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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 59, No. 45 Nov. 9, 2017 $1 Merchant of death pushes high-tech arms on Asia

By Minnie Bruce Pratt ister of Japan is going to be purchasing destroy North Korea.” U.S. allies like Japan and client-states massive amounts of military equipment, Trump also tried to flim-flam U.S. like Saudi Arabia already have high-tech Nov. 7 — Crude, clumsy and a thor- as he should.” (New York Times, Nov. 6) workers to sell them militarization: “It’s U.S. anti-missile systems in place. But ough-going capitalist — that was U.S. Trump referenced recent tests of un- a lot of jobs for us.” continuing U.S.-promoted war means or- President Donald Trump at work this armed conventional missiles by north But Trump was shilling for the U.S. ders for new weapons. week on his tour of Asian countries. Korea, some of which passed harmless- banking-industrial-military complex, not The impact of this across the world — Trump the arms merchant pushed the ly over the Japanese island of Hokkaido. for the few workers employed in this high- from the Korean peninsula to the Arabi- main product the U.S. offers the world Facing U.S. threats that could become tech industry. Of the top 100 arms manu- an peninsula — is devastating. When the these days — high-tech weaponry. U.S. aggression in an instant, the DPRK facturers in the world, U.S. companies like U.S. arms the Saudi monarchy against Standing next to Japanese Prime Min- continues to test both nuclear and con- Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop a sovereign Iran, what happens? Iran’s ister Abe in Tokyo, Trump the salesman ventional weapons. Grumman have accounted in the past for Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zari virtually commanded him to take mili- That should be no surprise. The 1950- more than 60 percent of arms sales reve- says that U.S.-backed Saudi Arabia wag- tary action against the Democratic Peo- 53 U.S. war on the Korean peninsula nev- nue and reap billions in profits yearly. es “wars of aggression, regional bullying, ple’s Republic of Korea. And then Trump er ended with a peace treaty; U.S. troops, The heads of U.S. high finance and destabilizing behavior and risky provo- placed the arms order himself, declaring: ships and planes encircle the DPRK, in- industry might prefer a smoother mer- cations” and “bombs Yemen to smither- “[Abe] will shoot [DPRK test flights] out of cluding 40,000 troops in Japan itself; the chant as the CEO of U.S. imperialism. eens, killing 1000s of innocents, spreads the sky when he completes the purchase Pentagon possesses almost 7,000 nuclear But Trump shows their true face. They cholera and famine.” (NY Times, Nov. 6) of lots of additional military equipment warheads; and Trump threatened in his sow misery and chaos with their weapon See editorial on p. 10 on what’s involved from the United States. The prime min- first U.N. speech on Sept. 21 to “totally sales and wars. in Trump’s visit to China.

October Revolution 1917-2017

Clockwise from lower left, 6 ‘Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma’ Deirdre Griswold, Taryn Fivek, Message to the .001 percent 7 Christian Cobb and Larry Holmes at Workers World Party Marxism in practice 8 commemoration of 1917 Revolution in New York.

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Street ______City / State / Zip______Workers World Weekly Newspaper workers.org HAITI 9 CUBA 10 NIGER 11 YEMEN 11 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10011 212.627.2994_ Page 2 Nov. 9, 2017 workers.org John Kelly, an apologist for Robert E. Lee WW COMMENTARY  In the U.S. By Monica Moorehead retired four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps. Merchant of death pushes high-tech arms on Asia . . . . .1 To put Kelly’s views into political context, it was Trump As if further proof was needed that Trump and many who stated that “both sides” were to blame for what hap- John Kelly, an apologist for Robert E. Lee ...... 2 administration officials are pro-white supremacy, White pened in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, when armed American Airlines in hot seat over ‘racial insensitivity’ . . .3 House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, helped seal the deal on neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan and other alt-right forces vi- Stop racist Ryan’s tax plan/Workers to suffer ...... 3 this issue with his comments during a Fox TV News in- ciously attacked anti-racist activists. Their actions re- Protest in Times Square to support Spectrum strike . . . 3 terview on Oct. 30. sulted in the murder of anti-fascist Heather Heyer by a When host Laura Ingraham asked Kelly about the re- neo-Nazi who drove his car into a crowd. Neo-Nazis at Brooklyn tenants leaders arrested in housing protest . . . . . 4 cent struggle to bring down Confederate statues which the same rally nearly beat to death DeAndre Harris, an Eyewitness Ames plant fire, Part 2 ...... 4 honor slavery, Kelly defended them: “I would tell you African-American youth. San Francisco: Community outrage over Taser vote ...... 5 that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. He was a man Columbia Univ. students win against white supremacy . .5 that gave up his country to fight for his state, which, 150 Bring them down! years ago, was more important than country. It was al- These white supremacists had gathered in Charlottes- Why you should attend WWP’s National Conference . . .6 ways loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s dif- ville to defend a statue of Lee and prevent it from being WWP youth leader speaks at Bolshevik commemoration . 7 ferent today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led taken down. Courageous actions by anti-racist protesters Get on the bus — for Nov. 23, National Day of Mourning .8 to the Civil War. And men and women of good faith on have removed Confederate monuments around the coun- Koreans in U.S. organize ‘No Trump Day’ ...... 9 both sides made their stand where their conscience had try in Durham, N.C., New Orleans and other cities. to make their stand.” The U.S. Civil War was a struggle between two social  Around the world When Kelly’s views were widely criticized, Sarah Huck- systems — chattel slavery and wage slavery (capitalism) Book review: ‘Bolshevik Deputies in the Tsarist Duma’ . . . .6 abee Sanders, White House press secretary, defended — which could no longer co-exist side by side. Although 100 years of Russian Revolution, Part 5 ...... 7 Kelly: “[A]ll of our leaders have flaws,” mentioning presi- the Union army defeated the Confederate army on the dents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John F. battlefield, surviving members of the slavocracy were al- ‘Bolshevik Revolution was Marxism in practice’ ...... 8 Kennedy. (Huff Post, Oct. 31) lowed to regroup into extra-legal terrorist organizations Protests against tax hikes rock Haiti ...... 9 Sanders went on to say: “That doesn’t diminish their like the KKK — thanks to pro-slavery sympathizers in the U.N. votes against U.S. blockade on Cuba ...... 10 contributions to our country, and it certainly can’t erase White House, led by President Andrew Johnson. U.S. escalates presence in Niger and all Africa ...... 11 them from our history. And General Kelly was simply Because Lee and other Confederate leaders called for making the point that just because history isn’t perfect Southern states to secede from the Union — which was U.S.-backed Saudis continue war on Yemen ...... 11 doesn’t mean that it’s not our history.” deemed treasonous — shouldn’t Kelly’s and other Trump  Editorial Lee, Jefferson and Washington were slave owners. Lee officials’ defense of the Confederacy also be viewed as Trump, China and the DPRK ...... 10 was a commander of the Con- treasonous? federate States Army during Some members of the Black Congressional Caucus state  Noticias en Español the Civil War. that Kelly needs a “history lesson” on what the Civil War Imperialismo petrolero de EE.UU. amenaza a Iran Kelly is the former secre- was about. However, in reality, Kelly, Trump and their ilk con buques de guerra ...... 12 tary of the Department of are more than aware of whose side they are on. And it is La lucha gana cambio de nombre racista ...... 12 Homeland Security and is a not the side of the workers and oppressed peoples.

