End the Police War on Black & Brown People

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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 58, No. 28 July 21, 2016 $1 Defend Black Lives Matter End the police war on Black & Brown people

A call from Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly, Workers World Party 2016 candidates for president and vice president. July 12 — The time has come to open another front in the struggle against white supremacy. What happened in Dallas on July 7 has in the past, under different circumstances, provided the ruling class, the politicians, the mainstream media and the police with more weapons than they could possi- bly need to impose a chilling effect on the Black Lives Matter movement and the struggle against racist police terror. The fall of 2014 was a high point for the Black Lives Matter movement. Thousands of marchers nationwide were shutting down highways, bridges and shopping malls across the country in the aftermath of the police murders of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice. But after two New York City cops were shot dead in December 2014, the pressure on the movement was so heavy that some activists canceled protests. It took months for the movement to recover from the political pressure orchestrated by the capitalist establishment. However, in the aftermath of the Dallas shootings, the capitalist political establishment has so far not been able to freeze out or push back the movement. It’s not that they haven’t tried. The pro-cop talking heads have been all over the media trying to blame and demonize the movement for cops killed in Dallas. Every politician who could find a microphone was eager to express solidarity with the police, call on ev- erybody to support the cops and admonish the movement to stop the “anti-cop rhetoric.” There’s going to be much, much more of that in the coming days and weeks, especially starting with President Obama speaking in Dallas today at a memorial for the slain cops. But the day after the Dallas shootings, the streets of Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, St. Paul, Baton Rouge and many other cities across the country, and even around the world, were filled with thousands of protesters demanding justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the two Black men executed by police last week and caught on video tape. Since the killings of Sterling and Castile, over a dozen more people of color have reportedly been murdered by the police, including five Latinos. These killings have received little to no national attention, except via Twitter. Up to this moment, the mass outrage over the latest victims of the police war against Black and Brown peo- Names and faces of just a handful of those whose lives have been stolen by the police. ple is so deep, and so powerful, that the people are saying by their refusal to suspend the struggle, “No, this time we are not going to allow Dallas to be used as an CONVENTION PROTESTS SET excuse to blame us and stop us.” Even high-profile athletes like Carmelo Anthony, 3 Serena Williams and Colin Kaepernick are speaking • RNC: Stop Trump Continued on page 6 • DNC: Reject Clinton 7 STOP KILLER COPS! Subscribe to Workers World Coast-to-coast reports on uprising 5-7 4 weeks trial $4 1 year subscription $30 Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/articles/donate/supporters_/ CRIMES OF IMPERIALISM Name • Troops in Afghanistan • NATO Summit targets Russia • Blair, Bush & Iraq 8

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Wisconsin Petition blitz for Moorehead-Lilly campaign By Workers World Staff Milwaukee  In the U.S. Wisconsin: Petition blitz for Moorehead-Lilly campaign . . 2 Members and friends of Workers World Party from Vote4Socialism.org! ...... 2 around the country joined WWP members and support- In Cleveland: March to shut down Trump and racism! . . .3 ers in Wisconsin June 30 to July 11 to assist in gathering North Carolina: Protests confront Clinton, Trump . . . . .3 the signatures needed for ballot status for WWP 2016 national candidates Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly. On the picket line ...... 4 Organizers, many youth and students, report the signa- Iowa’s Good Park Rebellion ...... 4 ture-gathering blitz was a smashing success. Almost 4,000 Militant protests: ‘No more racist police killings!’ . . . . .5 signatures were obtained primarily in Milwaukee, Racine, Supporting the oppressed against the police ...... 6 Kenosha and Madison. For ballot status, 2,000 valid signa- WW PHOTO: Books for the struggle ...... 10 tures must be certified by the Wisconsin Election Commis- Volunteers gathered 4,000 signatures to get WWP on the sion. WWP should receive official notice by Aug. 5. ballot. Cuba Caravan says ‘End blockade!’ ...... 10 “The people of Wisconsin whom we met are enthusi- these horrific attacks on our class, and we look forward Mississippi is still burning ...... 10 astic about the Moorehead-Lilly campaign,” said Andrea to bringing Moorehead-Lilly back here this fall.”  Around the world Banuelos, who traveled from Rockford, Ill., and stayed 10 Besides gathering signatures, organizers distributed Black solidarity with Bilal Kayed ...... 4 days. “Poor and working people here have a long histo- election campaign literature and hundreds of Workers ry of resistance against capitalism — from historic labor World newspapers. WWP Boston Branch member Gerry Afghanistan: The longest war, no end in sight ...... 8 strikes to current Black Lives Matter struggles. Scoppettuolo presented an LGBT Red, Black and Queer Blair is a war criminal (Bush, too) ...... 8 “Many spoke at length about Dontre Hamilton, a Black slideshow at Milwaukee’s LGBT Resource Center on July 6. NATO Summit talks peace, plans war ...... 8 man who was shot 14 times and killed by Milwaukee cop Teachers of Mexico say: ‘Our education is not for sale!’ . 9 Christopher Manney on April 30, 2014. They had words Stop the Bradley Foundation! France: A summer pause, but struggle will resume . . . .9 for Gov. Scott Walker, who, on behalf of Wall Street inter- Organizers distributed thousands of palm cards and ests, virtually eliminated collective bargaining for public leaflets about two July 7 events in Milwaukee: a protest at Labour Party ranks swell in rebuff to immigrant bashing 11 sector workers and ushered in right-to-work-for-less in the Bradley Foundation and a “Building People’s Power”  Editorial Wisconsin. We talked about socialism as the solution for Continued on page 11 Ominous war moves in Pacific ...... 10  WWP Presidential Campaign Defend Black Lives Matter ...... 1 Vote4Socialism.org! An appeal to boycott Olympics ...... 3 Workers World Party’s national election campaign, with uplifts the need of workers and the most oppressed ev-  Noticias en Español Monica Moorehead for president and Lamont Lilly for vice erywhere. This includes prisoners, youth under 18, un- Detengamos el racismo de Brexit president, is building the struggle to abolish capitalism, documented people and folks from other parts of the con solidaridad obrera mundial ...... 12 defend Black Lives Matter, disarm the police and Immi- world — all can cast their ballot online for our candidates. gration and Customs Enforcement agents, and fight for Only the struggle for revolutionary socialism can change WW PHOTO socialist revolution. We aren’t running a campaign to win the dire conditions facing youth, workers and oppressed a seat in the White House; we are running to let people people worldwide. know that there is no way out of this crisis but to fight and Cast your vote today at our website, Vote4Socialism. organize — in the streets! A vote for Monica Moorehead org, and fill out the form there to get involved! We’ll con- and Lamont Lilly is a fist raised for socialist revolution! nect with you on more ways to support the campaign and Workers World Everyone can vote for our candidates online — two so- promote solidarity and unity in the struggle to build a 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. cialists fighting for Black lives whose 10-point program workers’ world. New York, N.Y. 10011 Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 58, No. 28 • July 21, 2016 Closing date: July 12, 2016 Editor: Deirdre Griswold Who we are & what we’re fighting for Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, Kris Hamel, Monica Moorehead; Web Editor Gary Wilson Hate capitalism? Workers World Party fights for a degrading people because of their nationality, sexual or Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; socialist society — where the wealth is socially owned gender identity or disabilities — all are tools the ruling Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash and production is planned to satisfy human need. This class uses to keep us apart. They ruthlessly super-ex- outmoded capitalist system is dragging down workers’ ploit some in order to better exploit us all. WWP builds Copyediting and Proofreading: Sue Davis, Bob McCubbin living standards while throwing millions out of their unity among all workers while supporting the right jobs. If you’re young, you know they’re stealing your of self-determination. Fighting oppression is a work- Contributing Editors: Abayomi Azikiwe, future. And capitalism is threatening the entire planet ing-class issue, which is confirmed by the many labor Greg Butterfield, G. Dunkel, K. Durkin, Fred Goldstein, with its unplanned, profit-driven stranglehold over the struggles led today by people of color, immigrants and Martha Grevatt, Teresa Gutierrez, Larry Hales, means of production. women. Berta Joubert-Ceci, Terri Kay, Cheryl LaBash, Milt Neidenberg, John Parker, Bryan G. Pfeifer, Workers built it all — it belongs to society, not to a WWP has a long history of militant opposition to im- Betsey Piette, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Gloria Rubac handful of billionaires! But we need a revolution to perialist wars. The billionaire rulers are bent on turning make that change. That’s why for 57 years WWP has back the clock to the bad old days before socialist revolu- Mundo Obero: Redactora Berta Joubert-Ceci; been building a revolutionary party of the working tions and national liberation struggles liberated territory Ramiro Fúnez, Teresa Gutierrez, Donna Lazarus, class inside the belly of the beast. from their grip. 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By Martha Grevatt “We will have speakers representing worldwide mobilization of racist, Islam- when it comes to union solidarity.” a wide range of struggles — Black Lives ophobic, anti-immigrant and reactionary Many protesters, including the Boston July 11 — Since launching his racist, vi- Matter, Palestine and the Right to Re- forces. In Cleveland, the eyes of the world bus drivers, will not stop with opposing olent, hate-filled campaign for U.S. pres- turn, Indigenous demands to scrap the will be focused not only on the reaction- the RNC; they will be back in the streets ident, Donald Trump has met militant racist mascot of the Cleveland baseball ary forces, but also on the growing resis- of Philadelphia a week later opposing opposition at every turn. The Republi- team, doctors marching a few days lat- tance within the U.S to racist police ter- the Democratic National Convention. As can National Convention, taking place in er against Islamophobia, justice for mi- ror and all forms of oppression.” Gillis stated: “For hundreds of our mem- Cleveland July 18-22 and where Trump’s grants, LGBTQ rights, Detroiters fight- The march has the wholehearted sup- bers who were born in Haiti, the Clinton nomination is expected, will be no excep- ing foreclosure, and many more,” said port of Steelworkers Local 8751, the campaign has brought up much anger tion. There will be a week of resistance — Cleveland-based march organizer Susan Boston School Bus Drivers Union. ”The over the Clinton Foundation’s failure to starting days before the convention even Schnur. “We encourage people to bring union, for almost half a year, has been rebuild housing and infrastructure af- opens. signs and banners representing their discussing, at well-attended membership ter the 2010 earthquake, while taking in People will be coming from all over the own struggle against bigotry, economic meetings, the national political scene,” ex- hundreds of millions of dollars. At every country to march on Sunday, July 17. The injustice, and the capitalist system re- plained Financial Secretary Steve Gillis. conversation, it is raised that Hillary march theme, “Shut down Trump and sponsible for both.” “For Local 8751, with over 900 mem- Clinton’s brother has received a 50-year the RNC,” should set a fighting tone for bers, more than 90 percent immigrants, contract for the profits of the largest gold the many protests — both planned and More reason than ever it’s been very clear. The local has made mine in Haiti. spontaneous — that will follow in the to march against racism resolutions and joined picket lines and “The drivers in March voted unani- next few days. The march will gather at The awful murders of Alton Sterling, street demonstrations to fight the overt mously to endorse the presidential cam- 4 p.m. at 36th and Euclid. (Visit iacenter. Philando Castile and at least five others racism, Islamophobia and anti-immi- paign of Monica Moorehead and Lamont org; for Facebook use the bitlink Bit.ly/ over the past week at the hands of rac- grant bashing that is the Trump cam- Lilly as reflecting their priorities of bet- NoTrumpRNC.) After a short warm-up ist, trigger-happy police are reminding paign. In May and June, Local 8751 voted ter jobs, housing and health care for the rally, the demonstrators will step off and people that every manifestation of rac- to endorse and support, with resources, drivers’ families and their communities.” march through downtown. Participants ism must be challenged. As Lydia Bayo- union members and members of the Bos- Teresa Gutierrez, the Moorehead-Lilly will stop outside the Quicken Loans Are- neta, longtime Rochester, N.Y., activist ton community who want to join with the campaign coordinator, will be speaking na, where the RNC will take place, and and Workers World Party organizer ex- thousands of people who will be protest- on Monday, July 18, at 6 p.m. at the Black then resume the march and reassemble plained, “The racist onslaught of police ing both the Republican and Democratic on Black Center, 15415 Kipling Ave. in at Willard Park for the main rally. terror in the United States is part of a national conventions. We walk the talk Cleveland.

