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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 59, No. 28 July 13, 2017 $1 On heels of DA scandal Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

By Betsey Piette Philadelphia

Scores of demonstrators brought after- noon rush-hour traffic in Philadelphia’s Center City to a halt on July 7 as they took to the streets to demand justice for Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. The hours-long march, with frequent stops for street speak-outs, fol- lowed a noon rally outside the Philadel- phia district attorney’s office. As the protest snaked its way through busy city streets, it stopped wherever crowds were gathered, including outside busy restaurants where diners sat at side- walk tables. Speakers took time to explain Abu-Jamal’s case and to link it to the cur- rent struggles against racist police bru- tality and corruption in the DA’s office. Several people, who had stopped to listen to speakers, joined in the march, swelling the protesters’ ranks to nearly 100. When protesters initially gathered at the DA’s office, they were met with police barricades set up to keep them away from the doors. This approach seems to be a re- cent pattern in the wake of a scandal that has rocked the office. Just a week earlier, sitting DA Seth Williams suddenly plead- ed guilty to a bribery charge and went directly to jail. Several signs carried by demonstrators addressed a decades-long WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE history of corruption in the office, noting July 7 protest in Philadelphia. Pam Africa, a leader in the struggle to free Abu-Jamal, on the mic. that “the Williams case is the tip of the iceberg.” and death sentence. Years later, as a jus- selves from any case they had a hand in the court earlier that day. While the of- Demonstrators were demanding the tice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, prosecuting. There are now 14 Pennsylva- fice claims it will comply with the judge’s DA comply with a Common Pleas Court Castille twice refused to recuse himself nia prisoners, including Abu-Jamal, who order, there is little reason to trust them, order, the second in just over a month, to from hearing Abu-Jamal’s state appeals, have filed appeals based on the ruling. given the history of this case. release all files showing the involvement ruling against him both times. While the latest court order mandated Activists pledged that they will contin- of former DA Ronald Castille in Abu-Ja- In June 2016, a landmark U.S. Supreme the release of the files on July 7, protest- ue taking the struggle to the streets and mal’s case. Court decision, Williams v. Pennsylvania, ers learned that a request for a week’s to the people until Mumia Abu-Jamal is Castille was a senior prosecutor when ruled that judges must remove them- extension was sent by the DA’s office to released! Abu-Jamal was framed and convicted for the murder of a Philadelphia police offi- cer in 1982. In 1989, he was the DA who argued to uphold Abu-Jamal’s conviction

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 In the U.S. On heels of DA scandal: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal ...... 1 Syracuse, N.Y.: ‘Border Patrol off buses and trains!’ . . . . .2 Oakland rally says ‘Free Mumia!’ ...... 3 Political prisoner the Rev. Pinkney ‘FREE AT LAST’ . . . . 3 ‘Defund OPD’ challenges Oakland City Council ...... 3 Fight for transit justice! Fight for socialism! ...... 4 Workers strike big-business media for 16 weeks . . . . . 5 ‘Border Patrol off buses and trains!’ Michigan librarians win struggle vs. union busting . . . .5 PHOTOS: CAROLYNKRICK; CNY /SOLIDARITY COALITION On the picket line ...... 5 Under Interstate 81 in Syracuse, the Workers’ Center of CNY and the Rapid Response Team of CNY Solidarity Coalition say: ‘Border Patrol off buses and trains!’ Striking workers in Haiti win solidarity in U.S...... 6 Malcolm Suber interview: Take ‘em down NOLA . . . . . 6 By Minnie Bruce Pratt city (and any others within that radius) as the functional Trans Liberation in Chicago: #NoJusticeNoPride . . . . .10 Syracuse, N.Y. equivalent of an international border. That means people Big turnout against hate in Berkeley ...... 10 traveling within the U.S. interior can be policed as if they Boston: Venezuelan independence celebrated . . . . . 11 Trucks rumbled overhead on Interstate 81, and Grey- are at the country’s border crossing. Letter to the editor: Travel challenge to Cuba ...... 11 hound buses rolled by, as more than 30 people protested That this policing is racist in execution is without the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Bor- doubt. As far back as 2008, Tomás, a Latinx traveller to  Around the world der Patrol’s racist profiling, harassment and detention at Syracuse by Greyhound, witnessed what happened when Haiti and Bastille Day ...... 7 the Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse on July the Border Patrol boarded his bus. In a Colorlines inter- Russia: a target, not a superpower ...... 8 8. Members and allies of the Workers’ Center of Central view, he noted: “The Border Patrol agents questioned New York and the Syracuse Rapid Response Team shout- all the Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Asian passengers. G20 protests in Hamburg ...... 9 ed, “Border Patrol off buses and trains! ¡Amtrak, escu- They did not question any of the white passengers except Macron and French proletariat’s radical tradition ...... 9 cha! ¡Estamos en la lucha!” (“Amtrak, listen! We are in some women who were wearing veils. Border Patrol had Serbian autoworkers strike Fiat Chrysler ...... 11 the struggle!”) dogs with them and checked the whole bus. They even  Editorial For the last 10 years, U.S. Customs and Border Pro- looked in the bathroom.” (June 12, 2008) tection, in conjunction with ICE, has hounded people of The RTC is not just a Central New York hub for Amtrak DPRK statement on missile test ...... 10 color passing through the RTC, demanding identification, train and Greyhound, Trailways, Megabus and local Cen-  Noticias en Español at times detaining them illegally for hours, and, as hap- tro bus service. Because it links east-west routes from Pentágono amenaza expandir guerra contra Siria . . . .12 pened recently, arresting people and dragging them off Boston to the Midwest, and north-south routes from New their bus or train. York to Canada, it is a crucial waystation. Misoginia de Trump, pilar del capitalismo ...... 12 In a pre-action statement, the protesting groups ex- Because of its location, Syracuse was the “great central pressed outrage that U.S. police agencies use the RTC “as depot” of the Underground Railroad in New York state a place to profile and detain our immigrant neighbors as in the 19th century, when thousands of people of African they attempt to see their families and earn their living.” The descent, seeking freedom from enslavement, journeyed statement linked the detentions to U.S. wars, saying: “The north through the city on foot and by road, canal and current administration … is also operating the ‘travel ban’ railroad. which targets Muslims who are twice terrorized by this In this tradition, the Syracuse Rapid Response Team, Workers World brutal policy. The first time … civilians in countries largely part of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, said in its rally 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. populated by Muslims are victimized by U.S. bombs.” statement that it was protesting now “to demonstrate our New York, NY 10011 Because Syracuse is within 100 miles of the Canadi- determination to protect our neighbors and to put the Phone: 212.627.2994 an border, U.S. law allows the Border Patrol to treat the government on notice.” E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 59, No. 28 • July 13, 2017 Closing date: July 11, 2017 Join us in the fight Editor: Deirdre Griswold Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, for socialism! Kris Balderas Hamel, Monica Moorehead, Minnie Bruce Pratt; Web Editor Gary Wilson Workers World Party is a revolutionary Marxist-Le- Wages are lower than ever, and youth are saddled with Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; ninist party inside the belly of the imperialist beast. 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Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered at Os- car Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland, Calif., on July 7 to demand that the district attorney’s office open the books and comply with a court order to release documents related to former DA Ronald Castille’s involvement in prosecuting Mumia. Castille is now a Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge, and his rulings on Mumia’s appeal cases may be found to be a conflict of interest. At the rally, emceed by revolutionary hip-hop and reggae artist Ras Ceylon and Gerald Smith of the Os- car Grant Committee, speaker after speaker spoke of Mumia’s long and strong support for all political prisoners, and his political leadership, from behind the prison walls, for all kinds of people’s struggles for justice and freedom. Attendees were hopeful that at long last, an opportunity to actually free him was close at hand. — Story and photo by Terri Kay Political prisoner the Rev. Pinkney ’FREE AT LAST’

By Koba Wright to a distant prison in north Michigan in a Detroit further attempt to break him. Pinkney taught math and religion to Activists here gathered on July 8 to his fellow prisoners, uniting them in the celebrate a rare victory in the struggle struggle — and in turn, they respected against capitalist oppression. More than him enough to let him pick the TV pro- 150 supporters of the Rev. Edward Pink- grams to watch in the slammer rec room, ney’s struggle against the Whirlpool Cor- he said with a laugh. poration and the city government of Ben- The Rev. Pinkney speaking to supporters on July 8 Pinkney ended his speech by calling for a new, stronger activism, and for com- ton Harbor, Mich., filled the St. Matthew WW PHOTO: WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT St. Joseph Episcopal Church in Detroit to sages of solidarity and victory, and a ria Aneb House delivered verses on the munities to say no to the racist oppres- celebrate Pinkney’s release from prison. consistent refrain that the struggle con- past and present of the struggle in Mich- sive apparatus of the capitalist system. The church was filled with joy, the tinues despite the movement’s success in igan. Dorothy Pinkney, the Reverend’s He peppered his words with call-and-re- smell of home-cooked food and soul mu- freeing Pinkney. spouse, introduced him. sponse chants of “It’s going down!” sic. When Pinkney walked into the room, Speakers delivered messages from Pinkney’s speech proved that prison “We have to learn to fight back,” Pink- he was greeted with a standing ovation Workers World Party Secretariat member bars, corporate corruption and SWAT ney said. “We have to say enough is and chants of “Free at last!” Monica Moorehead; the United Steelwork- teams could not break his spirit. His enough. We gotta say that we won’t allow Pinkney was imprisoned on trumped- ers Local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers mood was uplifting, even as he recog- this to happen in our community any- up charges of falsifying signatures on Union; as well as various other supporters nized the fight still ahead. He detailed more. Whatever needs to be done, we’re a petition to recall the mayor of Benton of Pinkney’s struggle. Some compared the ways the prison system tried to break gonna do it, whether they like it or not! Harbor, James Hightower. The case, his release to the freeing of other political him: constant harassment by prison If you get in our way, we gonna run you which went to the Michigan Court of Ap- prisoners, like Nelson Mandela. guards; rotten, maggot-laced food; and over. This is the future of our children at peals, concluded when the court decid- Other organizations and speakers in- false charges of smuggling that landed stake. We’ve allowed these people to kick ed no evidence was necessary to convict cluded Detroit water activist Monica him in solitary confinement. The state us around, bully us and do exactly noth- Pinkney, and that his past organizing Lewis-Patrick, We The People Of Detroit, took away his phone privileges for six ing. It’s time to change the way we do work created suspicion of motive to forge the Michigan Welfare Rights Organiza- months in an attempt to isolate him. business, and we can do it!” dates on the petition. This grievous mis- tion, the Detroit Active And Retired Em- None of this stopped him from con- Activists fundraised to provide Pinkney carriage of justice was merely a front to ployees Association, the Green Party, the tinuing to struggle, and even inspired with funds to get back on his feet after his attempt to murder Pinkney, a Black man Michigan Peoples Defense Network and him further. He beat the false charges of imprisonment, and presented him with a in his 60s, via incarceration. the Moratorium NOW!, Michigan Emer- smuggling. He organized a hunger strike generous donation at the end of the event. A series of speakers from Michigan gency Committee On War and Injustice. to win better food for the prisoners. The “When you get love like this, it makes and national activist groups recited mes- Poets Wardell Montgomery and Dr. Glo- prison complied, and then shipped him you want to fight,” Pinkney concluded. ‘Defund OPD’ challenges Oakland City Council

