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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 63, No. 3 Jan. 21, 2021 $1 Trump OUT — Time for workers to defeat racism, fascism By John Catalinotto after three hours, the Jan. 6 pro-fas- class. Yet they must be distinguished mutual opposition to Trumpism. cist assault on the Capitol sowed ter- from each other. Let’s take a closer look at the class An unprecedented 25,000 National ror in Congress and shocked the public. One side is the “legal” power of the state forces confronting each other. Guard troops from 50 states plus thou- It aimed to stop the certification of the apparatus—military,​ police, courts, pris- sands of local and Capitol police are presidential election and keep Trump in ons. The other is the “extralegal” para- The establishment state apparatus expected to occupy the office. The attack had his military armed force of dozens of militia Reports from Washington describe the U.S. capital by Jan. More on blessing, giving it the ear- and fascist organizations, gathered under National Guard and police preparations 20. This armed force’s mark of an attempted coup. the banner of Trump and united by their as setting up a “Green Zone.” U.S. occu- announced goal: Prevent a pages 4, 5 The lack of punishment extremist ideology of white supremacy. pation forces in Baghdad used the same violent attack on the inau- on the spot, the appar- On the outside of this internecine name for the area of the Iraqi capital con- guration of the 46th president and allow ent collaboration by elements in the confrontation is a third force: the work- taining the mammoth U.S. Embassy and a transition to the Joe Biden/Kamala state apparatus with the fascists and ing-class movement, including Black other official buildings. Harris administration. Exit Trump. the vast publicity the assault drew—​all Lives Matter, migrant, union, women’s, In Baghdad’s Green Zone, U.S. troops National Guard troops and state police stoked credible fears that an even big- LGBTQ2S+, environmental, disabled, set up auto crossings, used cement barri- guarded many state capitol buildings on ger attack might be launched during the youth and all other popular movements. ers to prevent truck bombings of build- Jan. 17 in anticipation of ultrarightist inauguration. This popular movement can be cou- ings, carried out continuous surveillance demonstrations. Few fascist protesters Now, leading up to Jan. 20, two forces rageous and bold and win enormous and prepared for battle in an attempt to showed up, indicating their current cau- confront each other. Both forces are support, as BLM did last summer. At prevent attacks by the Iraqi resistance. tious mood. repressive, and both serve the interests this moment these sectors are mostly The Green Zone was part of a war zone; it Despite its disorganization and defeat of the property-owning imperialist ruling unarmed. They have united in their Continued on page 8

Boston march honors legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 18.

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Mumia on Capitol attack 2 Pandemic impacts women workers 3 Pensacola defends abortion rights 3 Abolish the death penalty! Diet discrimination inside prisons Flint water scandal — Legal lynchings soar Justice falls short 9 Execution of Lisa Montgomery Struggle for Safehouse 9 Black editor faces 6-8 Editorial COVID & CAPITALISM 10 retaliation

Haiti 10 Gulf War 30th anniversary 11 Page 2 Jan. 21, 2021 workers.org ‘Justice for Tamir Rice’ On Jan. 15 close to 100 activists from Cleveland and around the country gathered at a downtown park to demand “Justice for Tamir Rice.” Tamir, this week a Black youth, was 12 years old when, on Nov. 22, 2014, Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann ◆ In the U.S. murdered him while he was playing with a pellet gun. Time for workers to defeat racism, fascism . . . 1 Loehmann, who is white, shot and killed Tamir only ‘Justice for Tamir Rice’ ...... 2 seconds after arriving on the scene. Over six years later, no charges have been filed against Loehmann The Trump mobs attack America ...... 2 or his partner. The federal Department of Justice Women bear brunt of unemployment . . . . . 3 recently closed its investigation into Tamir’s case Pensacola fights anti-abortion terror ...... 3 without taking any action. Developing working-class resistance to fascism . 4 Tamir’s mother Samaria Rice, above, opened up the rally, which featured a number of community Weaponizing disease, vaccine wars ...... 4 activists. After the rally, people took to the streets A united working class can defeat fascism . . . .4 and marched, chanting “Say his name! Tamir Rice!” To defeat fascism: ‘We’ve got to start organizing’ .5 — Story and photo by Martha Grevatt Diet discrimination behind the walls ...... 6 The bipartisan criminal injustice system . . . . 6 Legal lynchings soar under Trump ...... 7 Lisa Montgomery’s execution ...... 7 The Trump mobs attack America Black newspaper editor faces retaliation . . . ..8 Flint water scandal charges ...... 9 By Mumia Abu-Jamal and before long, they were ready. And Struggle for Safehouse will continue ...... 9 when they struck, they were all but Petition protests Biden’s nomination of neocon . 11 Taken from a Jan. 7 audio column greeted by Capitol Hill police, who aired on prisonradio.org took selfies with them and opened ◆ Around the world gates to them. It was a sight that will be long For they were brothers, white Protests over Haitian president’s plans to stay . 10 remembered—hundreds,​ then thou- brothers. And once the way was U.S. imperialism provoked war with Iraq . . . 11 sands of men scaling the walls of the open, they went to work, ripping the U.S. Capitol like soldiers on a web. Capitol apart. ◆ Editorial Then ripping, tearing, shredding After shattering windows and bat- Patching up capitalism during COVID . . . . .10 all they could touch, all that they tering down doors, the Trump mob hated and all that they feared: the ruling wealthy power- burst through, like a hurricane through Kansas. ◆ Noticias en Español ful politicians in the Capitol, senators and representatives Members of the U.S. Senate and House were forced to Un cuento de dos clases ...... 12 alike. snuggle under desks, to hide from these invaders. This nest of spiders was unleashed and directed by the Historians of American history know well that mobs El país más rico ...... 12 fiery tongue of the Imperial President, Trump, designed to have a long reign in national life, first against the rich stop his congressional enemies from formally confirming and propertied, and later, during the early 20th century, his successor. against Blacks newly migrated from the South to the cities. This Trump mob seemed to be of working-class origins, But Trump’s use of mob violence against another branch which suggests they’ve probably spent most of the last year of government is virtually unique. jobless, probably food insecure, and seeing their country It turns a new page in American history and a new low fall apart from a failing economy and a deadly virus. in the Imperial Presidency. ☐ Workers World That hunger and fury was fed by Trump propaganda, 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10011 Phone: 212.627.2994 Join us in the fight for socialism! E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Workers World Party is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist and trans people are gunned down by cops and bigots on Vol. 63, No. 3 • Jan. 21, 2021 party inside the belly of the imperialist beast. We are a mul- a regular basis. 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[email protected] New York, N.Y. 10011. workers.org Jan. 21, 2021 Page 3 COVID economic crisis Women bear brunt of unemployment By Kathy Durkin In December, the education field lost had grown to 50% by January 2020, 62,000 jobs, while 362,000 food service with 59% of Black women and 58% of The month of December revealed some jobs vanished. Business closures and lay- Latinx women employed. But the pan- stunning news affecting the U.S. work- offs have occurred primarily in sectors demic halted this progress. Some 2.1 mil- ing class, as the impact of the viral pan- where women are employed, especially lion women left the workforce between demic and the capitalist economic crisis Black and Latinx workers. February and December. And 5.4 mil- continues. According to a January National lion jobs held by women—​or two in five The burden of unemployment has fallen Women’s Law Center report, as of Dec. 31, of their jobs lost in the spring—​have not on women, especially Black, Latinx, Arab, 2020, the unemployment rate for Black returned. Women comprise 55% of the net Asian, Indigenous, im/migrant and low- and Latinx women workers was at 8.4% job losses since COVID-19 hit the U.S. wage workers. LGBTQ2S+ individuals and and 9.1% respectively. Long-term jobless- people with disabilities are impacted, too. ness is a stunning 40.8% for Black women, Rich get richer, workers struggle In December, a net total of 140,000 38.3% for Latinx women and 44% for Asian While the rich have gotten richer during jobs were lost due to the declining econ- women! (tinyurl.com/y33pgtwo) the pandemic, the working class has had omy. Notably, it was mainly Black and The pandemic and the burgeoning eco- to struggle, facing a myriad of crises for Latinx women who lost those jobs and nomic crisis have intensified inequities nearly a year. Millions of workers, dispro- within the workforce based on national- more, totaling 156,000 jobs. Some portionately Black and Latinx, have been WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE 154,000 Black women left the workforce. ity, gender, class and immigration status. rendered jobless. Due to systemic racism, Protest for unemployment benefits, Women comprised 56.6% of the laid-off Workers World newspaper reported on workers of color are being rehired at half Aug. 20, Philadelphia. workers, as leisure, retail and hospital- Oct. 15: “The viral disaster has exposed the rate of white workers. Evictions loom. ity industry bosses cut 498,000 jobs. gender bias, wage inequality and systemic Hunger is growing. Women of color—​low-paid and lacking racism in employment, severely impacting The lack of government-provided child- February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. benefits—​have been disproportionately women workers of color. The pandemic has care presents another crisis for those who 14 that 26.8 million workers are now job- rendered jobless amid the economic car- eliminated many women’s jobs in health have low-wage “essential” service jobs less or have experienced a cut in hours or nage wrought by the pandemic and exac- care, education and transportation. and cannot work from home. With many wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/ erbated by the capitalist economic crisis. “Due to ‘occupational segregation,’ many schools and daycare centers closed, many y3blh3qj) This is how “essential workers” are Black and Latinx women toil in the hospi- women have quit their jobs or cut their More pain is on the horizon for the treated in a capitalist society! tality, food service and retail industry, with hours to tend to their children. The eco- working class. Some 1.2 million unemploy- Women’s work is largely undervalued low pay and little to no job security or sick nomic impact on these women could last ment claims were filed in the first week in and underpaid. This can be seen in educa- pay. Many struggled to make ends meet, for years. They are rightfully worried about January, an increase of 300,000 from the tion, where women make up three-­quarters even pre-pandemic. These sectors were the future and whether conditions will prior week. This signals that companies are of the workforce, and in food services, where the hardest hit by COVID-19. Shutdowns, improve or worsen. terminating employees due to the surging women hold the preponderance of jobs but layoffs, even business collapses occurred.” The Economic Policy Institute says virus. The twin crises of COVID and the many earn the minimum wage or less. Women’s participation in the workforce 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since capitalist economy are not going away. ☐

