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RAY O’ LIGHT NEWSLETTER July-August 2016 Number 97 Publication of the Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA The Sanders Campaign Exposes WALL STREET HAS RIGGED THE SYSTEM! Dear Friends, 2. Our Wall There is only one best place for U.S. social justice Street rulers activists to be protesting in July 2016 — will not allow the U.S. citizens in Philadelphia at the Democratic National Convention. to vote them Here’s why. out of power and wipe out 1. The outstanding feature of the 2016 Presidential their obscene Primary has been the voters’ angry rejection of Wall and criminal Street’s Republican and Democratic candidates, “the private profit Republicrats.” Remember the odds-on favorites at through the the beginning? Jeb Bush amassed a fortune in early ballot box! big money yet was swatted away by the wrath of the Indeed, as Republican voters. Hillary Clinton, too, would have unrest and been dispatched by the Bernie Sanders Campaign, dissatisfaction increases among the U.S. population, with its outstanding domestic program addressing the the line between the military and the police has needs of the 99 percent of us. But, of the two wings become increasingly blurred. Wall Street controls the of the Republicrats who rule politically on behalf of increasingly militarized domestic police apparatus as Wall Street, it is the Democratic Party that is the main well as the U.S. military itself, armed with the most brake on social justice movements fighting against Wall powerful weapons of mass destruction in world history Street, against monopoly capitalism and imperialism. and produced by the U.S. military-industrial complex, The Democratic Party is the main political gatekeeper which has its own impact on U.S. domestic politics. for the System. (contd. on p. 2) MUMIA ABU-JAMAL SPEAKS ON THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION The following are excerpts from an interview “Donald Trump is the real face of the ugly American conducted by former New York Times reporter and empire. Yes, he ain’t pretty. He ain’t black. He ain’t a journalist Chris Hedges with Afro-American political woman. He has a fake tan and orange hair. His rhetoric prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, one of the most important is cruder. But his ideas are the same. The two major revolutionary political thinkers in the USA. Hedges political parties are the abject servants of Wall Street visited brother Mumia in prison in Frackville, and American empire über alles. They each support Pennsylvania during this past July Fourth weekend. militarism, at home and abroad. They each support http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/mumia_abu- the indiscriminant murder of civilians from drones. jamals_fourth_of_july_20160703/. They each support the worldwide archipelago of secret prisons. They each support mass incarceration Do you know who said it?? of poor people, the suspension of habeas corpus and torture. It is only their talk that is different. What is “...Ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their the difference between being beaten up by a black cop government does in the United States.” (contd. on p. 3) Special Note: Because this is the middle of the U.S. Presidential Election Season, we think this quote is important for our readers to Also included in this issue: ponder. But because its source may be difficult to identify we are making this a multiple choice question. ILPS Chairman on Brexit .................................... pages 4-6 Hint: Is it (a) Noam Chomsky; (b) Howard Zinn; or (c) a mainstream The Abraham Lincoln Brigade & McCain’s political scientist? Astonishing Tribute by Ray Light .. pages 7-10 –Still stumped? See page 6 for the mystery answer. Equality is NOT Liberation by Cindy Sheehan .. pages 11-12 (Rigged by Wall Street continued) system is rigged against the majority of us, on the 3. The Democratic Party apparatus headed by one hand, with chauvinistic hatred toward Latino DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz conspired immigrants, Muslim religious believers, Afro-American to deliver the Presidential nomination to Wall Street’s citizens and many other “non-white American” ethnic candidate, Hillary Clinton. Rather than maximize groups here and around the world, on the other. He the opportunity of tens of millions of dollars worth argues further that because of his immense personal of free exposure of their candidates and message wealth, he is “independent” of the Wall Street rulers. like the Republican Party did, the DNC sponsored Regarding the U.S. Empire in decline, he promises to the minimum number of TV debates and held them “make America great again.” at times when there would be low viewer turnout. Moreover, they used their even more anti-democratic Georgi Dimitrov, the leader of the Communist rules than those of the Republican Party, especially International heroically and successfully defied and the so-called “super delegates,” to mobilize for Clinton. exposed Hitlerite Fascism, and then helped the