By Terri Kay reminded that the only place we’ll ever great. How? By ensuring that tenants and Oakland, Calif. get justice is in the streets.” long-term residents are protected, equi- The Defund OPD campaign was ty is a priority in the agenda and worker Allied campaigns for a “People’s launched a year ago by the AP-TP rights are enforced. It’s time to prioritize Budget,” led by the Defund OPD in response to the OPD rape scan- public services, housing our residents (Oakland Police Department) and Re- dal, when national and internation- with anti-displacement measures, and fund Oakland coalitions, forced the al headlines announced accusations protecting our workers and artists who Oakland City Council’s “Conservative that OPD officers had been involved make Oakland the ‘soul’ of the Bay.” Re- Caucus” to ram through their budget in the sexual abuse of an underage fund Oakland is a coalition of labor and on June 29, using a legally question- WW PHOTO: TERRI KAY girl. This was after the police killings community groups pushing for a “peo- able parliamentary maneuver. The coun- derived in consultation with many com- of seven Black men in Oakland in 2015. ple’s budget” to fund housing, jobs, youth cil was up against a June 30 state dead- munity groups. On its Facebook page, Defund OPD programs and education. (Refund Oak- line to pass a two-year budget. The Conservative Caucus, after a said: “Our mission is to reduce the Oak- land Facebook post) Dubbed the “Conservative Caucus” by 20-minute recess, pulled several one- land Police Budget by 50% and reinvest Defund and Refund worked togeth- the Anti Police-Terror Project, council time-only expenditures from their pro- that money into alternative non-police er over the past months in attending all members Larry Reid, Annie Campbell posal to allow passage of their budget programs that can better protect and budget hearings held by council members Washington, Lynette Gibson McElhaney with a simple majority. This parliamen- strengthen our communities. We envi- and challenging the status quo budget and Abel Guillen were at first unable to tary maneuver was strongly challenged sion free mental health clinics, trained being put forth. Defund OPD launched a get the required two-thirds majority to by Brooks, who claimed it was an illegal mediators and social workers who are social media campaign using a sign that pass their budget. move since the revised budget hadn’t able to respond to emergencies, and EMS said “Less Cops, More ____.” People They faced a packed house of people been formally “costed.” & Fire Departments that are not tied to were asked to fill in the blank with what demanding passage of a “People’s Bud- Cat Brooks of the AP-TP, who led a walk- the police force.” they thought should be supported in a get,” an alternative budget proposed out after the sham vote, summed it up with The Refund Oakland coalition sup- people’s budget and to post pictures of by Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan, these words: “When we’re in the streets, ported Defund OPD and called on the themselves holding the sign. which, though far from perfect, put more they tell us to work inside the system. council to “reinvest in the working-class AP-TP, with its Defund OPD group- money towards people’s needs and was When we work inside the system, we’re and communities of color that make it Continued on page 10 Page 4 July 13, 2017 workers.org Fight for transit justice! Fight for socialism!

By Taryn Fivek and John Steffin close this gap is by raising fare prices to Straphangers in New York can get a up 54-year-old Darryl Goodwin, a Black New York pay off the money they will need to bor- monthly pass for $121. But most workers MTA worker and member of TWU Local row from banks to cover costs. The MTA’s can’t scrape up the dough for a 30-day 100, because he allegedly was not able The state of this city’s Metropolitan fiscal arrangement with the 1% means Metrocard that can be lost. New York- to move fast enough when they barked Transportation Authority in 2017 is crimi- that any improvements needed to the ers getting an $11/hour minimum wage orders to let them chase a teenager ac- nal. Even as new subway stations are built system will come right out of the pockets would have to spend 11 hours of their cused of shoplifting into the subway sys- in wealthy neighborhoods like Hudson of the people who use the lines and keep monthly pay just to get to and from work. tem. It did not matter to these cops that Yards, a train derails in Harlem. While New York’s economy going. This has re- The ruling class would rather let pri- Darryl Goodwin was a 27-year veteran MTA executives spend money on WiFi, sulted in the fare going up 55 times since vate corporations like Uber, Lyft and the of the MTA, a union member in good cell carrier services and flashing bill- 1948, when that fare was just 51 cents in new privatized ferry service fill gaps for standing. It did not matter to them that boards doubling as maps, modernizing today’s money. the largely white, gentrifying profession- he was overworked and underpaid. They the signal system is put on the backburner. Make no mistake, if the transit system al class in New York. People of color, the slapped handcuffs on him and took him This has led to historic delays and the stops operating, then the profit-making poor and the working class will continue to jail because their mandate at that sta- injury and deaths of MTA workers from machine grinds to a halt. This is why im- to pay $2.75 per trip for trains that are tion was not to protect riders and work- Transit Workers Union Local 100, who mediately after Hurricane Sandy, Brook- overcrowded, delayed or derailed, are ers, but to terrorize the working class and courageously work to keep the system lyn residents were packed into crowded heavily occupied by the NYPD, smell like oppressed. moving safely. Thirteen transit workers buses that sent them over bridges into piss and lack accessibility for people with New Yorkers will need to look else- have died on the job since 2001, includ- Manhattan as MTA workers plugged in disabilities in most stations across the where for solutions to what has become ing construction flagger Louis Gray just extra days and hours, working tirelessly five boroughs. The transit workers them- an increasingly miserable and deadly last year. to pump water out of the tunnels, includ- selves will be forced to continue to work public transit experience. In recent weeks, the riding public has ing Amtrak’s, to bring the system back to in dangerous and undignified conditions. been confronted with videos on social life. Meanwhile, residents in Red Hook The ruling class does not care about Another world is possible media that highlight the decay of the went for weeks without electricity, heat whether the rider is in a wheelchair, Last year, China announced that it transit system: water pouring into train and running water. speaks another language or lives in poor- would spend $724 billion on transit in- cars and onto subway tracks; commuters The last transit workers’ strike in 2005 er neighborhoods far from train lines. frastructure over the next three years. trying to claw their way out of a train that was ended in less than two days by city Those who cannot easily use the stairs After the 2008 economic crisis, instead had been trapped underground with no concessions. Workers hung up “Closed” are forced to bear the stench, standing of approaching recovery with massive lighting or air conditioning for over an signs in front of stations on Dec. 20 and air and snaillike slowness of ancient ele- handouts to banks, as did the U.S., China hour. Many lines experienced delays and the retail stores could not bear a slow- vators or are confronted with broken es- decided to invest hundreds of billions into some saw total shutdowns due to derail- down at the height of the holiday shop- calators. Black and Brown people living public transit. The daily ridership of the ments and other issues during the last Beijing Metro went from 1.7 million to 9.9 week of June. million over the next 10 years. Instead of Who or what is behind the decisions New Yorkers need safe, reliable, accessible, free public transit and safe, being greeted with killer cops, rats, drip- that result in the degradation of our tran- ping ceilings and late trains, straphangers sit system? The argument favored in the well-paying working conditions for the tens of thousands who do the work. enjoy state-of-the-art rollingstock, plat- media is that it’s the MTA workers. But form doors and other technologies that it’s the workers themselves who risk in- To get all these things, we need to fight for them, and ultimately for socialism. raise their quality of life. Fares are dis- jury and death in these conditions. In tance-based, and range between 44 cents truth, these decisions are determined by for a short ride to only $1.50 to travel up the bankers who control the MTA, who to 70 miles on the system. care about profit over people, and whom In Moscow, the Metro system was built we cannot expect to fix this crisis in pub- by socialist labor in the 1930s. Many lic transport. Muscovites volunteered their Saturdays New Yorkers need transit justice: safe, to help put a working-class stamp on the reliable, accessible, free public transit most gorgeous system in the world, with and safe, well-paying working conditions marble, artwork and exquisite lighting for the tens of thousands who do the making a worker’s commute a pleasure work. To get all these things, we need to cruise instead of a nightmare like it is in fight for them, and ultimately for social- New York. Even after the collapse of the ism. Unless there’s a struggle, the capi- Soviet Union, the stations are still staffed talists will let the already deadly transit by dozens of workers whose job is to pro- system continue to decay, will continue vide assistance, clean the platforms and to underserve poor communities of col- run the kiosks for purchasing tickets that or and people with disabilities, and fun- range between 83 cents and $1, with 30- nel money into police terror and luxury day passes costing straphangers a little developments. The only way we have a over $30. chance is by fighting this rotten system To say it is impossible to have a mass that is designed only to extract the max- transit system that is free, clean, safe and imum amount of profit from the working reliable is to restrict our imaginations to class and oppressed. ping season. Of course, the ruling class in neighborhoods like East Flatbush are a system that has made moving around didn’t make these concessions without expected to take notoriously overcrowd- New York a great challenge. Banks and the MTA first attacking the workers with court in- ed and sporadic buses to some of the The MTA, which includes buses, sub- junctions and racist harassment. During most cop-infested and filthiest stations Conclusion ways and trains serving 12 counties in the the strike, billionaire Mayor Michael in Brooklyn. Those with disabilities must This dismal situation, however, is not New York metropolitan area, is a ­“public- Bloomberg called TWU Local 100 Pres- deal with an understaffed and poorly new. Public transportation in the United benefit” corporation funded by bonds held ident Roger Toussaint and the transit stocked Access-A-Ride system that is a States, throughout the entirety of its ex- by the richest banks in the world. The pri- workers — who are predominantly Black regular nightmare to depend on. istence, has been stained with the blood mary function of the MTA is not to help and Brown — “thugs.” When the state and the city of New of the working class and the oppressed 11 million people commute every day; it Public infrastructure and transit have York do actually allocate resources for — exactly because the history of the Unit- is to help these bond-holding banks turn been on the agenda of every politician issues of public transit, it’s to continue ed States, including its infrastructure a profit. And they do so to the tune of $1 running for mayor of New York since time waging war on Black and Brown people development, has been one of genocidal billion every year through tax-free interest immemorial, but it’s only when labor ac- here at home. It’s typical to see more cops racist capitalism. The class composition that the MTA pays on these bonds. tion and people power come knocking at a train station than MTA workers, who of those who work the transit system — The banks love these bonds because that the ruling class seems finally willing are understaffed, overworked and main- from those who dug the first tunnels to they are government secured. Regard- to listen to our demands. ly alone in their booths. those who now clean the stations — has less of whether the MTA has made Before arriving on a rat-infested, reek- not changed. It’s Black and Brown peo- enough money to pay back the bonds, Capitalist solutions won’t help workers ing platform to board a late train that ple, migrants and poor whites — the same the government will step in to pay back and oppressed may derail or flood, riders will need to people who primarily use the system. the banks. This may mean cuts to other The capitalist media express concern dodge the largest police force in the Unit- We can expect things to improve only government-funded services or hikes in for the MTA — because the decaying sys- ed States. Killer cops camp out behind if we organize and fight. Even poorer fare prices. Whatever it takes to pay the tem is hurting business. They cite exam- turnstiles and at platform entrances to countries have built terrific mass transit banks. And so the banks see the MTA as ples of empty offices and workers late to terrorize, harass and kidnap Black and systems under socialism. We must fight a safe haven for their money, at a time important business meetings or to open- Brown people, search bags and flag un- for a transit system that makes possible when the economy is in crisis and profit- ing stores and restaurants. This is the documented people for deportation. the safety and dignity of everyone who able investment is hard to come by. only reason the bourgeoisie would have These violent enforcers of the state are uses the trains and buses — the public Meanwhile, the MTA’s budget falls to intervene. They would be happy to not transit workers, and have no solidar- and the workers. “From the A to the Z, short by $15 billion of the amount need- lower conditions to just above open revolt ity with the mainly Black, Brown and mi- public transit should be free,” as Trans- ed to undertake critical infrastructure because that’s how they would achieve grant workforce underground. This was port Workers Union founder Mike Quill improvements. The MTA’s only option to the maximum profit. perfectly illustrated when cops framed once demanded. workers.org July13, 2017 Page 5