Abortion is a human right Pensacola fights anti-abortion terror By Devin Cole for 8 a.m. Jan. 2. But in secret on that day, members of Occupied Muscogee Creek land — Pensacola, Fla. the branch organized a small caravan of pro-choice activ- ists to arrive at the clinic at 6:00 a.m. The supporters A group of activists, organizers and those in support of used their cars to take up all the parking spots on public reproductive justice held Dec. 27 and Jan. 2 demonstra- property, just outside the clinic, where the anti-abortion tions at American Family Planning, a reproductive health right-wingers typically park. This left the bigots nowhere clinic that provides abortion. The community gathered to to park close by, forcing them to walk for a distance to oppose anti-abortion reactionaries, who have been ter- do their harassing. A united community effort defends the PHOTO: TYLER THOMAS rorizing clinic workers, nurses and patients every day. That day’s protest lasted 8 ½ hours, with many more right to abortion in Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 2. These right-wingers, calling themselves “Abortion people coming in support of reproductive rights. Backing Abolitionists,” stand outside of the clinic, barely off the up the anti-abortion harassers was a fascistic former Hill was arrested, tried and executed in 2003. property, holding up photoshopped signs of suppos- state representative. In 2012, Bobby Joe Rogers, another anti-abortion ter- edly aborted fetuses, advertisements for phony “abor- The clinic allowed the WWP-CGC branch to hang a large rorist, firebombed the American Family Planning clinic at tion reversal pills” and grotesque anti-Black images of banner on the side of its building that read: “Abortion is a its current location, gutting the entire facility. He received enslaved people—​comparing them and the entire his- human right! Support nurses/clinic workers!” 10 years in prison and is expected to be released next year. tory of African slavery to aborted fetuses. This ignores Clinic workers again surprised their defenders by the fact that it was forced pregnancy and reproduction by ordering lunch for everyone. Abortion must be accessible! rape that white-enslaver plantation owners used to make The nurses and clinic workers kept repeating how As for people getting access to abortion in Florida, obscene profits from the very bodies of Black women. shocked they were to see such a big turn out for the pro- besides the reactionary anti-abortion mobs, there There is no fence around the clinic currently, so the choice community. That day some of those waiting for their remains the fact that, state-by-state over the decades, right-wingers are free to stand in full view of the clinic friends and family to have a procedure sat outside the clinic many aspects of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe and scream at anyone going in, for up to 10 hours a day. with the defenders, not feeling so pushed around by the v. Wade have been weakened. Those getting the procedure have to walk by this abuse, screaming of the right-wing bigots. For instance, one person at the clinic to get an abortion and those there to drop people off have to either drive stated to Workers World that they had driven to Pensacola away or sit in their car with the windows rolled up to Long, violent history of anti-abortion terror from Louisiana, since that state’s reactionary anti-abor- shut out the hatred. Pensacola has a long history of anti-abortion vio- tion laws would have meant they would have had to wait On Dec. 27 a group of 15 clinic defenders showed up lence against clinics, doctors and escorts dating back to for the procedure. For some people, having to wait means to protest the anti-choice rightists and show support for 1984, when the “Ladies Center” (now American Family they would then be beyond the legal limit of a specific clinic workers, nurses and patients. The 5 ½ hour-ac- Planning) was bombed twice in the same year. It was point in pregnancy for having an abortion in their state. tion was organized by the Central Gulf Coast branch of first destroyed by a pipe bomb in June 1984, and then Additionally, abortions cost at least $500, making them Workers World Party. Clinic supporters held signs that it was bombed again that year on Christmas Day—​with unaffordable for a lot of working-class people. said “Abortion is a human right!” and “Pro-life? Then go a message that the second bombing was “a gift to Jesus While the right to abortion has not been absolutely protest at an ICE detention camp!” on his birthday.” overturned in the U.S., the anti-abortion campaign over The bigots attempted to intimidate clinic defenders by On March 10, 1993, “Christian” terrorist Michael the years has made it almost impossible for most low-in- filming them and taking pictures of their cars and license Frederick Griffin shot and killed Dr. David Gunn at the come people to get accessible, affordable, safe abortions plates. They even went so far as to post the photos on now-defunct Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. near where they live. Facebook and call other reactionaries for backup. This was the first documented murder of an ob-gyn spe- The struggle to make abortion accessi- But their intimidation tactics failed. Around lunch cialist in the U.S., where the killer’s stated intention was ble, safe and free must and will continue. time, a patient, who had come to the clinic for a pro- to prevent the doctor from performing abortions. Griffin Likewise, so will the struggle to keep the patients, nurses, cedure, surprised the clinic defenders by ordering pizza was sentenced to life in prison where he remains today. and clinic workers safe from anti-choice reactionaries. for all of them! A few minutes later, clinic workers also The murder was followed by a letter published by thirty ordered pizza for the defenders as a way of saying “thank anti-abortion extremists, led by Paul Jennings Hill, stat- Devin Cole is a transgender Marxist organizer and you.” Coincidentally, the first pizza delivery driver who ing that the murder of doctors who performed abortions writer. They are the president of Strive (Socialist Trans showed up supported the defenders and took a few min- was justified. Initiative), a transgender advocacy organization in utes to argue with the anti-choice reactionaries, before In 1994, anti-abortion terrorist Hill himself murdered northwest Florida, and a member of the Workers World going back to work in a blaze of working-class solidarity. Dr. John Britton—Dr.​ Gunn’s replacement—along​ with Party–Central Gulf Coast (Alabama, Florida and Another clinic defense was announced by WWP-CGC his bodyguard James Barrett, outside the Ladies Center. Mississippi) branch. Page 4 Jan. 21, 2021 workers.org Developing working-class resistance to fascism By Dianne Mathiowetz participated in Black Lives Matter demon- on the obligation, the charge to fight against all forms of strations, was not so much the result of oppression and exploitation. Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 webinar on the Democratic Party machinery here in The challenge is how do we meld all those elements “Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism” Georgia. It was what I would describe as of the working class and have them realize that they’re sponsored by Workers World Party. To all of the mass organizations and commu- a class that’s fighting together? In Atlanta, the [WWP] view the entire panel discussion, go to nities that really just wanted to get rid of branch has been here since the early 1970s. And we’ve youtu.be/d9_NDIKT0vw Trump and all his minions. had the opportunity to actually chase, I’m talking phys- They both worked really hard in get- ically chase, the Ku Klux Klan out of the city of Atlanta. Like most people, I had been very ting new registrations among youth, par- I think it was 1989, when the thousands of largely youth much aware that this fascist rally was Dianne Mathiowetz ticularly of color, and worked hard with literally chased them down the street even though there going to take place in Washington [D.C.], the women’s community and the migrant were over 1,000 cops protecting. on Wednesday, the same day that the community. It was really an amazing effort And it hasn’t just been here. Oftentimes, our com- Congress was going to declare Biden the winner of the at the grass roots. So I have no doubt that, besides the rades have been asked to go to small towns in Georgia, presidential election. I, just by happenstance, turned fact that Trump had lost, that these two other senators Alabama, Tennessee or Mississippi to help the residents on the TV just at the moment when the storming of the from Georgia are part of what made the fascists so angry. of that town who are being confronted by violent white Capitol steps happened. Along with many other activists, We’ve seen this kind of violence here in the South. I’ve supremacists. We have, in the party, brought thousands I have been at many demonstrations in Washington or lived in the South for over 50 years. A lot of this is not of people out in Boston against people who were oppos- at our own capitals or whatever. surprising to see: armed, white, racist men rampaging. ing the right of Black children to go to school. And even when we were only going to be a few hun- So we have seen exactly what we need to see on a dred, if that, the place would be lined with cops. There Developing working-class resistance national scale: That workers can come to a conclusion would be helicopters overhead—there would be all this We’re talking about how we need to develop the work- about how to organize and fight back against even the stuff. So I have to admit, when I saw how easy it was for ing class, to have the working class recognize its class most violent armed groups—​certainly during the his- this group to break windows, break into the Capitol and obligation and its possibilities. One of the things I was tory of what’s called the Civil Rights Movement or the make it all the way to the Senate and House floors, I thinking about, because I was in Buffalo for a number of Black liberation struggle in the South. We can even talk was taken aback. I was not surprised by the organization years, was how we mobilized against the fascist, wom- about the Lumbee people in North Carolina who fought that was evident, because we’ve encountered that here in en-hating Operation Rescue. We have organized demon- the Klan with guns, and that’s not the only instance of Georgia, in the past and not too long ago. strations all across the country against racist elements, that. I say this because it can be daunting. I do think that part of the intensity of some of these Ku Klux Klan, Nazis and other white supremacists. This for many people is a new experience, seeing this white supremacists was the fact that Georgia, which had We call things the Civil Rights Movement, the wom- kind of organized, right-wing assault on anything. But been a very reliable, right-wing red state, had just elected en’s movement or the immigrant rights movement. it’s clearly something that our class is capable of doing, not only the first Black senator but the first Jewish sena- What we need to say is that every single one of those and that we as members of a communist party, as mem- tor. And so that really got them, based on their anti-Sem- were workers’ movements against an issue. They were bers of other organizations, have the capacity to help itism and racism. The elections of those two men, who not necessarily recognizing their class identity, but push forward to victory. ☐ had espoused somewhat progressive views and had both that’s who it’s always been. Workers have always taken A united working class can defeat fascism By Ted Kelly Havana, who overthrew the CIA-backed fascist gov- first to mobilize. The cops ernment of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, and it was the went so far as to bark polit- Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 webinar on “Workers Indigenous-led workers movement in Bolivia that over- ical slogans at organiz- Can Defeat Fascism & Racism” sponsored by Workers turned the fascist coup just last year. ers, including references World Party. To view the entire panel discussion, go to Everywhere you look in history, the lesson is clear. to anti-Semitic conspir- youtu.be/d9_NDIKT0vw The only way to defeat fascism is through organized acy theories about George mass mobilization. Soros and other proto-QA- Ted Kelly “At the moment that the ‘normal’ police and military In November 2018, Philadelphia learned this lesson non-style lies. resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with through victory. Mayor Jim Kenney granted a demon- Soon, the thousands of their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold stration permit to the Proud Boys, who at the time were workers who had heard the call for solidarity joined, and society in a state of equilibrium—the turn of the fascist only beginning to be reported on in corporate media the police had to pull back to defend their fellow fascists. regime arrives. Through the fascist agency, capitalism as a threat, as a genuine white-supremacist group. But The mood was joyous when the few white supremacists sets in motion the masses of the crazed petty bourgeoi- we knew that this was a fascist mobilization that would who did show their faces were escorted away by cops. sie and the bands of declassed and demoralized work- mean violence against oppressed people. If the Proud The feeling of unity was palpable as the crowd chanted ers—all the countless human beings whom finance Boys were allowed to wreak havoc in the city, or even anti-fascist slogans and happily sang, “We have the num- capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy. show up uncontested, it would be seen as a demonstra- bers!” and “Philly: 1; Nazis: 0.” “From fascism the bourgeoisie demands a thorough tion of the strength of their organization and allow them The lesson I learned that day is this: As terrifying and job; once it has resorted to methods of civil war, it insists to swell their ranks with more of the petty bourgeoisie growing the fascist threat is, the immediate and most on having peace for a period of years. And the fascist and declassed workers. organized violence inflicted on our class is inflicted on us agency, by utilizing the petty bourgeoisie as a battering Instead, Philadelphia showed up in a massive mobi- by the bourgeois state—by capitalism—in a city run by ram, by overwhelming all obstacles in its path, does a lization that was planned by our branch [of Workers the Democratic Party, with a Democrat as Mayor. thorough job.” —Leon Trotsky, 1932 World] working in coalition with allied organizations for Just two years later, over a dozen Philadelphia police It was the working class, the Red Army of the Soviet months. We outnumbered the Proud Boys a thousand to and transit cops have been identified for participating Union, and thousands and thousands of revolutionary one. But the day still began with a huge act of violence—​ in the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, including a QAnon resistance fighters that defeated the Third Reich while committed by the police, who attacked the anti-fascist conspiracy theorist detective whose job is to do back- the liberal capitalist democracies of Europe either col- demonstrators in a show of force before any of the right- ground checks on new cop recruits. lapsed or collaborated. wing demonstrators even showed their faces. We are gathered here today to talk about the fas- It was the revolutionary guerrilla fighters who mobi- This attack by the police was targeted specifically cist menace in the aftermath of that Jan. 6 fascist coup lized the people of Cuba from the Sierra Maestra to at the organizers of the counterprotest who were the attempt. ☐