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By Dolores Cox was called over the speaker system, and dia have been flooded with stories, par- she was told to go to the front of the ticularly from women of color, saying Tamika Mallory, Black activist, orga- plane. When she did, the pilot pointed they have been thrown off American Air- nizer and co-chair of the Jan. 21 Wom- at her and said, “You, off!” She was then lines flights and others. … It’s not just a en’s March on Washington, D.C., was re- ejected from the plane. one-airline issue. It’s an industry-wide moved from an American Airlines flight Expressing her outrage, she said she issue.” (Detroit Free Press, Oct. 29) from Miami to New York on Oct. 15. She questioned airline staff about why she In another case, a pilot in Atlanta re- describes the incident as racially motivat- had been ejected and treated disrespect- moved Brianna Williams, a 24-year-old ed — “flying while Black.” fully, but didn’t receive an explanation. Black woman, and her 4-month-old infant Tamika Mallory, co-chair of Jan. 21 Women’s Mallory held a press conference about In a tepid response, American Airlines daughter from an American Airlines flight March on Washington, D.C. this outrage in New York on Oct. 17 with representative Ross Feinstein claimed ready to depart for New York City on Aug. rapper/activist Mysonne, who was also the airline is looking into the matter: “We 21. She had requested the return of her The NAACP issued a travel advisory on ousted from the flight; her attorney, take these allegations seriously, and have stroller which was checked at the gate. Al- Oct. 24, warning Black passengers about Royce Russell; New York state NAACP spoken to all involved, including Ms. Mal- though Williams was reported by witness- a pattern of racist incidents on American President Hazel Duke; NY state Sen. Bri- lory. Due to an error with a seat change es to have remained calm during a verbal Airline flights; some are mentioned above. an Benjamin; NY state Assembly member request ... Ms. Mallory was rebooked on exchange, the pilot was aggressive. The organization cites multiple instances Michael Blake; NY City Council member the next flight to New York’s LaGuardia The Rev. William Barber, civil rights in which Black women were removed from Jumaane Williams; and others. airport.” (Washington Post, Oct. 16) activist and North Carolina NAACP chap- flights or switched from the first-class sec- Mallory explained that her removal ter president, became another victim of tion to coach. It also tells of a Black man from the plane involved a seating dispute. Racism: an ‘industry-wide issue’ “flying while Black” on April 15, 2016. being forced off a flight for responding to While at the airport check-in kiosk, she Mallory told the Amsterdam News: American Airlines ejected him from a white passengers’ racist comments. requested a seat change. But when she “Other airlines have been mistreating flight after he complained to a flight- at Although the airline alleges it does was at the gate, she was given her original people of color. We need to go from air- tendant that the two white men sitting in not tolerate discrimination, the NAACP seat. She told the agent that she had put lines apologizing and giving drink and front of him appeared to be intoxicated, says these events “suggest a corporate through a seat change. Overhearing the food vouchers to airlines making policy and they had berated and cursed at him. culture of racial insensitivity and possi- conversation, the pilot asked her if she changes.” (Oct. 16) After the police questioned the two men, ble racial bias on the part of American was going to be “a problem on this flight.” After exposing the airlines’ actions, Barber was ordered off the plane. He has Airlines.” (Read statement at ­tinyurl. After Mallory took her seat, her name Mallory said: “My emails and social me- since filed a lawsuit against the airlines. com/y7fc77eh/.) Stop racist Ryan’s tax plan Workers to suffer while bosses benefit By J. White ican Legislative Exchange Council, the across the country to resist the austerity Koch brothers and especially the bank- measures these tax changes will bring. “The only things one can be sure of regarding whatever it is that the Republican ers, groomed Ryan and his Wisconsin To use a process known as reconciliation, congressional majorities come up with for a tax plan is that it will shove more of cronies. Ryan is also anti-immigrant, a which prevents a filibuster in the Sen- the nation’s wealth upwards, that the math will be mostly magical thinking, and real enemy of the people. Like Wisconsin ate, the Republicans recently agreed to a that there will be various strategies employed to keep the country from noticing Gov. Scott Walker, who led the attack on budget that included a tax cut that would these first two characteristics.” (Esquire, Nov. 1, 2017) Wisconsin public workers’ unions, Ryan add $1.5 trillion to the deficit. “In other too was groomed by some of the most words they replaced tax reform with tax Announcing the proposed tax plan, essence, it would raise taxes on mid- virulent capitalist vultures such as the cuts.” (New Yorker, Sept. 28) House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to appeal dle-class retirement savers to fund tax Bradley Foundation. We know who they want to pay for this to working families, claiming the average cuts for the wealthy,” Seth Harris, the Ryan is a big fan of the late, reaction- deficit. Not the Pentagon, whose budget family would have over a $1,000 savings former acting secretary and deputy sec- ary author Ayn Rand, too. Like Walker, keeps expanding. Congress will try to yearly. His argument was nonsense. retary of Labor in the Obama adminis- he’s a tool of the capitalist-imperialists, impose the cuts on poor women and chil- “The tax cut definitely dissipates over tration told CNBC on Oct. 25. and very dangerous, especially when it dren, food programs, the elderly and the time,” David Kamin, a tax and budget comes to federal programs like Medicare, disabled, the most oppressed in society. specialist at the New York University Tax breaks for the rich Medicaid and Social Security, and wom- But a people’s movement is brewing, as law school, told PolitiFact. (Nov. 3, 2017) Who will benefit? The new law would en’s and LGBTQ rights, and union rights. the bottom rises to the top. This move- Based on Kamin’s calculations, the ini- cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 He also supports U.S. imperialist foreign ment will not stand by as they destroy tial tax cut for a family with an income of percent; allow corporations to expense policy and wars. the environment and deny the most ba- $59,000 will turn into a $500 tax increase their capital investments immediately; sic rights to food, health care, education, by 2024 compared to the current tax law. set a new rate of 25 percent for so-called Building a resistance movement clean water and healthy air. The people Running the math on these claims re- pass-through businesses, such as part- Anti-racist workers, women, environ- will build a movement of the workers and veals exactly what the top priority is in nerships and sole proprietorships; and mental justice advocates and anti-war, oppressed to expose the failure of capi- the House Republican tax bill: corporate allow transnational corporations to repa- LGBTQ activists are coming together talism to meet human needs. tax cuts, not tax cuts for working families. triate, at a low tax rate, trillions of dollars As the bill is written, even the poster they are holding abroad. family that Paul Ryan handpicked to sup- The primary beneficiaries will be mem- port the bill would lose out by 2027. (Vox, bers of the corporate class — the people Workers protest in Times Square Nov. 3, 2017) who occupy senior positions in corpora­ Some of the deductions eliminated or tions and own most of the corporate wealth pared back in the bill include the mort- in the country. (New Yorker, Oct. 20) to support Spectrum strike gage interest deduction; the state and Who does Paul Ryan represent? local tax deduction; the medical expense Some 1,800 workers of Spectrum, a deduction; the casualty loss deduction; A longtime Wisconsin organizer for part of Charter Communications that and the student loan interest deduction. the people’s movement told Workers provides telephone, TV and internet ( Politifact, Nov. 3) World that Ryan used Jim Crow racist services to customers in New York City, The new bill will also change taxation economic populism to get elected. There have been on strike for the past seven on 401K retirement plans, which many used to be thousands of union workers months. On Oct. 30, the NYC Central workers are forced to participate in. “In at auto plants in Wisconsin in towns like Labor Council held a large and militant Janesville, Beloit, Kenosha and Racine rally that filled two blocks on Broadway, (Ryan’s area). Ryan used chauvinist ap- south of Times Square. Capitalism peals, such as “buy America,” and attack- Delegations from the Teamsters ing Mexico, China, etc. 32BJ airport and building maintenance at a Dead End Also, like all racist politicians in Wis- workers, Hotel Trades Council, Actors Job destruction, consin, Ryan has consistently used eu- Equity and United Food and Commer- overproduction phemisms and metaphors like “urban” cial Workers were present. and crisis in the or “crime ridden” when referring to Mil- One of the points that seemed to cause high-tech era waukee, a majority Black and Brown city, the most anger was that the chairperson For other writings by author, Fred Goldstein, to create division with workers from oth- of Charter Communications is paid $98 go to www.LowWageCapitalism.com er communities destroyed by capitalism. million a year. Available at major online bookstores. The Bradley Foundation, the Amer- Photo and report by G. Dunkel Page 4 Nov. 9, 2017 workers.org

Brooklyn tenants battle Community leaders arrested in housing protest

By Anne Pruden with another 164 units at $3,700 a month, New York City pushing nearly all local residents out. Protesters marched to the office of Nov. 2 — “Kill the deal!’ shouted a their City Council member now respon- hundred angry protesters, mostly people sible for the next step in making sure of color, in downtown Manhattan this the armory is 100 percent affordable. morning, led by tenant organizers, in- Since an Oct. 30 vote, NYC’s Planning cluding the New York Communities for Commission will allow BFC Partners to Change and the Crown Heights Tenants increase the number of market-priced WW PHOTOS: ANNE PRUDEN Union. units. Council member Laurie Cumbo For many, this demand is three years and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who for years old since their struggle to demand af- have failed to denounce the displacement fordable housing at Brooklyn’s Bed- of low-income tenants, get the next say in industry. These pol- ford-Union Armory. This is city property, the future of the armory. iticians boast that which the community demands be 100 As today’s protest marched near city they have made de- percent affordable. Councilwoman Cumbo’s office, it broke velopers agree to The developers, BFC Partners, antici- into the street. Chants became “Whose having a small por- pate cuts in housing subsidies from the street? Our street!” Soon the New York tion of new housing Trump administration’s Department of Police Department broadcast orders for “affordable.” This, Housing and Urban Development. In- all to leave the streets or face arrest. commission! Brisport had campaigned although even the subsidized rent for al- stead of having BFC make all the planned Ten marchers stood their ground to against Cumbo in the last election for legedly affordable apartments is far high- 330 apartments in this Bedford Avenue the cheers of others present. Green Par- City Council. er than can be afforded on the communi- block site affordable, the city’s planning ty candidate Jabari Brisport was among Most working-class New Yorkers now ty’s average incomes. commission settled for an 80/20 plan. those who were soon arrested. He and ask, “Affordable for who?” to New York The working class of Crown Heights Thus, 67 units are called affordable, 99 Joel Feingold had already been arrest- Mayor Bill de Blasio and other politicians sees how capitalism doesn’t work and units will be priced at $2,203 a month ed at last week’s vote by the planning they consider sellouts to the real estate says, “Kill the deal!” Eyewitness Ames plant fire, Part 2: Corporate poison and politics

By Xzander Stephens Chemours’ Washington Works plant mines opening up, dangling coal in front strip, the resources needed to respond to Parkersburg, W. Va., area near Parkersburg learned their water of our faces just like every other Tom, emergencies such as the Parkersburg fire. had been contaminated with the chemi- Dick and Harry politician that comes EPA staff and scientists at its regional On Oct. 21, the Ames plant fire here lit cal C-8, used to make Teflon. Now, over a through our mountains. offices across the country regularly re- up a week of polluted hell for Parkersburg decade later, the companies have finally West Virginians buy into these farci- spond to emergency calls from city and residents. (See Oct. 31 workers.org for de- agreed to pay $670.7 million to settle the cal narratives out of economic despera- state officials during disasters such as tailed coverage.) 3,500 cases in the class-action lawsuits tion. They gave Trump 489,371 votes, a this. Funds to respond to many of those But West Virginia has a long history of that were filed. landslide victory with 68.5 percent of the calls, including from West Virginia offi- being one of the most heavily exploited In that decade, residents of Parkers- state’s total votes. cials, would no longer be available under states in the union, used primarily as an burg reported a whole death-list of med- While Jim Justice, after several days Trump’s budget. So, in effect, this is what extraction site for corporations. This is ical problems, including kidney cancer, of continuous chemical smoke in Park- the Trump-Justice duo has in store for coupled with an extremely bloody record testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thy- ersburg, has made some statements Parkersburg residents moving forward. against workers’ rights. roid disease and pregnancy-related hy- about the Ames plant fire, the Trump A class action lawsuit has been filed on One of the worst industrial accidents pertension, including preeclampsia and administration has made a total of zero behalf of Timothy Callihan and other res- in U.S. history, for example, happened hypercholesterolemia. comments about the Ames plant disas- idents. Defendants named in the suit are when 750 workers, drilling the Hawk’s Farmers also reported livestock affected ter. Odd, since he apparently “loved” us Surnaik Holdings of West Virginia LLC, Nest Tunnel in the early half of the 1930s, by exposure to C8, with symptoms includ- during the election year. SirNaik LLC, Polymer Alliance Services died of silicosis. Workers were being ing bleeding from orifices, vomiting blood, This, combined with the state’s de- LLC, Green Sustainable Solutions LLC forced to break through the 99.4 percent tumors, seizures, blindness, tremors, layed response to the disaster, as well as and Intercontinental Export Import Inc. pure silica in Fayette County, W.Va., as foaming at the mouth and death. From the the city running out of funds and water The full medical and environmental part of a hydroelectric project. The sili- 1980s into the 1990s, DuPont and Chemo- to combat the fire, left many residents cost of this disaster remains to be seen. ca the workers inhaled created extensive urs began to buy land from resident farm- feeling abandoned by everyone and left But with a state history of corporate and fibrous nodules on their lungs. They ers and landowners for landfills, assuring to survive if they could. coverups, state pandering and collusion found it harder and harder to breathe. them that what was to be dumped was ash, Where the political background in- with various corporations, with no reg- Ultimately, many suffocated to death as scrap metal and so on. volving Trump becomes most significant ulations, zero social planning and little a result. After years of reports of environmen- is Trump’s proposed 31 percent budget recourse for the citizens of affected areas In August 1985, a small cloud of tox- tal and medical issues facing the commu- cut for the Environmental Protection such as Parkersburg, the outcome doesn’t ic chemicals escaped from a Union Car- nity, some people began to dig to uncover Agency. This would greatly reduce, if not look too good. bide plant in Charleston, W.Va. At least the root cause. When the lawyer for one 135 residents were treated for eye, throat farmer uncovered the Teflon chemical and lung irritation; 28 of the injured link, Bernard J. Reilly, a legal counsel were admitted to nearby hospitals. The for DuPont, wrote in a company internal cloud of gas contained several chemicals, document: “The shit is about to hit the Save the dates including aldicarb oxime, which is com- fan in WV ... the lawyer for the farmer fi- DEC 9 STOP bined with methyl isocyanate to produce nally realizes the surfactant [C8] issue … FRIDAY aldicarb, a compound used in pesticides. Fuck him.” (tinyurl.com/jvfo3jo) 11 am THE Health officials assured the public that Gather at 12/8 everything was fine and the chemicals Polluted capitalist politics were “nontoxic,” despite numerous medi- This pollution is taking place within Frank Rizzo MURDER Teach In cal cases contradicting this narrative. a 154-year history of corporate exploita- Statue at & In January 2014, up to 300,000 resi- tion and stranglehold on state politics. at Philly OF dents in Charleston were without access The current West Virginia governor is to clean water for several days after a ma- billionaire Jim Justice, a personal friend Municipal SATURDAY jor chemical spill, and were facing long- and strong supporter of Donald Trump. Services Bldg. MUMIA 12/9 term issues with contaminated house- Earlier this year, Justice joined Trump at 1401 JFK Blvd. hold water systems. State environmental a West Virginia rally to announce he was officials estimated that as much as 7,500 switching his party affiliation from Dem- For information Mass March gallons of a chemical used to process coal ocrat (read Coalcrat) to Republican. and tickets on (crude 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol) During the 2016 presidential cam- NYC - Newark flowed into the Elk River, a tributary of paign, Trump made several stops in West Bus to Philly the Kanawha River. Virginia, where he spoon fed West Vir- email: In 2007, residents near DuPont and ginia workers false hopes of factories and [email protected] workers.org Nov. 9, 2017 Page 5