Workers strike big-business media for 16 weeks

For fifteen weeks, 1,800 - In By Alex Bolchi and Sue Davis ternational Electrical Workers Local 3 members have been out on strike at Charter/Spectrum Memphis sanitation workers Communications in the New York metro area. After working finally get their due without a contract for two years, Fourteen still-living Black workers who made history with the and after the communications “I am a man” Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968 — in mega corporation refused to which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played a decisive role bargain in good faith, workers before he was murdered — are finally getting their just rewards. walked out March 28. Spec- After nearly 50 years, the city of Memphis is forking over a trum completed acquisition of much-deserved $50,000 grant to each worker. Time Warner Cable in May, in Represented by the American Federation of State, County and an overall cash and stock deal Municipal Employees, the workers went on strike over low pay worth about $71 billion. and bad working conditions after a malfunctioning garbage truck Local 3 members struck fatally crushed workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker on Feb. 1, over Spectrum’s attempts to 1968. Though the sanitation workers settled the strike by ac- pull out of the workers’ medi- cepting Social Security benefits instead of a pension, the pension cal and pension plans. Another WW PHOTO: SUE HARRIS has since proved to be the better option. One of four strikers still key issue is unfair penalization IBEW Local 3 workers on strike picket line at Spectrum at 43 W. 23rd St., New working, 85-year-old Elmore Nickelberry, summed it up: “We of workers over repeat custom- York City, July 6. should have had this a long time ago.” African-American pastor er service calls. The real prob- LaSimba Gray Jr. raised the demand for a grant to the mayor over lem is the cable company’s failure to update faulty Workers pictured here told WW that the strike a year ago. (USA Today, July 6) equipment and its inflated promises to customers. was being “whited out” in local press coverage, as At one recent rally, striking workers held up pic- big-business news corporations side with Spec- NY Times workers walk out to save jobs tures of out-of-state license plates on cars recently trum. At press time, Local 3 members remain on spotted at Spectrum worksites, indicating the com- the picket line at Charter/Spectrum centers across The classic divide-and-conquer labor strategy of the the pany is using scab labor. This violates Spectrum’s New York City and in New Jersey. Sulzberger family-owned New York Times was exposed June 28 franchise agreement with New York City, which Join them, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. See picket loca- when hundreds of workers walked out during a 30-minute “coffee mandates local hiring. tions: tinyurl.com/woyv6ld. break” to protest management’s austerity plan to restructure the —Story by Minnie Bruce Pratt paper’s editing process and eliminate half of the 100 jobs in the editing department. The Times claims it wants to cut the editing staff to free up money to hire more reporters. While the walkout was called by the editing staff, it was joined by workers from other floors — represented by the News Guild of Michigan librarians win New York, Communications Workers Local 31003 — who walked out of the building together. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” tweeted a Times employee. “Each floor of the NYT newsroom is struggle vs. union busting full of folks walking out in solidarity [against] the coming layoffs.” Workers World newspaper recently interviewed one of the public em­ ployee During the past 18 months, management has called the editing By Randi Nord librarians who won a fight for union representation in Westland, Mich., staff’s work “low-value” and compared it to “dogs urinating on Westland, Mich. fire hydrants.” Meanwhile these editors — who ensure the quality a suburb of beleaguered Detroit. and accuracy of articles by checking facts and sources; correcting Workers World: Could you confusing, misleading and inaccurate information; and catching describe the Westland librar- grammatical and spelling errors — have been tested, inspected and forced to endure futile experiments as management tried ian struggle a bit? Kristy Cooper: On March 3, to make the editing staff do more with less. The final insult was five librarians were told their being told they would have to reapply and interview for jobs. positions were terminated at In a letter to management, the copy editors made a simple the Westland Public Library, request: “We only ask that you not treat us like a diseased pop- just two days after they had ulation that must be rounded up, inspected and expelled.” The turned in union-intention pa- letter noted: ”Cutting us down to 50-55 editors from more than pers. The library’s administra- 100, and expecting the same level of quality, is dumbfoundingly tion then hired three part-time unrealistic.” “library associates,” with no Times reporters sent their own letter critical of the editors’ benefits, to replace them. We treatment to management. Calling the copy editors “their ‘safety later found out these people had net’ who save them and the Times from countless errors large and the exact credentials as the ter- SAVE THE WESTLAND LIBRARY FACEBOOK PAGE small,” they added: “Your plan adds insult to injury by requiring minated librarians — a master’s in library science. many longtime, highly skilled employees to apply and interview for KC: I think it shows how often and easily the work [The fired librarians] were not allowed to apply for a greatly diminished number of jobs in sessions that were instantly people do is undervalued and treated as disposable, these demoted positions. They were all initially dubbed ‘death panels’ in the newsroom. Requiring them to dance even when everyone who actually knows what they told that they were laid off. But they were already for their supper sends a clear message to them, and to us, that the are doing would agree they are doing a good job. budgeted-for because of a 10-year dedicated li- respect we have shown The Times will not be reciprocated.” I think it also says a lot about how little [the li- brary millage passed by 71 percent in 2012, and The News Guild has the backing of the NYC Labor Council. brary administration] cared about the library’s pa- the library has a $2.5 million fund balance. The (Left Labor Reporter, July 3) The Council represents 1.3 million trons. When the librarians were terminated, sev- library’s board president claimed that the timing workers in 300 local unions from every trade and occupation, eral programs aimed at older or more vulnerable of their terminations was a complete coincidence. both public and private sector, in the NYC economy. members of the population had to be immediately The fact that it was an election year helped us a canceled, including the homebound delivery pro- lot [in the campaign]. I created surveys for every- gram, the adult literacy program, the job-seekers Beer drivers strike on Long Island, N.Y. one running for city council and mayor for them to lab, all teen programs, all computer classes and the Some 130 drivers and warehouse workers for beer distributor talk about what was happening at the library. This writing groups. Clare Rose on Long Island, N.Y., have been on strike for almost was the first time someone was running against the It also showed how little the Democratic Party ac- three months. The workers, represented by Teamsters Local 812, mayor in years. He was the person who appointed tually cares about labor issues. Westland is run by went out April 23 to protest management’s “draconian” offer: a the library board in the first place. Democrats and only two people from the Westland 30 percent pay cut and an end to pensions. The family-owned [Then] suddenly there was an article in the local Democrat Club actually got involved to help us. distributor of Budweiser, Heineken and craft beers to bars, delis paper about the library board hiring an indepen- WW: Has the process caused you or others to and grocery stores on Long Island immediately brought in “per- dent counsel from the city, and I was about to re- change your political stance? manent replacement workers” on April 25. The local responded lease the survey results. The mayor got the remain- KC: I was already a socialist when this strug- by filing an unfair labor practices suit with the National Labor ing board members to resign. Then the director gle began, but I would say the experience further Relations Board. resigned right after that. The next day, all of the radicalized me. I realized that working within the Meanwhile, local businesses are boycotting scab deliveries, librarians were then offered their jobs back. They system was terribly inefficient, and I have now tak- and the union’s strategy to push Anheuser-Busch to motivate the are currently negotiating the terms of their return en on a harder-line, anti-authoritarian position. greedy company to the negotiating table has worked. Local 812 with the library’s new union, the SEIU [Service Myself and several of the librarians involved have postponed a June 23 rally outside Busch’s Newark, N.J., brewery Employees], voted in by 27 to 5 in May. also been talking about how to decrease hierarchy after Clare Rose agreed to reopen negotiations with a professional WW: How do you think the Westland librarian in public library administrations and increase ac- mediator. (In These Times, June 28) struggle ties into the broader working-class struggle? countability. Page 6 July 13, 2017 workers.org Striking workers in Haiti win solidarity in U.S.

By G. Dunkel The workers’ threat to walk out again on July 10-12 was reported in just-style. Confronting brutal heat, nasty cops com, a website devoted to the clothing and stubborn resistance from their boss- industry in the United States. When a es, workers in the Haitian textile trades significant portion of the production for came out by the thousands June 26 to de- brands and stores like Gildan Activewear, mand that the minimum wage be raised Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, Levi’s, Gap, JC from 300 gourdes (about $4.71) a day to Penney, Walmart and Target is affected, 800 gourdes (about $12.71). their owners want to know why and how As well as demanding a wage increase, to avoid these disruptions. the workers and their unions are de- The Haitian government’s wage board manding social services. has promised to increase the minimum The march began at the Port-au-Prince wage to 335 gourdes per day. (AlterPresse, Industrial Park, then wound through the July 8) This will still keep the minimum capital city to a rally in front of the Social below $5 a day, the level that workers in Affairs Ministry. the United States got in the 1950s. The “Social services mean subsidizing the workers intend to maintain their strug- PHOTO: MILO MILFORT/HAÏTI LIBERTÉ food, rent, transportation, and education gle even though the government made a Thousands of workers surged through Port-au-Prince’s streets to demand a minimum wage of the workers’ children,” Dominique St- slight concession. hike to $12.71 (800 gourdes) per day and better work conditions. Eloi, general coordinator of the National Workers in Haitian textile — mainly Central of Haitian Workers, told Haï- young women under 25 — have trouble A group of activists is organizing a Rapid SA, Haiti Cheung Won SA, Textile Youm ti-Liberté June 28. “We talked to the So- buying food (with enough calories to keep Response Network (rapidresponsenetwork. Kwang SA and Pacific Sports Haiti SA. cial Affairs Minister, who lied to us. He them working) and water and paying info) and attempting to send a Twitter and Striking in a small, poor country, where promised buses, and a subsidy of food transportation costs that the Haitian gov- Facebook storm to the accounts of Jovenel a vast majority of workers don’t have a and rent. Yet nothing has been done.” He ernment has just raised sharply. Most of Moïse, Haiti’s president, and Jack Guy La- steady job, is hard. But the Haitian textile added, “We are also going to work for the the food bought in Haiti is imported and fontant, its prime minister, as well as the workers have been in the streets on and reintegration of more than 40 people who priced in U.S. dollars, but labor is paid in workers’ direct employers: Willbes Haitian off since early May in a courageous strug- have been fired.” low-priced gourdes. SA, MGA Haiti SA, Astro Carton d’Haiti gle for dignity and economic justice.