North Carolina Protests confront Clinton, Trump ner that read, “Release them Recent graduate Diana Vieyra, who racist, fascist USA!” and “Hey hey! Ho

WW PHOTO now, stop deporting our students, was protesting, told Workers World she ho! Deportations have got to go!” rang #FreeWildin” and chanted, “Stop participated because, “I felt it was im- out and confronted the crowd as they By Workers World Durham Bureau deportations!” Their action stopped Clin- portant for me, as an undocumented stu- filed out of the auditorium at the end ton’s remarks to the overflow audience. dent, who had the privilege of graduating of the rally. A brief standoff ensued as On July 5, protests confronted both The #Not1More group demands a mor- high school, that the 12 other students Trump supporters shouted racist slogans capitalist presidential candidates, who atorium on deportations, the immediate held in detention centers by ICE be given and chants at the demonstrators, who re- were holding campaign rallies in North release of the 12 students who are cur- the same opportunity.” She urged Clinton fused to give up any ground. Carolina. rently being held in detention centers by to follow through on her promise, saying, Many from North Carolina are plan- In Charlotte, N.C., Hillary Clin- Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Hillary has come out against the immi- ning to mobilize to join protests in ton spoke alongside President Barack and for Hillary Clinton to stay true to her gration raids, as well as met with Dream- Cleveland at the Republican National Obama at the first joint rally the two promise of ending the raids that seize ers, but it’s now time for her to actually Convention and in Philadelphia at the have held. They both spoke on the ne- students for deportation. meet our demands.” Democratic National Convention, lat- cessity of stopping Donald Trump and Currently, ICE is holding nine students er this month. Both Trump and Clinton lauded their own supposedly progres- from North Carolina and three from Defy thunderstorm to condemn Trump have also made it clear that they will be sive positions on immigration and oth- Georgia in detention. In total, these stu- Later that same day, racist billionaire returning often to the state until the elec- er issues. After their formal talks, they dents have been in ICE facilities for the Donald Trump held a campaign rally at tions in November — and organizers have came to greet people who had filled the past six months. Wildin Acosta — one of Memorial Auditorium in downtown Ra- announced their intentions to organize overflow space at the Charlotte Conven- the students from Durham, N.C. — was leigh, N.C. Despite heavy thunderstorms, protests to disrupt, confront and shut tion Center to capacity. sentenced to 45 days of solitary confine- people held a spirited rally directly in down these rallies of the capitalist candi- A group of teachers and students with ment for helping an inmate translate a front of the venue for several hours. dates every time and anywhere they are the #Not1More coalition held up a ban- letter into English. Chants of “No Trump! No KKK! No held in the state.

As athletes speak out against police brutality An appeal to boycott Olympics

The statement below was issued on jor Baseball League’s Los Angeles An- Crow thereafter. sor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. July 6 by Monica Moorehead and Lam- gels, and Chris Long, defensive end with How can one represent one’s country Paul. Castile was driving with his woman ont Lilly, Workers World Party’s 2016 the NFL’s New England Patriots. with pride when a large section of the U.S. friend and her young daughter when he candidates for president and vice pres- Michael Smith, a co-host with ESPN’s population is being treated as less than was pulled over, allegedly for having a ident. Since then, a number of well- “His and Hers” sports talk show an- human — when Black and Brown lives are faulty taillight. A cop fired point-blank at known Black football, basketball and nounced July 11 that the USA Basketball considered expendable by the police, es- least four times at Castile as he reached baseball athletes in the U.S. have spoken team should strongly consider boycot- pecially if they are young and poor? for his wallet, with the killing’s aftermath out against police brutality, including ting the 2016 Olympics out of protest We are so damn angry, along with shown livestream on Facebook by the Serena Williams, the world’s number against police brutality. His co-host, millions of other Black people and peo- woman friend, who recorded it. Millions one tennis player; Women’s National Jemele Hill, urged that white athletes ple of good conscience, over the recent of people have seen the recording, just as Basketball Association’s members of take a visible stand against police vio- lynchings of Delron Dempsey, a Black millions saw Sterling murdered in cold the New York Liberty and Minnesota lence. man shot to death on July 4 by a racist blood. Protests sparked by the killings Lynx; the National Football League’s As Workers World Party’s presiden- off-duty police officer in East New York, of Sterling and Castile have continued all San Francisco 49er’s quarterback Col- tial and vice presidential candidates, we Brooklyn, N.Y., and Alton Sterling, while over the country. in Kaepernick; Carmelo Anthony and appeal to you, Black athletes — who are pinned to the ground, captured on video Also on the night of July 9, Houston Bradley Beal from the National Basket- loved, admired and respected by mil- being fatally shot multiple times on July police executed Alva Braziel by shooting ball Association’s New York Knicks and lions of people, especially youth, here 5 by a racist Baton Rouge, La., police of- him near a gas station at least 10 times Washington Wizards, respectively; and and worldwide — to boycott the upcom- ficer. Both Dempsey and Sterling were while his hands were up. His murder was Leonard Fournette, a running back with ing Olympic Games in Rio. We urge you 37-year-old husbands and fathers, who captured by a surveillance camera. Louisiana State University. White ath- to take this stand in protest of the esca- did not deserve to die. They are the latest victims on a long letes who also have called for justice for lating war against Black and Brown peo- On July 6, police in the Minneapo- list of over 500 people who have been Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in- ple by racist police, which continues the lis area gunned down Philando Castile, killed thus far in 2016 — an alarmingly clude Hudson Street, a pitcher with Ma- long, violent history of slavery and Jim a 32-year-old Black cafeteria supervi- Continued on page 11 Page 4 July 21, 2016 workers.org Black solidarity with Bilal Kayed