San Francisco Community outrage over Taser vote PHOTO: NOEMIE SERFATY By Jeremy Miller and Terri Kay to public comment, about 50 people lined Protest at hearing on cops’ use of San Francisco up along the side and back of the room to Tasers in SF Bay speak. After only a few speakers, Cristina Area. The San Francisco Police Commission Gutierrez — fondly known in the commu- at a “public” hearing on Nov. 3 narrow- nity as Momma Cristina, from her role as tive behavior.” ly voted to approve the use of Tasers by one of the Frisco 5 Hunger Strikers — (­sfchronicle. the San Francisco Police Department. took her turn to speak. The commission com, Nov. 4) The vote came on the heels of the Sept. had limited each speaker to two minutes, Here’s where 28 Oakland Police Department killing of but Gutierrez wasn’t finished after two the Brown Act a Black man, Marcellus Toney, by Taser minutes and kept talking. Authorities violation may — despite overwhelming community op- turned off her mic, but that didn’t stop apply. The vote position. her and the audience yelled to let her con- was taken with- After 13 years of community success tinue to speak. out the public in keeping Tasers from the SFPD weap- Instead, Commissioner Julius Tur- being fully al- ons’ arsenal, the commission agreed 4 man, who ultimately voted against lowed to be pres- to 3 to allow them. The vote took place Tasers, called the meeting into recess. All ent during the discussion leading up to kill someone. Cops don’t know whether under questionable circumstances giv- the commissioners walked out, and a line the vote and for the vote itself. the person has a heart condition, pace- en the Brown Public Meetings Act. This of police and sheriff’s deputies formed Anti-Taser activists, who were locked maker, asthma or any other condition state law guarantees the public’s right to across the space separating the audience out of the hearing, remained in the hall- that could automatically turn use of a Tas- attend and participate in meetings of lo- from the vacant commissioners’ area. way chanting and singing. At one point, er into deadly force. Reuters documented cal legislative bodies. The people waiting in line decided to in an unprecedented act, acknowledging 1,005 incidents in the U.S. in which peo- The hearing room was packed with continue with their talks, sharing with the illegitimate nature of the proceeding, ple died after police stunned them with community anti-Taser activists, with the audience all the reasons they didn’t San Francisco Police Commissioner Pe- Tasers. Ninety percent of these victims more people watching on closed-cir- want the SFPD to be armed with Tasers. tra DeJesus actually left the commission were unarmed. (reuters.com, Aug. 23) cuit TV in an overflow room. Commu- to stand with the people. Tasers are more likely to be used on Public barred from public hearing nity members patiently sat through When the vote was announced the African Americans and other people long-winded testimonies from official Turman reconvened the meeting in crowd outside chanted, “Shame, shame!” of color, especially against those in the “experts” on Tasers, including a repre- another location while community mem- Why all the anger about Tasers? Aren’t midst of a mental health crisis. A Bal- sentative from Axon, a Taser producer bers, uninformed of the change, waited they a “less-lethal” weapon? Even Taser timore Sun study of Taser use between that stands to profit immensely from this in the original room. Only five people proponents don’t call them non-lethal. 2012-14 showed that out of 3,000 Taser deal. at a time were allowed in the new room One big issue is that even a “well-trained” deployments, 64 percent of the victims When the hearing was finally opened and only those “not involved in disrup- officer can’t predict whether a Taser will were Black men.

Columbia University Students win against white supremacy

By Julie Varughese was sent to students just a few hours be- half owned slaves at one point in their borhoods of people of color reared its New York fore white supremacist and rape apolo- lives,” according to the Columbia Univer- ugly, colonizing head again in the 1990s gist Mike Cernovich — of Pizzagate con- sity and Slavery project. and 2000s with massive plans for expan- After a storm of criticism, Columbia spiracy-theory infamy — spoke Oct. 30 at In 1968, Columbia came under attack sion to make the university “competitive” University administrators have stopped Lerner Hall on the Morningside Campus. when it proposed to build a gymnasium with other Ivy League schools. their investigation of students who shut That didn’t stop more than 100 stu- and limit entry by area residents to a Students compelled the shutdown of a down the October appearance of a white dents and activists who marched onto backdoor — a racist slight to the mostly campus event in 2006 featuring the Min- supremacist there. Columbia has centu- campus and jammed their way into the historic Black neighborhood to the north utemen Project, a racist, anti-immigrant, ries of ties to white supremacy. lobby of the hall, halted only by securi- and east of campus. Students who seized vigilante organization. Executive Vice President for Univer- ty and New York Police Department of- and occupied campus administration Students currently active in the strug- sity Life Suzanne Goldberg reported- ficers. Cernovich was reportedly able to buildings in solidarity with the commu- gle to keep Columbia free of white-­ ly emailed students on Oct. 30, saying speak to only a tiny group and then fled nity were bloodied when the administra- supremacist speakers and organizers charges were being dropped against the through a side door to 114th Street, de- tion called on the police to remove them. have vowed to keep fighting and not to 19 students who interrupted white su- spite students’ efforts to confront him. Gymnasium plans were dropped. be intimidated by the administration’s premacist Tommy Robinson’s Oct. 10 The Oct. 30 protest began with a NYC Gentrification of working-class neigh- threats. speech. Shut It Down demonstration to honor The students were being investigat- Rev. Clementa Carlos Pinkney, who was ed for violating the Rules of University gunned down in 2015 along with eight Give to Workers World newspaper! Conduct. While under investigation, they other congregants by white supremacist were banned from events held by Co- Dylann Roof at the Mother Emanuel We like to think our readers value • Why Che Guevara still lives 50 years lumbia University College Republicans, African Methodist Episcopal Church in Workers World — because for 51 weeks after his death which hosted Robinson, according to the Charleston, S.C. 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Page 6 Nov. 9, 2017 workers.org Why you should attend WORKERS WORLD PARTY’S WWP youth leader speaks at Bolshevik NATIONAL CONFERENCE commemoration By Megan Murray of Workers World/Mundo Obrero in the New York City area will represent a his- Since the dissolution of the USSR and toric gathering of workers, the oppressed the Soviet bloc, the ruling class has been and those who have recognized the fun- all too eager to declare the death of com- damental threat to humanity which cap- munism and “the end of history.” By the italism poses. end of the 1990s, the brute force of imperi- Contradictions in the current capitalist alism and neoliberal globalization seemed system have exploded into the open at in- to have eclipsed the counterhegemony creasing and dramatic rates in this past that global socialism once promised. year alone. These manifestations — from However, rather than stifling the strug- the climate disasters in the Caribbean, gle, the deep contradictions of capitalism Mexico, the southern U.S. and Califor- provided answers with The ­party have instead breathed life back into the nia, to rampant, deadly, racist violence by historically profound re- conference revolution. With each miscarriage of jus- cops and neo-Nazis in the streets of U.S. sults. As we learn from is where we tice, with each capitalist betrayal of emp- cities — shape our approach to, and ex- the 100 years of social- can harness and ty notions of freedom and equality, work- pectations of, this year’s conference. ism behind us, we must sharpen the explo- ers and the oppressed see with greater also provide answers to sive ­revolutionary clarity that we need to smash the entire Celebrate 100 years fundamental questions power that work- system. of revolution ourselves, in our con- ing- class and op- To celebrate the 100th anniversary crete social situation. pressed ­nations Democrats have no answers, we do of the Bolshevik Revolution, we will ac- Only through disci- wield. Workers and oppressed people living knowledge that triumph by firmly ground- plined, self-conscious WWP NATIONAL CONFERENCE Join Workers World in the U.S., under its racist, capitalist em- ing ourselves in a historical perspective. organization can we /Mundo Obrero at pire with Donald Trump at the wheel, are Just as the Bolsheviks saw themselves in engage in the dialecti- NOV 18-19, 2017 this year’s party forming stronger and stronger bonds of a uniquely revolutionary time and acted cal process of learning  NEWARK, NJ  con­ference to learn, solidarity with people’s movements across accordingly, so too must we grasp the con- and doing which will build, deepen your the world. 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BOOK REVIEW ‘Bolshevik Deputies in the Tsarist Duma’

By G. Dunkel Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders saw The workers saw the Bolshevik dep- and contributions from unions in St. Pe- running candidates “as an opportunity uties as theirs. If they had a problem, if tersburg and elsewhere in Russia. Lenin The centenary of the Russian Revolution for far-reaching agitation and propaganda there was a spontaneous strike, a funeral pointed out that of the donations given to has brought a burst of interest in one of and as one of the means of organizing the or a case of poisoning, they came to the political newspapers by workers’ organi- the most profound and significant events masses.” (Badayev, Chapter 1) Winning deputies. zations in Russia, four-fifths went to Pra- of the 20th century. Major bourgeois or- more seats and engaging in parliamentary Badayev recounts that before the dep- vda, the one associated with the Bolshe- gans like the New York Times, the BBC maneuvers to make slight improvements uties had their own office, workers used viks; the Menshevik paper got the rest. and National Public Radio characterize were not on their agenda. Instead, gaining to come to their apartments. Sometimes A few months after Russia entered the Russian Revolution as an “extraordi- a podium as a way of speaking to all the the line stretched out the door of his World War I, the tsarist secret police ar- nary coup.” They dwell on its “totalitarian” workers in Russia was significant for the apartment and down the stairs. rested the Bolshevik deputies and a few nature and the way the German imperial- Bolsheviks, whose party was still illegal One of the first major attacks of the other leaders with whom they were meet- ists allowed Lenin to cross Germany in a and couldn’t function openly. tsarist army against workers was the ing. After a swift trial, they were convict- sealed train in order to return to Russia. Their platform, drawn up by Lenin, Lena gold fields massacre in early April ed and exiled — until the revolution of A little less than 90 years ago, Alexsei had three main points: a democratic re- 1912, in which 500 workers were shot February 1917 led to their release. Egorovich Badayev published a book that public, an eight-hour day and the con- dead during a protest. Lena is in north- In an article printed in April 1912, Le- supplies a sharp response to the bour- fiscation of all landlords’ estates. This east Siberia, which was then even more nin explained that “our Party goes into geois lies. Called “Bolshevik Deputies in minimum program of the Bolsheviks im- remote than now. the Duma ... in order to call the masses the Tsarist Duma,” it is an engaging, de- plied getting rid of the tsar and giving the Once the news of the massacre spread, to the struggle from the Duma rostrum, tailed description of how Badayev and peasants land. the Bolshevik deputies organized mas- to explain the teachings of socialism, to five comrades conducted the class strug- Six Bolshevik deputies were elected by sive political protest strikes in St. Peters- expose every government and liberal de- gle inside the fourth Duma, or assembly. a constituency restricted to workers. They burg and many other industrial centers. ception, to expose the monarchist preju- The Duma was a sop, a talking shop set took their seats in 1912 and held them un- At the beginning of the fourth Duma, dices of the backward sections of the peo- up after the 1905 Revolution in Russia, to til 1915, when they were arrested and ex- the Bolsheviks were in a bloc with the Men- ple, and the class roots of the bourgeois let various social forces vent. It was dom- iled after Russia entered World War I. sheviks — a party imbued with traditions parties — in other words, in order to pre- inated by the Black Hundreds, a reac- Badayev, who was a metal worker and similar to those of today’s social-demo- pare an army of class-conscious fighters tionary party representing the feudalistic a Bolshevik when he was elected, wrote cratic parties of western ­Europe. for a new Russian revolution.” (Marxist landlords, clergy and government bu- the book as an account of the struggles After a series of problems working Internet Archive, Lenin Collected Works, reaucrats in autocratic Russia. The other he and his comrades were engaged in. with the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks de- vol. 17, pp. 506-12) major party was the Cadets, representing It explains how they followed their par- cided to split and form their own caucus That they did, and A.E. Badayev wrote the liberal bourgeoisie, which was op- ty’s lead in supporting workers in their in the Duma. a very interesting book on how they did posed to reactionary aspects of the tsarist struggles, using their Duma podium to But they didn’t just walk out. Badayev it. Many libraries have it, and it is avail- government but didn’t really challenge it state the Bolshevik position on the issues describes in detail how they held meet- able online from the Marxist Internet or support the workers. of the day. ings and solicited comments, resolutions ­Archive. workers.org Nov. 9, 2017 Page 7