— UPCOMING WEBINAR — Capitalism on a Ventilator: COVID-19: How weaponizing disease The impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S. “What one learns from Capitalism on a Ventilator and vaccine wars are failing us is that the economic and human cost of the pan- demic was far from inevitable. An entire section of — Tuesday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT — the book is devoted to China’s solidarity with the rest of the world in the fight against COVID-19. After four Join Popular Resistance and the International Contributors to Capitalism on a Ventilator: months of difficult struggle, China successfully con- Action Center for a webinar featuring authors The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S. tained the pandemic and immediately diverted masks, of the new book: Capitalism on a Ventilator: The will provide an update to the book, including testing kits, medical personnel, ventilators and other forms of assistance impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S. where China and the U.S. are now in pandemic to countries across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. The U.S. management, the United States’ hybrid war Speakers: received generous donations of medical equipment from China during the against China, and how vaccine wars are hurting  Vijay Prashad first wave of the pandemic. China was also the first country to declare that the most vulnerable people. Q & A will follow.  Margaret Kimberley its COVID-19 vaccine would be a public good.”  Lee Siu Hin — Danny Haiphong in a review for Black Agenda Report Register to watch on zoom: tinyurl.com/y27bz2sx  Max Blumenthal Livestream: facebook.com/PopularResistanceOrg Order a print copy: tinyurl.com/CapVent-print Moderators: Sara Flounders & Margaret Flowers Share on Facebook: tinyurl.com/y3f7jmzg E-book from Kobo: tinyurl.com/CapVent-ebook workers.org Jan. 21, 2021 Page 5 To defeat fascism ‘We’ve got to start organizing’ By Larry Holmes which is fine, or waiting for someone else A fascist movement is to do it. Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 What happened in the Capitol, and a symptom of a deeper webinar on “Workers Can Defeat many other things before that, is the Fascism and Racism” sponsored handwriting on the wall. We’ve got to capitalist economic by Workers World Party. To view do whatever we can to rebuild a fighting crisis that the owners of the entire panel discussion, go to working-class movement; we can’t waste youtu.be/d9_NDIKT0vw time, and we can’t wait for someone else capitalism do not have a to do it. When you consider what’s happened This is going to take a lot of work; it’s solution to. A crisis that since January 6, you see Washington, going to take a lot of strategizing; it’s is making it harder and D.C., is pretty much shut down under going to take a lot of organizing. It will Larry Holmes martial law, occupied by the army, that take whatever it requires to win over the harder for the politicians may be going on in other areas of the best militants in the Black Lives Matter country. movement—this tremendous uprising to govern in the normal way. And the crisis holds As a communist, instead of relying on against police terror and racism that the potential of awakening the working class the cops and the army to protect us from we’ve witnessed and been part of over the these fascists, from these white suprem- past six or seven months—to win them and creating the basis for a major working-class acists, I’d rather see the formation of over to a stronger working-class, revolu- large-scale, anti-fascist workers’ defense tionary working-class perspective. And upsurge in the struggle against capitalism — an committees. We may very well need to Workers World Party is dedicated to this. upsurge, ultimately of revolutionary dimensions. begin organizing that, once it is clear how real the ongoing threats of violent, racist, Fascism, then and now white-supremacist, fascist attacks are. A form of fascism has always existed vacuum—but it informs what we have to and doctoral degrees can’t get good jobs. On the character of fascism—very, in the United States, especially in the do. We’ve got to start organizing in a way They don’t realize as of yet, although their very good learned Marxists have stud- U.S. South. This was white supremacy, that we haven’t before. consciousness is in transformation, that ied the origins of fascism in Europe and which was not just a cultural thing or a It’s my observation that very good they’re part of the working class, maybe elsewhere, and they tend to zero in on the subtle thing, but the law. It was a way to comrades in the struggle, different orga- even vital parts of it. same points. keep Black and Brown people down and nizations, whether they know organiza- The labor movement, the organized A fascist movement is a symptom of a in their place, so that white supremacy tion or not, that their hearts and minds labor movement has not opened its arms deeper capitalist economic crisis that the would be reinforced, and it was also split- are in the right place. They’re against cap- and welcomed migrant workers. If it owners of capitalism do not have a solu- ting the working class. italism; they see the need for socialism; was otherwise, the level of the migrant tion to. A crisis that is making it harder And it’s an important thing to study they hope that it will arrive, while they’re workers would be different. They would and harder for the politicians to govern in the classic examples of the development still around, or at least for the benefit of be fighting shoulder-to-shoulder, and it the normal way. And the crisis holds the of fascism that a lot of Marxists and a lot the next generation. would be harder for someone like Trump potential of awakening the working class of other good people have focused on to But when it comes to actually coming or whomever in the bourgeoisie to scape- and creating the basis for a major work- understand fascism. But U.S. imperial- together and doing something serious goat them and beat them down. ing-class upsurge in the struggle against ism has its own form of fascism. that could change the situation, they get So now, we’ve got to look at all these capitalism—an upsurge, ultimately of And what we’re seeing now has sort of a little shy, believing ‘we’re too weak; our issues very, very closely, very hard, and revolutionary dimensions. morphed into something bigger that can’t numbers are too small; let’s talk about at the end of the day, we have to come up So hence, the purpose of fascism is to be defined by a region, the South or the it. I don’t know whether we can really do with a plan to organize our class. stop the working class from fighting and Midwest. It’s developing at a time when anything.’ I see the handwriting on the wall, and from challenging capitalism, from making U.S. imperialism is losing its status as the If that kind of psychology is part of the you can’t deny lessons when they’re in revolution and taking over, by dividing head of the global empire. There is the movement, we have to warn everyone. your face. Either we start doing some- the working class, by confusing, disori- standard of living of many people, who That’s not helpful right now. We’ve got thing positive and radical to organize our enting or demoralizing it. And in some not so long ago considered themselves to abandon this notion, whether it’s con- class on a level unprecedented in the his- instances, smashing physically its orga- to be middle class saying that ‘there’s scious or semiconscious, that we can’t do tory of this country—something like the nizations and its leaders and its militants. no class struggle in the U.S.’ That’s the anything. 1930s if you want an analogy—or our The bottom line is the growth of fas- [bull----] that they give you, that ‘we’re a History is demanding that we do some- situation and the situation of the working cism, and whether it succeeds or whether big middle-class country.’ thing. What happened to the Capitol, the class is going to sink deeper and deeper it’s defeated is directly related to the read- A lot of the masses bought into that, but election of Trump, and so many other into crisis. iness of the workers and the oppressed to something happened to them during glo- things are warnings. We revolutionaries And there’ll be cause for greater fear fight the capitalist system. If the work- balization, neoliberalism, union-busting, have to get our act together. And we have of the rise of fascism and also the inter- ing class, for whatever reason, is not up the downsizing of wages and the corpo- to deepen our base in the working class vention of the state, which works hand- to it, and there’s a vacuum—and one ratization of the majority. They’re real- and help workers organize. in-hand with the fascists. Now’s the time could argue that describes the situation izing that their status is crumbling, and we’d like you to join our party. We call to some extent that we have in this coun- larger and larger sections of the masses Organizing the working class ourselves Workers World Party, because try—this is the most dangerous situation are freaking out. Most of the workers are not organized. we are a party of working people. But regarding fascist developments. What is In some ways, we shouldn’t be sur- The organized labor movement is about whatever you’ve got to do to take that big our response? prised that, especially in a vacuum, there 8% to 9%. Most of it is in government. step forward, we can’t just be worrying Every genuine leftist, every militant, is not enough of a radical, anti-capitalist, They’ve lost over many decades a lot of about it. We can talk about it, but even every socialist, communist, even anar- revolutionary, working-class fight-back organized workers. So we start from that’s not enough. We’ve got to come up chist who is oriented toward the work- that has gravity. In the absence of that, that reality that 90% of our class is not with a strategy to rebuild a revolutionary ers and the oppressed, we’ve got to work this social crisis creates a vacuum. organized. And 90% of our class doesn’t working-class movement. And no matter together like never before to rebuild the We should not be surprised that white even realize that they’re in the work- how weak you may think you are, it’s pos- working-class movement. And not just supremacists and fascists would fill it, ing class. A lot of young people who’ve sible if we start. ☐ talk about it, or have it in our literature, because as they say nature abhors a got bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees The Klan & the Government: What Road to Socialism? What Road to Socialism? Foes or Allies? A new Workers World a anthology,workers world anthology confronting Confronts the burning questions what the burning questions and key contradictions key contradictions during By Sam Marcy during this deadly pandemicthis deadly and pandemic global and global capitalist capitalist meltdown. Workers can road to meltdown. win socialism through collective struggle. 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Download free ebook or PDF formats. Also available in paperback. World View Forum WVF Visit workers.org/books to get your copy. Also available workers.org/booksin paperback. Visit workers.org/books to get your copy. Page 6 Jan. 21, 2021 workers.org The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort WW Commentary By Judy Greenspan writing many of the federal laws, his voice was one of Reagan. (Vox, July 31, 2019) the loudest for harsher and lengthier sentences. Biden This bill led to the exponential growth and expansion On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., authored the 1986 and 1988 federal drug laws, contain- of the prison system in California and harsher sentences with less than a week to go of Donald Trump’s presidency, ing the gross sentencing disparity between crack and for prisoners everywhere. Naomi Murakawa, the author Dustin Biggs became the 13th federal prisoner to be exe- powder cocaine, which opened the door to the racist of “The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison cuted under Trump’s administration. This killing spree prosecution and mass incarceration of Black people in America,” openly stated that Biden’s efforts have made that began in 2020 broke a hiatus of 17 years and included disproportionate numbers. the so-called criminal justice system much larger and last Wednesday’s murder of the first woman prisoner in 68 more deadly. years, Lisa Montgomery, a woman diagnosed with bipolar Biden played a large role in supporting the disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, For many of us who have spent our lives opposing the which received bipartisan support and was signed into barbaric death penalty in the U.S., it was particularly law by President Bill Clinton. This bill, besides increas- painful to witness these state lynchings. Biggs, a Black ing prosecutors’ ability to sentence people to death, lim- man, maintained his innocence until death and was exe- ited habeas corpus appeals by prisoners on death row cuted while suffering from COVID. and mandated the immediate deportation of all undoc- Not surprisingly, Democratic lawmakers led by umented prisoners upon the completion of their prison Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and others have terms. sponsored a bill to end the death penalty. The real ques- So here we are again, only days away from Biden’s tion we should be asking is: Why has it taken so long for inauguration. Just this morning, the Federal Bureau of Congress to take legislative steps to end the federal death Prisons announced it was putting all federal prisons on penalty? And who is responsible for the mass incarceration lockdown, supposedly to prevent any prisoner unrest. of poor Black, Brown and Indigenous people in the U.S.? The federal prisoners are certainly not responsible for Just to ask the question is to answer it. While the crim- the Jan. 6 fascist coup attempt in D.C., nor is there any inal injustice system has been a tool of the entire ruling WW PHOTO: JUDY GREENSPAN evidence of an insurgence inside. This sounds like more class to oppress, subjugate and murder the working class, Family members and prisoners’ rights advocates gather racist scapegoating and fearmongering. outside the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez to demand especially its most oppressed sectors—​no incoming presi- The danger to the working class rests with the new release of a prisoner suffering from medical neglect during dent has done more to fill the prisons than President-elect presidency and a party which crafted a racist criminal the COVID pandemic. Joe Biden. A 2015 tweet by Washington Post opinion writer injustice system and then funded, built and filled U.S. Radley Balko said it all, “The martial/incarceral state has prisons with poor people, predominantly Black, Brown had no greater friend in Washington over the past 35 years In 1991, during a debate over a bill that eventually and Indigenous. Donald Trump and the Republican than Joe Biden.” (Vox, July 31, 2019) became the infamous 1994 Violent Crime Control and Party may have resurrected the federal death penalty Law Enforcement Act, Biden presented a plan that was and murdered 13 people, but the seeds of the racist, sex- Biden and the growth of the carceral state tougher and more punitive than that of then-President ist, anti-LGBTQ2S+ criminal injustice system were sown Biden was in Congress for a very long time. He was George Bush Sr. He bragged that his version of the bill as a bipartisan effort wielded by the Democratic Party. there in the 1980s when the racist drug laws were being would provide greater opportunities for federal prisoners Abolish the racist death penalty—once​ and for all! ☐ written and passed. Not only was he responsible for to be sentenced to death than under President Ronald