On July 8, “Black Solidari- on hunger strike in protest of lal Kayed and the over 7,000 ty with Palestine,” a coalition this injustice. Palestinians detained within of 49 Black organizations As people who live within the Israeli prison system, in- and nearly 1,200 individu- the belly of a beastly system cluding more than 750 Pal- als, released the following that thrives off the incarcer- estinians being held without United flight attendants demand unified contract statement in support of Bilal ation of our bodies, we rec- charge or trial. United Airlines’ flight attendants may soon see across-the-board pay in- Kayed. Kayed, a prison lead- ognize the violence of Israel’s Bilal, we salute you and creases, some as high as 31 percent, pending ratification of the tentative er with the Popular Front for ongoing use of administrative your comrades struggling contract between the company and the Association of Flight Attendants. the Liberation of Palestine, detention to create political against incarceration and for The contract will finally unite the airline’s 25,000 flight attendants, who has been on an open hunger prisoners and stifle Palestin- the liberation of Palestine. have remained under separate collective bargaining agreements since the strike against his “adminis- ian resistance. We send you the solidarity of 2010 merger of Continental Airlines and United. Under the current con- trative detention” by Isra- Similar to the experience roughly a dozen of our own tract, flight attendants originally hired by Continental are barred from el. His struggle is the focus of our Palestinian comrades, political prisoners from the working alongside United hires. (New York Times, June 30) of protests in Palestine and the United States government Black Panther Party, Black Workers from United, Continental and Continental Micronesia, the three worldwide, including a cur- silenced and neutralized our Liberation Army and other pre-merger bargaining groups, have protested at airports around the world rent week of global actions own revolutionary movement struggles — including Mumia to demand a unified contract. A statement posted at the AFA website ex- coordinated by Samidoun: through incarceration and tar- Abu-Jamal; Sundiata Acoli, plains: “Management will have the opportunity to divide and distract us as Palestinian Prisoner Solidar- geted assassinations during comrade of the revolutionary long as we are operating under different agreements. They play games with ity Network. the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A Assata Shakur; and Kevin flying allocation and attempt to keep us at odds with each other. A divid- Today, on the 44th anniver- political war has been waged “Rashid” Johnson, the Min- ed workforce gives management leverage they can and will use against us.” sary of the assassination of against our communities as a ister of Defense for the New (OurContract.org, Feb. 9) The AFA bargaining committee, with representa- the revolutionary Palestinian whole, incarcerating millions Afrikan Black Panther Party, tives from each pre-merger group, has unanimously approved the tentative novelist and activist Ghassan of our people and victimizing Prison Chapter. agreement. Members will vote to ratify it beginning July 15. (OurContract. Kanafani, second anniversa- many through police and state We will not remain silent so org, June 29) ry of Israel’s last assault on abuse. long as the Palestinian people Gaza, the 49th year of ongo- This week in particular, are subjected to the daily vio- Workers strike at Trump Taj Mahal ing Israeli occupation and we grieve the further loss of lence of administrative deten- the 68th year of Palestinians’ Black lives to extrajudicial tion and political imprison- A thousand service workers, including housekeepers, kitchen staff and ongoing Nakba [catastrophe], killings by the state. We ex- ment. We will stand by them bellhops, walked off the job July 1 at Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal hotel we express our firm solidar- press our solidarity in the so long as their resistance to and casino. “We’ve given them every chance possible to do the right thing,” ity with Palestinian prison- midst of immense pain be- the racist and colonial vio- said Mayra Gonzales, a 26-year Taj chef. “Now we’re going to take it to the er Bilal Kayed, who is in the cause we understand that lence perpetuated by the state streets.” (unitehere.org, July 1) 23rd day of his hunger strike these violent acts are not “iso- of Israel continues. We will The workers, unionized by UNITE HERE Local 54, are fighting to recov- against his indefinite deten- lated incidents” for us or Pal- continue to demand an end to er wages and health care benefits cut by as much as 35 percent when the tion by Israel. estinians, but systemic to the the myriad systems of Israeli Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy in 2014. Billionaire Carl Icahn, the hotel Kayed completed a 14.5- U.S. and Israel. oppression until every Pales- and casino’s principal investor and owner as of February 2016, has raked year sentence in Israeli pris- In the midst of these wars tinian can live without fear of in enormous profits from workers’ low-paid labor. Many are paid only 80 ons and was slated for release on our existence, we sub- losing their home, their land, cents more an hour than when they started over a decade ago. (Trump on June 13, 2016. Instead, Is- mit that all of our prisoners their family to state violence. founded the hotel in 1990, but later sold it to Icahn; Trump gets a percent- raeli officials extended his im- are political prisoners, that We refuse to believe that age of the profits for the use of his name.) prisonment for an additional all Palestinian prisoners are peace will only come at the A report by corporate watchdog groups Hedge Clippers and Take on Wall six months without charge or political prisoners, and that expense of justice. Street says that Icahn’s investments in insurance, air travel and software trial, under the Israeli prac- we have to fight to liberate United we fight against pris- industries have caused some 35,000 workers to lose their jobs and 126,000 tice of “administrative deten- everyone by abolishing the ons, united we fight for Pales- to lose their pensions and health plans. It also notes that billionaire Don- tion.” Kayed and hundreds of cages around us. We stand tine, and united we fight for the ald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, is considering Icahn for his fellow prisoners are now firm in our solidarity with Bi- people. Treasury secretary, if elected. (Fortune.com, July 5) Home care workers make gains The Supreme Court confirmed on June 27 that millions of domestic care Iowa’s Good Park Rebellion workers, the majority immigrants and women of color, are entitled to minimum wage and overtime protections when it declined to hear the case of By Mike Kuhlenbeck renewal threatened the city’s ter of the Black Panthers, and Home Care Association of America v. Weil. The for-profit home care agen- Des Moines, Iowa Black neighborhoods when other revolutionaries. cies sued the federal government to overturn a 2015 Labor Department the federal government fund- As noted by Dr. Anderson, rule that reclassifies home care workers as employees, rather than “com- Fifty years ago the “Good ed two slum clearance and “Rem yearned for a new kind panions” exempt from labor laws. (New York Times, July 3) Park Rebellion” helped in- construction projects in a Des of organization in the Mid- The 1937 “Fair Labor Standards Act” granted most employees the right spire the founding of the Moines “model cities” area. west that would organize for to a minimum wage and overtime pay. But racist Southern Democratic law- Black Panther Party in Des Center Street in northwest political change and mobilize makers successfully lobbied to exclude domestic workers and agricultural Moines, Iowa. Des Moines was mostly in- against the oppressive condi- workers, mostly people of color, from the law’s scope. So millions of home On July 4, 1966, near- habited by members of the tions in the Black community.” care workers and farmworkers have had to work long hours at poverty wag- ly 200 Black youth at Good Black community. By the early Shortly after returning to es ever since. Park stood up to police bru- 1960s, most of the neighbor- Des Moines, Rem’s meeting In a July 8 editorial celebrating the decision, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, tality. Police cars were rocked hood was torn down. “Many with activist Charles Knox Indiana, Missouri, Kansas President Keith Kelleher wrote, “For nearly 80 and the park was barricad- Center Street residents lost led to the founding of the Des years, women and men of color have been fighting against the injustice ed. The outrage started the their homes. Businesses Moines, Iowa, Black Panther baked into our basic workplace rules — and we’re winning.” (ProgressIl- night before when two cops closed or moved to new loca- Party, with an official branch linois.com) rough-handled two Black tions and the city lost a vibrant established in 1968. youth for staying at the park business district.” (Iptv.org) At the group’s peak, the Des past 10 p.m. Later that year, the nation- Moines Panthers had over Workers’ global solidarity vs. Walmart The Des Moines Register al Black Panther Party for 100 members. They operated Since 1996, U.S.-based retail giant Walmart has expanded operations in reported that tension had Self-Defense was founded in a successful Free Breakfast China, opening some 400 stores and employing over 100,000 workers. Like been “brewing for several Oakland, Calif. program to feed children of its U.S. counterpart, Walmart China does all it can to push down wages and nights.” On the night of July Iowa State Historical Soci- elementary and junior high increase productivity, even flagrantly violating China’s robust labor laws. 5, the cops conducted a ran- ety scholars Bruce Fehn and school age. In a May 20 open letter to U.S. Walmart workers, the Walmart Chinese dom sweep of the area, ar- Robert Jefferson conclude, Even though that partic- Workers’ Association urges “further communication and mutual support resting seven teenagers. “The July 1966 Good Park ular chapter in history is between the Walmart workers in China and the U.S. in the future.” The Dr. Reynaldo Anderson riots were a prelude to the closed, revolutionary-mind- association was formed in 2014 to connect Walmart workers across China said, “Although Des Moines emergence of a new, more rad- ed workers should remember as “Walmart flagrantly violated the trade union law of China and the five- did not have a major ghetto ical politics, later mobilized by the following from the Black point memorandum that was agreed to by Walmart and the ACFTU [Chi- like Los Angeles, the heart- members of the Des Moines Panther Party’s Ten-Point nese labor federation] in 2006. Secondly, in its stores across the country, land city had serious urban chapter of the Black Panther Program: Walmart has conducted a series of actions to illegally manipulate union problems such as racial un- Party for Self-Defense.” “We want education for elections, suppress trade union activists, and appoint fake representatives rest, segregated education In 1967, shortly after grad- our people that exposes the for union negotiations.” The letter notes that Walmart workers’ struggles and police brutality.” uating from high school, Des true nature of this decadent in the U.S. to unionize and demand regular scheduling are not unique to Whites and Blacks in Des Moines resident Mary Rem American society. We want them. “We … believe that your conditions today will be ours tomorrow.” Moines traditionally lived in went to Oakland to visit rela- education that teaches us our International solidarity against Walmart is the key to victory in both coun- separate worlds, according to tives. She met Bunchy Carter, true history and our role in tries. To read the full letter, go to bit.ly/29sHnxG. historian Victor Cools. Urban head of the Los Angeles chap- the present-day society.” workers.org July 21, 2016 Page 5 Agonized, militant protests coast to coast ‘NO MORE RACIST POLICE KILLINGS!’.