PART 5 100 years of Russian Revolution WWP youth leader To the 0.001 percent: speaks at Bolshevik You are cheering too soon commemoration By Deirdre Griswold invaded their country. In 1924, they pro- Who is this young generation who have claimed the People’s Republic of Mongo- made what the National Review calls “a The world bourgeoisie, in their eval- lia. But Mongolia was very isolated, with tectonic shift” in their views, compared uations of the Russian Revolution, say a small population. to their elders? They are overwhelmingly it “failed,” and this proves socialism In 1948, the Democratic People’s Re- young workers, whether they’ve been able can never be achieved — certainly not public of Korea was founded, followed a to nail down a steady job or not. A large through a revolution of the workers and year later by the triumph of People’s Chi- proportion are doubly or triply oppressed the oppressed. na. The common thread in all these revo- — because of their national origin, their Maybe a little bit of “socialism” is OK lutions was that they were carried out by color, gender and/or sexual orientation. in the eyes of some of them. By that they parties based in the working class whose And if they’ve tried to get a higher educa- mean giving in to mass pressure for the ultimate aim was to create a socialist so- tion in order to break into the job market, capitalist state to play a larger role in mit- ciety. they are already debtors, tied to the finan- igating the suffering of the people. But it From day one, the main objective of the cial system just as securely as those in usually takes a near rebellion for a cap- imperialists has been to break up the sol- debtors’ prisons in Charles Dickens’ times. italist government to institute socialized idarity among these countries — just as Speaking in Marxist terms, they repre- medicine, for example, or even Social Se- it is doing today regarding China and the sent a shift in consciousness of the work- curity pensions, which became law in this DPRK. It uses the carrot, but mostly the ers, based on the new reality of capital- country in 1935, during the tumult of the stick — the very big stick of threatening ism having reached a dead end, unable to WW PHOTO Depression. nuclear war. resolve its inner contradictions. From left, Jerry Goldberg, Clara Sorrenti, Koz But allow the masses to have their own Every huge corporation now in exis- Mo, Savannah Jay, Adrien Welsh and Dave state power? Never, say the bosses. Can nukes stave off social advance? tence wants to cut labor costs and expand McKee, squatting, Mond Jones and Tyler Vee. In this series, we have gone over some its market. That’s what keeps the owners . Take away the nuclear weapons of the Mond Jones, a youth leader of the De- of the deep material reasons for the weak- imperialist powers and what do we see? and investors happy. troit branch of Workers World Party, ening of the revolution, which eventually A dying system, choking on its own pro- They do it in several ways: eliminat- spoke and was well received at a com- led to the dissolution of the USSR and the ductivity. ing jobs through automation and com- memoration of the 100th anniversary of return of capitalist wage slavery to that If capitalism continues to be the dom- puterization, cutting wages and benefits, the Bolshevik Revolution organized by the vast region. But we reject the idea that the inant system, the youth of today will in- speeding up production and/or moving chapter of the Young Communist League revolution itself failed. It was overcome habit a world in which the gap between their operations to regions like the U.S. in London, Ontario, Canada on Nov. 4. eventually, but it left a profound impact the haves and have-nots will have reached South or other countries where wages are Jones’ presentation emphasized the around the world. even more monstrous proportions. It is in lower. importance of the Leninist position on Even while it was struggling to build the nature of capitalism to concentrate While Trump blames Mexico for job the right of oppressed nations to self-de- up its economy after severe underdevel- ownership of the means of production in losses in the U.S., the real culprits are termination in sparking subsequent revo- opment and wartime destruction, the fewer and fewer hands. While this may Trump’s capitalist cronies who specialize lutions in Latin America, Asia and Africa. USSR was giving aid to countries fighting be concealed in the illusion that everyone in pitting workers against one another so He discussed how the lessons of the USSR imperialism. with stocks owns a part of a company, they can pay the lowest wages. This was experience speak to the need for continu- even if it’s just through a pension plan or true as far back as the 1880s, when immi- Soviet support for other revolutions ing the revolutionary process in the tran- other market-based savings accounts, the grant workers were being blamed (by the sition from socialism to communism and During the 1950-53 imperialist war truth comes out in the wealth figures. bosses’ politicians) for low wages (that called for going to the masses to build the against the Democratic People’s Republic An amazing chart, based on recent the bosses forced on them). working-class struggle for socialism as of Korea, the Soviet Union provided MiG analysis of incomes, shows that since Thus, the prospects for the future un- the best way to commemorate the Bolshe- fighter planes, and eventually pilots, to 1982, almost the entire growth in income der capitalism are bleak indeed. vik Revolution. defend both the Chinese and Korean forc- in the U.S. has gone to the richest 1 per- But take the same high level of tech- Jones emphasized WWP’s solidarity es under attack from the U.S. cent of the population. (New York Times, nological development now achieved and with all those fighting U.S. imperialism, It supported liberation movements in Aug. 7) And in the last few years, the very, put it to use raising living standards, re- from the Democratic People’s Republic of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namib- very, very rich — the top 0.001 percent — ducing back-breaking labor, providing Korea to Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran, ia and South Africa. It helped the Ethio- have seen the largest economic growth. education and health care for all, harmo- and called for an end to the colonial status pian Revolution. It supported Vietnam in And this is BEFORE the changes in nizing production with environmental of Puerto Rico and for canceling the debt. its struggles against French colonial rule taxes and government regulation pro- protection, and liberating culture from Other speakers included Adrien Welsh, and then U.S. imperialist intervention. posed by the Trump administration have the corrosive effects of racism, sexism, general secretary of the Young Commu- And it intervened militarily in support of been enacted. homophobia, class oppression and corpo- nist League of Canada, based in Mon- the revolutionary government in Afghan- If capitalism remains the dominant rate consumerism. Then there is definite- treal, Quebec; and Dave McKee, Ontario istan that was under attack from a CIA- system, the racism, sexism, homophobia ly a bright light at the end of the tunnel. provincial leader of the Communist Party armed and -trained reactionary army of and scapegoating of immigrants — all All this is sinking in as we write. Con- of Canada. The meeting was chaired by warlords. of which serve the interests of capital by sciousness does eventually catch up to Clara Sorrenti, organizer of the YCL in Yes, Afghanistan had a revolution in dividing the working class and thus low- reality. And the reality is that there is no London. There was also a dynamic spo- 1978 that set up a very progressive gov- ering wages — will persist despite all the future for the workers — or the planet it- ken word performance by Mohammad ernment which freed the peasants from struggles against them. self — under capitalism. Ali, an artist and activist from Toronto. debt and fought for women’s rights, send- The Soviet Union showed that life for — Report and photo by ing young teachers — women and men Changing consciousness has begun the workers could be improved enor- WW Detroit bureau — to the countryside. The U.S. armed Clearly, a day of reckoning is long over- mously under a workers’ state and a and trained the counterrevolution — yet due. Consciousness often lags behind reali- planned economy. It never reached the claims that its bombing of villagers in ty, but when it comes, it comes with a bang. level of full socialism, having to battle the Afghanistan today is meant to promote Today’s generation is already reflecting world bourgeoisie for its entire existence, democracy. the future. Capitalism is a dirty word. In but it raised up tens of millions of work- In supporting the Cuban Revolution, a YouGov poll taken in January 2016, 43 ers and peasants from abject poverty and the USSR went to the brink of a military percent of those in the 18-29 age bracket oppression. Its fall opened the floodgates confrontation with the U.S. — the so- said they favored socialism; only 26 per- of reaction and let capitalism be capital- called “missile crisis” — in October 1962. cent said it was unfavorable. ism — unvarnished. And that opened the The crisis ended when the Kennedy ad- By March 18 of this year, the right-wing eyes of the new generation. ministration pledged not to invade Cuba National Review was writing: “Social- Now the ball is in our court. It will be again. (The CIA had organized the failed ism’s Rising Popularity Threatens Amer- up to the workers and politically con- Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961.) ica’s Future.” scious youth and oppressed peoples in WHY COLIN For the first 31 years of its existence, the If this is true in the United States, the the more developed, more utterly irra- Soviet Union had stood virtually alone as bastion of world capitalism, it is doubly tional bastions of rotting capitalism, to KAEPERNICK the only country in the world attempting or triply true in the rest of the world. carry forward the world revolutionary IS RIGHT to build socialism. The one exception was The capitalists have nothing to offer the struggle to break the billionaires’ grip on the Mongolian Revolution of 1921. Aided our planet. Articles from Workers World/Mundo Obrero vast majority, and instead seem intent on by the Soviet Red Army, the Mongolians That’s what the ruling class fears the Newspaper www.workers.org/books wrecking the planet rather than reining drove out Russian White Guards who had in their pursuit of more obscene profits. most. And it should.

