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No. 32, January-February, 2011 January-February 2011 No. 32 The $2 €2 Internationalist From Resistance to Counteroffensive to the Struggle for Workers Power FocalFocal PointPoint Europe:Europe: CapitalismCapitalism inin Crisis,Crisis, ClassClass StruggleStruggle EruptsErupts Claude Platiau/Reuters Greece on the Razor’s Edge. 16 France: Worker-Student Upsurge. 51-64 Australia $2, Brazil R$3, Britain £1.50, U.S. War on North Korea Never Ended. 39 Canada $2, Europe €2, India Rs. 50, Japan ¥200, Mexico $10, Philippines 50 p, Mobilize Against Attacks on Muslims . 81 S. Africa R10, S. Korea 2,000 won 2 The Internationalist January-February 2011 In this issue... Denounce FBI Raids on Leftist Antiwar Order Now! and Solidarity Activists ............................ 4 This bulletin contains the Focal Point Europe: Capitalism in analysis by Karl Marx of Crisis, Class Struggle Erupts ................. 5 slavery under capitalism and his key writings on Fury of Student Revolt Shakes Up Britain ... 8 the second American Revolution. The new Greece on the Razor’s Edge ..................... 16 edition adds articles Free Julian Assange! Drop All Charges! .... 28 by George Novack on slavery and the U.S./South Korean Provocations plantation system in Could Ignite New Korean War ............... 33 North America, as well as polemics on the U.S. War on North Korea Never Ended ..... 39 policy of communists on the Civil War. France: May in October? The Spectre of a New ’68 ....................... 51 US$1 To Drive Out Sarkozy & Co. Order from/make checks payable to: Mundial Publications, Box 3321, Fight for Power to the Workers ............ 56 Church Street Station, New York, New York 10008, U.S.A. Guadeloupe on Strike! .............................. 60 And Now Comes the Stab in the Back ..... 62 Visit the League for the Fourth International/ Internationalist Group on the Internet Brazilian Elections: The Bourgeoisie Goes For More Lula ............................... 65 http://www.internationalist.org Now available on our site: Québec: What’s Needed to Defeat Founding Statement of the Privatization and Defend Internationalist Group Public Services ...................................... 69 Declaration of the League for the Fourth International Police State in Toronto .............................. 73 Articles from The Internationalist Articles from Vanguarda Operária No Justice in the Capitalist Courts Articles from El Internacionalista Mobilize Labor/Black Power Articles and documents in German, to Free Mumia Now! ............................... 74 French. Pilipino and Russian The fight to free MumiaAbu-Jamal Healthcare “Reform” Law: Bonanza for Marxist readings Wall Street, Attack on Working People ... 76 Visita la página del Grupo Internacionalista en Internet CSEW on the Healthcare Crisis ................. 77 We Can Stop the School Closings ........... 79 Visite a página da Liga Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil Matérias de Vanguarda Operária A luta para libertar Mumia Abu-Jamal Mobilize Against Racist Attacks Documentos marxistas sobre a luta pela libertação do negro e da mulher on Muslims and Immigrants! ................ 81 Revolution: The Dream Act Swindle ........ 84 Abolish the Board of Trustees! For The Internationalist Student-Teacher-Worker Control A Journal of Revolutionary Marxism of CUNY! ............................................... 85 for the Reforging of the Fourth International Haiti: Occupation Elections Publication of the Internationalist Group, In Times of Cholera .............................. 88 section of the League for the Fourth International EDITORIAL BOARD: Jan Norden (editor), Mark Lazarus, Abram Negrete, Marjorie Salzburg Front page photo: Unions demonstrate The Internationalist (ISSN 1091-2843) is published bimonthly, skipping July-August, by before French Senate, October 20. Mundial Publications, P.O. Box 3321, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008, U.S.A. Telephone: (212) 460-0983 Fax: (212) 614-8711 E-mail: [email protected] Subscription blank graphic based on a Subscriptions: US$10 for five issues. poster by V.A. Rodchenko, Books (1925). No. 32 1162-M January-February 2011 January-February 2011 The Internationalist 3 U.S./South Korean Focal Point Europe: Provocations Could Ignite Capitalism in Crisis, New Korean War............... 33 Class Struggle Erupts p. 5 U.S. War on North Korea Never Ended......................... 