By Workers World Staff ment of the Black community, including families, elders, and faith and Civil Atlanta July 11 — Hundreds of protests, mil- Rights organizations. itant marches and highway blockades Black Lives Matter activists were key have been held across the country in the to six- to eight-hour protests on July 9 past week as the killings of Black people and July 10. A dozen or so were arrest- by racist police continue with impunity. ed. A July 11 action is moving to the af- The July 5 murder of Alton Sterling in fluent Buckhead neighborhood, where Baton Rouge, La., by two white cops was two elite shopping malls are located. videotaped and seen worldwide. The day While many signs and chants refer after, police in Falcon Heights, Minn., to Sterling and Castile, the names of shot and killed 32-year-old Philando local victims of police violence — An- Castile; his fiancee videoed the after- thony Hill, Kevin Davis, Nick Thomas, math of the gunshots. Alexia Christian and others — make In Baton Rouge, some form of protest clear that Atlanta families have suf- has been held every day since Sterling’s fered similarly and received no justice. death. Neighborhood gatherings have — Dianne Mathiowetz grown into marches to the police station. Peaceful protest has been met with cops BALTIMORE: protesters criminal- in riot gear, pounding batons on shields. ized Hundreds have been arrested. On July 8, some 1,000 people, orga- Five thousand marched in St. Paul, nized by the People’s Power Assembly, Minn., after Castile’s death and hun- shut down traffic coming off Interstate Manning Plaza in San Francisco. Swell- Justice Law Firm, founder of Iowa Citi- dreds protested at the Minnesota gov- 83 as protesters marched to Baltimore ing to about 2,000 people, protesters zens for Justice, told WW that the orga- ernor’s mansion on July 7. An into-the- police headquarters. marched to Powell and Market, where nizers’ goals were to stand in solidarity night blockade of Interstate 94 beginning Two PPA organizers, one of whom people sat down in the street before and to highlight the police terror and sys- on July 9 ended with police violence and is five months pregnant, plus two oth- continuing to City Hall. That rally was tematic racism that are taking Black lives more than 100 arrests. er people were arrested and handed a co-sponsored by the Answer Coalition, every 28 hours. Scores have also been arrested and number of various charges. Released the Bayard Rustin Coalition, Justice 4 Alex — Mike Kuhlenbeck threatened by police in various cities following afternoon, one of the four was Nieto Coalition, Justice 4 Mario Woods as militant demonstrations took place. hospitalized after being attacked and Coalition, Latin@ Young Democrats of HOUSTON: An uprising against racism and police beaten by police. San Francisco, San Francisco Black Lead- Sandra Bland, now Alva Braziel terror continues to grow. The following In an attempt to criminalize and vi- ership Forum, San Francisco BLM and Daily protests are taking place in summaries from WW activists show the olence-bait protest, the Baltimore Sun West County Toxics Coalition. Houston, sometimes two or three a day, breadth and depth of protest in a few cit- printed mug shots of the four, along with On July 9, a group of recent high school since the killings of Sterling and Castile. ies across the U.S. their ages and city of residence, in an ar- graduates converged for another protest. Added to those outrages is Houston’s lat- ticle in the “crime” section of the website The crowd grew to about 500 and began est victim of “death by cop.” ALBANY, N.Y.: ‘Enough is enough’ on July 10. In an earlier article the Sun an afternoon-long march blocking three Alva Braziel, a 38-year-old Afri- More than 200 people rallied July 8 reported, ominously, that along with different entrances to the Bay Bridge and can-American man, was shot and killed in Albany, N.Y., organized by the Upstate police helicopters “officers were posi- entrances to a shopping mall and various in the early hours of July 9 as he was New York chapter of Black Lives Mat- tioned on rooftops along the route” of the shops. looking for his stolen horse. Black Lives ter, to protest the police killing of five march. (July 8) — Terri Kay Matter Houston called a press confer- Black and Latino men in the U.S. in the On July 9, marchers took over down- ence July 9 at Discovery Green, a popu- last seven days: Alton Sterling, Delrawn town streets and blocked the main police BOSTON: ‘Unite and fight’ lar downtown park. As the crowd grew, a Small, Anthony Nuñez, Philando Castile headquarters. They also shut down In- Hundreds rallied July 9 for five hours decision was made to march to City Hall, and Pedro Erik Villanueva. “We raise up terstate 83, a major Baltimore artery, and of protests and two marches. They tar- where a large rally with an open mic our voices and say enough is enough is blocked traffic on East Pratt Street. geted the Boston Police Headquarters, was held. Community members, many enough,” emphasized Patrick Avery, pas- — Sharon Black located in the Black community, then of them young people, expressed anger, tor at Kingdom Reigning Worship Center. marched through Boston’s oppressed sadness and outrage. The multination- (timesunion.com, July 8) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: communities of Roxbury and Dorchester. al crowd continued to rally for several The rally ended with a stirring speech ‘Shut it down!’ Protesters remembered police brutal- hours as Houston cops stood by. by 11-year-old Alicia Clemente. “I’m Thousands turned out in the Bay Area ity and murders in New England. Many Events have been held at a statue of afraid to walk to school,” she yelled into to angrily protest the police killings. of the families of murdered Black victims Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in MacGregor a megaphone. “I’m tired of being scared. In Oakland on July 7, crowds gathered attended and spoke, remembering Bur- Park. Students for a Democratic Society I’m scared to be next. I’m scared of the downtown at Oscar Grant Plaza in re- rell Ramsey-White, Jeffrey Pendleton at the University of Houston held a mili- next. I don’t want to hear ‘Say her name’ sponse to a call by Live Free, the Anti and others. Usaamah Rahim’s mother tant protest in front of the Houston Police every time I turn on the news. I don’t Police-Terror Project and the Frisco 500. testified that her 26-year-old Black Amer- Department headquarters on July 10 and want to see bombs go down in Afghani- People took the street and marched to the ican Muslim son, in a vicious Homeland then marched through downtown. Lat- stan. I don’t want to see it anymore.” Oakland Police Department Headquar- Security operation, was gunned down by er that day clergy, politicians and police — Chris Fry ters for another brief rally. Boston police and FBI agents in 2015 in held what amounted to a love-in for the The crowd marched up the I-880 the Roslindale neighborhood. dead Dallas cops. They weren’t pleased ATLANTA: 10,000 march freeway off-ramp adjacent to OPD’s The day was organized by MASS Ac- when BLM activists appeared and turned Determined demonstrators have headquarters, shut down one side of the tion Against Police Brutality, Boston’s attention to the victims of the police. marched, chanted, blocked traffic, shut freeway and then climbed over the bar- Black community, other communities of July 10 was the one-year anniversary down interstates, danced and sung for riers to shut down the entire freeway color, the Muslim community, the Nation of Sandra Bland’s arrest in Prairie View, hours every night since July 7. These in both directions. Led by members of of Islam, unions, fast food worker-orga- Texas. An event called “The Shout” was protests covered miles of Atlanta streets, the clergy, marchers linked arms at the nizers, Fight for $15 and other support- held at the site where the arrest took beginning in the early evening and last- front of the crowd. ers. MASS Action called for a protest on place. There is an ongoing memorial ing until the following morning. Despite Someone with a projector displayed July 13 at Boston Police Headquarters to there with fresh flowers, stuffed animals attempts by police agencies to thwart images of Sterling and Castile on the side “unite and fight for our fallen.” and photos. Some of the activists went to movement with barricades and patrol panel of a friendly semi-trailer truck. — Stevan Kirschbaum the Waller County Jail, where they plan cars, the marchers have stayed in the Marchers chalked graffiti about Black to spend the next three nights holding streets, joined by new recruits and sup- lives all over the road and barriers. When DES MOINES: solidarity with BLM vigil until the exact time Bland’s body ported by motorists caught in traffic. asked by a news reporter about someone “Des Moines in Solidarity with BLM” was allegedly discovered hanging in a jail On July 7, some 1,000 people, mostly needing to get through for an emergency, demonstrators rallied at Cowles Com- cell on July 13, 2015. youth, blocked the Downtown Connec- Pastor Michael McBride responded that mons and marched through the streets of — Gloria Rubac tor of I-75 and I-85 that passes through his people have been in a state of emer- downtown on July 8. The event was host- the heart of Atlanta. The following day, gency for 400 years. ed by Black Lives Matter activist Kaija LOS ANGELES: Black and Brown unity 10,000 people took over key sites, from Protesters shut down the freeway for Carter. Members of grassroots organi- More than 200 people responded July the CNN Center to Peachtree Street and more than four hours. As they left, they zations such as Iowa Citizens for Justice 9 to a call from Unión del Barrio for an Centennial Olympic Park. For more than found a display denouncing the police and Iowa Citizens for Community Im- emergency demonstration in front of the five hours, thousands faced off against a across the entire front of the OPD head- provement also attended. The rally was Los Angeles Police Department. The pro- small army of police and state troopers at quarters. The front doors had been splat- followed by a march to the Des Moines test called for unified responses to police the Williams Street entrance to the inter- tered with red paint. Police Department. state. Participants represented every seg- The next night a rally began at Chelsea Attorney Tina Hassane Muhammad of Continued on page 6 Page 6 July 21, 2016 workers.org