INDONESIA 1965: THE SILENT SLAUGHTER An expose of the U.S. role in the Indonesian massacres The Second Greatest Crime of the Century with an introduction by Bertrand Russell. It contains the documents of an 1966 Public Inquest that was held By Deirdre Griswold To read a PDF copy go to : tinyurl.com/yam9b47g at Columbia University. To read a PDF copy go to workers.org/book/the-silent-slaughter/ Page 8 Nov. 9, 2017 workers.org

‘Bolshevik Revolution was Marxism in practice’

The following is part 1 of the talk given by Mond Jones, a youth leader used across the globe to Lenin and the national question of the Detroit branch of Workers World Party, to a meeting commemo- wage People’s War against There’s a trend popularized by anar- rating the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, held in London, capitalism and imperial- chists and radlibs alike to try and paint Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 4. The meeting was organized by the London ism. In short: Leninism communist leaders as racists. We know chapter of the Young Communist League. works. that is not the case, and has never been But let’s talk about the case, because the Bolshevik Revolu- As Marxists, as Communists, we learn community organizations some facts. People love to tion set a template for anti-racism and in- from history. We study the successes and joined together to answer this hear the facts, the num- ternationalism, through Lenin’s “Theses the shortcomings of past revolutions, not narrative and expose the real- bers behind successes and on the National Question.” only in an attempt to understand history ity of poverty and destruction shortcomings of histori- The Bolsheviks understood that capi- and our current conditions, but to guide of our neighborhoods at the cal events. So right now, WW PHOTO talism and imperialism created the con- actions in the present and to guide us hands of the banks and corpo- Mond Jones I want to give a little bit ditions for national oppression, and cap- on the path to building a revolutionary rations which we experience of insight into the gains of italism and imperialism are also upheld ­future. every day. socialist revolution in the Soviet Union. by national oppression. Lenin favored In this current time, we are seeing the And that’s just one city. We are see- First, I will talk a little about the eman- self-determination for oppressed people, failures of this corrupt capitalist system. ing these trends of destruction happen- cipation of women during the revolution. because there can be no socialism, no Capitalism is in decay, and it’s crumbling ing all over the world. The proletariat Communists understand, or should un- road to communism, without disman- in on itself. In Detroit we see it every day. is growing increasingly into a class of derstand, the role in which special op- tling the oppressive hierarchies capital- We see the results of capitalist exploita- hyperexploited, low-wage workers who pressions uphold capitalism. ism promotes. tion in degradation. can barely afford the bare minimum re- Just six weeks after the revolution, the As well as abolishing the anti-gay leg- We see mass water shutoffs, for delin- sources required to even be able to be church’s patriarchal control over mar- islation left over from the czarist era, the quencies of less than $150. I have a com- productive at work. riage was dismantled, and after within USSR actively supported the struggle for rade who had his water shut off for 50 Comrades, we have a problem. But a year of revolution, a code was released Black liberation in the U.S. and abroad. cents. He and his mother were 50 cents we also have a solution. And here we that ensured complete equality of rights Black workers from the U.S. were invit- short of the full payment, and they had are, gathered here as revolutionaries, between both spouses. ed by the state to emigrate to the Soviet their water shut off. However, big busi- to commemorate 100 years of the Bol- In 1920, the Soviet Union was the first Union, where they observed a much bet- nesses in Detroit rack up delinquencies shevik Revolution. Now is a time for country in the world to legalize abortion. ter life, free of the racism they would have of hundreds of thousands every year, yet celebration, for action, but also a time to Prior to legalization, abortions were con- experienced in the United States. go unpenalized and continue to receive revisit one of the most important events ducted in secret, for large sums of mon- Paul Robeson a Black activist, commu- subsidies. of the 1900s for the global working class, ey, under unsanitary and dangerous con- nist and singer/actor from the U.S., stat- Thousands of homes and abandoned and how we can use the lessons learned ditions. To protect the women, the state ed that the social climate for Black folks buildings lie vacant, while the rates of there, to build revolution here. provided abortions free of charge in any in Russia was like something unheard homelessness rise in the city. Homes are The Bolshevik Revolution was quite a Soviet hospital capable of performing of in the States. He said, “In Russia I felt being illegally foreclosed and auctioned few things. Many people view it in a very them. for the first time like a full human being. off left and right, kicking families to the static and simplified way. See, the Bol- In 1927 women formed 12.8 percent of No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no streets, while the city’s emergency funds shevik Revolution was not only the first the Communist Party. One-third of stu- color prejudice like in Washington. It was are used to help continue the gentrifica- successful socialist revolution, it was dents in institutions for higher education the first time I felt like a human being.” tion of Detroit. also the first revolution to successfully were women. In the same year, women The Black American poet Langston There was a conference in October put the ideas of Marx and Engels into formed over 25 percent of the member- Hughes also shared similar sentiments where basically mayors came from all practice. That’s huge. ship of trade unions. and wrote many poems dedicated to the over the country to Detroit to see what Leninism is not only “Marxism in the During the revolution, there was a work of Lenin and the USSR’s dedication a haven of “revitalization” it was. Folks age of imperialism” but quite literally drastic shift in the way women were to racial equality. are literally using Detroit as a model for “Marxism applied successfully,” Marx- treated in society, compared to [their Racial equality and the abolition of na- how to quickly and successfully gentrify ism IN PRACTICE, and it was the Le- treatment in] the institutions of prerev- tional oppression were not just an idea or their cities. ninist model that was adopted by revo- olution tsarist Russia, where women had a series of empty statements in the USSR, Our party held a Real Detroiters Speak lutionaries throughout the global south. no rights and were relegated to the prop- but an active state project. Out during this conference, where many Still to this day, the Leninist model is erty of their husbands. Next: USSR and internationalism. Get on the bus ­– for Nov. 23, National Day of Mourning

By Kathy Durkin peoples internationally. Help shatter the struggles of Indigenous people to survive tinyurl.com/y9q52tze/. untrue glass image of the Pilgrims, and today. “It is a day of remembrance and NEW YORK: The International Action The 48th National Day of Mourning the unjust system based on racism, sex- spiritual connection as well as a protest Center is sending a bus to Plymouth. will take place on Thursday, Nov. 23, on ism, homophobia and the profit-driven of the racism and oppression which Na- Meet at 6 a.m. sharp at the Solidari- the so-called “Thanksgiving” holiday, in destruction of the earth.” (UAINE.org) tive people continue to experience.” ty Center, 147 W. 24 St., 2nd floor, in Plymouth, Mass. Participants will gath- This year, UAINE says, “We will show This very important annual day of soli- Manhattan­ . The bus will return from er at noon on Cole’s Hill above Plymouth up in solidarity with Indigenous strug- darity draws Native people and their sup- Plymouth at 4:30 p.m., arriving New Rock and march through the town’s his- gles throughout the world, and especial- porters from throughout Massachusetts, York City about 9:30 p.m. Purchase bus toric district. ly our relations in Puerto Rico and the other New England states and beyond. tickets in advance at the Solidarity Cen- At a speak-out, Native people will Caribbean and Mexico suffering from Here is information on buses traveling ter from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to tell of their history and the struggles of hurricane and earthquake devastation to Plymouth from Boston and New York Friday. Tickets: $30-$45; sliding scale. Indigenous people taking place today compounded by colonialism.” City. Tickets go fast! Buy your tickets now! throughout the Americas. Non-Native A special message will be given from BOSTON: UAINE has arranged for a For information, call 212-633-6646. supporters are welcome to come and be 73-year-old Native political prisoner charter bus for Boston-area residents (See IACenter.org.) in solidarity with them. After the pro- Leonard Peltier. without cars to attend the National Day A bus leaving from Brooklyn is be- gram and march, there will be a potluck UAINE points out: “Thanksgiving is a of Mourning. The bus will board at “the ing organized by Eritye Papa Desalin. It social. reminder of the genocide of millions of Brewery” in Jamaica Plain, 284 Amory will leave at 6 a.m. from Radyo Pa Nou, United American Indians of New En- Native people, the theft of Native lands St. (near the Stonybrook station on the 1685 Nostrand Ave. (between Bever- gland issued an appeal for supporters to and the relentless assault on Native cul- Orange Line MBTA), starting at 9 a.m, ly and Cortelyou roads). Tickets: $30. attend the upcoming commemoration: ture.” Since 1970, the organization has and will depart at 10 a.m. for Plymouth. For ­information, call Dahoud Andre at “Unite with us in our struggle to create planned the National Day of Mourning The bus will leave Plymouth and return 347-730-3620 or email erityepapadesal- a true awareness of Native peoples and commemoration on that day. Partici- to Jamaica Plain at 4 p.m. Tickets: $15 [email protected]. More information is at demonstrate the unity of Indigenous pants honor Native ancestors and the (below cost). Buy tickets at eventbrite at UAiNE.org and tinyurl.com/y8zccrag/. xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx 48th NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING Thursday, November 23, 2017 @ 12 Noon Cole’s Hill, Plymouth, Mass. Hill above Plymouth Rock Help shatter the untrue glass image of the Pilgrims and the Unite with us in our struggle to create a true awareness unjust system based on racism, sexism, ­homophobia and the of Native peoples and demonstrate the unity profit-driven destruction of the Earth. of Indigenous peoples internationally. We will show up in solidarity with Indigenous struggles For more information/orientation: throughout the world, and especially our relations in Puerto United American Indians of New England Rico, the Caribbean and Mexico suffering from hurricane and Special message Facebook.com/events/187901245087869 earthquake devastation compounded by colonialism. from Leonard Peltier workers.org Nov. 9, 2017 Page 9 Koreans in U.S. organize ‘No Trump Day’