Diet discrimination behind the walls WW Commentary By Mirinda Crissman with fur during the Jan. 6 fascist insur- force fed pork. The rules were written by wages for everyone. rection at the U.S. Capitol. Since driv- and for white men like Jacob Chansley. We can transform these conditions The interlocking systems of prisons, ing back to his residence in Arizona, he A stark horror in this pandemic, pris- by organizing around human needs like jails and detention centers were built up turned himself in to the FBI. Chansley ons, jails and detention centers have housing and health care, giving people by descendants of those made rich from is charged with trespassing on Capitol been a public health disaster since their the tools to organize where their power colonial conquest of this continent. The grounds, entering violently and commit- inception. They spread disease, kill peo- lies. That may be in workers assemblies, prison-industrial complex continues to ting disorderly conduct while there. ple slowly in a myriad of ways, isolate tenants’ unions, unemployed coun- benefit this very class of How he has been individuals and serve the super-rich as cils, diverting stolen resources back to people every day by its The interlocking treated since his concentration camps for the poor and the people who created that wealth and existence. arrest stands out. oppressed. showing solidarity with people caught As the Prisoners systems of prisons, The Washington Post This society’s contradictions permeate up in the prison-industrial complex. We Solidarity Committee jails, and detention reported on Jan. 15: these capitalist cages. Jails are typically have diversity in tactics, but always with of Workers World Party “In a court filing late the largest “providers” of mental health an aim: to crumble the foundation of that stated 50 years ago: centers were built up Thursday, federal pros- “care,” which becomes its opposite when which oppresses us. “Once in a very great by descendants of ecutors in Phoenix wrote managed by armed bodies of the state. As abolitionist organizer Mariame while, a rich man goes to that ‘strong evidence, Sheriffs and police have their origins on Kaba says, “we do this till we free us.” prison. Maybe he is tak- those made rich from including Chansley’s own this continent in the “patrols” of people If we do our due diligence in organizing ing a six-month rap for a colonial conquest of words and actions at the who escaped slavery. before irreconcilable class antagonisms company that defrauded Capitol, supports that the As abolitionists, our goal is not the come to the final boiling point, the masses the people out of millions; this continent. The intent of the Capitol riot- prosecution of white supremacists to the will decide for themselves that they no when he gets out after his prison-industrial ers was to capture and fullest extent possible; courts, like cops, longer accept their exploitation. ☐ brief stretch, he’s set for assassinate elected offi- will not bring liberation. And anything life. And even while he’s complex continues cials in the United States used by the state appara- in, every little comfort is to benefit this very government.’ On Friday, tus in a court of law can be provided for him, so that however, Assistant U.S. used against us when we hit the time passes as pleas- class of people every Attorney Todd Allison the streets in the next big antly as possible. day by its existence. walked back the claim upswell against 400 years of “Most of all, he is never of an assassination plot, racist capitalism. We must really isolated, never for- saying that while it ‘may take seriously the fascists’ gotten. His lawyers visit him constantly, very well be appropriate at a trial,’ raising threats of violence and meet the guards treat him like a ‘gentleman,’ it at this stage could mislead the court.” them with a mass response. and he is able to conduct his business The courts continue to protect and We are not asking that affairs from prison. Prisons weren’t made provide for this white supremacist. A everyone be dehumanized for people like this. The fact that a hand- judge ruled in favor of him being fed a equally in line with the most ful of them may be in a few federal insti- diet of organic food while in the custody oppressed behind the walls. tutions is largely an accident. of U.S. Marshals on the grounds that he Abolitionists, practicing “But the prisons are full, overflowing, might have a religious reason to do so. the science of change, are exploding with poor, oppressed people (Newsweek, Jan. 14) interested in transforming for whom prisons have meant the end—​ the material conditions that Real dietary needs of oppressed denied Imam Siddiqui Abdullah Hasan, on death row in Ohio, of life, of happiness, of friends and fam- allowed prisons, jails and was falsely convicted of the murder of a guard during the ily.” (tinyurl.com/y3dhshf7) In contrast, people with diabetes detention centers to accu- 1993 Lucasville prison rebellion. The rebellion started An adherent of white supremacy, Jacob imprisoned in Texas can’t receive proper mulate in the first place. after Muslim prisoners objected to being forced to take a Anthony Chansley was seen in videos in meals unless they go on dialysis. Muslim They stand to impose inhu- tuberculosis test containing alcohol, in violation of their patriotic face paint and a horned helmet people imprisoned in the U.S. have been manity and drive down religious practice. workers.org Jan. 21, 2021 Page 7

Lisa Montgomery’s execution ‘We cannot let this happen again’ This lightly edited statement was her effectively. Then they violated the innocent citizens. Executions are super- of those who were supposed to love, nur- issued by attorney Kelley Henry on the law in multiple ways in rescheduling spreader events. The government knows ture and protect her. ... Lisa often became execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 13 her execution for the final days of the this. Yet they put the lives of every sin- trapped in the prison of her mind, losing at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. Trump Administration. Though courts gle person who must participate in these touch with reality for periods of time. But agreed Lisa’s case presented important “events” in jeopardy—​as well as every when not gripped by psychosis, she was The craven bloodlust of a failed admin- legal issues warranting serious consid- one of those persons’ friends, families, a gentle and caring person whom I was istration was on full display tonight. eration—​including whether she was neighbors, co-workers, and who knows honored to know and to represent. Everyone who participated in the exe- competent to execute—​the government how many other people … Lisa Nouri, Amy Harwell and I repre- cution of Lisa Montgomery should feel hammered onward with appeals. In the midst of all this litigation, Lisa’s sented Mrs. Montgomery for eight years. shame. No one disagrees that Mrs. request for clemency remained before We loved her very much and she loved us. Montgomery was the victim of unspeak- President Trump. It was supported by She honored us with her truth and trusted able torture and sex trafficking … [and] no thousands of organizations and individu- us to share it in a way that not only told one can credibly dispute her long-stand- als—faith​ leaders, anti-violence advocates, her story, but that could help other women. ing debilitating mental disease—​diag- conservative leaders, international organi- Even though President Trump could nosed and treated for the first time by the zations and many more. But the president not be the hero we asked him to be, we Federal Bureau of Prisons’ own doctors. did nothing. He had not even the decency are here to say to every woman and girl Our Constitution forbids the execution to formally deny—​or even acknowledge—​ who has been the victim of violence and of a person who is unable to rationally Lisa’s clemency application, though it is degradation: You matter. Your pain mat- understand her execution. The Trump hard to imagine a case more deserving of ters. You are more than a victim. You are Administration knows this. And they executive intervention than this one. a survivor. Do not let anyone humiliate killed Mrs. Montgomery anyway—​vio- Lisa Montgomery’s execution was far or shame you. You deserve to be loved. In lating the Constitution, federal law and from justice. She should never have faced the past week, we have seen just how far its own regulations, and long-standing a death sentence in the first place, as no President Trump and his administration norms along the way. other woman has faced execution for a will go in their disdain for justice and the The government stopped at noth- similar crime. And Lisa was much more rule of law. This failed government adds ing in its zeal to kill this damaged and than the tragic crime she committed, a itself to the long list of people and insti- delusional woman. After we, her attor- crime for which she felt deep remorse tutions who failed Lisa. neys, contracted COVID-19 during our Lisa Montgomery before she lost all touch with reality in We should recognize Lisa travels to visit her after her execution the days before her execution. Montgomery’s execution for what it was: was scheduled, the government fought By insisting on an execution during a Lisa was also much more than the hor- the vicious, unlawful and unnecessary tooth and nail against any delay to allow pandemic, this administration demon- rors inflicted upon her, the sexual vio- exercise of authoritarian power. We can- us to recover so we could represent strated its reckless disregard for the life of lence and abuse she endured at the hands not let this happen again. ☐ Legal lynchings soar under Trump By Gloria Rubac never have been sentenced to death. In wanted to say that to the families who execution, saying, “It is no accident that a statement, his lawyers Donald Salzman were victimized by my actions, and I this is happening on Dr. King’s birthday. In an unprecedented spree of execu- and Ronald Tabak said the government want these names to be remembered: The S.H.A.P.E. family feels that the fed- tions, Donald Trump has executed 13 has executed a person “with an intellec- Louis Johnson, Anthony Carter, Dorothy eral government, led by President Trump, people in the last six months of his presi- tual disability, in stark violation of the Armstrong, Curtis Thorne, Linwood is desecrating the memory of Dr. King dency. As if in a frenzy to kill, Trump had Constitution and fed- by carrying out any execution three people put to death at the federal eral law” and vehe- on his birthday. We should all penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., just mently denied he had be honoring his fight to bring days before he exits the White House. the mental capacity to justice for our community, not According to common sense, as well be a so-called “drug defaming him by having an as various courts’ rulings including the kingpin.” execution.” U.S. Supreme Court, the last three peo- On Dec. 30, 2020, Higgs was involved in a ple should never have been on death row his attorneys sent a crime, but did not kill anyone. or executed. clemency appeal to The actual killer received a life The three people executed between the president, stat- sentence. Jan. 12 and 15 were Lisa Montgomery, ing: “Corey Johnson Some activists are count- Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs. is intellectually dis- ing on the new president, Joe Montgomery’s life was one of horror, as abled and cannot Biden, to get rid of the federal she was sex-trafficked by her mother as a constitutionally be death penalty. Biden helped child and raped by her stepfather and his executed … Corey write the infamous 1994 crime friends for years. Montgomery’s mother Johnson remained in bill that added 60 federal crimes traded sex with her in exchange for pay- the second grade for for which a person could be put ing bills or for repairs on their house. three years and also to death. What he does as presi- Montgomery’s lawyers asked the courts repeated the third and dent remains to be seen. to declare her incompetent in an effort to fourth grades. When But it must be noted that block her execution, citing serious men- asked his birthday at there are now 49 people on the tal illness, neurological impairment and age eight, while in sec- federal death row compared to complex trauma. The Supreme Court ond grade, he thought Protest against the execution of Dustin Higgs at WW PHOTO: GLORIA RUBAC the 2,500+ on state death rows. had found in 1986 that executing the it was in March, Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Houston, Jan. 15. Even if Biden commutes “insane” was illegal in a case called Ford though he was actually every federal death sentence to v. Wainwright. That ruling said people born in November. When he was 13 years Chiles, Peyton Johnson, Bobby Long. I life in prison, these facts, from the Death would be entitled to a competency evalu- old, he could barely