WW PHOTO: MAGGIE VASCASSENNO DEFEND BLACK LIVES MATTER End the police war on Black & Brown people WW PHOTO: The police depend on the political sup- The time has come to open up a new MAGGIE VASCASSENNO Continued from page 1 port of the people, or at least public indif- front in the struggle against police re- out. There are also rumblings from be- ference over their actions. The capitalist pression. It could be called the “No Sup- low for other high-profile athletes, such establishment, which depends on police port for the Police War on Black People” as Team USA basketball, to either boycott repression to maintain its rule over the movement. the Olympics or carry out a symbolic pro- population, understands this very well, At least two conditions are essential to test at the upcoming Games in Rio. and devotes endless energy and resources opening such a front:

toward maintaining political support for One, it needs to be based on mass, mil- PHOTO: MIKE CHICKEY Build broad anti-racist solidarity the police. itant action that is local, but also national Why is this so important? In order for The police are acutely aware of this po- and even international. Two, it is abso- the police to wage their war against Black litical need, particularly when it becomes lutely essential that it is not only Black and Brown people, the movement against apparent that they are losing a critical and Brown young people taking to the this war must be marginalized, isolated, mass of support. streets, but white people as well, and not demonized and ultimately repressed. Racist police repression cannot be just young people, but people of all gen- The more it becomes clear that police ended, once and for all, until the decay- erations, nationalities, genders, gender repression is not only unpopular but will ing capitalist system, which is becoming expressions, abilities, etc. no longer be tolerated by the masses, who more and more desperately dependent The percentage of young white people face dehumanizing treatment on a con- on police repression, is ended. It must be who have taken to the streets in support stant basis, the more difficult it becomes replaced with a system that is based on of Black Lives Matter has been rising. for the police and the system to kill and meeting human needs, not exploitation to This bodes well for the struggle, especial- incarcerate people of color on an ever-in- make profits: socialism. ly if it becomes consistent and continues creasing scale. Even the call for disarm- In lieu of that, recent events indicate to grow. ing the police is becoming more popular that opposition to police repression among the masses. has reached a turning point. ‘No more racist police killings!’ Boston Continued from page 5 NEW YORK CITY: WW PHOTO: STEVE KIRSCHBAUM killings of Black and Latino/a people in ‘No justice, no peace!’ Los Angeles. About 10 organizations For four consecutive days, thou- PHOTO KAYLEE KNOWLES were represented, including Workers sands surged into the streets of Man- World, BAYAN-USA, Brown Berets, L.A. hattan to express outrage over the New York Community Action Network, as well as police murders of Sterling, Castile and Black activists and spoken word artists. Delrawn Small. Massing at Union Square People blocked the intersection in front on July 7, protesters headed north on Fifth of the LAPD, which had an almost invis- Avenue facing rush-hour traffic, tying up ible presence even when the streets were Midtown and outmaneuvering the cops. taken. Motorists honked and waved support as ABC’s Channel 7 asked Maggie Vascas- marchers chanted “No justice, no peace! senno, of the People’s Power Assembly, No racist police!” why she was there: “I think it’s very im- The huge multinational and multi- portant for white people especially to be generational crowd headed to Ninth Av- here today, in solidarity with our Black enue, then marched across 42nd Street and Brown sisters and brothers facing to Times Square. They held that famous tremendous repression.” John Parker, of intersection until 8:20 p.m., when police Philadelphia Workers World Party, talked of the his- attacked, arresting more than 40 peo- WW PHOTO: TONI ARENSTEIN WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE toric unity of Black and Brown peoples, ple. Nonetheless, protesters stayed in the from slavery to the formation of the Black streets until well past midnight, march- a few arrests at Union Square. Demon- On July 10, hundreds of demonstrators Panthers, Brown Berets and Young Lords. ing north to Harlem, more than 100 strators repeatedly went around the bar- marched through Midtown with their fists Parker praised the Black Lives Matter blocks from the starting point. ricades that cops spread across intersec- raised, chanting “Black lives matter!” movement for sparking a struggle that On July 8, demonstrators took to the tions. Marchers took over Fifth Avenue — Bill Dores, Kathy Durkin can only get stronger with greater unity. streets in anguish and rage in many parts and then 42nd Street until they reached and Brenda Ryan Francisco, a Black veteran, spoke of the of the city, including Harlem and Union Times Square. Bystanders on sidewalks irony that the ambush of Dallas police Square. On July 9, 1,000 marched from and in cars clapped and yelled in support. PHILADELPHIA: was a tactic the shooter had been taught the Brooklyn Bridge to Union Square, The march went on for hours and eventu- ‘Racism and capitalism are intertwined’ in order to kill people in U.S. wars abroad. where they held a brief rally, and then ally shut down the Franklin D. Roosevelt On July 6, the REAL Justice Coalition — John Parker marched throughout the city. There were East River Drive. (RJC) and the Black and Brown Workers Collective (BBWC) responded immedi- ately by calling a “no business as usual” march through Philadelphia’s busy downtown shopping district streets, eventu- #Yes, ALL Cops: ally occupying the on- and off-ramps of the I-676 expressway. Seasoned activists and first-time demonstrators spoke out Supporting the oppressed against the police against police terror for an hour before cops began threatening arrests. Twelve Statement by the Appalachian The severe sentences handed out to bust unions and break up picket lines. people sat down in a line across the on- Workers Alliance, July 9 Black and Brown workers in this coun- The PBA was founded with support from ramp. After cops arrested the 12, 50 sup- try every day for minor crimes (if these the Ku Klux Klan and the far-right John porters waited outside the police station The Appalachian Workers Alliance “crimes” weren’t frame-ups, as they often Birch Society. until they were released. stands uncompromisingly with the cur- are) stand in stark contrast to the incon- The Appalachian Workers Alliance is On July 8, hundreds marched for four rent movements of the people against sequential slaps on the wrist officers re- committed to real change and real justice hours through North Philadelphia, grow- systemic police brutality and murder of ceive for their state-sanctioned murders for all workers. As a part of these goals, ing in numbers as they passed through Black and Brown men and women. These of oppressed people — if they are even the Appalachian Workers Alliance also many neighborhoods. Marchers held short modern lynchings are not acts of isolated condemned and punished at all. We will upholds the right, individual and collec- rallies wherever there were crowds, and “bad apples,” but are instead the insti- show no solidarity with the police or their tive, of oppressed people to self-defense. many who didn’t join listened and raised tutionalized practice. The police are the so-called “unions.” The Fraternal Order The popular cliché that violence only be- their fists. Outrage against police brutality, foot soldiers of national and racial op- of Police and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent gets violence is just a smokescreen used poverty and mass incarceration is so com- pression in the United States. The origins Association are not labor unions because to disarm and endanger workers, espe- mon that most people of color easily under- of the police are as slave catchers and police are not workers. Police are armed cially workers of color. When racist police stand why someone would start shooting at strike breakers. Their function is to pro- enforcers of a state and economic sys- aim their guns at the people, the people cops, as in Dallas the day before. tect the status quo, no matter how unjust tem that exploits workers and oppresses must be able to defend themselves and At the intersection of Erie and Ger- it is, and the status quo is anti-working people of color. Real unions pledge to not each other. mantown, Shani Akilah of BBWC got the class and white supremacist. cross picket lines while police, in fact, #YesAllCops crowd chanting “Racism and capitalism workers.org July 21, 2016 Page 7 DEFEND BLACK LIVES MATTER End the police war on Black & Brown people WW PHOTO: MAGGIE VASCASSENNO