Korean organizations across the U.S., supported by anti-war groups, orga- nized a “No Trump, No War Day” on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., in solidarity with “No Trump Day” rallies in Korea and the Asian Pacific and calling on the U.S. to “Sign the Peace Treaty Now!” The following National Statement explains their campaign. “They will be met with fire, fury and with all people — Koreans, Americans, frankly power the likes of which this and others throughout the world — un- world has never seen before…” conditionally committed to preventing a “They won’t be around much longer…” disastrous rekindling of the Korean War. “I spoke with President Moon of South Military conflict on the Korean penin- Korea last night. Asked him how Rocket sula will inevitably result in the deaths of Man is doing.” those not only on the Korean peninsula, “Military solutions are now fully in but in nearby countries who will be sub- place, locked and loaded...” ject to an influx of U.S. military personnel Trump’s words have escalated mili- via the web of existing US military bases tary tensions on the Korean peninsula throughout the Asian Pacific region. to a degree this world has not witnessed In the wake of this year’s “Mother Of since the Korean War. When Trump an- All Bombs” — so-called for being the New York, Nov. 3. nounced his tour of Asian nations from largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in WW PHOTO: JOHN CATALINOTTO November 3rd to 14th, people of Japan, combat in human history — dropped in South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Afghanistan in April; the air-dropping of by which people of color especially Black, war of dire consequences. Philippines mobilized en masse to pro- parts for the THAAD anti-missile system Native, and Latinx Americans are meant To this end, we demand that the Trump test Trump and American militarism in due to Korean residents of Seongju pro- to serve as America’s hyper exploitable administration: the Asian Pacific region. South Koreans tests blocking roads to installation in late and undercompensated labor force, of- • Cease Trump’s warmongering, military are calling their nationwide rallies “No April and early May; and the October 11th ten disenfranchised of voting and other intimidation and military-focused Trump Day,” condemning the United U.S. military helicopter crash in Okinawa civilians’ rights well after imprisonment. foreign policies! States’ aggressive policies toward North less than 1,000 feet from a residence and If the United States stations troops in • Abolish hostile policies such as sanc- Korea and the ongoing infringements of about a mile away from Takae Elementa- foreign countries to “protect our free- tions toward North Korea and sign a sovereignty in South Korea. ry School; it is clear that the U.S. military dom,” why does their increasingly mili- peace treaty! The “No Trump No War” campaign presence is a threat to the safety of the tarized police force terrorize, exploit and • Withdraw THAAD, which threatens was announced by over 220 South Kore- peoples of the “host” nations they claim slaughter communities within the United peace in East Asia and the world, from an civic groups organized by the Korean to protect or “liberate.” States? If we are made as much the “ene- South Korea! Confederation for Trade Unions in a press my” as foreign peoples, are foreign peo- The U.S. national “No Trump Day” conference on October 27th. Tens of thou- Reconcile Historical Violence ples not just as unjustly persecuted as solidarity rallies are endorsed by: Ac- sands are anticipated to participate in the These tragedies may have happened we? For whom does this promised “free- tion One Korea (LA); ANSWER Coalition estimated 140 different rallies in South during the Trump administration, but it dom” exist, and who or what do foreign (LA); BAYAN USA; Catholic Workers; Korea and abroad, especially in Seoul’s is a continuation of a legacy of U.S. mil- military bases actually protect? Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans (SF); Gwanghwamun Plaza, where months of itarization that destabilizes the liveli- Even the South Korean rallies against International Action Center; Internation- mass demonstrations led to the impeach- hoods of peoples all over the world, since Trump and war will be heavily restrict- al League of Peoples’ Struggle; KANCC ment of former President Park Geun- the enslavements of and genocides com- ed, per an announcement by South Kore- (Korean American National Coordinat- Hye earlier this year. Koreans are using mitted against Native Peoples and Afri- an police that anti-Trump rallies will be ing Council); Kabataang maka-Bayan “No Trump Day” to demand the end of cans in the Americas in the first British banned in central Seoul and other places (Pro-People Youth) (LA); Koreatown Im- Trump’s warmongering and military in- North American colonies preceding the Trump will visit in Korea on November migrant Workers Alliance (LA); Korean timidation in recent months; withdrawal United States. We condemn the Trump 7th and 8th. In lands supposedly not un- Peace Alliance (LA); Los Angeles Catho- of the THAAD system from South Korea; administration for its perpetuation of der U.S. jurisdiction, the United States lic Workers (LA); the end of sanctions and hostile policies slaughter, militarization and infringe- stifles people’s freedom of speech and as- Also, Nanum Corean Cultural Center toward North Korea; and call for peace on ments of sovereignty, especially hypo- sembly as guaranteed under Article 21 of (LA); Nodutdol for Korean Community the Korean peninsula and East Asia. critical for a nation that so espouses the the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, Development (NYC); Pan-Korean Alli- values of “freedom” and “democracy.” just as it suppresses American dissent ance for Reunification in USA; Peace 21 Work for World Peace These values are not even observed via targeted revoking of voting rights (LA); Peace & Justice Committee - TLTC; In addition to Koreans’ demands, we in the United States. American police, through policing and imprisonment. Progressive Asian Network for Action the people in the United States oppose a force developed and refined as a con- (LA); Raging Grannies; Samidoun Pal- the Trump administration’s ill-informed tinuation of slave patrols, are handed End the Korean War estinian Prisoners Solidarity Network; escalation of tensions with North Ko- down equipment and technology includ- Trump’s incendiary remarks and the SoCal Organized Oppression-Breaking rea, call for a peace treaty between the ing tanks and drones from the U.S. mil- recent unprecedented provocations by Anti-Imperialist Koreans (LA); Students United States and North Korea to finally itary to terrorize its own peoples. Police the U.S. military, such as F-35 and B-1B for Justice in Palestine (NYC); Support end the Korean War after 64 long years, surveillance and crackdowns feed into bombers flown to the Military Demarca- Committee for Korean Prisoners of Con- fully support peoples of these countries a prison system wherein slavery is com- tion Line on September 18th in a highly science in U.S.; U.S. Peace Council; Unit- mobilizing to protest Trump’s visit and pletely legal, per the 13th Amendment to provocative move to North Korea, must ed National Antiwar Coalition; Veterans preparing mass demonstrations around the Constitution that did not completely end at once to prevent the crisis on the For Peace - Chapter 34 (NYC) & Chapter “No Trump Day,” and stand in solidarity abolish slavery after the Civil War, and Korean peninsula from escalating into a 21 (NJ); VFP - Iran Working Group. Protests against tax hikes rock Haiti

By G. Dunkel In October, the COD called for ready-existing problems of absorbing several protests in Port-au-Prince, Haitians being expelled from the Domin- A series of militant as well as Petit-Goâve, Saint Marc, ican Republic, mostly agricultural work- demonstrations took place Cayes, Jacmel, Cap Haïtien and Oua- ers — a policy which has been strongly throughout Haiti in Septem- naminthe on October 5, 7, 10, 12, 14 opposed by Haitians. ber and October. At first, the and 17. (www.loophaiti.com) Haiti’s officials say the country is still target of the protests was The Moise government has recoving from recent hurricanes and the the new budget that Presi- stepped up repression against the horrendous 2010 earthquake, making dent Jovenel Moïse imposed, protests and attempted to bring out it harder to absorb more people. They raising taxes and fees. This its supporters in the Bald-Headed also state that the monetary remittances would even apply to Haitians Haitian Party. from Haitian workers in the U.S. to fam- living abroad. When it be- Haiti’s top officials have also asked ily members in the Caribbean island are came clear that the budget the U.S. Department of Homeland very much needed. Burning tires during protest in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. would not be modified, the Security to extend the Temporary U.S. imperialism is largely to blame most common demand in opposition was loose grouping, the Coalition of Demo- Protected Status for another 18 months for the impoverishment in Haiti, having to call for Moïse’s resignation. cratic Organizations (COD), has been is- for Haitian immigrants living in the U.S. super-exploited the country’s workers Both the Lavalas Family Party (FL) of suing calls for the protests. They would have to leave this country by and plundered their resources for years. former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Even when Haitian police called off a Jan. 22 if an extension is not granted. Haitian immigrants should be allowed and the breakaway Dessalines Children protest, alleging there had been some vio- Government leaders in Haiti say they to remain in the U.S. if they choose, and Platform (PPD) of Moïse Jean-Charles lence, probably caused by provocateurs at are reluctant to have another 50,000 U.S. companies should pay living wages have played leading roles in many of a previous protest, people still came out to immigrants coming from the U.S. and to those workers living here and those these protests. It appears that a very the demonstration called by the COD. “dumped” in their airports. They cite al- living in their homeland. Page 10 Nov. 9, 2017 workers.org Trump, China and the DPRK

When the U.S. delegation headed by emancipate China from the landlords millions of people overcame poverty, but They have already announced that President Donald Trump visits People’s and capitalists, especially those who the reforms also created several hundred driving a wedge between China and the China from Nov. 8 to 10, there will be were tools of foreign imperialism. The Chinese billionaires. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is public statements from both sides and 90-million-member Communist Party In his long and detailed speech given one of their main objectives of this trip. closed meetings on trade, security and makes policy. For almost 40 years now, at this year’s Party Congress, CPC leader The U.S. rulers and their generals relations with other countries. it has implemented a strategy of allow- Xi Jinping indicated that China has now know that a frontal attack on the DPRK, Big corporate interests that con- ing capitalist entities to exist alongside reached a new stage in its development like the war they waged from 1950 to trol the U.S. delegation will be closely the state-owned planned economy. in which it will further strengthen the 1953, would unleash a monumental di- following the trade and financial issues This followed a tumultuous period state-owned industries. saster. If they couldn’t bring the Korean discussed and the agreements that are in China in which the party was divid- This is welcome news to all who are people to their knees then, how can they made. Their interest, as always, is to ed over how this vast country could fighting for a socialist future for the believe that is possible now, when the maximize the profits of U.S. billionaires, overcome its severe underdevelopment world. DPRK has strengthened its defenses by but any economic deals will be explained in a world dominated by imperialism. Behind the friendly tone of U.S. poli- building nuclear weapons? to U.S. workers as creating jobs here and Those who advocated using the capitalist ticians, military strategists and business While there may be a need for di- aiding consumers. market for this purpose won out. But the people who accompany Trump to China plomacy and soft words in the face of The policy of the Chinese govern- workers’ state created by the revolution is their undying hatred of socialism. imperialist threats, it is in the interests ment is more complicated. People’s was not torn down, as happened after They are not content with being able to of China and all who want peaceful de- China exists because of a monumental, 1991 in the ex-Soviet Union. The party make money in China. They more and velopment for the benefit of the masses decades-long revolution involving mil- retained its control over the economy more see China as the greatest challenge of people that no concessions be made lions of workers and peasants. Its core and the state itself, and a period of tre- to their domination and exploitation of to U.S. imperialism’s attempts to isolate leaders were communists who fought to mendous growth followed. Hundreds of the world. and disarm the DPRK.

