Coup Attempt: Is the Danger Over? Jail Trump, His Fascist Mob, and Killer Cops
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Intento de golpe: ¿Se acabó el peligro? ¡Alto a la guerra contra los vendedores ambulantes! 14 Struggle-La-Lucha.org Vol. 4, No. 1 · Jan. 11, 2021 Suggested donation: $1 Socialist Unity Party Partido de Socialismo Unido Twitter: @StruggleLaLucha Facebook.com/strugglelalucha email: [email protected] Coup attempt: Is the danger over? Jail Trump, his fascist mob, and killer cops By Sharon Black The storming of the U.S. Capitol by white supremacists incited by President Trump, which temporarily halted the certification vote, had to have the collu- sion of the federal and local police agen- cies. It is implausible that there was no preparation when these very events had been telegraphed for months by Trump himself. “Civil War January 6, 2021” was Unity with who and for what? Trump should not only be arrested but printed on the MAGA sweatshirts; this Here was an opportunity for Biden also extradited for war crimes. Trump was no secret. The only way that the rac- and the Democrats to strike a definitive is now wanted by Iraq for ordering the ist mob could freely occupy the Capitol is blow against Trump and the movement assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem if the police made a deliberate decision he has spawned. He could have called for Soleimani and Iraqi Commander Abu to let them. Trump’s arrest or made an appeal for Mahdi al-Muhandis; Iran has also is- The world watched while armed fas- people to mobilize against the racist and sued an arrest warrant through Interpol cists carrying Confederate flags and reactionary threat. He didn’t. (International Criminal Police Organi- metal battering rams breached metal In many respects it was a betrayal of zation) for the same crime. detectors, held Congress hostage, took the Black voters, especially in Georgia, The antidote to fascism over oces, smashed windows, open- who courageously resisted racist threats is workers’ solidarity and socialism Trump’s Wisconsin ly carried ladders to scale the Capitol, to vote against racism and reaction. 2 posed for selfies with police and were The timidity of Biden and the Demo- While billionaires are raking in unpre- coup attempt eventually escorted out of the building crats is not surprising. cedented profits, cashing in while the 2 without initial arrests. What underlies these developments deaths of COVID victims pile up, the Fascist violence Two pipe bombs were confiscated, and the fascist reaction is the contrac- vast majority of the people are find- along with weapons and ammunition, tion of the capitalist economy and the ing themselves living in deeper mis- Wall St’s party 3 and five people are reported dead. A deep decay and crisis of the system. ery. Capitalist governments have not KKK-inspired noose was erected on the While seemingly hidden, it supersedes been able to stop the COVID pandemic No $2,000 west end of the Capitol. the will of capitalist politicians who at- and have failed miserably at provid- This was reminiscent of how the Al- tempt to represent one section or an- ing health care for the vast majority. The Housing War 4 abama authorities allowed the Klan to other of the ruling class. Widespread unemployment threatens attack the freedom riders in Anniston, It is an important lesson. The capital- not only low wage workers but also the Cuba and COVID 5 Ala., on May 14, 1961, nearly killing sev- ist class, regardless of its divisions, has middle class. Millions are facing evic- eral people. Local police did nothing for no will to put these racist scum in the tions, foreclosures and utility shuto¦s. at least 15 minutes. dustbin of history. Like the bankers and Traditionally it is the middle class, the The storming of the Capitol was con- businesses that were financing Hitler up small business owners, and others like sciously in the tradition of the previous to the last bullet, they are hedging their them who are isolated and in despair, END overthrow of the democratically elected, bets. They are reluctant to crush them. who are duped by fascist ideology. It is Cuba majority-rule Reconstruction govern- only a strong, united anti-capitalist and Danger of imperialist war Blockade ments in South Carolina, Mississippi, anti-racist working-class movement in the next 14 days Louisiana and the rest, which culminat- that can pull them away from such a Duryea Green 6 ed in the coup and massacre in Wilm- We would be seriously amiss to not destructive dead end. ington, N.C., in 1898. state the obvious threat of imperialist “Such a situation can only exist in pe- COVID and prison Contrast this with Kenosha, Wis. In war most immediately