes, especialmente cos que existen para las/os trabajadores y dos está abierto para los negocios”, con (Dreamers) y para personas elegibles personas de color nacidas en países que las/os oprimidos dentro de este sofocante el objetivo de atraer a los inversores eu- para ser Soñadores pero que nunca se Trump considera ‘letrinas’”. (26 de enero) sistema capitalista se han luchado, a menu- ropeos a sacar provecho de las bajas tasas habían registrado. Estas/os jóvenes in- do con sangre, por generaciones. impositivas y las regulaciones mínimas. migrantes obtendrían un “camino hacia Trump y Mueller: legalidad burguesa Las/os afroamericanos han luchado la ciudadanía” en un período de 12 años. vs. lucha de masas por los derechos civiles. Los sindicatos El discurso de Trump en Davos Sin embargo, la propuesta de Trump, Dentro de la sala de reuniones de Da- han luchado por los derechos de las/os es un signo de debilidad llamada Dream Act, también exige $30 vos, Trump fue acosado con preguntas trabajadores. Las mujeres han luchado Su discurso en Davos fue un intento de mil millones para su muro fronterizo. Y sobre cómo trató de despedir al asesor por la igualdad. También lo ha hecho la co- volver parcialmente al redil imperialista reduciría drásticamente la inmigración especial Robert Mueller, que lidera una munidad LGBTQ, desde el levantamiento sin alejarse completamente de su arro- para la reunificación familiar - un com- investigación criminal sobre la relación en Stonewall hasta todas las batallas que gancia nacionalista, prepotente y reaccio- ponente principal de la inmigración legal de Trump con Rusia y sus conexiones fi- siguieron. Las/os inmigrantes han lucha- naria. Trató de asegurar a la audiencia que - al excluir de cualquier legalización a los nancieras con los oligarcas rusos. Trump do contra las deportaciones, las personas “América Primero no quiere decir sola”. padres de Soñadores. También cierra el catalogó los cargos como “noticias falsas”. con discapacidad han luchado por la ac- No es que Trump haya tenido alguna sistema que cada año permite que unas Pero según el New York Times del 26 cesibilidad, y así sucesivamente. conversión interna de su chauvinismo de 55.000 personas de todas las regiones de enero, Trump ordenó a su abogado, Sin embargo, no importa qué ­derechos gran poder. Más bien, se están iluminan- del mundo obtengan visas para ingresar Don McGahn, despedir a Mueller en junio hayan ganado las/os trabajadores y ­ do aquellos en el campo de Trump que al a EUA en forma de lotería. pasado. McGahn, temiendo su propia re- Continúa a página 11