Rejecting U.S. imperialism U.N. votes against Cuba blockade

By Cheryl LaBash day, and which murders innocent people, pendence in the guise of allies, only to Office with the malicious political aim of New York and is the decisive factor in instability become invaders and occupiers. The U.S. eliminating dialogue with the U.S. busi- worldwide and the very serious threats to imposed 60 years of domination on Cuba ness sector.” For the 26th consecutive year, Cuba’s peace and international security, tram- that only ended on Jan. 1, 1959, with the resolution, “Necessity of ending the eco- pling international law and the United Revolution’s triumph. U.S. closes, Cuba opens nomic, commercial and financial block- Nations Charter, which she cynically That the current blockade imposed by Foreign Minister Rodríguez Parrilla ade imposed by the United States of evoked. … the U.S. hurts the Cuban people is unde- announced changes to Cuba’s immigra- America against Cuba,” was placed for “President Trump does not have the niable. But as Cuba’s Foreign Minister re- tion policies on Oct. 28 at the Fourth Na- debate and vote before the 193 member slightest moral authority to question minded in his presentation, misery from tional Meeting of Cuban Residents Liv- countries of the United Nations General Cuba. He leads a government of million- the blockade leading to regime change ing in the United States. These changes Assembly on Nov. 1. aires who intend to implement brutal — not human rights — is the expressed will take effect Jan. 1, 2018, and will help Many people, including Cuban Ameri- measures against the poor and low-in- intention of the U.S. strengthen ties of Cuban emigration with cans, had signed up to sit in the U.N. gal- come families of this country, minorities Rodríguez Parrilla quoted from the in- the U.S. lery in solidarity with socialist Cuba. The and immigrants. He follows a program famous, then-secret 1960 letter by Dep- Those attending the Howard Univer- audible applause and cheers of observers, which encourages hate and division, uty Assistant Secretary of State Lester sity meeting, which included 129 Cubans and of U.N. delegates representing every and promotes a dangerous idea of excep- Mallory that advocated promoting “dis- from 17 states, issued a statement reject- corner of the world, punctuated the pre- tionalism and supremacy disguised as enchantment and disaffection based on ing the Trump administration’s June sentation of Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bru- patriotism, and which will lead to more economic dissatisfaction and hardship. 16 announcements regarding its policy no Rodríguez Parrilla. violence. He ignores the will of voters: [A]ll possible means should be under- toward Cuba, describing those as a set- No one was surprised by the final Two-thirds of U.S. citizens and Cuban taken promptly to weaken the economic back in bilateral relations of recent years. vote of 191 to 2, when only the U.S. and residents in the United States, as well, life of Cuba … denying money and sup- (­tinyurl.com/yb86edor) its client state Israel opposed ending the support an end to the blockade. plies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and The Trump administration’s reversion unilateral, genocidal and extraterritorial “Current U.S. policies harm citizens; real wages.” In the words of this U.S. of- to the 1960 U.S. blockade playbook ig- U.S. blockade of the much smaller Cuba. corruption reigns in politics which have ficial, the blockade of Cuba was created nores the new reality of Cuba’s relation- Rodríguez Parrilla sharply rebutted been hijacked by so-called special inter- “to bring about hunger, desperation and ship to the world, as well as within the the “disrespectful, offensive, and inter- ests, that is, by the interests and the mon- overthrow of government.” (tinyurl.com/ U.S. ventionist statements” of U.S. Ambassa- ey of corporations [with] no support for h6tm8e5) The U.N. representative from Saint dor to the U.N. Nikki Haley. She repeated education, health or social security; re- Vincent and the Grenadines, Rhonda Trump’s June 16 worn-out allegations strictions on union organizing; and terri- New measures, politically motivated King, speaking on behalf of the Carib- of supposed human rights violations ble gender-based discrimination. In what is shaping up to be another bean Community (CARICOM), pointed in Cuba as an excuse to intensify the “Deserving of condemnation are the pretext invented by the U.S. to further out the U.S. blockade was “not just as a ­blockade. use of torture; police murders of Afri- disrupt U.S.-Cuba relations, mysterious punitive act against Cuba, but as an im- Haley had trivialized Cuba’s resolution can-Americans; civilian deaths caused illnesses have reportedly affected dip- pediment to our shared regional devel- before the U.N. as a distracting “shiny by its troops; the indiscriminate, racially lomats at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. opment.” Citing almost universal opposi- object,” noting only that the U.S. Con- motivated death penalty; the murders, Cuba has issued a special investigatory tion to the blockade, she took notice that gress can end the blockade. She declared repression and police surveillance of im- documentary debunking U.S. claims. (ti- “[C]itizens across the United States were U.N resolutions to be “political theater”; migrants; the separation of families; the nyurl.com/yblm6y82) joining the international community by boasted that the U.S. didn’t care it was detention and deportation of minors; and Foreign Minister Rodríguez Parrilla increasingly voicing their disapproval alone in “defending human rights”; and the brutal measures threatening the chil- noted that the U.S. is using this pretext and calling for the lifting of unilateral in rude, imperial style, turned her back dren of undocumented immigrants who to undermine the right of Cuban citizens sanctions.” on the world and walked out. grew up and were educated in the United to travel freely and visit the U.S. for short King added: “Today, 73 percent of U.S. States. periods, and to hinder family reunifi- citizens and 63 percent of Cubans liv- U.S. lacks moral authority “This is the government that lost the cation under the bilateral agreement to ing in the U.S. support the lifting of the Speaking truth to power, Foreign Min- popular vote.” (Complete text at tinyurl. grant no less than 20,000 immigrant vi- blockade.” ister Rodríguez Parrilla said before the com/ycpzumaz) sas per year. He emphasized the U.S. is- General Assembly what the world knows: sued “an unfounded and dishonest warn- HAITI “The United States, where flagrant viola- Lies and more lies ing to its citizens to avoid visiting Cuba A Slave tions of human rights are committed, of Although the current U.S. attack focus- and continues to restrict travel to Cuba Revolution deep concern to the international com- es on the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Foreign for U.S. residents.” munity, does not have the slightest mor- Minister Rodríguez Parrilla reminded Rodríguez Parrilla continued: “The Updated al authority to criticize Cuba, a small, listeners that “the appetite for annex- U.S. arbitrarily and groundlessly reduced to ­include country characterized by its solidarity, ation and domination, of what was and is the personnel of our Consulate General the ­Aristide ­kidnapping by with an extensive, recognized interna- today U.S. imperialism, had already been in Washington, limiting the capacity to the U.S. and the tional record; an honorable, hard-work- unleashed” when Cuba took up arms in provide services to U.S. travelers and es- ­earthquake in ing, and friendly people. its 1868 war of independence. pecially to Cuban residents who have the 2010. “[Haley] spoke in the name of the head The 1898 explosion of the USS Maine absolute right to visit and interact nor- of an empire that is responsible for most became a pretext for the U.S. to enter mally with their nation and the Embassy, of the wars in progress on the planet to- the continuing Cuban struggle for inde- dismantling the Economic-Commercial Read it online at: iacenter.org/haiti/ workers.org Nov. 9, 2017 Page 11