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Houston Philadelphia WW PHOTOS: GLORIA RUBAC WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE PHOTO: KELLY JOHNSON are intertwined.” Protesters then The station’s general manager, Chuck surprised the police by getting on Samuels, speculated this was racial the Broad Street subway bound profiling: “There were white TV re- for City Hall. When bicycle cops porters standing right there near later confronted demonstrators them and they were not handcuffed. at a Center City intersection, pro- Whether it was [profiling] or not, I testers briefly surrounded the po- don’t know. But how can you not raise lice. When the cops saw they were the question?” (democratandchroni- surrounded, they quickly retreat- cle.com, July 10) ed. The police used considerable vi- In the third Philly protest in four olence. There were images of one days, RJC called a Rage Against demonstrator with blood pouring Police Terror march on July 9 in from a head wound and reports of the oppressed neighborhood sur- demonstrators treated in nearby rounding the notorious 25th Police hospitals. The cops sent squads to District. Hundreds of activists and forcibly take down individual dem- Black and Brown area residents onstrators, even though they had Oakland complied with orders. marched, stopping at intersections — Gene Clancy where people were congregated for short open mic rallies. Many resi- SEATTLE: War on Black America dents raised their fists as marchers Rochester, N.Y. More than 1,000 protested the war on Black America on July 8. The mul- filed past with a banner that read, PHOTO: ANTHONY HARPER “You have nothing to lose but your chains.” tinational demonstration, called by ing day. The demonstrations were led by Up to 300 participants marched right up Black Lives Matter, marched to the fed- BLACK (Build Leadership And Communi- to the precinct steps, then stood toe-to-toe eral building, the federal courthouse and ty Knowledge), a local African-American against a line of cops for an hour, chanting Seattle police headquarters. Marchers youth group affiliated with the Black Lives between revolutionary talks by RJC and tried a quick rush to take Interstate 5, but Matter movement. BBWC activists, as well as North Philly were blocked by a huge force of cops, who The main confrontation came at about victims of police crimes. Cops were visibly used stun grenades and pepper spray to 10 p.m. when demonstrators blocked the angry but did not respond. repel the militant action. intersection of East Avenue and Alexan- — Joe Piette The march also protested the Febru- der Street in a gentrified part of the city ary police killing of Black community filled with upscale nightclubs and bars. ROCHESTER: Police riot member Che Taylor. Investigations have Although the protests were thorough- On July 8, 400 multinational demon- revealed that the gun taken from Taylor’s ly peaceful, city police showed up in full strators stopped traffic in a series of pro- car had been registered to a county sher- riot gear. In a showdown of more than tests in Rochester, N.Y., which began about iff, raising suspicion that it was planted. two and a half hours, they arrested 77 4 p.m. at the Liberty Pole downtown and Taylor was out of the car, hands up, when people, including two African-American lasted until nearly 1:30 a.m. the follow- he was shot. TV reporters from the local ABC affiliate. — Jim McMahan Page 8 July 21, 2016 workers.org

Afghanistan The longest war, no end in sight By Chris Fry had cost at least 149,000 lives, 92,000 in its devastating war. (blogs.reuters.com, a huge operation to funnel arms and sup- Afghanistan. At least 26,270 Afghan ci- Oct. 1, 2015) ply training to feudal warlords in order to In October, the Pentagon will have vilians had been killed, as many as 3,800 Along with his troop level announce- topple the government in Afghanistan. occupied Afghanistan for 15 years. It is by drone strikes. (Washington Post, June ment, Obama had to admit that the war Asked if he thought that backing Af- already the longest-running U.S. imperi- 3, 2015) has aggravated the global refugee crisis. At ghan reactionaries like al-Qaida was a alist war in history. And there is no end In October 2015, U.S. AC-130 gunships least 15 percent of the hundreds of thou- bad idea, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was in sight. repeatedly bombed and strafed a hospital sands of people fleeing their homes from U.S. security advisor under President Despite earlier presidents’ promises to in Kunduz operated by the charity group the Middle East, South Asia and Africa to Jimmy Carter, responded: “Regret what? end the U.S. occupation years ago, and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Europe are from Afghanistan, he said. The secret operation was an excellent Obama’s promise that the U.S. would Frontières. At least 42 people were killed, The Obama administration, with idea. ... The day the Soviets officially completely withdraw its troops by the including doctors, nurses and patients ly- Hillary Clinton at the helm at the State crossed the border, I wrote to President end of his term in office, the president an- ing in their beds. MSF called this savage Department, escalated the already ex- Carter: We now have the opportunity nounced on July 6 that 8,400 U.S. troops attack “relentless and brutal.” (Aljazeera. isting war in Afghanistan. U.S. troops of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.” would remain in Afghanistan “into next com, April 29) grew from 25,000 in 2007 under George (Stanford.edu, June 3, 2002) year,” through the end of his administra- Some 2,382 U.S. soldiers have been W. Bush to 100,000 in 2010 as Obama Called Operation Cyclone, this was the tion. Obama said that “the security situa- killed in Afghanistan, including 38 in conceded policy to the Pentagon gener- largest single CIA operation ever. “Some- tion in Afghanistan remains precarious.” the last year, even though the U.S. had als. Declaring that the U.S. had “met its where between $3–$20 billion in U.S. Pro-war senators like Republicans John declared an end to its combat operations. goals,” the Pentagon began to withdraw funds were funneled into the country to McCain and Lindsey Graham hailed this Some 1,173 “civilian” contractors — who troops. Obama announced that the U.S. train and equip Afghan resistance groups decision. are U.S. mercenaries — have been killed. would be able to have all U.S. troops re- with weapons.” (liveleak.com, Oct. 7, After the 9/11 attacks, using the excuse More than 20,000 U.S. soldiers have moved by the end of 2016. 2008) The ensuing U.S.-supported, de- that the Taliban regime was “hosting” been wounded. More than 1,100 troops But the July 6 announcement means cade-long civil war devastated Afghani- al-Qaida in Afghanistan, the Pentagon in from other “coalition” countries — U.S. that the U.S. brutal war and occupation stan, costing 1 million Afghan lives and October 2001 invaded that country, one allies — have also been killed in this war. have failed to quell the insurrection that forcing 3 million to flee into Pakistan. of the poorest on the planet, installed a (icasualties.org, July 9) the occupation itself generated. U.S. imperialism has created a hell on “friendly” government, and has tried The U.S. has spent vast sums from the The origins of the Taliban, like al-Qa- earth in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya, to crush any opposition to its occupa- people’s treasury to fund its war in Af- ida, can be traced directly back to the CIA in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. These tion with a full array of its most modern ghanistan. By the end of 2014, the total proxy war in the 1970s and 1980s against brutal wars and occupations create more weapon systems, including its dreaded was $1 trillion. In a country of 30 million a progressive government that was sup- outrage and hatred and only benefit drones. That effort has failed. people, where the average annual income ported by the Soviet Union. A full six weapons dealers, oil companies and Wall As of a year ago, the war, which has is just $670, the Pentagon has spent more months before the Soviet Union sent Street bankers. They must be opposed at spilled over into neighboring Pakistan, than $33,000 per Afghan citizen to wage troops into Afghanistan, the CIA began every turn! U.S. out ofAfghanistan! Chilcot Report confirms Blair is a war criminal (Bush, too) By John Catalinotto war of aggression. sectarian warfare, over 1.5 million Iraqis itary personnel killed in the war have de- It was the Bush-Cheney administra- died, and the country was in ruins, with scribed Blair as a “terrorist.” In the July It is rare that something positive for the tion, using the attack of Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of GIs dead or maimed — all 8 Guardian, a British newspaper, Simon working class comes from an imperialist as a pretext to mobilize the U.S. for war, the fault of Bush-Cheney-Blair aggression. Jenkins wrote, “Blair emerges as other government’s report. So there is some which led the U.S.-British alliance into In March 2003, the majority of the U.S. Iraq historians have already portrayed surprise that the British government’s battle. Blair was their toady across the ruling class went along with the attack on him, as a pathetic and self-regarding fig- inquiry known as the Chilcot Report has pond. In a memo in July 2002 he wrote Iraq, and so did the establishment me- ure in awe of the transatlantic power.” established that former Prime Minister to Bush, “I will be with you, whatever.” dia, the New York Times, the Washing- It is satisfying to know that the peo- Tony Blair lied, ignored warnings and The Bush administration lied more ton Post and the big cable and broadcast ple of Britain are condemning Blair. The twisted arms to push his government than 900 times in the closing months of networks. They all chose to believe Bush’s anti-war movement there knew of Blair’s into invading Iraq in March 2003. 2002 to try to justify war against Iraq. promises of an easy and profitable victo- war crimes for over a decade, but now The report, published July 6 after sev- Chief liars were Bush and Secretary ry. None of this was true. everyone knows and no one can deny it. en years of painstakingly slow research of State Colin Powell. Without United The Chilcot Report reflects the ruling The exposure comes at a good time, as it and procrastination, contains 2.6 million Nations’ or even NATO’s blessing, the class’s disappointment with the unkept implicates Blair’s allies in the right wing words — about 25 times that of the aver- U.S.-British alliance finally invaded Iraq promises. It will be useful only to prove of the Labour Party. It opens a path for age novel. and occupied the country, destroying its to any who might still doubt it that Blair the current, more leftist Labour Par- As demonstrators in London pointed infrastructure and making all its former is guilty as charged, as are Bush and ty leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to attack his out, the report means that Blair should officials and key managers outlaws. Later Cheney. In summary, Sir John Chilcot’s rightist enemies as complicit in Blair’s be tried as a war criminal. Of course, it NATO came on board. inquiry shows that the Iraq War, a six- crimes. also means that former U.S. President The occupiers faced a determined year conflict for Britain, was unnecessary Whatever happens to Blair, there re- George W. Bush, former Vice President Iraqi resistance movement through 2004 and disastrous, and that Blair exaggerat- mains a bigger job for the anti-war move- Dick Cheney and a bunch of other U.S. and 2005. To weaken the resistance, the ed the threat posed by Saddam Hussein ment in the U.S. That is to use the Chilcot top politicians are even bigger war crim- U.S.-British occupiers exacerbated reli- and his alleged “weapons of mass de- Report in the best way possible to expose inals. They committed the greatest war gious and ethnic differences among Iraq- struction.” the war crimes of Bush and Cheney and crime of all against Iraq: unleashing a is. Between imperialist repression and Families of some of the 179 British mil- put them on trial. A conclave of imperialists NATO Summit talks peace, plans war