39 Fury of Student Revolt Shakes Up Britain .........................8 Sinister Attack on Greece on the Razor’s Edge.....16 WikiLeaks Free Julian dossier FrANCe Assange! Drop All May in October? The Spectre of a Charges! ....28 New ’68.............51 To Drive Out Denounce FBI Raids on Leftist Sarkozy & Co. Antiwar and Solidarity Activists........4 Fight for Power to Mobilize Against Racist Attacks the Workers......56 on Muslims and Immigrants!............81 Guadeloupe on Strike! ...............60 No Justice in the Capitalist Courts And Now Comes the Stab Mobilize Labor/Black in the Back.................................62 Power to Free Mumia Now!.................................74 Haiti: Occupation Elections Healthcare “Reform” Law: Bonanza for in Times of Cholera................88 Wall Street, Attack on Workers............76 CSEW on the Healthcare Crisis..............77 Québec: What’s Needed to Defeat We Can Stop the School Closings.........79 Privatization and Defend Mobilize Against Racist Attacks Public Services ............................69 on Muslims and Immigrants!...............81 Police State in Toronto.......................74 The Dream Act Swindle...........................84 Abolish the Board of Trustees! For Stu- Brazilian Elections: The Bourgeoisie dent-Teacher-Worker Control of CUNY!...85 Goes For More Lula..............................65 4 The Internationalist January-February 2011 Feds Break Into Homes, Seize Documents, Subpoena Activists Denounce FBI Raids on Leftist Antiwar and Solidarity Activists 28 SEPTEMBER 2010 – At around 7 a.m. Friday, September 24, prescribes up to ten years in prison for anyone who “know- agents of the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Federal Bureau of ingly provides material support or resources to a foreign ter- Investigation (FBI) barged into eight homes in Minneapolis, Min- rorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so.” These nesota and Chicago, Illinois, breaking down doors in a coordinated deliberately vague terms are used to suppress political dissent raid against leftist activists. Agents seized papers, computers, cell and erase democratic rights that are supposedly guaranteed by phones and personal items of Hatem Abudayyeh, Joseph Iosbaker the Constitution. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which and Stephanie Weiner in Chicago, and served Thomas Burke of issued an 88-page report on The Policing of Political Speech: Chicago with a subpoena ordering him to appear before a grand Constraints on Mass Dissent in the U.S. the same day as the jury investigating “material support to terrorism.” In the Min- raids, notes that the AEDPA’s “material support” clause has neapolis/St. Paul area, agents raided the homes of Meredith Aby, been construed to include “humanitarian aid, expert advice, Mick Kelly, Tracy Molm, Anh-Thu Pham, Jessica Sundin, and the and political advocacy, to any foreign entity that the Executive offices of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee. FBI spokesmen branch decides to designate as a ‘terrorist’ group.” said that “interviews” were being conducted across the country. Thus courageous civil liberties defense attorney Lynne No arrests have been made or charges reported, yet about a dozen Stewart is in federal prison today for supposed “material sup- activists have been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand port” to her client – holding a press conference! The AEDPA jury, whose proceedings are secret. is also infamous for restricting the right of prisoners on death In Minneapolis on Friday evening, over 100 gathered at row from suing for their freedom even when new evidence an emergency meeting at a church to express their solidarity of innocence and judicial misconduct comes to light. These with the targeted activists. Protests outside of federal offices provisions have been used against the renowned black radical across the U.S. are planned for this week. These raids are a journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, an innocent victim of a racist blatant attempt to criminalize leftist politics, antiwar and soli- political frame-up on Pennsylvania’s death row for the last darity advocacy and political dissent generally. Those targeted quarter century, among many others. include University of Minnesota and University of Illinois staff This is a classic red squad frame-up job, from the fed- members and unionists who have been outspoken in opposition eral police organization that began in the first “red scare,” to U.S. policies. They include activists associated with Students Woodrow Wilson’s police raids and deportations of thousands for a Democratic Society, the Colombia Action Network and of union organizers, radicals and socialists during the first the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO-Fightback) imperialist world war. The Twin Cities Anti-War Committee group. The labor movement and all defenders of democratic played a central role in organizing the demonstrations against rights should respond with powerful mobilizations to denounce the Republican Party convention in St. Paul in 2008. Before this political persecution, the latest in the “home front” of the and during that event over 300 activists were arrested, some imperialist
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