Malcolm Suber interview Take ‘em down NOLA fights to remove ALL racist monuments

Robert E. Lee; Pierre Gustave Toutant taken down. Stewart is a big capitalist theft. There is an organization of day labor- Beauregard, the general who ordered the who owns the cemeteries in the city and ers that we in Take ‘em down NOLA have firing on Fort Sumter that began the Civil is the second-biggest cemetery owner in been working with for quite some time. We War; and Jefferson Davis, president of the the world, Frank Stewart Enterprises. have much solidarity with our immigrant Confederacy. The fourth, finally, was the brothers and sisters and we have shown white supremacy monument — what the What New Orleans means for workers, it by holding demonstrations of solidarity white people in the city called the “Liberty immigrants with the day laborers and against building Monument” — an obelisk that praised the New Orleans’ economy now focuses on a wall on the border with Mexico. assaults on the Reconstruction Govern- tourism. There are 80,000 people work- PHOTO: TAKE ‘EM DOWN NOLA Role of Mayor Mitch Landrieu ment in 1874 here in New Orleans. ing in that industry. Their labor generates Malcolm Suber at protest demanding mon- Regarding all the attention to the NOLA We still have more than 18 white su- a great deal of capital for the hotel, motel ument to Harriet Tubman replace that of mayor’s speech in May, we have to recog- premacy monuments left in the city. and restaurant owners. But the majority Andrew Jackson. nize that he did make the initial motion The mayor and City Council say they are of the Black working class is stuck in min- that he would take down four monuments. “tired of spending funds” and they intend imum-wage jobs: bussing tables, washing Take ‘em Down NOLA led the strug- But we said, well, if you are going to have this to be the end. dishes, making beds in the hotels. gle, holding city-wide forums and many a discussion about removing the symbols Take ‘em Down NOLA says this is just These vast differences result in a great mass militant demonstrations of thou- of white supremacy, why stop at the four? the beginning, an appetizer. We are fight- deal of distance between the incomes of sands that resulted in getting the first Don’t just do a partial job. Do the whole job. ing now for a resolution to remove all the rich and poor — we are the second city in four Confederate monuments removed We had many community meetings de- white supremacy monuments and street the country in the gap between rich and from New Orleans. Malcolm Suber, manding that the city take down the mon- names and public buildings named for the poor. spokesperson for that people’s organiza- uments. The city government decided in slavemasters. This is a struggle that will So the condition that the Black work- tion and a longtime activist in the move- December of 2016 to have them removed, continue until we finish the main course. ing-class people in the city face is to have ment for Black liberation, spoke with but immediately the Monumental Task to work two jobs to survive. Because of Workers World managing editor John Committee, representing the white rul- Ruling-class resistance the gentrification after Hurricane Ka- Catalinotto to give some of the back- ing class, filed suit to try to prevent them Regarding why there was such resis- trina in 2005, our rents have skyrocketed ground for the struggle last spring and from coming down. And we frankly had tance among the politicians, well, if you and people who want to keep a roof over future plans of Take ‘em Down NOLA to push and prod and push and prod the understand the politics of Louisiana and their heads have to work two jobs. mayor to carry out the decision of the City The monuments that were taken down, New Orleans, you know that the rich New Orleans is the leading city in rate Council and bring down the monuments. as well as those remaining, were all con- white people control all the major eco- of incarceration in the entire world. Ba- We said if this mayor were really sincere structed in what we would call the Jim nomic positions and most of the money sically, the local ruling class has decided about his lovely words — and it was a mov- Crow era. Starting from the 1870s to the invested in the politicians. None of the they are not going to create any jobs for ing speech, but there was a big difference early 1900s, they constructed those stat- local politicians want to cross the hands the Black youth in the city and therefore between words and deeds on his part. We ues throughout the South. Their placement that feed them. have forced them to live lives of pushing don’t think that he is a sincere champion was an effort by the white supremacist All of the local white ruling class are drugs. Then the authorities put the Black of the struggle against white supremacy, plantocracy — the rule of the plantation descendants of the slave masters, whose youth in jail — they put them away and and we’re going to push and prod him un- owners — to take back all the tremendous accumulated wealth was stolen from the throw away the key. til we get all the monuments down. gains that were won by the newly freed Af- labor of the enslaved African people. It has a deleterious effect on the work- Take ‘em down NOLA’s next move is to rican people after the Civil War. What has really been telling in this whole ing class in terms of disruption and be- fight to get an ordinance passed that de- In that era, slowly but surely, all the experience has been that not one prom- ing able to build a wholesome community clares that New Orleans is going to be a Civil Rights laws that were enacted inent white person in this city has made among our people. city free of white supremacy-public mon- during the post-Civil War period were a statement in support of taking down or After Hurricane Katrina, many Mexi- uments, based on the principle of being chipped away. And the final crowning of removing the monuments. can and other Central American workers anti-racist and anti-white supremacist. the plantocracy coming back to power The most prominent rich white person, came for work in the reconstruction of We’re pushing to get that passed and we throughout the South was the attempt to Frank Stewart, who says he speaks for all New Orleans. The immigrant population will continue our public agitation to take enshrine that by building the statues to of them, said that they will continue to re- went from about 3 percent before 2005 to down the Andrew Jackson statue. It’s honor the “lost cause.” sist removal. In fact, they are circulating around 12 percent at this point. the most prominent Confederate monu- Four statues were removed beginning in a petition to force the city government to Many of these immigrants are day la- ment left standing and the most popular April and through May. They were of Gen. restore the monuments that have been borers, who have been victims of wage among white supremacists, and if we can workers.org July13, 2017 Page 7 Haiti & Bastille Day By Stephen Millies The livelihood of 2 million to 6 million lutionary France. ‘Servants, peasants, Two centuries of revenge people in France — out of a total popula- workers, the laborers by the day in the After the French Revolution, the radi- July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date in tion of 25 million — depended on slavery fields all over France were filled with a cal Jacobins were overthrown and many 1789 tens of thousands of poor people in and products grown by enslaved people. virulent hatred against the ‘aristocracy of were executed. Napoleon Bonaparte Paris attacked a hated prison called the France’s possession of Haiti meant it the skin’ [James was quoting a supporter eventually seized power and became a Bastille and began the French Revolution. owned the richest colony in the world. Its of slavery]. There were many so moved by military dictator. The continual intervention of poor people trade employed 24,000 French sailors on the sufferings of the slaves that they had Napoleon defeated one European feudal in the cities and countryside — particular- 750 ships. long ceased to drink coffee, thinking of it army after another. But he couldn’t con- ly in Paris — drove the revolution forward. While Britain had an export trade of 27 as drenched with the blood and sweat of quer Haiti. Napoleon sent an army to Haiti Karl Marx and Frederick Engels — the million British pounds, the French were men turned into brutes.” commanded by his brother-in-law, Charles founders of communism — lived in that close behind with 17 million. The wealth As the French Revolution went forward, Leclerc, and Toussaint Louverture was revolution’s afterglow. Lenin and the oth- produced by the Haitian people in slavery those bourgeois political leaders who op- kidnapped and died in a French prison. er leaders of the Russian Revolution stud- accounted for nearly 11 million pounds posed radical measures became known as But as Leclerc wrote to a French gov- ied the French Revolution. Lenin became alone. Girondists. They were named for the region ernment minister: “It is not enough to chairperson of the Council of People’s surrounding the French port of Bordeaux. have taken away Toussaint, there are Liberty seized by enslaved people Commissars, a term derived from the Like Liverpool in England, Bordeaux’s eco- 2,000 leaders to be taken away.” Leclerc French “commissaire.” The French bourgeoisie declared “Lib- nomic life depended on the slave trade. died in Haiti knowing he was defeated. Even the terms “left” and “right” de- erty, Equality, Fraternity” as the watch- The opponents of the Girondists were (Aldon Lynn Nielsen, “C.L.R. James: A rive from the French upheaval. When words of their revolution. This is still the known as Jacobins. Most schoolbooks Critical Introduction”) the National Assembly met in 1789, the motto of France today. slander Jacobins like Maximilien Robe- Despite massacres that included supporters of the king seized the right But most French capitalists never spierre or other radicals like Jean-Paul drowning a thousand Black people at a portion of the chamber and forced revo- wanted to abolish slavery or to grant lib- Marat as bloodthirsty “terrorists.” time, as well as public burnings and hang- lutionaries to sit on the left. They did this erty to Black people kidnapped from Af- But most of the Girondist leaders who ings, the French army suffered a worse because of an ancient prejudice against rica who were worked to death in Haiti, talked so grandly about liberty didn’t defeat than the British. Out of 34,000 left-handed people. Guadeloupe and Martinique. want to abolish slavery. It was only when French troops, 24,000 died. The French Revolution started in Eu- At that time conditions were such in Haiti Robespierre and the radical Jacobins Dessalines declared Haiti’s indepen- rope, but it belongs to the world. And that the average life expectancy for a Black were in power that slavery was formally dence on Jan. 1, 1804. But the world capi- there would have been no French Revolu- person on the island was 21 years. Then, ended in all French possessions by the talist class has never forgiven Haiti for its tion without Haiti. news of the French Revolution reached decree of Feb. 4, 1794. revolution. U.S. slave masters had night- Haiti and created a political ferment as it This was a historic measure by France’s mares about leaders in the mold of Des- Capitalist riches from enslaved workers became known to people in slavery. National Convention, but it only con- salines, like Nat Turner who led an 1831 The French Revolution was a capitalist, Dutty Boukman, an African originally firmed the freedom that had already been uprising of enslaved people in Virginia. or bourgeois, revolution. It swept away all enslaved in Jamaica, started a revolt in seized by the enslaved people themselves. Haiti is still deliberately kept the poorest the old feudal rubbish, like the remnants August 1791. Over 1,800 plantations were Defending the revolutions country in this hemisphere by the United of serfdom, that oppressed people. Even burned. Boukman was eventually killed, States and other capitalist countries. The French Revolution was opposed the formation of a national market, a ne- bravely fighting. But new leaders like But the Haitian Revolution changed by all of feudal Europe and by Britain, its cessity for capitalism, had to be fought for. Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques history forever. commercial rival. Like the Russian Revo- The capitalist class or bourgeoisie was Dessalines arose. The rising of Haiti’s en- lution more than a century later, France Tear down the walls not a new class. It began its rise centuries slaved people could not be stopped, and was invaded on a dozen fronts. The Duke French capitalists use Bastille Day to earlier in merchant trading. Its earliest it found support among the French poor. of Brunswick, commander of the Allied glorify French colonialism. But socialist attempts to challenge the old feudal or- “The Blacks were taking their part in Army (principally Austrian and Prus- revolutionaries should celebrate Bastille der, usually under the guise of religious the destruction of European feudalism sian), issued a manifesto threatening the Day by demanding that the more than 2 differences, were thrown back with begun by the French Revolution,” James destruction of Paris. million prisoners locked up in U.S. bas- bloody reprisals. wrote, “and liberty and equality, the slo- Although Britain bankrolled some of the tilles be freed, starting with Leonard The Bourbon kings and the big nobles gans of the revolution, meant far more to armies invading France, its own army was Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dr. Aafia Sid- of France were aristocratic parasites who them than to any Frenchman.” absent. That’s because it was invading Hai- diqui and the MOVE 9. feasted while millions lived in rags. They ‘The aristocracy of the skin’ ti. This move was a disaster for the Brit- Bastille Day should also be celebrated were symbolized by Queen Marie Antoi- While the French Revolution was a ish ruling class. “By the end of 1796, after because of the Iraqi Revolution that over- nette, who, when informed that people bourgeois revolution, it was poor people in three years of war, the British had lost in threw the U.S.- and British-backed monar- had no bread, exclaimed, “Let them eat the cities and countryside who fought for the West Indies 80,000 soldiers including chy on Bastille Day — July 14, 1958. Capi- cake!” referring to the burnt remnants of it. In Europe, there was as yet no modern 40,000 actually dead,” wrote James. talists never forgave Haiti’s revolution and bread caked inside communal ovens. working class because there were no big If the British army that invaded Haiti haven’t forgiven Iraq’s people for taking During the 1700s, the Bourbon mon- industries. The Industrial Revolution had had marched on Paris along with other over their own oil. The Pentagon has in- archy was increasingly challenged by the just started in Britain a few years before European powers, the French Revolution vaded Iraq twice and still occupies it. bourgeoisie. Its ideologues, led by Vol- with the first cotton spinning machines. might have been crushed. By defending The U.S. capitalist class is as obsolete taire, questioned everything and led the Haiti was different. As James point- their own freedom in a battle with British and useless as the French aristocracy was great intellectual movement known as ed out, “Working and living together in invaders, the Haitian people also defended 228 years ago. Capitalists want to take the Enlightenment. Voltaire campaigned gangs of hundreds on the huge sugar-fac- the freedom of 25 million people in France. away health care, privatize Social Securi- against executing people on “the wheel,” tories which covered the North Plain, “It was the decree of abolition, the brav- ty and cut wages even further. A socialist a torture device to which people were tied they were closer to a modem proletariat ery of the Black [people], and the ability revolution is needed just to stop capital- while their bodies were broken, some- [working class] than any group of workers of their leaders, that had done it,” wrote ism from cooking the earth. times just for allegedly mocking a reli- in existence at the time.” James. “The great gesture of the French The multinational working class in the gious procession. The French poor hated aristocrats and working people towards the Black slaves, United States will be forced to rise, as the But what gave the bourgeoisie its new- royalty like Marie Antoinette. But it was against their own white ruling class, had French and Haitian masses did. An abso- found confidence to oppose the monarchy the “aristocracy of the skin,” as it became helped to save their revolution from reac- lutely necessary requirement for success were the profits flowing into its coffers known, that became the most hated. Poor tionary Europe. Held by Toussaint and his is that millions of white workers, part of from the labor of people held in slavery. people in Paris found it detestable that peo- raw levies, singing the Marseillaise and this multinational class, break with rac- As C.L.R. James pointed out in his ple could be enslaved, branded and sold the Ça ira [two revolutionary songs], Brit- ism. They need to see, and will see, that classic “The Black Jacobins”: “Nearly all like cattle just because of their skin color. ain, the most powerful country in Europe, they are being used as political cattle by the industries which developed in France James wrote, “In these few months could not attack the revolution in France.” the wealthy and powerful, like Donald during the eighteenth century had their of their nearest approach to power [the In “A History of the British Army,” J.W. Trump, who actually despise them. origin in goods or commodities destined French poor] did not forget the Blacks. Fortescue concluded that people who had Tear down the Bastilles! Down with either for the coast of Guinea or for Amer- They felt towards them as brothers, and been enslaved “had practically destroyed the aristocracy of the skin! Reparations ica. The capital from the slave-trade fer- the old slave-owners, whom they knew to the British Army.” He admitted that “the for Haiti! tilized them; though the bourgeoisie trad- be supporters of the counter-revolution, secret of England’s impotence for the first Source: C.L.R. James, “The Black ed in other things than slaves, upon the they hated as if Frenchmen themselves six years of the war may be said to lie in Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the success or failure of the traffic everything had suffered under the whip. the two fatal words, St. Domingo [the old San Domingo Revolution.” else depended.” “It was not Paris alone but all revo- name for Haiti].” get that taken down the others will prob- MARXISM, REPARATIONS & the Black Freedom Struggle ably follow in order. An anthology of writings from Workers World newspaper. Edited by Monica Moorehead. People can go to the webpage Racism, National Oppression & Self-Determination Larry Holmes Harriet Tubman, Woman Warrior Mumia Abu-Jamal ­(takeemdownnola.org) to keep up with our Black Labor from Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery Sam Marcy Alabama’s Black Belt: Legacy of Slavery, activities. We are planning to have an an- Black Youth: Repression & Resistance LeiLani Dowell Sharecropping & Segregation Consuela Lee ti-white-supremacy-monuments con­fer­ The Struggle for Socialism Is Key Monica Moorehead Are Conditions Ripe Again Today? ence here in March of 2018. People should Domestic Workers Demand a Bill of Rights Imani Henry The 1965 Watts Rebellion John Parker look for the final plans, which should be Black & Brown Unity: Struggle for Human Rights ready by the end of July. & Global Justice! Saladin Muhammad Available at major online book sellers. GRAPHIC BY SAHU BARRON Page 8 July 13, 2017 workers.org Russia: a target, not a superpower