By John Catalinotto legal system — and the Black and Brown rope saw Obama not as a peacemaker, but ington promised not to move NATO east- communities. But his role in Warsaw was as symbolizing the threat of another war. ward. An article on Nov. 26, 2009, in President Barack Obama had to rush to increase the danger of war in the world. Just to hold the summit in Poland, which the German magazine Der Spiegel made his participation at the NATO Summit in The July 9 photo the New York Times borders Russia’s Kaliningrad province in clear that during these negotiations: Warsaw, Poland. As head of the imperial- published showed Obama shaking hands the north and Ukraine to the east, is itself “There was no doubt that the West did ist U.S., he was mobilizing European coun- with the heads of Italy, Britain, Germa- meant to provoke a nuclear-armed Russia everything it could to give the Soviets the tries to confront and threaten Russia, but ny and France — all major former colo- and raises the danger of a devastating war. impression that NATO membership was had to spend much of his time responding nialist powers — and the president of To underline that threat, NATO had out of the question for countries like Po- to the crisis unfolding in the U.S. itself. Ukraine. Including Ukraine emphasized held “Anaconda” war maneuvers through land, Hungary or Czechoslovakia.” They While Obama professed that the U.S. imperialist support for the regime these early June, in which 31,000 troops lied. NATO has since expanded to sur- was a united country, other articles in this powers embraced when they backed neo- and armored vehicles rolled eastward round Russia from the west and south. issue of Workers World show that the U.S. fascist elements to take over in what had through Poland and 6,100 troops, 45 (tinyurl.com/nvm476v) consists of both an oppressor state and once been a Soviet republic. warships and 60 warplanes maneuvered NATO now includes not only Poland, oppressed nationalities. He spoke of mak- Mass protests of people in Warsaw and in the Baltic Sea. Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia, ing “peace” at home between the oppres- other European capitals against NATO In 1990, during negotiations between but also some of the former republics in sive state — the racist police, prisons and showed that the anti-war forces in Eu- the U.S. and then-Soviet leaders, Wash- Continued on page 9 workers.org July 21, 2016 Page 9

Teachers of Mexico say: ‘Our education is not for sale!’ By Judy Greenspan In addition, the government has waged Morelos, Mexico a disinformation campaign from the beginning of the teachers’ struggle, at- July 10 — Many public schools in the tempting to turn the population against Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Chi- the teachers. However, the recent massa- apas, Tabasco and others will remain cre of unarmed demonstrators in Oaxa- closed tomorrow even though the school ca, the indefinite incarceration of CNTE year has not ended. The real education leaders and the exposure of government will take place in the streets of Mexico, lies about the teachers are breaking where teachers, parents and other sup- through the government’s plans. One day, porters continue their strike against the the SEP announces that it will pay repa- privatization of public education. rations to the families of the murdered On July 11, thousands of members of protesters. The next day, it withdraws the CNTE (Coordinadora Nacional de the offer. SEP says it will meet with the Trabajadores de la Educación), which has CNTE and then refuses. The parents of a membership of over 200,000 teachers, Mexican public school students, particu- will march in the capital, Mexico City, to larly in the impoverished states of Oax- demand an end to so-called “educational aca, Guerrero, Chiapas and Michoacán, reforms” that will in effect lead to privat- have allied themselves with the striking ization and the end of public education in teachers. Mexico. This week, the Zapatistas of Chiapas The CNTE, a radical alternative to the (EZLN) announced full support for the official teachers’ union, the SNTE (Sindi- WW PHOTO: JUDY GREENSPAN teachers and are donating 10 tons of food cato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Ed- Supporters of embattled teachers’ union CNTE march in Morelos. to the struggle for justice. Many unions ucación), has rejected President Peña and communities of Indigenous people Nieto’s demand that all teachers take a On June 19, the police opened fire on tradition of humanist critical education have joined the picket lines, the block- national exam in order to keep teaching. a group of protesters supporting striking in Mexico, and on the other hand, the ades and the marches, despite the ulti- According to the CNTE, this evaluation teachers in the southern state of Oaxaca. government, which is doing everything matum of Interior Minister Miguel Ångel is punitive, costly and has nothing to do Oaxaca’s people have a long history of possible to impose a so-called education Osorio Chong that they must dismantle with changing the educational system. In organizing to overturn the privatization reform on these teachers.” the struggle or else. addition, like in the United States, stu- of public services. Twelve protesters were The CNTE and the communities in The CNTE has called for a large pro- dents are now forced to take costly stan- killed by the police and at least 100 in- Oaxaca, Chiapas and other states have test in Mexico City on July 19, exactly dardized exams. Parents are being forced jured, although the government denies responded by calling an indefinite strike one month after the massacre in Oaxaca. to pay for school supplies, books and ex- using bullets. (The Mexican government until the Mexican government and its Teachers will drive in convoy from Oaxa- ams. Each “public school” now requires lives in a state of denial.) A number of secretary of education (SEP) enter into ca and other areas starting on July 17 be- parents to give up at least one day’s pay leaders of the CNTE have been incarcer- a dialogue with striking teachers. In the fore a massive convergence in the capital. per year for their child’s education. Par- ated for several months. first week of July, hundreds of roadblocks The union will continue its indefinite ents are mandated to pay a fee or work According to Jonathan Ackerman, were set up by teachers, parents and their strike until it wins changes from the at the school cleaning, painting or doing a political analyst from TeleSUR, “We supporters in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Chi- government. International solidarity by other tasks. For most parents in Mexico, have, on the one hand, our completely apas and other areas. The response of the teachers’ unions and others in the U.S. these educational “reforms” are impossi- unarmed, peaceful teachers, who are de- state continues to be one of repression and around the world is needed for this ble to meet. fending their jobs, who are defending the against the teachers. important struggle. France anti-labor law A summer pause, but struggle will resume