write his own name. would have said I was sorry before, but Penalty Information Center, remain: ation and an evidentiary hearing in court, “And while he knew there were 12 I didn’t know how. I hope you will find • The death penalty is racist, and one so it could be determined if they were months in the year, he could recite them peace. To my family, I have always loved is more likely to be sentenced to competent to be executed. only up to August. Corey was not able to you, and your love has made me real … I death if a white person is killed. Montgomery was denied fairness by tell time or perform arithmetic beyond a am not the same man that I was … thanks • 92 of the 174 people who were the very court that made this ruling when third-grade level … When he was in his to my legal team. Don has been more than proven innocent and exonerated SCOTUS allowed her execution to go early 20s, achievement testing measured a lawyer, he has become a friend … I am from death row are Black. forward. Hers was the first federal exe- his grade-equivalent levels no higher okay. I am at peace.” • Public opinion polls show that cution of a woman since Bonnie Brown than second grade in reading and writ- support for the death penalty is Heady was put to death in the gas cham- ing. When he was last tested at age 45, Killing on MLK’s birthday currently near historic lows, after ber for kidnapping and murder and Ethel Mr. Johnson was still at an elementary On Jan. 15, the birthday of Civil Rights peaking in 1994 and declining over Rosenberg, although innocent, was elec- school level. As an adolescent and teen- leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the last 25 years. trocuted for espionage, both 68 years ago. ager, Corey functioned like a younger another African American man—​Dustin child—he​ struggled to prepare snacks for Higgs—​was executed. Reactions to an Our task is to abolish the death pen- Another illegal execution himself, wet his bed until he was 12 and execution on King’s birthday were swift alty. It is racist. It does not deter crime. On Jan. 14, Corey Johnson, an African could not be trusted to roam school halls and harsh. At a protest in Houston, long- Actually, it is the crime. The death pen- American man, became the 12th victim of without getting lost.” time activist Deloyd Parker, executive alty is guilty on all counts. Let’s shut it the execution spree. He was a person with Johnson’s last words were, “I want director of the S.H.A.P.E. Community down! ☐ a proven intellectual disability and should to say that I am sorry for my crimes. I Center for over 50 years, reacted to this Page 8 Jan. 21, 2021 workers.org For exposing COVID-19 outbreak Black newspaper editor faces retaliation By Judy Greenspan arrest at the Taylor Center, and his phone lockdown units across the country, was confiscated. He was threatened with including ICE detention centers, private What happens when a federal prisoner being returned to federal prison for the prisons and halfway houses. GEO’s bru- who has just become the editor-in-chief duration of his parole, which ends in May. tality and mismanagement of its prisons of the San Francisco Bay View National Public pressure forced GEO Group to have been the subject of serious human Black Newspaper is paroled to a halfway allow the Bay View editor to return to rights complaints, prisoner hunger strikes house run by GEO Group? That company work. But as of this writing, Washington and several lawsuits. is one of the largest managers of lock- still does not have his phone, and the GEO’s Adelanto Processing Center—its​ down units and ICE detention centers in halfway house continues to threaten and Immigration and Customs Enforcement the U.S. try to silence this formerly incarcerated detention center in San Bernardino Editor Malik Washington didn’t have activist. (48hills.org, Jan. 11) County, Calif.—​has been continuously to think twice about what to do. He inves- A community campaign—​led by anti- investigated for its horrific living condi- tigated and discovered that GEO’s Taylor prison activists, formerly incarcerated tions and medical neglect. As the COVID Street Center was covering up a COVID organizers, lawyers and progressive pandemic spread in 2020, the American outbreak—​and used his journalism and community organizations—​has come Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on PHOTO: SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW NATIONAL BLACK NEWSPAPER organizing skills to blow the whistle on together to demand justice for Malik and behalf of six ICE prisoners for dangerous the corporation. to expose GEO Group for crimes against conditions faced by undocumented incar- Malik Washington with his fiancee, and San Francisco Bay View Managing Editor, Nube On Jan. 8, a memo appeared at the immigrants and other people held in its cerated workers there. (Orange County Brown. halfway house concerning several cases private prisons. Washington and sup- Register, April 2, 2020) of COVID there. After seeing a public porters have demanded that his phone Supporters of Washington—​includ- tweet about this outbreak posted by oth- be returned and that he be released to ing California Prison Focus and the ICE Washington. They are demanding his ers, Washington exposed the contents of his own home during his parole. And abolitionist group, Free Them All—​are release so he can go home. Please sign the memo to his supporters and the local Washington is demanding an accounting working hard to expose GEO Group and the online petition to the Director of media. Since then, the journalist and of how many people at the Taylor Center to put pressure on the Taylor Center half- the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Michael activist has suffered several acts of retali- have tested positive for COVID. way house, as well as the Federal Bureau Carvajal, at chng.it/DrfJhZTyF6. ☐ ation. At first, he was placed under house GEO Group runs approximately 129 of Prisons, to stop the retaliation against

Trump OUT — Time for workers to defeat racism, fascism Continued from page 1 fascist and especially racist ideology. Ocasio-Cortez, who rightfully feared such a threat. On Jan. 6, the leading fascist forces included the Proud This type of pogrom has happened before in U.S. his- was part of U.S. imperialism’s occupation of Iraq. Boys, the Oath Keepers, Boogaloo Bois (whose stated goal tory, when KKK-led mobs deposed local governments The biggest force on hand in Washington, D.C., is the is to spark a racial civil war), assorted militias and some where Black people held office, such as in Wilmington, National Guard. According to extensive media reports, open KKK and Nazis—​a replay of Charlottesville, Va., N.C., in 1898. (tinyurl.com/y48n8pma) the FBI, Secret Service, Capitol and Metropolitan police August 2017. They carry weapons to protests, invoking Unlike a military coup to put a junta in power or forces play a supplemental role. Federal and local police the Second Amendment. Most groups’ ideology is a mix choose a new executive, the Jan. 6 assault needed only to agencies have been investigating and arresting people of misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-com- stop the certification of Trump’s loss. It was similar to the identified as participants in the assault on the Capitol. munism/socialism, but the main theme uniting them is U.S.-backed coups in Yugoslavia in October 2000 depos- While Congress managed to certify the election at white supremacy. ing Slobodan Milosevic and in Ukraine in February 2014 around 3:45 a.m. Jan. 7—​after reconvening following the Since 2017 the QAnon cult, which joined the fascists in evicting Victor Yanukovich—​both based on unproven assault—​nevertheless 147 Republicans voted against cer- the Capitol on Jan. 6, has become a mass phenomenon. It claims of election fraud, both occurring with a Democrat tification. That so many Republicans stayed with Trump’s targets politicians and business leaders, mostly establish- in the White House. Big Lie about the election results indicated he still had sub- ment Democrats, accusing them without evidence of those Similar fascist assaults intimidating politicians in stantial ruling-class support, despite the revulsion voiced kinds of unspeakable crimes that arouse mass revulsion. Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona could in most establishment media. QAnon looks to Trump as their champion, and he thanks have canceled the votes of cities with many African In the next week, however, many ruling-class institu- them for their support. American and Latinx voters, reversed Biden’s victories tions abandoned Trump, even those who had previously On Jan. 6, the president and his sleazebag cronies and reelected Trump. In a phone call, the outgoing pres- supported him. The Wall Street Journal, the National unleashed this hatred-driven mob on their rivals—​ ident had tried earlier to push Georgia’s Republican sec- Association of Manufacturers, Deutsche Bank (a source including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other Democrats retary of state to “find the votes” he would need to erase of loans for Trump’s businesses) dumped him, and some and even Vice President Mike Pence, whom they consid- his loss there. Republican politicians jumped ship. ered a traitor. The Trump cabal did this with the tacit sup- It looks like Trump will have to leave on Jan. 20, and Social media monopolies like Facebook and Twitter port of a majority of Republican members of Congress, he may face another impeachment trial in the new Senate. cut Trump off from direct media appeal to his base. who were lined up to oppose Biden’s certification. Corporations and foundations which have supported Working-class response Republican candidates financially promised to cut off Trump’s role inciting mayhem On Jan. 20 it is likely the massive presence of National funds from those who voted against certification. The outgoing president’s urging played a key role. Guard troops will discourage any mass fascist mobiliza- On Jan. 12, the eight generals who make up the Hard-core fascists might be willing to take risks; they tion. However, the fascist movement can still recruit and Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff signed and sent a public are ten times more willing if a U.S. president orders them take action far away from military concentrations. letter to all 1.3 million members of the U.S. military. The to. That’s a tacit promise of impunity. And for the thou- The crisis in capitalist society that fuels the growth of statement condemned the “violent riot in Washington, sands there who were not as hard-core, the presidential fascist and other irrational ideologies among the masses D.C., on January 6, 2021,” called on all troops to avoid push was enough to bring them along to support those shows no signs of abating. COVID-19, the cyclical cap- extremism and made the Pentagon’s position clear: ready to rampage. italist crisis after the pandemic has calmed—​if that “On Jan. 20, 2021, in accordance with the Constitution, What made it vintage Trump was that he promised he happens—​and the climate crisis all threaten political confirmed by the states and the courts, and certified by would join the march, but didn’t. He considers the rioters stability in the center of world imperialism. The U.S. con- Congress, President-elect Biden will be inaugurated and “low-class” trash. tinues to lose prestige and power worldwide. will become our 46th commander in chief.” What formed a perfect storm was the collaboration To rely on the state’s repressive forces to stop a fas- Sending the message to all troops indicates that mili- of the Capitol Police, whose leaders refused to prepare cist upsurge in a growing crisis is to disarm the work- tary leadership takes seriously the fact that veterans and a its defense. Even after Rep. Maxine Waters urged and ing class—​which includes all sectors of people who handful of active duty troops were in on the Jan. 6 attack questioned them on Dec. 31, they did little. Without their depend on selling their labor power to survive—​leaving on Congress. Since the Army is 40% people of color and usual overwhelming might managing this protest, some it vulnerable. the National Guard 25%, the generals fear that exacerbated police fraternized with the fascists. Others “did their job” Assuming a smooth transition to the Biden/Harris racist animosity will wreck their force’s cohesion. protecting Congress. government, the working class and people’s rights orga- Figuratively, ruling-class forces had a vision of a The result: fascists killed one cop, cops killed one nizations of all nationalities and genders must wrestle QAnon leader wearing horns (or even someone with attacker, three others died, including one attacker the with how to organize self defense against fascism, inde- orange hair) directing their fortunes. Most agreed that fascists themselves trampled. Capitol Police Chief Steven pendent of the state apparatus. We encourage all groups was a bad idea. Sund and others under him have since resigned. to take the necessary steps. Those who incited the assault, like Trump and Rudy The movement must find ways to directly appeal to the The fascist forces Giuliani, did so knowing that a crowd storming the Capitol rank-and-file troops of the National Guard and the Army A great majority of local police around the country have might injure or kill their political opponents. Not to men- to encourage anti-fascism and their refusal to turn their supported Trump. Some individual cops participated in the tion that a frenzied white-supremacist and misogynist mob guns on the peoples’ movements. The stronger the pop- assault on Congress, and many people with fascist ideology might lynch any person of color they got their hands on—​ ular movement grows and the more decisively it acts, the look to or are recruited by the police. While police officers for example, the young progressive and outspoken women better it can win over “undecided” persons and neutralize are part of the legal state apparatus, they are susceptible to of color representatives of “the Squad,” like Alexandria those tempted to join the fascists. ☐ workers.org Jan. 21, 2021 Page 9 Flint water scandal charges Slap on the wrist for ex-governor By Martha Grevatt homes of the city’s families, the ques- tion remains: Why was the Flint River so In April 2014 the city of Flint, Mich., badly contaminated? made the fatal decision to switch its water For over a century, corporations dumped supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage industrial waste into the river—​in particu- Department to the heavily contaminated lar, one corporation has been most closely Flint River. Flint residents have waited associated with Flint: General Motors. The almost seven years for the responsible city has been contaminated with arsenic, parties—​in particular former Gov. Rick chromium, mercury, lead, solvents and WW PHOTO: MARTHA GREVATT Snyder—to​ face criminal charges. Activists demand justice for Flint, 2016. other toxins that will take centuries to dis- That wait has come to an end. However, solve. While Flint’s children were being Flint residents are angry and disap- appointed and was required to supervise.” governor who appointed and retained sickened, GM was able to quietly shift its pointed over the actual charges brought Snyder faces a maximum of one year in them—and​ later assigned Earley to over- water supplier to a nearby suburb, when by Michigan Attorney General Dana prison and a $1,000 fine. see Detroit Public Schools, where lead the company realized that engine parts Nessel against Snyder: just two misde- The involuntary manslaughter charges poisoning has also been a problem—​is were being corroded. meanor counts of willful neglect of duty. stem from the Legionnaires’ disease out- only charged with misdemeanors! This same company, having closed 9 Lower-ranking current and former offi- break that sickened over 90 people and In contrast, the former mayor of out of 10 plants that once dominated the cials face heavier felony charges, includ- killed 12. Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is serving a city’s landscape, has eroded Flint’s tax ing perjury, misconduct in office and 28-year sentence stemming from a cor- base—driving​ the cost-cutting measures involuntary manslaughter. Nine individ- The racist “dictator law” and ruption scandal that did not sicken or kill that ultimately proved deadly. At the time uals have been charged. Flint’s water poisoning anyone. Snyder is white and Kilpatrick is of the water crisis, Flint had the highest “Snyder got a slap on the wrist, and Beginning in 1990, the Michigan leg- Black. This is blatant racism, the same poverty rate of any Michigan city. Flint got a slap in the face,” said for- islature passed a series of bills allowing racism behind the EM law that, at the Another culprit is the huge transna- mer Flint Mayor Karen Weaver. “Not the governor to impose an “emergency time of the Flint water crisis, had 50% of tional Veolia/Transdev, which has been only did people lose their lives through financial manager”—​renamed “emer- Michigan’s Black residents under emer- involved in privatizing water and trans- Legionnaires’ [disease], we know women gency manager” with broader powers in gency management compared to 2% of portation departments since the mid-19th who had stillbirths and miscarriages.” 2011—​over a city, county or school dis- white Michiganians. century. This company, a notorious union As Flint Water Crisis Community trict deemed to be in financial distress. Charges from the investigation by pre- buster, has been blamed for undermining Activist Melissa Mays put it, “The fact that The successive bills primarily targeted vious Republican Attorney General Bill water quality in municipalities all over the here if you’re a rich white man, then it’s Black-majority cities including Detroit, Schuette did not even include Snyder. world. not actually a crime to poison Black and Flint and Benton Harbor. It gave the EM After Nessel—​a Democrat and out les- In 2015 Flint’s emergency manager Brown bodies and that you can get away broad dictatorial powers to break union bian elected along with Democratic Gov. authorized a $40,000 study of Flint’s water with it.” (NBC 25, Jan. 14) contracts, sell or privatize community Gretchen Whitmer in 2018—​took over, quality issues to be conducted by Veolia. Complaints from Flint water consum- assets and overrule elected city councils, she scrapped Schuette’s investigation and The company’s study failed to mention the ers began soon after the city disconnected mayors and school boards. started over. While the charging of Snyder risk of lead poisoning and Legionnaires’ from DWSD. They included brown-col- There was one stipulation: Principal this time around is long overdue, as the and did not recommend switching to ored, foul-smelling and foul-tasting and interest payments to the banks and highest-ranking official tied to Flint’s suf- another water source, such as DWSD. A water; skin rashes; and children show- bondholders must be paid. fering, he should actually be facing the state lawsuit against Veolia is still unre- ing signs of lead poisoning. High lead Grassroots activists launched a mas- most serious charges. solved, even after other parties sued agreed levels were found in the water due to the sive grassroots petition drive, putting the Other responsible parties were not to a $600 million settlement to assist Flint cost-cutting decision not to add anticor- hated Public Act 4 on the ballot in 2012. charged at all, including the governor-ap- in making its water infrastructure safe. rosive chemicals to the river water. Voters shot down what had been nick- pointed leadership of Michigan Department Real justice will mean jail for all of the Yet Gov. Snyder did not “declare a state named “the dictator law.” But rather than of Environmental Quality. From April 2014 politicians and corporate heads responsi- of emergency and/or disaster when the respect the democratic will of the people, until October 2015, MDEQ insisted Flint ble for poisoning an impoverished Black- governor had notice of a threat of a disas- Michigan’s legislators passed a new EM water was safe to drink. majority city. Real justice means full ter and/or emergency in the city of Flint,” bill, PA 436, with minor variations. reparations for the people of Flint. according to the indictment, waiting until The decision to switch Flint’s water Corporate criminals off the hook January 2016 to issue the declaration. supply was made by EM Darnell Earley There are other responsible parties See extensive coverage of the Flint He also failed to “inquire into the per- and continued by his successor, Gerald besides elected and appointed officials Water Crisis from 2015-2016 at formance, condition and administration Ambrose. Both face felony charges with in the tragedy that befell Flint. While workers.org/?s=flint. of the public offices and officers that he up to five years imprisonment. But the their decisions sent toxic water into the Struggle for Safehouse will continue

By Princess Harmony injection/consumption site planned for of law is still alive and Philadelphia, a city hit hard by the opioid well in Philadelphia ... it A crack house is dark. It is a place of epidemic. Justice Stephanos Bibas who is a federal crime to open sorrow and danger—​a hell on Earth. voted against Safehouse holds reactionary a heroin injection site People do not care about you. They would and backward views on drug use, believ- or ‘consumption room’ allow you to die alone if you overdose or ing that addiction is a matter of choice for illegal drug use. The have an adverse drug reaction. You have and that the deaths from addiction are the Third Circuit’s opinion is to be on guard at all times. You will even- result of these choices. a faithful reading of the tually die if you don’t find a way to be lib- The concept of supervised safe injection/ statute’s plain language erated from the grip of drugs. Yet whether consumption sites began in Canada and in and is consistent with PHOTO: KIMBERLY PAYNTER hidden or obvious, a crack house is out of several European countries. In Canada, safe Congress’s intent to pro- Supporters of a “supervised injection” site to prevent view for people who do not suffer from injection/consumption sites were officially tect American neighbor- overdose deaths rally outside a federal court hearing in addiction—substance​ use disorders. permitted in 2003. Following epidemics of hoods from the scourge of Philadelphia in September 2019. Compare that to a safe injection/con- overdoses and HIV (human immunodefi- concentrated drug use.” sumption site. It is a supervised facility ciency virus) infections, the safe injection/ Despite evidence that safe injection/ have cared for someone who has struggled where people care about you; they want consumption sites lowered overdoses and consumption sites are a healthy and posi- with safe substance use and feel that pain. you to succeed in life and be safe in your HIV infections. tive choice in a sea of bad options to react We also know that the War on Drugs has use of drugs. Safe injection/consumption Safehouse organizers’ first effort to open to the opioid epidemic, including doing completely failed us as a nation. Whether it sites are fundamentally different from up a safe injection/consumption site in nothing, McSwain doesn’t care whether takes new policies, new statutes or a recon- crack houses, despite the fact that both South Philadelphia unfortunately failed. or not it would save lives. Fortunately sideration of today’s decision on appeal, allow you to use drugs. One saves lives. The building owner pulled out of the agree- McSwain, a Trump appointee who tar- we as a nation will get there,” Krasner said. The other is a public nuisance that endan- ment because of pressure from racist neigh- geted Black Lives Matter protesters for “We get to choose the future.” gers them. bors who opposed the plan. Despite plans federal prosecution, resigned this week. The U.S. is falling behind in its dealing In a safe injection site, you can get being outlined to deal with security and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry with opioid addiction. Canada, Portugal FDA-approved medications methadone potential drug-related litter, the opponents Krasner, who wants to review the ruling, and other countries have opened safe (Methadose, Diskets) or buprenorphine of the plan still opposed it. Some of these said: “I want to remind my fellow govern- injection/consumption sites, and their (Suboxone, Subutex, Sublocade, Zubsolv, opponents were organizers of reactionary ment officials of the actual stakes at hand: risks of overdose, HIV, hepatitis B and Bunavail). At a crack house you risk getting protests to save a Christopher Columbus Thousands of our neighbors and loved C have decreased among people who use fentanyl and its analogues that will kill you. statue in the area in 2020. ones—​children, parents, siblings, child- drugs. The U.S. must change its stance if Unfortunately, on Jan. 12 the After the court ruled against Safehouse, hood friends—​who needlessly lost their people are to survive the opioid epidemic. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third U.S. Attorney General William McSwain lives to tainted drugs or substance use The good news is that Safehouse isn’t Circuit ruled against Safehouse, a safe said, “I’m pleased to report that the rule disorder. Most, if not all of us, know and done. It will continue to fight. ☐ Page 10 Jan. 21, 2021 workers.org editorial Patching up capitalism during COVID On Jan. 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease hostile to funding public health, the to anyone taking over the government But in the middle of a death-dealing Control and Prevention confirmed the first Obamacare health plan and expansion of who says they may use the position to pandemic crisis, free universal coverage recognized case of COVID-19 in the U.S. Medicaid. assist working and oppressed people. for health care should be the proposal on One year later, over 400,000 people in Meanwhile, people are suffering and In his pandemic plan, Biden projects the table! the country are dead from the virus—​the dying—​with the most casualties suffered making the vaccine free to everyone, Instead, Biden’s bill is a proposal that equivalent of wiping out the entire popula- by poor people and those working in including undocumented workers, as will go to the chopping block of business tion of Cleveland, Ohio, or Tampa, Fla. Out low-paying jobs, people with disabilities, well as establishing community vacci- interests that’s called the U.S. Congress. of the estimated 2 million people world- Black, Indigenous and Latinx people, those nation centers and expanding treatment Who knows which of that bill’s best wide who have died due to COVID-19, one- undocumented and incarcerated, older and research options. The plan’s other proposals will survive? And how long its fifth have been within the U.S. alone! people—and​ anyone with limited access to relief items include additional one-time passage will take? And how many people Workers World has written on how health care, like many LGBTQ2S+ people. direct “stimulus” payments, extension of will die waiting for those who guard the countries with centralized planning on And what have the millionaires of unemployment benefits and eviction pro- coffers of capitalism to turn loose even a a socialist model—like​ Cuba or China—​ Congress been doing about the crisis? Yes, tection, childcare subsidies and manda- little help? have dramatically lowered virus death millionaires—in​ 2020, over half the mem- tory paid sick leave. The extent of whatever help Biden and and infection rates. (“Why socialist coun- bers of the U.S. Congress were millionaires, Seems massive, right? But it’s a patch the new Congress will offer is unknown. tries take lead in fighting COVID-19,” with the richest almost evenly divided on the flat tire of capitalism—​stopping a The length of continuation of the pan- May 21, 2020) between Democrats and Republicans. leak in the system, pumping it up—​but demic and its effects are unknown. But here in the U.S., Republican (opensecrets.org, April 23, 2020) still failing to address the continuing What is clear, as revealed by the COVID President Trump—​aided and abetted by So far Congress has managed to pass built-in inequalities and suffering in this crisis, is that the political and economic other far-right bigots—​has