By Sara Flounders nally laid their hands on just a few years malnutrition and adult life expectancy Despite Russian and Ukrainian gov- ago. Remember: Imperialism’s very sur- has plunged.” ernment efforts to negotiate, and a Rus- The corporate media’s constant use vival depends on expansion and profit. The 1990s was a downhill slide from “a sian pledge of debt cancellation and new of Cold War terminology to describe the Photo ops, handshakes and reports of centralized, publicly owned economy to funds, the elected Ukraine government meeting of the U.S. and Russian pres- cooperation at the G20 meeting do not ... robber-baron capitalism. ... was labeled “corrupt” and overthrown by idents as a meeting of the “two super- change or lessen U.S. imperialism’s des- “For developing countries, in partic- a fascist gang, which seized government powers” masks the present relationship peration to hammer down any form of ular, the destruction of the second su- buildings on Feb. 22, 2014. of forces. resistance to its global domination. Any perpower — which had championed the Faced with the loss of its only warm wa- U.S. President Donald Trump and country attempting independent devel- anti-colonial movement and later the ter port, Russia took control of the small Russian President Vladimir V. Putin met opment is immediately targeted. third-world cause — largely closed off the peninsula and the Russian port in Crimea. at the Group of 20 summit on July 7 in There is an irresolvable contradiction scope for different alliances and sources Fearing a wave of privatizations and Hamburg, Germany. between the need of the majority of coun- of aid and sharply increased their depen- quick industrial shutdowns that have Old preconceptions and terms must be tries in the world to develop their produc- dence on the West.” come with every step of capitalist re- challenged in order to have an accurate tive forces and the need of Wall Street to structuring, the workers’ movement in view of the present international situa- maintain its place at the center of the NGOs as Western missionaries Eastern Ukraine, the industrial heart- tion. Russia today, as a capitalist country, world economy. However, Washington’s Into the economic chaos and social land, seized factories and communica- is not even a fifth-rate economic power. position is clearly slipping, despite dai- dislocation came not only Western bank- tion centers in self-defense against the The Russian economy is smaller than ly military threats that assert its global ers, stockbrokers, real estate schemers fascist coup in Kiev. the economy of Brazil, south Korea or dominance. and speculators. Every major corpora- The result was that Russia lost a ma- Canada. According to World Bank and tion, including Rockefeller, Ford and the jor trading partner. Its sphere of eco- International Monetary Fund measure- New Russian capitalists Soros foundations, religious groups and nomic relations became much smaller, ments, Russia now ranks 12th globally Privatization campaigns of the 1990s the U.S. Agency for International Devel- and it faced an all-out effort at economic in its gross domestic product. This mea- facilitated the transfer of significant So- opment lavishly funded nongovernmen- ­strangulation. surement is the market value of goods viet-era wealth to a relatively small group tal organizations. Banks and sanctions and services. of Russian business oligarchs. These These NGOs set up staffs and fund- Today’s Russian Federation is a vast- pirates were willing to make the most ed schools, religious organizations and Economic sanctions imposed by the ly different state — socially, politically, corrupt deals with the West to maintain publications to promote capitalist values, U.S. and EU at this time were specifically economically and militarily — from the their stolen wealth. Western “democracy” and civil society designed to hit Russia in its energy sec- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of As long as Russian politicians and pri- and to glorify competition and private tor, where the country is most vulnerable. even 27 years ago. vateers were totally compliant with the property. They wrote property laws and Suddenly no U.S. oil company could It is important to understand what devastating looting of the country, they textbooks and were thoroughly enam- do business with Russia, nor could any Russia is today in order to understand were showered with glowing media cov- ored with Western capitalism. companies sell drilling technology to ac- the real intent of the constant Russia erage. The Group of 7, the largest imperi- The Yale Center for the Study of Glo- cess oil and gas reserves. The sanctions baiting in the media. alist countries, invited Russia to join. balization reported: “There are at least restrict access to Western financial mar- In stockpiled nuclear weapons from The problem for the new capitalist oli- 600,000 registered non-governmental, kets. U.S. banks cannot issue long-term the Cold War, the U.S. and the Russian garchs is that when the Soviet state was non-commercial organizations operating loans to Russian businesses for energy- Federation may have somewhat even nu- overthrown, there was no room for a new in Russia” in 2005. focused projects. clear firepower — more than enough to capitalist power in the global economy. Forces in the Russian Duma, the elect- Russian state banks are now excluded incinerate the world in one launch. All the banks and multinational corpo- ed assembly, began a nationwide govern- from raising long-term loans in the EU. But U.S. military expenditures are es- rations aggressively moved in to take ad- ment campaign against foreign-funded The U.S. also put sanctions on Russian timated at 36 percent to almost 50 per- vantage of the chaos. NGOs. In 2012 USAID was kicked out of banks, banning U.S. companies from re- cent of total global military expenditures. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia. The “foreign agent” law put 33 ceiving or loaning money to them. Russia’s expenditures are 4 to 5 percent U.S. imperialism and the Western impe- percent of Russia’s NGOs out of business All this was intended to force the new of the global total. rialist powers expected to have totally in 2013. capitalists around Putin to break with his The Pentagon maintains more than free rein to loot Russia at will. For almost policies and to submit to a total takeover 800 military bases around the world and 15 years they did have a free hand. The NATO expansion to protect their own profits. 300,000 troops stationed outside the results in Russia were devastating. The bankers’ policy was about subju- Russia is now on the defensive, and U.S. Russia has a naval base in Syria and gating and recolonizing not only Russia since 2014 it’s been clear that the impe- a few communication centers in former Cost of capitalist restoration but all the countries of the former social- rialists’ plan is total dismemberment. Soviet Republics. Seumas Milne, a British journalist ist bloc, including the countries of Eastern Strengthening the state sector under The U.S. Navy has 19 aircraft carriers, with the Guardian News, summarized Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Putin and tightening controls on for- each of which includes jet aircraft, he- Stephen F. Cohen’s book, “The Failed In order to lock this violent and chaot- eign-funded NGOs and on capital flight licopters, destroyers and nuclear subs. Crusade,” on this transition to a capitalist ic transformation in place, the U.S.-com- out of the country were a matter of eco- Russia has one 27-year-old carrier pro- economy. Cohen is professor emeritus of manded military alliance, NATO, was nomic survival. pelled with oil-fired boilers rather than a Russian studies at New York University expanded to include every East Europe- Defense of Syria nuclear reactor. and Princeton University. an country and former Soviet Republic, The U.S.-led effort to overturn the gov- “In the most cataclysmic peacetime right up to the borders of Russia. In 2013- ernment in Syria threatens to take an- Russia’s resources a target economic collapse of an industrial coun- 14 this untenable absorption came to a other major trading partner away from Russia is a target of U.S. imperialism try in history ... [u]nder the banner of re- crisis over U.S. and German attempts to Russia. Russia’s only naval facility on the because of its vast resources. Eighty per- form and the guidance of American-pre- totally seize Ukraine. Mediterranean is in Syria. cent of Russian exports abroad are now scribed shock therapy, perestroika During the years of violent transition The appeal of the Syrian government in raw materials, primarily gas and oil. became catastroika. to a capitalist economy, the Ukraine to Russia for assistance, after four years The petroleum industry in Russia is one “Capitalist restoration brought in its had still maintained deep economic ties of war, tens of thousands of mercenaries of the largest in the world. It is the larg- wake mass pauperization and unemploy- and extensive trade with Russia, but it and funded extremist forces, and a year of est exporter of natural gas. Coal, iron, ment; wild extremes of inequality; ram- also had increasing ties to the European U.S. and 10 other countries bombing Syr- aluminum, precious metals, lumber and pant crime; virulent anti-Semitism and Union. The EU, however, would not settle ia, has now led to daily confrontations. cereals are other major exports. ethnic violence; combined with legalized for sharing Ukraine with Russia. A total There is a broad agreement that if U.S. This makes Russia’s economy espe- gangsterism on a heroic scale and precip- break was demanded by the bankers. plans succeed in overturning the govern- cially vulnerable to global commodity itous looting of public assets. … ment in Syria, following the overturns swings and drastic downturns. “By the late 1990s, national income U.S. and EU seizure of Ukraine that have occurred in Iraq and Libya, There is an insatiable drive to control had fallen by more than 50 percent. ... When Ukraine President Viktor Yanu- then Russia and Iran are undeniably Russia’s great wealth by the largest banks The market experiment has produced kovych was negotiating about Ukraine’s next on the list. and corporations. All currents of the U.S. more orphans than Russia’s [20 mil- entrance into the EU, the EU refused to Russia’s assistance to Syria is of a de- and Western imperialist ruling class are lion-plus] wartime casualties, while ep- allow Ukraine to continue trading with fensive character. Self-defense is a critical desperate to have unlimited access to this idemics of cholera and typhus have re- Russia. It also demanded that Ukraine link in the global axis of resistance based great stream of profits, which they had fi- emerged, millions of children suffer from join NATO. This meant that the Crimea, not on ideology, but necessity. Without the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and Russian help, Syria would have fallen. only warm water port, would be handed But with significant Western funding over to NATO. for development blocked, new avenues To carry out a coup against the elect- have opened. Russia is increasingly rely- WAR WITHOUT VICTORY ed Ukrainian government, the Euro- ing on China for loans, is now providing by Sara Flounders PentagonAchillesHeel.com maidan movement, led by neoliberals 60,000 tons of wheat per month to Ven- and fascists, received enormous Western “By revealing the underbelly of the empire, Flounders sheds insight ezuela, and has canceled Cuba’s $30 bil- support and funding. The reactionary on how to stand up to the imperialist war machine and, in so lion Soviet-era debt. doing,save ourselves and humanity.” movement seized the center of the cap- The growing web of trade and econom- – Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, ital, Kiev, and held it for three months. ic relations among economic formations President, U.N. General Assembly, 2008-2009; U.S. and West European media and poli- like BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China Foreign Minister of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. ticians poured into the encampment with Available at online booksellers. unanimous support. Continued on the next page workers.org July13, 2017 Page 9

G20 protests in Hamburg Save climate, stop war, welcome immigrants!