Soviet Throughout the Presidential primary campaign, they Union lead in the defeat of world fascism in World counted “committed” super delegate votes as if they had War II. He taught: “It is in the interests of the most already been cast to give the public the false impression reactionary circles of the bourgeoisie that fascism that Clinton was beating Sanders badly. These official intercepts the disappointed masses who desert the old votes appeared in newspapers, on TV and throughout bourgeois parties. But it impresses these masses by the the media every time there was a state primary vote. vehemence of its attacks on the bourgeois governments The DNC miscounted ballots and manipulated state and its irreconcilable attitude to the old bourgeois caucuses. They got the Congressional Black Caucus parties.” Indeed, as the masses began to rally to Bernie Political Action Committee, i.e. staffers, lobbyists and a Sanders’ social-democratic domestic program against small percentage of the actual Black Congress members, Wall Street, the monopoly capitalist-dominated mass to endorse Clinton before the South Carolina primary, media gave unprecedented coverage to every grunt highlighted by John Lewis’ lies about Clinton’s role and rant of Trump, magnifying his “anger against during the Civil Rights era when she supported Barry the system.” And Trump’s rants were already angrier Goldwater during the very period when Goldwater than Sanders, who had committed from the outset opposed the Voting Rights Act! And in conjunction to support the successful Democratic candidate. The with the monopoly capitalist-controlled media, CNN et fact is, however, that the Sanders’ campaign was only al., they concocted out of nothing a “news story” that minimally covered, especially given the huge crowds Clinton had achieved “an historic victory,” the night Sanders was gathering throughout the primaries. before the California primary. Were the California votes ever counted at all?! But Trump’s similarities to Hitler and German fascism of the 1930’s does not automatically make 4. President Barack Obama, one of Wall Street’s him the main political target who must be stopped most valuable presidents ever, has now openly at all costs at this particular historical moment. declared his loyalty to Wall Street’s chief remaining Fascism comes to power through different paths as candidate by endorsing Hillary Clinton as “the best shown, for example, in the experience of Fascist Italy prepared candidate for president in U.S. history.” Her as compared to Nazi Germany. Dimitrov observed preparation includes the following: Clinton has taken that, “Bourgeois governments usually pass through huge bribes/ “speaking fees” from the likes of Goldman a number of preliminary stages and adopt a number Sachs, the biggest Wall Street winner in the current of reactionary measures which directly facilitate the economic crisis thanks to the George W. Bush and accession to power of fascism. Whoever does not fight Obama Regimes. As Secretary of State, Clinton helped the reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie and the to oust President Zelaya of Honduras and then helped growth of fascism at these preparatory stages is not in Obama to prevent the elected President’s return. She a position to prevent the victory of fascism, but, on the helped lead Obama’s colonialist war on Libya, under contrary, facilitates that victory.” the Qaddafi Regime, the most successful country on the African continent and now a ruined nation-state. And, 6. Clinton, the Democrat, is the absolute worst with blood on her hands, in true white supremacist candidate to support “against Trump.” As a loyal fashion, she infamously declared, regarding the cold- tool of Wall Street, Clinton will not educate the voters blooded murder of Qaddafi: “We came, we saw, he died!” against the financial oligarchy but will apologize and Indeed, Clinton is well prepared to take the helm of the cover up for Wall Street. Coupled with her Democratic U.S. Empire. Party rhetoric, this will only enrage the voters all the more, moving them further into the Trump camp. It 5. What about the Trump menace? In style and was precisely Sanders’ focus on the rigged Wall Street substance, Donald Trump is a fascist politician in the economy and politics that allowed his candidacy to classic Adolph Hitler and “National Socialist” (Nazi) thrive against all odds. With Sanders out of the race sense. This billionaire’s angry campaign combines the same old “Republicrat” rhetoric will provide new demagogic populist rhetoric proclaiming that the fuel to the Trump fire. (contd. on p. 3) 2 (Rigged by Wall Street continued) 7. Moreover, a Clinton/Wall Street victory, while • We need to stay in the streets and continue to temporarily slowing down the accelerating process of fight for the Sanders Campaign platform demands. advancing fascism immediately following the election, And, unlike Sanders, we need to be there to protest the over the longer run will both fuel its development and Obama-led U.S.

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