U.S. escalates presence in Niger and all Africa

By Abayomi Azikiwe unstable state. Libya remains mired in strategic thinking Editor, Pan-African News Wire humanitarian crises with thousands of is apparently a “cut- people being trafficked monthly through and-paste” approach There has been no substantive discus- the country and across the Mediterra- where older, discred- sion within the United States corporate nean Sea. ited postulations re- and government-controlled media as to Following the deaths of the U.S. Spe- lated to military pol- why Washington is escalating its pres- cial Forces soldiers in Niger, the Penta- icy are periodically ence in the West African state of Niger. gon revealed some aspects of its military recycled. News reports about the deaths of four presence there. The Trump administra- U.S. Green Berets center on the notions tion says its main preoccupation is with Uranium, French of “a war on terrorism,” which is reach- curtailing so-called “Islamic terrorism.” imperialism and ing the African continent. Subsequently, However, these same “extremist” groups permanent war the controversy moved into allegations have been enhanced, armed, trained and Niger is the world’s about what was said during President coordinated in Libya, Syria, Yemen and fourth largest pro- Donald Trump’s phone call to the family other countries experiencing similar im- ducer of uranium, of the African-American soldier killed, perialist-engineered military conflicts. a key component in 25-year-old Sgt. La David Johnson. nuclear ­technology, White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Framing the Pentagon’s position particularly for weap- Kelly defended Trump, claiming he act- to the U.S. public onry. Uranium resources are largely con- struggle in 2011. He inherited a country ed appropriately in his statements to Regarding the Pentagon’s official posi- trolled by France, which colonized the ter- devastated by neocolonial plunder, which Myeisha Johnson, the deceased soldier’s tion, an Oct. 26 Bloomberg editorial pro- ritory beginning in the late 19th century had resulted in enormous debt to the widow. Trump later insulted Florida Con- vides a rationale for Africom’s operations during “the scramble for Africa.” International Monetary Fund and oth- gresswoman Frederica Smith Wilson af- in Niger and throughout West Africa. Un- French military forces declared a war er Western-based financial institutions. ter she accused him of being insensitive der the guise of needing to stop spreading of conquest against the people of Ni- The Economist magazine has described and insincere toward the Johnson family. “jihadist” violence by organizations that ger in the late 1890s, but were met with Issoufou as a close friend of the West. Yet the never-raised overarching ques- are ostensibly influenced by al-Qaida and fierce resistance by the non-Islamic Azna Niger is heavily reliant on assistance tions were: Why should an African Amer- the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), people of the Hausa, led by their war- from international finance capital. Con- ican be gunned down in his ancestral the Pentagon is priming people in the rior-queen, Sarraounia. After retreating sequently, the state is prone to econom- homeland while conducting U.S. military U.S. for yet another long-term campaign into the forests amid heavy weapons ic, political and military interference operations? And why are African-Amer- on the African continent. bombardment by the French military by Paris and Washington. The U.S. is ican Congress members not challenging The piece says Trump’s “disgraceful at the Battle of Lougou, Sarraounia and building drone stations in Niger while successive administrations’ militarism in attack” on Myeisha Johnson’s credibility her fighters continued guerrilla warfare cooperating with France’s military op- Africa, which has been disastrous for the is increasing the awareness of people in against France for years. The colonizers erations. peoples of the continent and those in the the U.S. “of the expanding U.S. mission never captured Sarraounia. As is the case with other African U.S.? against extremist violence spreading Areva, the French firm which coordi- states, the continuing dependence on the This incident occurred amid rising across the Sahel region of Africa.” nates uranium mining in the country, West is at the source of the contemporary racial tensions within the U.S., where Bloomberg’s post says Joint Chiefs has a vested interest in maintaining its crisis. African states will never enjoy gen- Trump has denigrated professional foot- of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford ex- neocolonial control over Niger. The coun- uine independence and sovereignty until ball players who kneel during the nation- plained on Oct. 23 the U.S. military’s crit- try gained its independence in 1960, but the people take control of the natural al anthem to protest the arbitrary police ical role in helping nations defeat armed remained within France’s political and resources, land and their government’s and vigilante killings of African Ameri- threats from al-Qaida and Islamic State economic sphere. military apparatus. cans. The use of lethal force against op- (IS) affiliates, Boko Haram, migrant and Niger’s President Mahamadou Issou- This excerpted article appeared in full pressed peoples routinely goes unpun- arms traffickers, criminal syndicates and fou took power after a protracted political at newsghana.com on Oct. 27. ished, providing incentives from the tribal rebels. The IS, “nearly wiped out in law-enforcement and judicial systems to Iraq and Syria,” will likely shift much at- continue racially motivated state spon- tention to Africa. sored and state condoned violence. These are the same tired arguments The prevailing situation in the U.S. that have been repeatedly used since morally justifies nonparticipation by Af- the U.S. invasion and occupation of Af- U.S.-backed Saudis rican Americans and other people of con- ghanistan began in 2001. U.S. and NATO science in Pentagon operations in Africa forces remain in the Central Asian state, and other regions. The escalation of mil- while Trump recently announced that continue war on Yemen itary invasions and occupations has only more troops would be deployed there. worsened the social conditions facing After 16 years in Afghanistan and Pa- By Randi Nord data also shows that the event impacted nationally oppressed communities and kistan, the “terrorism” which has been Editor, Geopolitics Alert travel and delayed flights for hours. working people since this century began. the reason for the U.S. occupation’s exis- The role of Pentagon troops in Niger is tence, remains. Therefore, this purport- Nov. 4 — Saudi airstrikes and war War crimes include famine and cholera part of the U.S. Africa Command’s (Af- ed “war on terrorism” can only be judged crimes in Yemen have not slowed down In early October, the United Nations ricom) strategy to dominate the conti- as an absolute failure. all week. On Nov. 1, attacks on a market re-added Saudi Arabia along with their nent on behalf of Wall Street’s financial Bloomberg’s editorial instructs Con- in Saada resulted in nearly 70 killed and coalition to a censure list due to their interests. Formed in early 2008 under gress to pass “a new war authorization many wounded. On Nov. 3, raids targeted devastating military and airstrike cam- George W. Bush’s administration, Af- to … give a strong legal basis for counter- homes in the same province, killing seven paign, which explicitly targets Yemeni ricom was expanded during President terrorism operations far away from the people, most of them women and children. civilians, hospitals, markets and homes. Barack Obama’s terms. original battlefields in Afghanistan and Airstrikes from the U.S.-backed Sau- Last year, the U.N. removed Saudi As its first, full-blown operation, Af- Iraq.” Eventually, the facts on the Niger di coalition injured another 10 children, Arabia from this same list after facing ricom coordinated the air and ground mission will emerge. Ideally, better strat- two of them critically, in al-Jouf province financial extortion and other threats war against Libya in 2011. Thousands egies will develop. “But there’s no need to just north of Saada. At least 15 strikes from Riyadh. Apparently, this censure of sorties dropped bombs on infrastruc- wait to address the danger of increasing hit various areas of Midi and Taiz today list holds no significant value because the ture and residences, killing and injuring extremism in Africa.” in the course of a few hours. Additional Saudi-led airstrikes and war crimes in tens of thousands of people, dislocating What is most striking about these attacks in Saada province struck a farm, Yemen have not stopped. millions and creating the region’s most words is their lack of creativity. U.S. killing and destroying livestock. Well over 10,000 people have lost Yemen’s resistance has drastically in- their lives from air strikes or military creased their military capabilities as a operations since Saudi Arabia and al- defensive tool against this type of aggres- lies launched their war against Yemen in sion. This includes manufacturing Yeme- 2015. Tens of thousands more have been WAR WITHOUT VICTORY ni-made long-range ballistic missiles and killed as a result of the ongoing Saudi-im- anti-air sniper rifles. The Sana’a-based posed siege and blockade. by Sara Flounders PentagonAchillesHeel.com forces have also increased maritime and Due to restricted imports, nearly 7 “By revealing the underbelly of the empire, Flounders special operations capabilities. million Yemenis face famine and 17 mil- sheds insight In retaliation for the ongoing airstrike lion face food insecurity. The lack of ac- on how to stand up to the imperialist war machine campaign and siege, Yemen’s resistance cess to medical equipment and sanitation and, in so doing, struck the King Khalid International Air- supplies has triggered a globally unprec- save ourselves and humanity.” port in Saudi Arabia with a long-range edented cholera outbreak claiming the – Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President, U.N. ballistic missile the morning of Nov. 4. lives of over 3,000, with numbers reach- Mainstream news outlets like CNN quick- ing 1 million infected by the end of the General Assembly, 2008-2009; Foreign Minister of ly (and incorrectly) reported that Saudi year. The siege also restricts government Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. forces had intercepted the missile. Video salaries for health care workers, sanita- Available at online booksellers. from the ground proves otherwise. Flight tion workers and other public jobs. 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Por Kathy Durkin El AIEA ha certificado ocho veces que balísticos para lanzar armas nucleares La CIA de EE.UU., Junto con la in- Irán está cumpliendo con sus obligaciones , “No nos impide desarrollar tecnología teligencia británica, derrocó al primer El jefe imperialista en la Casa Blanca en virtud del acuerdo. Los otros signatari- de disuasión militar convencional que ministro iraní Mohammed Mossadegh, está aumentando la hostilidad contra os del pacto han estado de acuerdo. muchos otros países poseen”. elegido democráticamente, en 1953. El Irán. Está amenazando de sacar a Esta- Pero Trump ha denunciado repetida- nacionalizo la industria petrolera del dos Unidos del acuerdo nuclear del 2015 mente el acuerdo y en agosto impuso nue- Solidaridad con Irán es necesaria país, un acto intolerable para los capital- entre ese país soberano y los P5 + 1 países, vas sanciones contra Irán. Si el no vuelve ¿Dónde deberían mantenerse firmes istas estadounidenses y europeos. miembros del Consejo de Seguridad de a certificar que Irán está cumpliendo los activistas contra la guerra y otras Luego los imperialistas instalaron al las Naciones Unidas más Alemania. con los requisitos del pacto, entonces fuerzas progresistas defender el dere- notorio tirano Shah Reza Pahlevi. Desna- El Plan de Acción Integral Conjunto Washington puede imponer sanciones cho de Irán a desarrollar armas defen- cionalizó la industria petrolera, con el 60 requiere que Irán retrase su programa económicas más horribles a los 80 mil- sivas? En el punto crucial de la cuestión por ciento de las ganancias enriquecien- nuclear a cambio de poner fin a algunas, lones de habitantes de Irán. es donde radica el derecho de la nación, do a las empresas estadounidenses. Los pero no a todas, las sanciones impuestas Ahora, los intransigentes de EE.UU. rica en petróleo, a la soberanía y proteger gobiernos de EE.UU. y Europa se mantu- por EE.UU./U.N. están tratando de evitar que Irán desar- a su pueblo de la agresión imperialista, vieron en silencio sobre los asesinatos de Según las reglas emitidas por el Con- rolle incluso los misiles convencionales, ya sean sanciones económicas, ataques miles de iraníes orquestados por el Shah greso, la administración Trump tiene que un tema que no está cubierto en el PAIC políticos o acciones militares. que se oponian a su régimen. volver a certificar el 15 de octubre que relacionado con la capacidad nuclear. Mientras los halcones derechistas en Después de la revolución de 1979 en Irán está cumpliendo con el PAIC. Pero Gholamali Khoshroo, embajador de Irán Washington suenan cada vez más beli- la que el pueblo iraní derrocó al odiado debido a que fue un acuerdo patrocinado ante la ONU, escribió en un articulo pub- cosos y se dirigen a países específicos, Shah, el gobierno de EE.UU. impuso y por los EE.UU., en realidad no requiere licado por The New York Times el 8 de oc- incluido Irán, con amenazas crecientes, luego intensificó las sanciones económi- la ratificación del Congreso. La Agencia tubre: “Mi país no está tratando de desar- como la acción militar, una breve mirada cas contra Irán, supuestamente debido al Internacional de Energía Atómica tiene rollar o adquirir armas nucleares.” En el a la intervención estadounidense en Irán programa de desarrollo nuclear del país. la responsabilidad exclusiva de validar el articulo el hace hincapié de que la PAIC, muestra por qué se debe apoyar el dere- En el año 2006, Estados Unidos impuso cumplimiento de Irán. que prohíbe que Irán fabrique misiles cho del país a defenderse. nuevas sanciones y más tarde fortaleció la guerra económica contra Irán. Mientras tanto, el ex presidente George W. Bush, que llamó a Irán parte de el “eje del mal”, amenazó con usar la fuerza mil- itar contra el país. La lucha gana cambio La Quinta Flota de la Armada de Es- tados Unidos, con base en Bahrein, ha colocado dos grupos de batalla navales de nombre racista en el Golfo Pérsico frente a la costa oeste de Irán. Liderados por dos portaaviones cargados con millones de libras de mis- Por Eddie Barrera trito. Dicen que la escuela siempre ha dijo: “Nos entristece que algunas perso- iles y bombas, estos incluyen 20 barcos, San Antonio sido un “lugar seguro” para personas de nas encuentren algo relacionado con la 130 aviones de combate y 20.000 infan- todos los orígenes étnicos. Afirman que Confederación que sea ofensivo. Nues- tes de marina y marineros. Los buques de Los residentes de San Antonio, Texas, históricamente no ha habido tensiones tros antepasados confederados fueron guerra estadounidenses lanzan con fre- finalmente ganaron después de casi tres raciales en la escuela, aunque esto pasa y son estadounidenses. Nosotros, como cuencia disparos de advertencia contra años solicitando y pidiendo a la junta es- por alto que la mayoría de los estudiantes organización, no juzgamos ni impone- los barcos iraníes en el Golfo y en el Es- colar local del Distrito Escolar Independ- de la escuela secundaria Robert E. Lee mos los estándares del siglo XXI a estos trecho de Hormuz, a través de los cuales iente de San Antonio North East (NEISD) son blancos. estadounidenses del siglo XIX”. pasa un tercio del petróleo del mundo que cambiara el nombre de Robert E. Lee Para los estudiantes negros, el nombre ¿Los residentes de la Alemania del transportado por mar. High School. Están pidiendo un nombre es un recordatorio constante de los más siglo XXI sienten así su herencia de las Después de que un barco de la Armada que refleje valores e historia que no cele- de 200 años de esclavitud y el tratamien- atrocidades fascistas y racialmente mo- de los Estados Unidos disparara bengalas bra dos siglos de racismo y prejuicio racial. to de Jim Crow de sus antepasados. Se es- tivadas por los nazis? ¿Deben las ban- contra barcos iraníes en abril, el ministro El arduo trabajo comenzó con una es- pecula que esta es la razón de la baja tasa deras nazis y las estatuas de Adolf Hit- de Relaciones Exteriores de Irán, Mo- tudiante valiente y determinada, Kayla de estudiantes afroamericanos que van a ler o Heinrich Himmler retener lugares hammed Javad Zarif, tuiteó: “Rompien- Wilson, hoy una alumna de esa escuela. la escuela, en comparación con otras es- prominentes de la vida pública porque es do: Nuestra armada opera, —sí, correc- En 2015, Wilson, entonces un estudi- cuelas en el distrito. su herencia e historia? to,— en el Golfo Pérsico, no en el Golfo de ante de último año, comenzó una petición Otros residentes mostraron su apoyo. Algunos residentes de San Antonio México. La pregunta es, ¿qué estaba ha- solicitando un cambio de nombre para la Algunos dijeron que hasta hace 30 años pueden sentir que la eliminación de estos ciendo la Marina de los EE. UU. A 7.500 escuela. Su petición fue motivada por co- se preguntaban por qué el distrito esta- monumentos y cambios de nombre es un millas de casa?” (Guardian, 26 de abril) mentarios del ex alcalde de San Antonio, ba glorificando a un general confederado ataque a su herencia e historia. Es fácil Dado que Estados Unidos ha instal- Julian Castro, después de que Kentucky en lugar de a una persona o un tema que pasar por alto cuando su herencia es la ado un poderío militar fuera de la costa retirara un monumento confederado a celebraba valores más progresistas e in- del opresor y no la de los oprimidos. La de Irán, y dado el belicismo de la Casa Jefferson Davis del Capitolio estatal. clusivos. Algunos llamaron al miembro Junta de Síndicos de NEISD finalmente Blanca, el derecho de Irán a defender a su Poco después, las solicitudes de Wilson de la junta de NEISD, Edd White, que es acordó el 29 de agosto cambiar el nombre pueblo debe contar con un fuerte apoyo. de cambio de nombre a la escuela fueron afroestadounidense, por su silencio so- a raíz de la violencia de motivación racial Hoy, a medida que la hostilidad de ex- rechazadas por residentes, en su mayoría bre las múltiples solicitudes de cambio de que estalló en Charlottesville, Virginia. trema derecha de Washington se intensi- blancos y latinos, diciendo que este mov- nombre realizadas durante un período de Ese incidente provocó una conciencia na- fica contra Irán, las fuerzas progresistas imiento fue la venganza de un estudiante tres años. cional sobre la presencia de monumentos en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo solitario y que no hay ninguna razón para confederados en muchos estados. deben unirse para decir: “EE.UU. manos cambiar la historia de la ciudad debido a Progreso lento contra la injusticia racial Las peticiones para el nuevo nombre de fuera de Irán!” que un solo estudiante se ofendiera por El progreso en los estados del sur ha la escuela fueron aceptadas hasta el 25 de el nombre. Sin embargo, ignoraban las sido lento pero inexorable. Este 1 de sep- septiembre. La junta escolar solicitó que casi 11.000 firmas en dos peticiones en tiembre vio la eliminación de otra estat- “el nombre refleje una idea, no una perso- dos años y el hecho de que la escuela se- ua confederada en San Antonio: el mon- na”. “También declaró que preferiría un El capitalismo cundaria ha tenido una población estudi- umento de Travis Park a los “muertos nombre que sea “integro” y “receptivo e en un callejón antil negra más baja que la mayoría de las confederados”. A menudo citada como la identificable para el público en general”. sin salida otras escuelas en el distrito. primera estatua conmemorativa en San Aplaudimos a Kayla Wilson y sus com- Fred Goldstein utiliza las leyes Otros opositores han ido tan lejos Antonio, fue erigida en 1900 y pagada pañeros residentes por su determinación de la acumulación capitalista como para afirmar que la solicitud de un por las Hijas de la Confederación. de no permitir que estos monumentos al de Marx, y la tasa decreciente cambio de nombre es un esfuerzo delib- En una reciente declaración, Patri- prejuicio racial conserven su prominencia de ganancia, para demostrar por qué el capi- eradamente divisivo para aumentar las cia M. Bryson, presidenta general de las y nos solidarizamos con su lucha contra talismo global tensiones raciales en la escuela y el dis- United Daughters of the Confederacy, más de 200 años de injusticia racial. ha llegado finalmente a un punto de inflexión.