By John Catalinotto of the imperialist states that colonized the world in the 19th and early 20th cen- The recent meeting in Hamburg, Ger- turies and that still exploit labor and land many, of the so-called Group of 20 — that worldwide through their domination of is, the heads of state of the 20 countries banking, commerce, information, pro- with the largest economies — became paganda and especially military power. the focus of two nights and three days of The G7 includes U.S., Japanese, German, protest in this industrial and port city on French and British imperialism, along the Elbe River. Forces gathered from all with junior imperialist partners Canada of Europe, including many people born in and Italy. These are the imperialist pow- the global South. ers responsible for war, climate destruc- By July 8, when the G20 meeting was tion and worldwide exploitation. ending, some 76,000 demonstrators — The other 13 countries in the G20, by the organizers’ hard count — were whatever their own inhabitants think of marching through Hamburg’s streets. their governments, don’t play the same These tens of thousands showed up de- role in the world, nor do they have a sim- PHOTO: GABRIELE SENFT spite two nights when 20,000 German ilar monopoly of power. A protest that Hamburg, Germany, July 8. cops, fitted out like an infantry assault lumps them all together, then, lacks po- battalion, waged a war of aggression litical clarity. read one big banner. a banner reading: “Peace, Jobs, Solidari- against a more militant wing of the pro- The July 8 protest’s main demands In one photo, Black and white dem- ty; Fight imperialism!” testers — and against anyone who was were for a more stringent restriction of onstrators were shown holding placards While the U.S. president, noted for in the way of the cops’ charges. (See the use of fossil fuels to reduce climate reading, “Defend human rights; Stop ex- his overt Islamophobia, misogyny, U.S. Jungewelt.de special on the G20.) change than provided by the Paris ac- pulsions” in German and “Stop the war chauvinism and pullout from the Paris German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cords, an end to war and war threats, against migrants” in French. Other ban- climate accords, was singled out in these strategy of police intimidation, and the protection of migrant rights and a more ners displayed the latter slogan in Ger- photos less than might be expected, one cops’ actions, seemed to backfire. Ac- just economic policy. man and English, adding “Refugees are placard read, “Donald Dump is a Trash- cording to some reports, they aroused A close reading of hundreds of pho- welcome here.” ist,” and a large banner read, “Women’s solidarity with the victims of police bru- tographs of the July 8 march through A banner with a picture of Che Guevara March against Trump and the G20.” tality and anger at the cops. Hamburg revealed an array of demands. read, “Solidarity is the tenderness of the More than one banner read, “Capi- There is a difference between the G20 “The crisis is called capitalism; Let’s people” and “Together for a just world.” talism kills.” That’s a succinct start to a and the G7. The latter gathers the heads fight together; Another world is possible,” The German Communist Party carried struggle for socialism. Macron & French proletariat’s radical tradition

By Jim Carey tablishment and various international fas- ist” label is certainly not accurate for this The people’s revolutionary heritage cists, with the former praying for a Macron neoliberal-oriented political party. Upon Macron’s victory was far from the victory and the latter cheering for far-right his election in 2012, Hollande consistent- France will be celebrating its 228th media’s portrayal of a “mandate” by the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen. ly proved to be an enemy of the working Bastille Day on July 14. This event com- people. There are other new voices de- The corporate media have happily report- class, including his compliance with Eu- memorates the seizure of that notorious manding real change, including the left ed Le Pen’s embarrassing defeat and the ropean Union austerity requirements is- political prison by Parisian workers, a La France Insoumise party, which won parliamentary majority won by Macron’s sued by Brussels. major event that led to toppling the An- 17 seats in the National Assembly, more new La République En Marche! party. Hollande initially promised to reduce cien Régime under King Louis XVI and than twice the eight seats the far-right But actual voters in France didn’t seem the ratio of France’s borrowing to its gross the establishment of the first revolution- Front National’s won. interested. While Macron does have the domestic product by increasing taxes on ary European republic. While the new, true socialist voice isn’t parliamentary support to back his poli- businesses, primarily large corporations. The new French President Emmanu- enough by itself to counter the presiden- cies, what’s not being discussed in depth But by the time Macron was appointed fi- el Macron should take the day to reflect tial agenda, there is another force that is that this “victory” was won in an atmo- nance minister in 2014, the new austeri- on his country’s radical heritage and put is a reliable source of resistance: the sphere of apathy. ty plan included making widespread cuts some serious thought into his projected French workers. Macron and En Marche! won their to public programs, from state and local “reforms.” The people will likely turn out to be “mandate” with the lowest voter turn- budgets of the previously robust social A neoliberal ‘Hail Mary’ Macron’s greatest opposition. This is the outs in over 30 years. Despite assurances security system. lesson that should be drawn from the The recent French election drew world­ from imperialist media that Le Pen was The damaging policies that Minister popular uprising by the citizens of Paris wide interest from both the neoliberal es- no more, she still won 33 percent of the Macron helped enact under Hollande and their victory at the Bastille on July presidential vote, almost double that of were the groundwork for President Ma- 14, 1789. From that day forward, the her more openly racist and anti-Semitic cron’s future plans. French people have lived in a continuous father in his 2002 run. Le Pen also won Macron’s continued march cycle of revolutions that changed their and South Africa), Shanghai Cooperation six more seats in the National Assem- toward austerity country. From the First Republic of 1792, Organization, the Bolivarian Alliance for bly, an increase from two to eight. Front Macron has plans that are familiar to the July Revolution of 1830, the Paris the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and National may be down, but it is unlikely anyone who understands the usual strat- Commune of 1871 through resistance to the Chinese One Belt One Road propos- to be out, especially if Macron keeps his egy of neoliberal technocrats: the gov- Nazi occupation during World War II, the al are all signs of growing efforts among neoliberal promises. ernment staying true to the ideas of “eco- French people have let the ruling class many targeted countries to fight isolation ‘Outsider’ as insider nomic growth” by catering to corporations know when they’ve had enough. and resist imperialist dismemberment. Macron was sold as an outsider by the from the technology and financial sectors. Three examples have happened in just During discussion about global warm- pro-neoliberal global media. But even a But that enticement will play out as the past decade and a half. First, under ing at the G20 meeting, it was the U.S. co- fleeting glance at his record shows this subsidies and favoritism toward the Macron’s old boss Hollande, Paris was lossus that appeared increasingly isolated. is a ridiculous notion. The En Marche! most wealthy, perhaps even banks flee- set ablaze last year by uprisings that Sole superpower status Party may be just over a year old, but ing post-Brexit Britain after causing that followed months of mass protests over has not benefited population Macron isn’t an unknown who suddenly country’s 2008 economic collapse and proposed neoliberal changes in the labor Military expenditures continually appeared and swept the people of France forcing austerity there as well. laws, leading to a strike by French trans- drain every needed social program in the off their feet. This grand scheme will be occurring portation workers. U.S. But they are extremely profitable for Prior to entering public life, Macron as Macron tries to implement plans to Second, a series of militant uprisings the largest corporations, such as DynCorp was hard at work in the chambers of the gut French spending for social programs have occurred in the suburbs of Paris International, Boeing, Lockheed Martin powerful Rothschild & Cie Banque. Not that keep even the bourgeoisie safe. The where people suffer rampant unemploy- and Raytheon. one of the world’s largest banks, and cer- new government has promised to further ment and live in desperate poverty, while According to the World Health Organi- tainly red meat for conspiracy-prone sup- cut welfare programs and to change the extreme racism, vile Islamophobia and zation, U.S. life expectancy, ranked 31st porters of fascists like Le Pen, the bank labor laws to reduce unions and workers’ police brutality target residents, many globally, is one of the lowest in developed is still proof of Macron’s close ties to the negotiation power to the level of the in- of them immigrants, from countries for- countries. It is the same for basic educa- world of global capital. Macron left the dividual. Macron has also pledged to cut merly colonized by France. tion; at 38th, the United States ranks be- bank in 2008, but not for any altruistic unemployment — while firing 120,000 Third, in 2003 the people of France hind every major industrialized country. reason. Instead his knowledge of the fi- government employees. participated in one of the largest global The measures for infant mortality, nance sector helped him in his new po- If Macron does go through with this mobilizations against the U.S. invasion of maternity care, housing and infrastruc- sition as finance minister under French neoliberal blueprint, he should remem- Iraq. Where did the estimated 200,000 ture reflect the true cost at home of U.S. President François Hollande. ber one key point: The people of France, marching in Paris end this iconic act of imperial­­ism’s determination to loot the President Hollande was a member of especially in Paris, don’t take attacks like global solidarity against imperialist war? world. France’s Socialist Party, but the “social- these lying down. At the site of the Bastille, of course. Page 10 July 13, 2017 workers.org Chicago Trans Liberation DPRK statement #NoJusticeNoPride on missile test The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of able nuclear war deterrent which is fun- the Democratic People’s Republic of Ko- damentally different from the military rea (north Korea) released a statement equipment for aggressive war developed July 7 on the country’s test-firing of an in strict confidence by the U.S. with the intercontinental ballistic missile, the wild ambition to dominate the world by Hwasong-14, which succeeded on its very means of surprise attack on other nations. first trial. “Nonetheless, the U.S. is branding the Hailing the event as “a brilliant victory DPRK’s legitimate and righteous mea- achieved by the army and people of the sure for self-defense as a ‘global threat’ DPRK in their more than half-a-centu- and calling for ‘global action’ against it. ry-long anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. show- This is an explicit illustration of Trump’s down,” the ministry said this heroic deed ‘America First Policy’ that seeks it own “provided a reliable guarantee of peace interests by sacrificing others. and stability of the Korean peninsula “The mugger’s mentality that tries to and the region. However, the U.S. is con- engage the entire world in opposing a demning the DPRK’s test-fire as a ‘global sovereign state for the reason that the threat’ and is scheming to increase the state incurred its displeasure will never international sanctions and pressure on find acceptance among any sensible peo- the country to the top notch.” ple and independent countries. PHOTO: LOVE & STRUGGLE PHOTOS The statement continues: “The DPRK “The complete success in the test- On June 25, the Trans Liberation Col- Pilsen Alliance created puppets of makes it clear once again that its develop- fire of inter-continental ballistic rocket lective led a coalition of accomplices to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera to ment of inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14 significantly enhanced the shut down the Chicago Pride Parade for march along with the group of protesters, is an option taken to defend itself by com- efficiency of the DPRK’s nuclear force as fifteen minutes, demanding an end to visibly bringing them into the space and pletely terminating the hostile policy and a war deterrent, thereby more reliably en- the parade as it exists in its current form, centering their legacy as the mothers of nuclear war threat of the U.S. which have suring peace and security in and around and for a celebration to take its place to Pride. A statement from organizers de- lasted for decades. the Korean peninsula. bring Pride back to its roots, honoring clared: “Trans people are the vanguard “There are several nuclear weapons “Now that the DPRK’s ability to strike trans women of color and recognizing of the queer liberation movement. We de- states in the world today, but the U.S. is the very heart of the U.S. at any given the police as an oppositional force to mand more resources, facilities, funding, the one and only country that makes it its time has been physically proved, the U.S. queer and trans liberation. TLC groups and access for Black and Brown trans daily business to impose constant nucle- would find it more difficult to dare attack included the BTGNC (Black, Trans, Gen- people in Chicago!” A full list of TLC ar threat upon the DPRK. the DPRK. der Nonconforming) Collective, Black demands, including solidarity with oth- “The issue of the DPRK’s nukes and “Herein lies the world historical signifi- Lives Matter Chicago, Jewish Voice for er freedom struggles, is at tinyurl.com/ ballistic rocket is an issue confined to cance of the measures taken by the DPRK Peace, Assata’s Daughters, the Pilsen y6vscnqy the DPRK and the U.S., and the test-fire that has strengthened the powerful nu- ­Alliance and others. — Report by Erica Anna of the inter-continental ballistic rock- clear war deterrence in every dimension et conducted by the DPRK this time is in pursuance of the new line of simulta- a ‘gift package’ addressed to none other neously developing the two fronts in the than the U.S. face of persistent pressure and sanctions “No other ICBM state had been more by the hostile forces. Big turnout against transparent than the DPRK in the devel- “And this is the only way to defend opment and test-fire of inter-continental oneself and safeguard the dignity of the ballistic rocket. nation in the present hostile world where hate in Berkeley “The DPRK officially announced that the law of the jungle prevails. it would commence the development of “It is high time the U.S. completely inter-continental ballistic rocket as it reoriented its strategic viewpoint on the was the inevitable choice for the coun- DPRK, and it should give up its hostile try to cope with ever-increasing nuclear policy against the latter and put a definite threat from the U.S. and opened to pub- end to its nuclear threat and blackmail lic the entire process of combustion test without further delay. and static firing test of the engine and “As has been declared by respected Su- the actual test-fire of the rocket, and even preme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un, the sensitive information such as tactical and DPRK will neither put its nukes and bal- technical data and specifications. listic missiles on the negotiating table in “That is because the DPRK’s inter-con- any case nor flinch even an inch from the tinental ballistic rocket is an unquestion- road of bolstering its nuclear force unless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the U.S. against the DPRK are thorough- ly eradicated. Oakland “The U.S. will receive more ‘gift pack- ages’ of different sizes from the DPRK in By Terri Kay Jesse Arreguin has received thousands endless succession, as it tries harder to of death threats, to the point where he ‘Defund OPD’ destroy, by means of sanctions and pres- More than 200 people turned out for had to hire a security detail, but has yet sure, the overall national power and stra- a public forum dubbed United Against to even put out a press release about it. Continued from page 3 tegic position of the DPRK which have Hate in Berkeley, Calif., on July 7. The Ak charged that the Berkeley Police De- ing, had led an action at the June 26 City been drastically boosted.” forum was organized in response to nu- partment is complicit with the alt-right. Council budget meeting, when the Con- So there it is. The Koreans dare to merous attacks, centered in Berkeley but People were urged to attend Arreguin’s servative Caucus had originally planned to speak truth to power. They don’t use the spread throughout the Bay Area, by right- state of the city address on July 9 to hold push through their budget. After declaring kind of honeyed “diplomatic” language wing extremists and Zionists. Many of him accountable for letting the alt-right during public comment that they wanted that is intended to prettify and conceal the attacks have targeted Muslims and in and for renewing the contract for Ur- to lock down a people’s budget, supporters the brutal policies of a predatory imperi- Palestinians in particular. ban Shield, a program promoting the locked themselves to the gates between alist power. Forum speakers included Tur-Ha Ak, militarization of police forces. public seating and the council dais. For this they are viciously attacked by Anti Police-Terror Project; Lara Kiswani, Kiswani highlighted the cases of The packed council chambers then the U.S. capitalist media and politicians Arab Resource and Organizing Center; Rabab Abdulhadi, a San Francisco State erupted as hundreds of people stood up of all stripes, who never say an unkind Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers University professor targeted by Zion- chanting “Defund OPD!” and “Get up! word about the 7,000 nuclear warheads Guild San Francisco Bay Area chapter ists and under intense harassment, and Get down! There’s a housing crisis in this stored by the Pentagon or the more than vice president; and Daniella, AF3IRM Reem’s Bakery in Oakland, Calif., where town!” Council President Larry Reid led half a TRILLION dollars stolen every year and Northern California Anti-Racist Ac- Zionists have targeted Reem Assil’s new the council out of chambers as the au- from the people of the U.S. in order to feed tion. Moderator Sara Kershnar explained venture and have attacked her, the work- dience declared victory in having shut the military-industrial-banking complex. how Identity Evropa and the Tradition- ers and the bakery. the budget proceedings, and the council Thank you, Korean comrades, for your alist Workers Party, among others, have The forum organizers are calling for a meeting, down. Reid briefly returned af- courage to tell it like it is. been targeting the Bay Area and are ex- march on Aug. 5 and asking for court sup- ter the people had filed out, forced to offi- — Deirdre Griswold, plicitly white supremacist. port on Aug. 10 for Eric Clanton, an Anti- cially adjourn the session. Editor, Workers World Ak talked about how Berkeley Mayor fa activist facing trumped-up charges. workers.org July13, 2017 Page 11 Venezuelan independence celebrated