spread deadly only two relief bills to give minimal pan- brutal way of “doing business.” system of the U.S. is built and maintained lies about the virus, sabotaging the CDC’s demic assistance to poor and oppressed For instance, the bill calls for a $15 on the backs and lives of working and scientific and public health work. While he people. The provisions of the first bill—​ hourly federal minimum wage. Low-wage oppressed people. boasted that Operation Warp Speed got the CARES Act—actually​ expired at one workers have been fighting for this state- There will continue to be crisis after vaccines developed, Big Pharma fattened point, leaving workers with no buffer by-state for years—​for so long now that crisis as long as the U.S. is a “capitalist on related government grants and was pro- from unemployment, hunger and home $20 an hour is likely needed to make a democracy.” And people will continue to tected by contract “no liability” clauses in evictions because of political jockeying living wage! die while this unjust system continues. the event their vaccines caused harm. within Congress. And what about the bill’s Obamacare The challenge for those working toward Now the vaccine distribution plan is premium subsidies, which would give socialism is to expose the link between the stumbling, with insufficient supplies and Biden’s patch of a plan more low-income or precarious work- cycle of injustice and capitalism—​and to no centralized guidance. Federal author- Now incoming Democratic President ers—​like gig workers—​a chance at build working-class consciousness and ities simply handed off distribution to the Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion bill health insurance? Linda Blumberg, a action with workers and oppressed peo- states. But local public health systems are to provide COVID relief and jump-start fellow at the Health Policy Center at the ple within the U.S. underfunded—if​ not in shambles—from​ the economy. The Jan. 6 armed attack Urban Institute, says of that: “I think with These are our neighbors, workmates, years of building prisons and arming the on the Capitol building—​to prevent his good outreach and enrollment assistance, friends and family who are suffering. We police as budget priorities. certification as winner of the presiden- you could bring a good deal more people are shoulder-to-shoulder with them in the And in many states, those in majority tial election—​shows the rabid degree of in. You’re not going to get to universal fight against injustice—​and in the advance control of state governments are actively white-supremacist, neofascist resistance coverage.” (NY Times, Jan. 16) on the liberation road toward socialism. ☐

Protests erupt over Haitian president’s plans to stay in power

By G. Dunkel of many Haitian lawyers, these steps are unconstitutional. From Brooklyn and Miami to Montreal, Since he was able to dissolve parliament Quebec, Canada, as well as Port-au-Prince, a year ago in January and rule by decree, Cap-Haitien, Jacmel, Saint-Marc and Moïse has been able to limit the power of Gonaïves in Haiti, hundreds of people the courts to audit the government’s books. marched on Jan. 15 to demand that Haitian He has also declared common protest tac- President Jovenel Moïse follow the consti- tics—​like blocking traffic—​to be “acts of tution and step down next month. terrorism” which carry heavy penalties. The term of the last president, Michel The Core Group, which includes offi- Martelly, ended in 2016. Most Haitians say cials from the U.N., U.S., Canada and that Moïse’s five-year term should end this France—​who worry that mass opposi- year. But he is claiming that due to a cha- tion could erupt—questions these moves otic process involving an interim president and is pushing for a presidential election and massive amounts of political maneu- sooner than Moïse wants. vering, he didn’t take office until 2017. The protests in North America were Moïse ignores the fact that while he got coordinated by the Boston-based New 52% of the total vote, the turnout was only England Human Rights Organization 18% of the electorate—​meaning that less Barclay Center protest, Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 15. PHOTO: KIM IVES/HAÏTI-LIBERTÉ (NEHRO), which partnered with local than 10% of Haitian voters supported him. activists and groups in the various cities—​ Both Moïse and his predecessor, Michel Union, have been worried about Haitian dollars from the U.S. Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago—​ Martelly, are members of the PHTK, a elections ever since 1990. In that election, Moïse has scheduled parliamentary and where protests were held. NEHRO has a political party that was basically set up Jean-Bertrand Aristide was able to build presidential elections for this September, history of organizing events in support of to allow the U.S. to intervene in Haitian a mass movement, which is currently with a second round in November. They Fanmi Lavalas, the party founded by for- elections without exposing itself. The called Fanmi Lavalas, and soundly defeat will be preceded by a referendum on a mer President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. in particular, and also the European Marc Bazin, who had received millions of new constitution in April. In the opinion NEHRO did not organize the protests in Haiti, which appear to have been led by 6 de enero expone Un cuento de dos clases a coalition of opposition parties. ☐ Continúa de la página 12 sus millonarios amigos republicanos en el grandes empresas y sus directores ejecuti- Senado y demócratas complacientes. vos súper ricos que por el bienestar de los Marxism, Reparations & Washington, con sede en D.C., dice: “Que “Los mercados están dominados por miles de millones de personas que habitan the Black Freedom Struggle un cierre económico de proporciones las personas que están en los escalones el planeta y luchan en una a diario para épicas inducido por una pandemia haya superiores. No sienten ningún dolor. Leen el empleo, la vivienda, la alimentación, la Edited by Monica Moorehead sido digerido con acciones que terminan sobre eso, pero no lo experimentan. Lo salud, la educación, la tierra y la igualdad. el año un 15% más alto es alucinante. que sí experimentan es la otra cara: hemos Solo una transformación completa de An anthology El año 2020 ha sido impresionante”. tenido ganancias de productividad muy la sociedad del capitalismo a un sistema of writings from (Washington Post, 31 de diciembre) sustanciales con Zoom y otras eficiencias económico socialista sentará las bases Workers World newspaper. Para colmo de males, las grandes cor- de la vida diaria”, comentó David Kotok, para satisfacer las necesidades de la poraciones no solo han sido las principa- fundador de Cumberland Advisors. gente, al empoderar a la clase trabaja- Available at major les culpables de los despidos masivos de Lo que esta pandemia ha expuesto en dora global para poner fin a la pesadi- online booksellers. trabajadores, sino que se han beneficiado la cruda realidad es que el capitalismo lla de la codicia capitalista y la guerra de Free PDF at enormemente de las exenciones fiscales es un sistema económico que se preo- una vez por todas. ☐ workers.org/books en miles de millones de dólares, gracias a cupa más por obtener ganancias para las workers.org Jan. 21, 2021 Page 11 30 years ago U.S. imperialism provoked war with Iraq By Manlio Dinucci to the Gulf under the command of the U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf. Published Jan. 15 in Il Manifesto. Translation: John In November 1990, the Security Catalinotto. Council of the U.N. approved—​with 12 votes in favor (including the USSR), At 2:20 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1991 (Gulf time), U.S. heli- 2 against (Cuba and Yemen) and the copters penetrated Iraqi territory, destroying two radar abstention of China—​Resolution 678, stations with Hellfire missiles. Immediately afterwards, which authorized the use of “all neces- Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-117A stealth fighters sary means” against Iraq. struck other nerve centers, blinding the air defenses of The Gulf War was the first war in the capital. CNN broadcasted to the whole world the which the Italian Republic participated images of the Baghdad sky illuminated by antiaircraft under U.S. command, violating Article tracers firing blindly, a “spectacle” that the reporter com- 11 of the Constitution. NATO, although pared to the festive fireworks of the 4th of July. not participating officially as such, pro- Thus began what the Pentagon described as the most vided its forces and bases. destructive military action ever carried out in such a short Immediately after the war, NATO time with nonnuclear weapons, a model for future wars. launched, along the lines of the new Paradoxically, war broke out at the moment when U.S. strategy, the “new strategic con- “peace broke out” (according to the slogan of the cept of the Alliance,” which Italy cop- time). After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the ies with the “new model of defense.” It Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union itself were about to went from war to war, presenting them Highway of Death. U.S. bombs retreating Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, 1991. dissolve. “The Cold War is over, we have entered a new as “humanitarian operations for the era that offers great hope,” President George H.W. Bush export of democracy”—​Yugoslavia 1999, Afghanistan New Zealand, Sierra Leone, Argentina, Honduras, Senegal announced, but “the Gulf crisis reminds us that there 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2011 and others. and Niger also participated with military forces. are still autonomous sources of turbulence in the world.” This was the war that President Bush declared in 1991 It was an unprecedented deployment, from the In fact, the “turbulence” was triggered by Washington would open “a better future—​a new world community Second World War onwards, composed of forces from to take full advantage of the fact that, with the breakup of united by the growing consensus that force cannot be all continents. the Soviet bloc, the United States, as it officially declares, used,” and that for this reason “the Gulf crisis will go Italy participated in the war with 12 Tornado fight- remained “the only state with truly global strength, reach down in history as the crucible of the new world order.” er-bombers which carried out 226 sorties, dropping 566 and influence in every dimension—​political, economic Witness the millions of dead, disabled, orphans and bombs in missions decided and coordinated by the U.S. and military: There is no substitute for [U.S.] American refugees caused by the Gulf War, plus the 1.5 million command. The U.S. base of Camp Darby supplies air and leadership.” deaths, including half a million children, caused by the ground forces in the Gulf from Italy. After having supported Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in subsequent 12-year embargo on Iraq and the long-term The Pentagon, which supplied 70% of the 750 thou- the 1980s in the war against Khomeini’s Iran, the U.S. effects of depleted uranium shells, plus the many more sand men of the coalition, deployed to the war 75% of pushes Kuwait, which has helped Iraq to fight Iran, to caused by the new war in 2003. The trail of death that its tactical aircraft (1,950 out of 2,600); 42% of its most demand from Baghdad the immediate repayment of a began 30 years ago in the first post-Cold War war con- modern tanks (2,500 out of 6,000); 46% of its aircraft loan of tens of billions of dollars and to exploit beyond tinues to spread. carriers (6 out of 13); 37% of its ground forces (280,000 measure, damaging Iraq, the oil field that extends under out of 761,000); and 46% percent of its marines (90,000 both national territories. War by the numbers out of 195,300). In the war called “Desert Storm,” the U.S. and The cost of the Gulf War in terms of military spending, U.S. springs trap on Iraq allied aviation carried out in 43 days, with 2,800 air- destruction and economic losses amounted to trillions While the tension between Kuwait and Iraq grows, on craft, over 110,000 sorties, dropping 250,000 bombs, of dollars. The U.S. military expenditure alone for the July 25, 1990, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, April including cluster bombs that released over 10 million second war on Iraq is estimated by the Congressional Glaspie, assures Saddam Hussein that she has direct submunitions. Budget Office as about $2 trillion. instructions from President Bush to “seek better rela- Some 700 to 800 tons of depleted uranium shells were tions with Iraq” and that “we have no opinion about your used by air and ground forces, including 1 million 30mm Dinucci contributes regularly to the Italian daily web border dispute with Kuwait.” shells, fired from aircraft and helicopters, and 14,000 newspaper, Il Manifesto, writing often on military mat- A week later, in a colossal error of political calcula- 120mm shells, fired from tanks. Thousands of depleted ters. Workers World met him for the first time at the tion, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Later, Iraq proposed its with- uranium warheads were also used, with which cruise Iraq War Crimes Tribunal held in New York City in drawal in exchange for certain concessions, including missiles and rockets are equipped. February 1992, presided over by former U.S. Attorney access to the Gulf [which was] denied to it when Britain British (36,000 troops) and French (15,600) forces General Ramsey Clark. Dinucci represented the anti- had redrawn the map of the Middle East in the 1920s. flank the U.S. forces. Saudi Arabia deployed 67,500 per- war movement in Italy that participated in the con- The trap was sprung. The United States—​which had sonnel; Egypt 35,600; Syria 20,800; the Emirates 14,000; demnation of the crimes led by U.S. imperialism and been preparing the war for some time, observing with Pakistan 10,000 (plus 2,000 Afghan mujahideen); Canada its allies and client states, taking advantage of the col- military satellites the deployment of Iraqi forces and 2,200; Bangladesh 2,000; Italy 1,300; Morocco 1,200; lapse of the USSR. WWP members played key roles in identifying the targets to be hit—​formed an interna- Australia 600; Spain 500; Holland and Belgium 400 each; the tribunal. tional coalition that sent a large army of 750,000 troops Greece 200. And Turkey, Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria,