aimed at Iran, riods of extraordinarily acute social cri- but ultimately — regardless of which sis when the capitalist state is so torn by anticipation of community anger at the Biden’s picks 7 refusal to indict police in the shooting of administration is in oce — directed accumulating inner contradictions and Jacob Blake, streets were shut down and at any country that seeks to chart an weakened by its inability to overcome Trump’s the National Guard was mobilized in ad- independent course from imperialism its social crisis that it inevitably gives vance of the acquittal. — whether it is Venezuela, China, the way to extra-parliamentary, extra- Excecutions Democratic People’s Republic of Ko- legal forms of rule,” Sam Marcy said of What happens next, is the danger over? rea, Cuba or Zimbabwe. See the call for the struggle against fascism. Blood & Oil 8 Biden’s extremely weak response is emergency response actions below. It will take the organization of the deeply problematic in terms of pushing There is still 0ver a weekdays before broad working class and the leadership Spies spy 11 back the fascists and what it means for the Jan. 20 inauguration. Just as we de- of its most oppressed, Black, Brown, the future. Rather than making a call for mand the jailing of killer cops, we must Latinx, Indigenous, Arab, Asian, wom- Trump big loser 12 disbanding the fascist thugs, the racist mobilize the movement to call for the en and LGBTQ2S people, to both develop mob or arresting Trump, Biden called immediate arrest of Trump and stop the a defense of its own class interests and Iran, Iraq 13 for unity. white supremacist mobs. place socialism on the agenda. ₪ Stop U.S. attacks on Iran. No war! End sanctions! We call on the anti-war and anti-im- Since Election Day, the Trump ad- Nimitz and its strike group of guid- perialist movement, workers’ and com- ministration has escalated war threats ed-missile cruisers and destroyers en- On Facebook: munity organizations to be on alert for against Iran. On Nov. 27, Israel as- tered the Arab/Persian Gulf o¦ the coast the possibility of a U.S. military attack on sassinated Iranian scientist Mohsen of Iran. On Dec. 10, U.S. B-52 bombers EMERGENCY Iran. We urge the movement to join us in Fakrizadeh Mahabadi. Israel is a proxy based in Louisiana flew another run over Day-After Protests: calling for emergency day-after protests state completely dependent on Wash- the gulf o¦ the coast of Iran. Saudi, Bah- in cities around the country to demand ington. It could not have carried out such raini and Qatari warplanes — made in U.S. HANDS OFF “Hands O¦ Iran” in the event of a strike a provocative act without prior approval the USA — flew with them. On Dec. 21, by the Pentagon or its proxies. The U.S. from the U.S. government. the U.S. nuclear submarine Georgia, ac- may use Israel to initiate an attack. On Nov. 30, the U.S. aircraft carrier Continued on page 13 IRAN Page 2 Jan. 11, 2021 STRUGGLE H LA LUCHA Before the attack on the U.S. Capitol: Trump’s Wisconsin coup attempt By Stephen Millies rising were a series of Badger State Destroying jobs and filling prisons billionaires. The big Allen-Bradley plant on the After a fascist mob was allowed to Among them are Richard Uihlein city’s South Side refused for years to take over the U.S. Capitol, Trump’s and Elizabeth Uihlein, who togeth- hire Black or Latinx workers. That’s attempts to overturn the election er own the nonunion Uline business the reason super racist Lester Mad- can’t be dismissed as a clown show. supply outfit. They gave nearly $40 dox came to campaign there when he It should have been obvious weeks million to racist candidates in the ran for president in 1976. before. 2018 elections. Maddox had closed his Atlanta Wisconsin showed how serious Liz Uihlein claimed “the media is chicken shack so he wouldn’t have it was. Trump lost the state by just overblowing COVID-19” in a March to serve Black people. The fascist 20,682 votes, a little more than six- 13 email. Eight months later, both the handed out ax handles to his white tenths of a percentage point. It was Uihleins contracted the coronavirus. customers to attack Black people. still a significant victory against Then there’s the Kohler family’s The Bradleys sold their electrical racism. $8.3 billion toilet-making fortune. It controls company to Rockwell In- Trump’s campaign was nonstop took over 60 years for Kohler work- ternational in 1985. Much of the pro- racism. It spent millions on racist ers to get a union. ceeds went to the Lynde and Harry Facebook ads attacking the Black An 1897 strike was smashed. So Bradley Foundation, which now has Lives Matter movement. was the 1934 strike in the family’s over $800 million in assets.