By Stevan Kirschbaum Pictured (l-r) are Local 8751 Record- Boston ing Secretary Claude “Tou Tou” St. Ger- Boston main and President Andre François, The Consulate General of the Bolivar- Omar Sierra, Local 8751 steward Rob- ian Republic of Venezuela in Boston, led ert Traynham and Vice President Steve by acting Consul General Omar Sierra, Kirschbaum. Local 8751 has sent union hosted a Celebration of Venezuelan In- solidarity delegations to Venezuela, par- dependence on July 7 at the Communi- ticipated in welcoming President Maduro ty Church of Boston. The evening began to Hostos College in New York City and with a meal of traditional Venezuelan del- has gone on record denouncing the U.S./ icacies and music. CIA role in destabilization, coup attempts Representatives from several Lat- and the funding of right-wing violence. in American and Caribbean consulates U.S. imperialism: Hands off Venezuela! joined a packed hall of supporters and sol- PHOTO: BOSTON WW idarity activists, including representatives from the U.S.-Venezuela Solidarity Com- mittee Boston; United Steelworkers, Local Serbian autoworkers strike Fiat Chrysler 8751, Boston School Bus Union; the July By Martha Grevatt workers, says the Kragujevac strike was ly to Serbia, where wages are lower, as a 26 Coalition; the Boston Committee in inspired by a recent strike. Workers in club against Italian unions to force them Solidarity with the People of El Salvador; Over 2,000 autoworkers have been Kragujevac at Magneti-Marelli, an Italian to agree to concessions. Fanmi Lavalas Boston; Workers World on strike against Fiat Chrysler Automo- auto parts supplier that FCA took over in The Regional Solidarity Council, com- Party; Bishop Filipe Teixeira; as well as biles in Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia, 1967, struck for and won wage parity with prised of unions in all the republics of the activist leaders from Puerto Rico, Guate- since June 26. They are demanding pay workers in the FCA assembly plant. former Yugoslavia, as well as a group of mala, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and more. increases of 38,000 dinars to 45,000 di- Kragujevac has for years been labeled FCA plant shop stewards in Italy, have In the keynote address, Sierra gave nars, roughly equal to $360 to $427, and “Serbia’s Detroit.” It had been nearly de- sent messages of support. “We can and a detailed update of current events as an end to indiscriminate firings. Last stroyed during the 1999 U.S.-NATO war on we must say no to [FCA CEO Sergio] Mar- well as a history of the Bolivarian Revo- year, an entire shift of workers was laid the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia and its chionne,” the Italians declared. lution. He reported on the well-orches- off, affecting not only the laid-off workers subsequent breakup, foreign auto compa- Marchionne is disliked by FCA workers trated and financed right-wing attempts but also those in the plant who then had nies took over the country’s auto industry. everywhere, from Europe to Latin Amer- to overthrow the democratically elected a higher workload. Additional demands The struck plant, first opened in 1955, ica, to the U.S. and Canada. “Hell no, Ser- government of President Nicolás Maduro. center on lack of paid maternity and long- manufactured vehicles with Fiat, Zastava gio” was a slogan members of the Unit- This criminal campaign of terrorism has term illness leave and the failure of FCA and Yugo brand names. It was nearly ed Auto Workers came up with during a included shootings, stabbings and setting to pay a negotiated bonus in 2016. destroyed during the 1999 war. Fiat pur- “Vote no” campaign that defeated a con- government supporters on fire, as well as The strike has been successful, with chased in it 2008. Since then, FCA has cessionary national contract in 2015. wholesale economic sabotage targeting only 250 white-collar workers staying in used the threat to move work from Ita- Grevatt is a 30-year UAW FCA worker. food, transportation, etc. the plant. Fiat, in violation of Serbian la- In discussing Venezuelan history, Si- bor law, is refusing to negotiate. erra gave special recognition to the deep Jugoslav Ristic, chair of the Confedera- bonds of solidarity with Haiti, dating tion of Independent Trade Unions, which Letter to the editor back to Haiti’s 1804 successful slave revo- represents a majority of the striking lution and the Haitian people’s indispens- Travel challenge to Cuba able concrete solidarity to Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolí- The first time I heard about Cuba was the-counter medicine from any conve- var. On July 29 at 4 p.m. at Encuentro 5, 9 Pentágono guerra from my Dad, when I asked him why his nience store. Compare that to a country Hamilton Place, the U.S.-Venezuela Soli- cigar was more special than the others he with universal health care and some of darity Committee will present “Affirming contra Siria would smoke with his pals. The second the best-trained doctors in the world, but Life in Venezuela, Seeds of Solidarity” Continua de página 12 time was in the form of the Che Guevara with critical shortages in over-the-count- featuring Omar Sierra and Jorge Marín. T-shirt, which by the mid-2000s had al- er medicine. campaña para abrir la carretera principal ready become a cliched joke. I know that like all tropes, none of a Damasco y limpiar la región circundan- When I told a relative about my upcom- these impressions of a country come te de saboteadores militares. ing trip there, she explained her personal anywhere close to representing the truth. Fuerzas Especiales EUA y británicas vendetta against Fidel Castro, who she But it’s a good idea to take account of estaban en la zona asesorando y sumin- blamed for ruining her 1959 summer va- symbolic baggage in an attempt to leave Misoginia de Trump, istrando armas a un grupo mercenario cation. Others want to talk about the old- it at the door. sirio llamado Ejército Revolucionario de timey cars. Personally, I’m interested in By this time next month, I will have pilar del capitalismo Comandos. Para proteger estas fuerzas seeing if the economic woes of the Cuban joined the 27th Friendshipment Caravan encubiertas EUA bombardeó a las tro- people are as bad as the U.S. news media to Cuba. This is a project of the Interre- Continua de página 12 pas sirias usando la absurda excusa de makes them out to be. ligious Foundation for Community Or- en gran parte negra, es de 7,9. Compare autodefensa. Fuerzas Especiales EUA y These anecdotes exhibit common ganization/Pastors for Peace. IFCO was eso con la tasa de Cuba de 4,3 en 2016. británicas están en otro país atacando a tropes of how people in the U.S. view their founded by progressive churches in 1967 (Ministerio de Salud de Cuba, 1 de enero) soldados de ese país que no habían ataca- Caribbean neighbor. The cigar represents to practice an activist form of Christiani- ¿Por qué la diferencia? Cuba es un país do ni matado a ninguno de ellos. ¿Cómo the decadent Havana nightlife that exist- ty. In 1992, it organized the first caravan socialista revolucionario que nacionalizó podría ser eso autodefensa? ed in the American psyche prior to the to protest the so-called Cuban Democra- las grandes haciendas y negocios, muchos Un avión EUA derribó un avión de com- Revolution. El Che represents the heroism cy Act, which updated the U.S. blockade de propiedad EUA, a partir de 1960, para bate sirio al oeste de Raqqa el 18 de junio. of the Cuban Revolution, an ideal which, against the country. poder brindar atención médica univer- El general Joseph Dunford, presidente when confronted by the fact that Comrade During the Cold War, Cuba was able to sal y educación gratuita, luchando por del Estado Mayor Conjunto, recurrió al Che and Company were real people who receive aid and goods from the USSR, but erradicar todas las formas de racismo y uso de una Autorización para el Uso de inhabited the real world, leaves over-ide- afterwards the country was left to fend chovinismo contra las mujeres y las per- la Fuerza Militar (AUMF) de 2001 como alistic communists feeling betrayed. The for itself and suffered severe shortages of sonas LGBTT. Pone sus recursos donde justificación legal. El AUMF fue redacta- ruined vacation represents the animosity essential goods. The caravanistas deliv- está su política de principios, a pesar del do para dirigirse a gobiernos e individu- U.S. patriots and certain Cuban expats ered 15 tons of humanitarian aid, includ- bloqueo de Washington. os que apoyaron el bombardeo del World feel toward Fidel Castro. And the cars rep- ing powdered milk, medicines, Bibles, Mientras que sólo el socialismo rev- Trade Center el 11 de septiembre de 2001. resent the idea that Cuba is simultaneous- bicycles, and school supplies. This aid olucionario puede sentar las bases para El gobierno sirio nunca ha atacado a ly past its prime and stuck in time. increased year after year, despite often acabar con todas las formas de opresión, EUA. Está luchando contra Al-Qaeda y el As a Communist myself, Cuba rep- being detained and fined by U.S. officials. incluyendo el odio a las mujeres, mucho EI. Mientras tanto, aliados de EUA como resents a model of “actually existing” In a brave act of defiance, IFCO has puede ser y ha sido ganado bajo este Israel, Arabia Saudita y Turquía han ayu- socialism along with China, Vietnam refused to apply for an official license to sistema a través de la lucha. Cuando esta dado a Al Qaeda y el EI en Siria. and north Korea. These countries have deliver aid, recognizing that these licens- escritora investigó la brecha salarial en A pesar de la censura de los medios y adapted to the end of the Cold War in sep- es are really an attempt to manipulate 1970, era de 59 centavos por dólar. del apoyo total del establecimiento políti- arate ways, but, in my opinion, Cuba has the Cuban government into accepting Pero es esencial recordar que nuestros co para continuar la guerra contra Siria - retained the most similarities to the old “regime change.” The caravanistas have reñidos logros pueden ser revertidos por tanto republicanos como demócratas, de Soviet-style planned economies. continued this direct action even after reaccionarios como Trump y su banda de Trump a Hillary Clinton y Bernie Sanders I can read about the USSR of old and the Obama détente, which made travel to guerreristas y billonarios si no seguimos - las encuestas muestran que millones se the Cuba of today, but that cannot com- Cuba easier for U.S. citizens. luchando. Ellos controlan el estado, por oponen a esta guerra. pare to seeing it. I am very curious and Now that Trump has started to reverse lo que la destrucción de éste tiene que ser El movimiento contra las guerras de excited to see how a planned economy some elements of the U.S.