Petition protests Biden’s nomination of neocon Nuland Those who feel relief that #45 appears to be exit- toward Russia and efforts to overthrow the Russian of the world in crafting a more effective approach to ing from his role as white supremacist in chief must government. Russia—​one that builds on their strengths and puts stay aware that U.S. imperialist aggression is bipar- The United States invested $5 billion in shaping stress on Putin where he is vulnerable, including among tisan, supported by both big bourgeois parties. By Ukrainian politics, including overthrowing a democrat- his own citizens.” appointing Victoria Nuland Undersecretary of State, ically elected president who had refused to join NATO. She added: “... Moscow should also see that Washington Joe Biden already indicated he has no intention of Then-Assistant Secretary of State Nuland is on video and its allies are taking concrete steps to shore up their altering his decades-long support for all U.S. wars. talking about the U.S. investment and on audiotape plan- security and raise the cost of Russian confrontation and The following World BEYOND War petition, signed ning to install Ukraine’s next leader, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, militarization. That includes maintaining robust defense by 25 organizations, outlines Nuland’s history and who was subsequently installed. budgets, continuing to modernize U.S. and allied nuclear calls on Biden to withdraw her nomination. Stop U.S. The Maidan protests, at which Nuland handed out cook- weapons systems, and deploying new conventional mis- aggression no matter who’s in the White House! (see ies to protesters, were violently escalated by neo-Nazis siles and missile defenses, ... establish permanent bases worldbeyondwar.org/nuland/) and by snipers who opened fire on police. When Poland, along NATO’s eastern border and increase the pace and Germany and France negotiated a deal for the Maidan visibility of joint training exercises.” By World BEYOND War, demands and an early election, neo-Nazis instead attacked The United States walked out of the ABM Treaty January 11, 2021 the government and took over. The U.S. State Department and later the INF Treaty, began putting missiles into immediately recognized the coup government, and Arseniy Romania and Poland, expanded NATO to Russia’s bor- Victoria Nuland, former foreign policy adviser to Yatsenyuk was installed as Prime Minister. der, facilitated a coup in Ukraine, began arming Ukraine then-Vice President Dick Cheney, should not be nom- Nuland has worked with the openly pro-Nazi Svoboda and started holding massive war rehearsal exercises in inated for Undersecretary of State and if nominated Party in Ukraine. She was long a leading proponent of Eastern Europe. But to read Victoria Nuland’s account, should be rejected by the Senate. arming Ukraine. She was also an advocate for remov- Russia is simply an irrationally evil and aggressive force Nuland played a key role in facilitating a coup in ing from office the prosecutor general of Ukraine, whom that must be countered by yet more military spending, Ukraine that created a civil war costing 10,000 lives then-Vice President Joe Biden pushed the president to bases and hostility. Some U.S. military officials say this and displacing over a million people. She played a key remove. demonizing of Russia is all about weapons profits and role in arming Ukraine as well. She advocates radically Nuland wrote this past year that “The challenge for bureaucratic power, no more fact-based than the Steele increased military spending, NATO expansion, hostility the United States in 2021 will be to lead the democracies Dossier that was given to the FBI by Victoria Nuland. ☐ Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

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6 de enero expone WW/MO FOTO: TONI ARENSTEIN Comentario Protesta del 27 de diciembre, Brooklyn, N.Y. Un cuento de dos clases de WW/MO Por Monica Moorehead toman en consideración a los trabajadores El proyecto de ley pondrá $284 mil Israel. Estados Unidos gasta más en sus indocumentados ni a los niños. millones a disposición de las peque- fuerzas armadas que China, Rusia, India, El segundo paquete de estímulo Qué incluye este proyecto de ley de $900 ñas empresas, con un primer y segundo Arabia Saudita, Francia, Alemania, Gran finalmente se aprobó en ambas cáma- mil millones aprobado por el Congreso? préstamo condonable del Programa de Bretaña, Japón, Corea del Sur y Brasil jun- ras del Congreso el 27 de diciembre, Junto con los cheques de estímulo que Protección de Cheques de Pago, elegibili- tos. (Fundación Peter G. Pederson) acompanado de mucha controversia. comenzaron a emitirse el 1 de enero, otras dad ampliada de PPP para organizaciones Lamentablemente, no brinda ningún disposiciones incluyen la extensión de los sin fines de lucro y medios de comuni- Ganancias de Wall Street se apoyo significativo a los millones de tra- beneficios por desempleo hasta mediados cación y modificaciones al programa disparan mientras la gente sufre bajadores y sus familias que se tambalean de marzo y una extensión de la Asistencia para atender a las pequeñas empresas, La vacuna contra el coronavirus, que al borde del desastre económico. por desempleo de emergencia pandémica, organizaciones sin fines de lucro y res- finalmente está comenzando a llegar a El proyecto de ley se retrasó una semana, que permite a aquellos que han agotado taurantes independientes. Este dinero millones de personas en los EE.UU., no ha cuando Trump exigió demagógicamente sus beneficios estatales, incluidos los de equivale a una gota en el balde para las evitado un resurgimiento de la pandemia, que los cheques de estímulo se aumenta- tiempo parcial y trabajadores, para obte- pequeñas empresas, que apenas pueden que ahora ha matado a más de 360.000 ran de $600 a $2.000, sabiendo que sería ner 13 semanas adicionales de beneficios mantenerse a flote, ni ayudará a reabrir personas y afectado a unos 20 millones derribado por el millonario Senado. por desempleo. Los trabajadores tienen las pequeñas empresas que han cerrado más. Los hospitales se han quedado sin Este punto muerto hizo que millones hasta el 31 de enero para solicitar estos permanentemente. camas y se han creado morgues impro- de trabajadores desempleados perdieran beneficios. Según forbes.com, más de 163.000 visadas para almacenar a los muertos. Y el valor de una semana de beneficios, que Hay una extensión de la moratoria sobre empresas estadounidenses han cerrado esto se suma a los millones de personas la factura aumentó en $300 minúsculos. los desalojos hasta el 31 de enero. Joe Biden desde el 1 de marzo. Esta asombrosa cifra que padecen desempleo y hambre. El líder mayoritario en el Senado, Mitch tendrá la autoridad para extenderlo una representa un aumento del 23% con res- Pero hay una pequeña camarilla que ha McConnell (R-Ky.) Encabezó la acusa- vez que tome el juramento de la presiden- pecto al 10 de julio pasado, cuando el disfrutado del resultado de la pandemia. ción contra este aumento, afirmando que cia el 20 de enero. Y hay $25 mil millones recuento de cierres superó los 132.000. Son los multimillonarios de Wall Street y $2.000 “caerían en manos de los amigos adicionales en asistencia para inquilinos. Ya el 16 de septiembre, unos 32.000 el sistema corrupto que los impulsa. Las ricos de los demócratas que no necesi- El Programa de Seguridad Financiera del restaurantes habían cerrado desde el ini- ganancias para las grandes corporaciones tan la ayuda”. (Washington Post, 30 de Instituto Aspen y el Proyecto de Defensa cio de la pandemia, y se esperaba que el se han disparado durante la pandemia, ya diciembre) Esta declaración despiadada contra Desalojos Covid-19 han estimado 61% de los cierres fueran permanentes. que llenan el vacío dejado por la desapari- fue una bofetada en la cara para todos los que más de 40 millones de inquilinos Los clubes nocturnos y bares, un mercado ción de las pequeñas empresas. pobres y los trabajadores. enfrentan el desalojo debido al impacto de más pequeño, habían perdido más de De hecho, 45 de las 50 firmas comer- Kentucky, cuyo representante es la pandemia COVID-19. 6.400 negocios, más de la mitad de forma ciales más valiosas de EE.UU., como McConnell, es el estado que alberga 10 de El proyecto de ley asigna $20 mil millo- permanente, mientras que los minoristas Walmart, Salesforce, Cisco Systems, los 25 condados más pobres de los EE.UU. nes para la compra de vacunas contra el habían visto 30.374 cierres. Netflix, Zoom y PayPal, han reportado (Courier-journal.com, 13 de marzo) coronavirus, supuestamente para que la Por otro lado, el Congreso aprobó un ganancias desde marzo pasado. Veintisiete Según los datos de la encuesta de la vacuna esté disponible para cualquiera presupuesto militar estadounidense que de esas empresas han despedido a más de Oficina del Censo, más de 27 millones que no pueda pagarla. Existe una dispo- asciende a $740 mil millones. Esto repre- 100.000 trabajadores. (Washington Post, de adultos declararon que no comieron sición que proporciona $8 mil millones senta el 15% del presupuesto federal gene- 16 de diciembre) lo suficiente desde finales de noviem- para la distribución de vacunas, que inclu- ral para el 2021 y ni siquiera incluye guerras Michael Farr, presidente de la firma de bre hasta principios de diciembre. Y, yen $20 mil millones para ayudar a los de ocupación como Afganistán o la ayuda administración de dinero Farr, Miller & por supuesto, estas asombrosas cifras no estados con las pruebas de coronavirus. de 500 millones de dólares al apartheid de Continúa en la página 11 ¿Por qué el país más rico del mundo no está tan preparado? La gran pregunta que uno debe hacerse Muchos de los muertos por el virus en pérdida de vivienda, todo a sobre la epidemia de COVID-19,—​que 1918, cuando la primera guerra imperia- causa del virus. hasta el 2 de enero ha matado a más de lista mundial estaba llegando a su fin, eran Y, como siempre en este 1.850.000 personas en todo el mundo,—​ reclutas estadounidenses que vivían en país capitalista y racista, son es, “¿Por qué Estados Unidos no estaba barracones abarrotados antes de ser envia- los más pobres y los más opri- preparado?” dos al extranjero. (Un midos los que más sufren. Este es un país rico pariente de este escritor El hambre está creciendo, y altamente desarro- fue testigo de esa triste incluso cuando el mercado llado. Tiene más de experiencia). de valores recompensa a los 600 multimillonarios, editorial Ahora es un siglo muy ricos. según Forbes. Tiene el después. En este lapso Larga fila en la despensa de alimentos de Chelsea, ejército más caro y poderoso del planeta, de tiempo, la ciencia y la medicina han Distribución de Massachusetts. supuestamente para defender su pueblo. avanzado enormemente. El nivel de vida vacunas fallida Sin embargo, muchas más personas han ha aumentado en los Estados Unidos; las ¡Se han desarrollado vacunas! Deberían están saltando la línea para recibir sus muerto en los EE. UU. por el coronavi- comunicaciones y el transporte se han ade- estar disponibles ahora. Pero no llegan vacunas, incluso cuando muchos de los rus,—más​ de 360.000 al 3 de enero,—​que lantado. Los presupuestos gubernamenta- a la gente de manera oportuna. NPR trabajos de primera línea más expuestos en cualquier otro país del mundo. les en todos los niveles se han disparado. Y informó el 3 de enero: “Más de 4,2 millo- a la infección se pasan por alto. Además, esta no es la primera pande- la población puede estar informada de los nes de personas han recibido la dosis ini- Las cárceles, donde se almacena a los mia que se globaliza, lo que afecta especial- nuevos desarrollos casi simultáneamente a cial de vacunación hasta el sábado [Ene. pobres por “crímenes de supervivencia”, mente a los EE.UU. Tampoco es la peor. través de la radio, la televisión e Internet. 2], según el CDC. Ese número está muy son focos de la pandemia. Pero esto aparece La llamada epidemia de la Influenza Se podría pensar que esta nueva pan- por debajo del objetivo del gobierno de en los titulares solo cuando los guardias de Española de 1918 fue más mortal. Ahora se demia, menos mortal que la de 1918, se vacunar a 20 millones de personas en los la prisión se infectan. ¿Cuándo recibirán la cree que comenzó en Kansas, pero debido superaría rápidamente. Que el enorme, Estados Unidos para fines de diciembre”. vacuna los trabajadores encarcelados? a la Primera Guerra Mundial se extendió moderno y caro sistema médico aquí La distribución de vacunas no se está La opresión genera resistencia. El sufri- rápidamente a Europa, a través del hemis- hubiera sido más que igual para la tarea. llevando a cabo a nivel federal. No hay miento y las tragedias que se desarrollan ferio occidental y luego a todo el mundo. Y que, al menos, se habría discutido un ningún plan. En cambio, depende de los hoy pueden despertar un mayor nivel de Antes de que terminara, había “infectado a plan sobre qué hacer para prepararse para gobiernos estatales y locales hacer el tra- conciencia sobre los crímenes cometidos aproximadamente 500 millones de perso- la próxima pandemia. bajo. El gángster multimillonario de la por los poderes establecidos y una mayor nas en todo el mundo, aproximadamente Pero nada de eso ha sucedido. El sis- Casa Blanca se centra en intentar revertir lucha contra el propio sistema de lucro. un tercio de la población del planeta, y tema médico de Estados Unidos está las elecciones que perdió. ¡Luchar por un sistema nacional de había matado a entre 20 y 50 millones de ahora en crisis. La economía es un desas- Algunos estados y ciudades son mucho salud gratuito sería un buen comienzo! víctimas, incluidos unos 675.000 estadou- tre. Millones de personas han perdido más pobres que otros. Ya está claro que Dejar el capitalismo por el socialismo es nidenses”. (tinyurl.com/yxnnex62) ingresos y se enfrentan al desempleo y la las personas con dinero y poder político la única solución. ☐