-Cuba thaw, we nuestro objetivo final mientras luchamos Estados Unidos debe tener más confianza plays out on the ground. are unsure of what sort of response we por acabar con el sexismo, el racismo, los y movilizar la oposición. There’s a good chance that once I re- can expect from his State Department. But ataques contra LGBTT y todas las formas El creciente peligro de una guerra más turn to the U.S., I’ll have lost my health we are sure that we will challenge it! de explotación y opresión. amplia lo impone a nuestra agenda. coverage, but I’ll still be able to buy over- —Tyler Vosgerchian Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los paises unios! workers.org Vol. 59 Núm. 28 13 de julio 2017 $1 7 de abril en Nueva York. PHOTO: JOE CATRON Pentágono amenaza expandir guerra contra Siria Por Sara Flounders itar EUA afiliado al Ejército Sirio Libre, sólo la publicación alemana, die WELT, Frustración con el éxito otro cliente de Washington. Afirmaron estaba dispuesta a publicar el hecho de del gobierno de Siria Mientras el peligro de una seria confla- que más de 30 personas sufrieron asfixia que Trump había ignorado los informes de La nueva acusación de un “potencial” gración en Siria sigue creciendo, el silen- resultado de un ataque en Ain Tarma, un inteligencia de las agencias EUA cuando ataque con gas se produce en medio de cio de los medios corporativos y el estab- suburbio de Damasco. ordenó un ataque de misiles “Tomahawk” la creciente frustración estadounidense lecimiento político es ominoso. El grupo, aliado a las fuerzas de al-Qa- contra la base aérea siria el 6 de abril. después del fracaso de años de esfuerzos Estados Unidos ha lanzado decenas de ida, ha estado luchando contra el gobierno Hersh no es ni revolucionario ni pe- encubiertos por derrocar al gobierno so- miles de bombas sobre Siria y enviado sirio y las fuerzas rivales de la oposición riodista de izquierda. Nunca ataca al berano de Siria. miles de soldados estadounidenses a la en un caótico conflicto interno en un en- imperialismo EUA en general. Pero sus La ayuda encaminada a través de Ara- región. Las grandes potencias mundiales clave insurgente en Ghouta del este. Miles revelaciones cuidadosamente calibradas, bia Saudita, Turquía, Qatar y los Emira- ya están involucradas. de cohetes y proyectiles de mortero han generalmente divulgadas en las princi- tos Árabes Unidos a decenas de miles de El gobierno de Donald Trump amenazó sido disparados desde ese enclave hacia pales publicaciones estadounidenses y fuerzas mercenarias y reaccionarias tam- con una escalada peligrosa el 26 de ju- Damasco en los últimos años. británicas, han criticado actos atroces en poco ha logrado derribar al gobierno de nio cuando el secretario de prensa Sean No sólo las facciones contrarrevolucio- las guerras EUA, como la masacre en My Damasco. Spicer afirmó que las fuerzas del gobier- narias en Siria luchan entre sí, sino que Lai, Vietnam, en 1969. La guerra ha desplazado casi a un ter- no sirio estaban planeando organizar un también los departamentos del gobierno Los principales medios de comuni- cio de la población siria y creado millones ataque químico y Washington haría que de EUA están en desacuerdo. Según Fox cación estadounidenses y británicos pub- de refugiadas/os. Pero el éxito del gobi- Siria pagara un alto precio. News, el 27 de junio, “varios funcionarios licaron sus revelaciones sobre Korean Air erno sirio muestra que se beneficia de la El anuncio fue hecho sin una pizca de del Departamento de Estado que normal- 007 en 1986, la exposición del arsenal profunda determinación de millones de evidencia. En vez, alegaban vagamente mente participan en la coordinación de nuclear de Israel en 1991 y el bombardeo sirias/os para mantener a Siria como un que la inteligencia EUA había “identifica- dichos anuncios le dijeron a Prensa Aso- del presidente Bill Clinton contra la fábri- estado secular y soberano. do posibles preparativos” para un ataque ciada que fueron sorprendidos completa- ca farmacéutica Al Shifa en Sudán. En En septiembre de 2014, la adminis- químico. Éstos muy familiares, después mente por la advertencia, que no parecía 2004, informó sobre la tortura sistemáti- tración Obama comenzó el bombardeo del falso pretexto para la invasión de Irak haber sido discutida de antemano con ca de cientos de detenidos en la cárcel de directo de Siria, alegando que estaba per- en 2003. otras agencias de seguridad nacional”. Abu Ghraib, en Irak. siguiendo al grupo Estado Islámico (EI). La declaración de la Casa Blanca fue El secretario de Defensa británico, Mi- Las revelaciones y análisis de Hersh El gobierno sirio se ha opuesto sistemáti- seguida inmediatamente por un tuit de la chael Fallon, dijo que EUA no había com- han ganado el Premio Pulitzer, el Premio camente a esta intervención militar direc- Embajadora de Estados Unidos ante las partido ninguna evidencia de amenaza Polk y el Premio Nacional del Libro. Sin ta y a la pasada intervención encubierta. Naciones Unidas, Nikki Haley: “Cualquier de un ataque con armas químicas. embargo, tuvo que ir a Alemania para El Pentágono luego atrajo a Bretaña, otro ataque hecho al pueblo de Siria, Assad publicar su última revelación. Francia, Turquía, Australia, Arabia Saudita, será el culpable, pero también Rusia e Irán”. Crece autocensura de los medios Que ninguna de las principales pub- Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Qatar, Jordania Expresando que a pesar de sus ataques con Los principales medios de comuni- licaciones estadounidenses o británicas y Marruecos a su campaña aérea. Después bombas y pese atraer a otros 10 países a cación corporativos dieron cobertura a lo toque muestra un amplio apoyo de de un año de bombardeos, el gobierno sirio la guerra, el plan de Washington para el los cargos infundados contra Siria. Pero la clase dominante a los niveles más al- apeló a Rusia para apoyo aéreo. ­cambio de régimen ha fracasado. las preguntas y la controversia estaban tos a una guerra continuada y ampliada Israel también ha aprovechado todas las Siguiendo la declaración de la Casa ocultas dentro de los artículos. de EUA contra Siria. Esto también fue oportunidades para bombardear las fuer- Blanca, un grupo contrarrevolucionario, Suprimido por los principales medios demostrado por el aplauso general de los zas del gobierno sirio, la última, el 1 de julio. Failaq al-Rahman, acusó al ejército sirio corporativos en EUA y Bretaña fue una políticos republicanos y demócratas, así de usar cloro gaseoso contra sus combat- exposición publicada el 25 de junio, un como los medios corporativos cuando Nuevas provocaciones ientes en las batallas al este de Damas- día antes de la declaración de la Casa Trump lanzó el ataque del 6 de abril. Lo En mayo, militares EUA atacaron a co. Los militares sirios inmediatamente Blanca, por el premiado periodista de in- describieron como “presidencial”. las fuerzas terrestres sirias cerca del negaron estos cargos, calificándolos de vestigación Seymour Hersh. Fue el primer elogio desde la elección cruce de Al Tanf en la frontera entre Irak fabricados. Hersh disputó la afirmación de EUA por parte del senador demócrata Chuck y Siria. Los sirios participaban en una El grupo que hace esta acusación es de que el gobierno sirio había lanzado un Schumer y la líder demócrata de la mi- Continua a página 11 un ex recipiente de ayuda y equipo mil- ataque de gas sarín en abril. Según Hersh, noría de la Cámara, Nancy Pelosi. Misoginia de Trump, pilar del capitalismo Por Sue Davis por lo menos 20 centavos de cada dólar de clase capitalista, ya sea en la sala de las mujeres y los derechos LGBT”, dijo que gana una mujer. Según las últimas juntas o en el dormitorio, ya sea por me- Jesselyn McCurdy, subdirectora de la Cuando el presidente Donald Trump estadísticas del Departamento de Tra- dio de leyes fiscales que favorezcan a los oficina legislativa de la Unión Americana criticó la apariencia y la inteligencia de bajo, a partir de 2010, las mujeres repre- ricos o con salarios bajos que mantienen de Libertades Civiles. Vanita Gupta, ex Mika Brzezinski, co-anfitriona del pro- sentaban el 47 por ciento de la mano de a los pobres en pobreza, ya sea la policía jefa de la División de Derechos Civiles, grama de MSNBC “Morning Joe”, señaló obra total de EUA: 72 millones de traba- asesina o un puño brutal en la casa. No dijo: “Quien lidere la joya de la corona” los dos tipos de viejas censuras contra las jadoras, o 58,6 por ciento de las 123 mil- se puede separar el patriarcado – el priv- del DOJ debe tener una profunda y per- mujeres. lones de mujeres de 16 años o más. ilegio de los hombres sobre el derecho a durable fe en las leyes de derechos civiles Aunque su ataque fue inmediatamente No es de extrañar que la clase domi- controlar a la mujer como su propiedad de nuestra nación ... derechos por los que denunciado - por mujeres de ambos lados nante no quiera una legislación que ga- privada - del capitalismo, que mantiene la gente ha muerto”. Llamado Dreiband del Congreso y por grupos de derechos rantice una amplia licencia de progen- el poder a través de la propiedad privada. “lamentablemente no cualificado” porque de mujeres - Trump no hubiera alardea- itores, cuidado gratuito de niñas/os y no tiene experiencia en “derechos de voto, do de su repugnante odio a la mujer si el cuidado de salud universal. No es de ex- La lucha continúa reforma policial, vivienda, educación y patriarcado no fuera uno de los pilares trañar que uno de los principales medios La nominación de Eric Dreiband por crímenes de odio”. (Rewire, 29 de junio) del capitalismo. que las mujeres tienen para el control de Trump el 29 de junio para dirigir la Di- En todas las escalas internacionales sus vidas - el control de la natalidad - está visión de Derechos Civiles del Departa- de medición, ya sea la representación de Desigualdad de la mujer en EUA en las barricadas. No es de extrañar que mento de Justicia es otro ejemplo de su las mujeres en el gobierno, los niveles de Ejemplos de desigualdad de la mujer las transexuales de color sean las vícti- misoginia. Al igual que todos sus nom- vida, la longevidad o la mortalidad infan- en EUA comienzan con la brecha salari- mas de ataques transfóbicos y asesinatos. bramientos al gabinete y varios depar- til, EUA está cerca del final de la lista de al. Las últimas estadísticas muestran que No es de extrañar que “cada nueve se- tamentos - que se oponen a la premisa 40 naciones industriales. las mujeres ganan 80 centavos por cada gundos una mujer en EUA es agredida o misma de su cargo - Dreiband ha pasado Tome la mortalidad infantil. Un in- dólar que un hombre blanco gana, aunque golpeada”, informa la Coalición Nacional su carrera corporativa oponiéndose a los forme de nbcnews.com el 21 de marzo las mujeres (y los hombres) de color ganan Contra la Violencia Doméstica, mientras derechos civiles. No sólo representó al ar- señaló que la tasa de muerte por cada aún menos. El Instituto de Investigación Trump planea recortar sus fondos. No es zobispo católico de Washington, DC, en el 1.000 nacidos vivos en EUA disminuyó sobre Políticas para la Mujer estima que de extrañar que el capitalismo EUA apli- caso 2014 de la iglesia contra el beneficio de 6,9 en 2005 a 5,8 en 2014 - una dis- no será hasta 2059 que las mujeres blan- que su poderío militar para intimidar al de control de natalidad de la Ley de Asis- minución del 15 por ciento, según el Cen- cas alcanzarán paridad salarial, mientras resto del mundo a que cumpla su manda- tencia Asequible, sino que defendió a la tro Nacional de Estadísticas de Salud. que las negras esperarán hasta 2124 y las to, afectando desproporcionadamente a Universidad de Carolina del Norte en una Pero es una vergüenza nacional que la latinas hasta 2248. ¡Obsceno robo! las mujeres y sus hijas/os. demanda relacionada con HB 2, la dis- tasa en la capital de la nación, una ciudad Eso significa que todas las empresas, El uso y el abuso del poder y el con- criminatoria “ley del baño”. corporaciones y tiendas por igual, roban trol son parte integrante de la sociedad Dreiband “tiene vocación de ir contra Continua a página 11