By G. Dunkel 11 national demonstrations and one-day Hollande and Prime Minister Valls hear (L’Humanité, July 9) strikes since March, had another day of this message well. We are here and now He ended his talk, saying, “A good way It didn’t take long to pass the new labor protest on July 5 to mark passage of the preparing for the end of vacations in Sep- of starting our vacations would be skip- law in France once it came back to the Na- law and call for its repeal. tember. Confronting this unjust and ille- ping the tolls on the autoroutes.” (Force tional Assembly from the Senate. As soon The cops did everything in their power gal law, we are not going to slacken: the Ouvrière, July 8) as the July 5 session started to consider to limit participation in the Paris march, struggle continues.” Jean-Claude Mailly, the head of the the bill, Prime Minister Manuel Valls took from doing body searches of retirees three (By law, every French worker gets at Force Ouvrière (FO) union confederation, the floor and declared it passed, using times to exercising police powers under the least 30 days of paid vacation and mil- was quoted in L’Humanité as saying: “My some wrinkles in the French Constitution current state of emergency to keep named lions take four weeks in the period be- comrades, I’m asking you to welcome that allow the government to avoid a vote. individuals from participating. Still, ac- tween the second week of July and the government ministers as they should be Valls expected to lose a vote on the bill cording to the CGT, the biggest labor con- first week of September.) received when they make their vacation itself, but the majority that would have re- federation, 45,000 protesters came out in Martinez thanked all the workers visits. This law must be the chewing gum jected the new labor law didn’t have enough Paris and about 100,000 nationwide. who lost a day’s pay every time they that sticks to their shoes in the weeks and votes to block his move. The law is set to be At a meeting held in Paris on July 7 were protesting — were insulted, arrest- months to come.” fully implemented in August, when some that drew 700 people, mainly union and ed, accused by the head of the big busi- The so-called Socialist Party (PS), enabling regulations are adopted. student militants, CGT leader Philippe ness association of being terrorists and which is currently running the French The coalition of unions leading the op- Martinez said: “We are neither tired threatened with having their protests state for the French bourgeoisie, has lost position to this law, which has organized nor resigned. Let President [François] prohibited under the state of emergency. popular support. Polls show that its fa- vorable ratings are in the low teens. The PS claimed it was calling off its summer mass meeting because of the threat of vi- Continued from page 8 battalions stationed in Bulgaria and Ro- government forces. On July 11, the U.S. olence, but most French militants said the the Soviet Union, including Georgia. The mania. U.S. officers will command the announced that it would send an addi- real reason was that nobody wanted to U.S. also pulled both Sweden and histor- battalion in Poland, which is almost com- tional 560 troops to Iraq to take part in come. Someone, probably angry workers, ically neutral Finland — which had for pletely made up of U.S. troops. the fighting for Mosul, a major northern replaced the “Parti Socialiste” signs on 30 decades been a neutral buffer between Although it was U.S. and NATO mil- Iraqi city of 1.5 million people. of the PS’s local offices with “Pourris Sa- Russia and the West — into the recent an- itary intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq On the way back to the U.S., Obama vis- lauds” (rotten pigs) during the night. ti-Russia war exercises. Since the Soviet and Syria that disrupted those societies ited Spain, including a stop at a U.S. mili- The workers of France, who are de- Union dissolved in 1991, NATO waged a and caused mass migration, NATO lead- tary base in the south of the country. In re- termined to enjoy their hard-earned war on Yugoslavia from 1995 to 1999 that ers have used the migration crisis as a sponse, thousands of people demonstrated vacations won by historic struggles, are dissolved and destroyed that multina- pretext for more intervention in the de- in Madrid on July 10, saying, “Obama go equally determined to come back stron- tional country, as well as intervening in stabilized countries, specifically Afghan- home” and “No NATO, no war.” (Email re- ger to struggle in the fall. They intend to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. istan. NATO’s other response to the mi- lease from Red Roja, July 10) defeat the austerity that aims to make NATO had already, before the summit, gration/refugee crisis has been to deploy In the United States, where anti-war them work more to earn less, and to re- agreed to establish battalions of 800 to naval forces to stop ships bringing refu- demonstrations also raised slogans project the job insecurity that their bour- 1,200 troops from different countries in gees across the Mediterranean. testing racist police killings in the U.S., geoisie and its European class allies — Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, NATO agreed July 9 to use troops there were anti-NATO protests in New who are also competitors — intend to put along with a brigade of four additional from various countries to train Iraqi York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. on their backs. Page 10 July 21, 2016 workers.org Mississippi is still burning Ominous war moves By Kevin Moran Special to Workers World

in Pacific Both the Black Lives Matter movement The Pentagon has announced it will ons. An article in the New York Times on of today and the Civil Rights Movement deploy an advanced missile defense sys- June 8, 1984, titled “U.S. Papers Tell of of Freedom Summer 1964 were ignited tem, known as Thaad, in south Korea. ‘53 Policy to Use A-bomb in Korea,” con- by police murders of African Americans. PHOTO: NATIVE NEWS ONLINE Rexdale Henry, Choctaw activist, dead in Washington has also imposed sanctions firmed: “Documents released today give Fifty-two years after the vicious “Mis- police custody, Philadelphia, Miss. on Kim Jong Un, the leader of north Ko- details on a decision by President Dwight sissippi Burning” murders of Civil Rights rea — the Democratic People’s Republic D. Eisenhower’s Administration in 1953 activists James Chaney, Andrew Good- around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 2.” of Korea. In response, the DPRK has to use atomic bombs in North Korea and man and Mickey Schwerner in Philadel- These two brutal deaths are eerily rem- cut off its official diplomatic channel to Communist China, if necessary, to end phia, Miss., it remains an ongoing prac- iniscent of the events of June 21, 1964, the U.S. government. The DPRK, China the Korean War.” tice for police to kill Native people and when three Civil Rights activists seeking and Russia have all opposed the Thaad The threat from the huge U.S. nuclear African Americans with impunity in Ne- to register African Americans to vote, as a destabilizing move by the U.S. that arsenal continues to the present. Mean- shoba County, Miss. were arrested for allegedly speeding and threatens the entire region. while, a huge propaganda blitz, from Rexdale Henry, a Native American taken to the Neshoba County Jail. The As usual, the corporate media here print and electronic media to Hollywood member of the Choctaw tribe, medicine three men — James Earl Chaney from play down the aggressive role of the Pen- films, has reviled the leaders of the DPRK man and longtime community activist, Meridian, Miss., and Andrew Goodman tagon, the world’s most dangerous mili- for their efforts to defend their country. was found brutally beaten to death in a and Mickey Schwerner from New York tary power with bases, ships, planes and According to apologists for imperialism, jail cell in Philadelphia on July 14, 2015. City — were handed over to the Klan by troops circling the globe. They ignore the it’s OK for the U.S., the one country to He was first detained on July 9 after fail- a deputy police chief. After an extensive real reasons for the tense situation on the ever use them, to stockpile more than ing to pay a traffic fine, according to Ne- search was conducted by thousands of Korean peninsula. 7,000 nuclear warheads, but the DPRK shoba County Sheriff Tommy Waddell. federal troops, their tortured, broken Since the end of the Korean War in is “irrational” and worse to even think of Henry’s death occurred one day after bodies were found buried in an earthen 1953 — 63 years ago! — the DPRK has building any bombs of their own! the body of Sandra Bland was found in a dam 44 days after their arrest. sought an end to the state of war with Analysts in the DPRK have reported in jail cell in Waller County, Texas. She was The nation and the world were ap- the U.S. There has been no peace treaty recent weeks on dangerous developments also jailed on a “traffic” offense. palled. These racist murders of Freedom in all these years and the Korean nation coming from Washington. A report from “There is a circumstance that we have Summer spurred passage of the Civil remains divided. the Korean Central News Agency noted to deal with throughout this country, Rights Act. Instead of sitting down with repre- that B52H strategic bombers carried out where we find people who are dying in The 1989 movie, “Mississippi Burn- sentatives of the DPRK and working on an exercise in south Korea on June 15 suspicious circumstances while in the ing,” chronicled the federal Civil Rights a solution to the dangerous tensions re- that simulated the dropping of nuclear custody of those we look for protection violation investigation that years later sulting from the war, Washington has bombs on the DPRK. It concluded: “The from,” said Chokwe Antar Lumumba of resulted in guilty verdicts for the deputy stonewalled dialogue while permanently U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and Jackson, Miss., Henry’s attorney. police chief and several Klansmen. De- stationing a large presence of U.S. troops U.S. forces’ presence in south Korea are Rexdale Henry was the second person spite evidence of a widespread conspira- in south Korea — still around 28,000. aimed not only to bring down the ideolo- to die recently in the custody of the Ne- cy involving police, White Citizens Coun- For years, the Pentagon has been staging gy and social system in the DPRK but to shoba County jail. cil members and the Ku Klux Klan, no massive annual war “games” in south Ko- dominate Asia and the rest of the world.” Michael McDougle, an African Amer- one was ever convicted of murdering the rea that simulate an attack on the north, On June 28, the Foreign Ministry of ican, died there on the evening of Nov. three young Freedom Summer activists. using nuclear-capable bombers. the DPRK pointed out that joint military 1, 2014. “According to eyewitness tes- Decades later, as the record of police This is the hair-trigger climate that the exercises by the U.S., Japan and south timony, Brittany McDougle’s husband, impunity grows, the distrust and anger of DPRK has had to endure for an entire gen- Korea, including the recent testing of Michael McDougle, while in handcuffs, communities of color toward official law eration as it struggled to rebuild after the a missile defense system in waters off was beaten and Tasered by officers of the enforcement accounts of deaths while in horrible damage inflicted by the U.S. Air Hawaii, represent the emergence of an Philadelphia Police Department,” said police custody deepen. Force in the 1950-53 war and the loss of so Asian version of NATO that “will inevita- attorney Carlos Moore, who filed a law- Kevin Moran is a volunteer investiga- many of its people, civilians as well as sol- bly spark off a new arms race and a new suit on behalf of Brittany McDougle. “Mr. tor for Chokwe A. Lumumba, Esq, Lu- diers. Nevertheless, it has done wonders. Cold War in Northeast Asia surrounding McDougle was found dead in his jail cell mumba & Associates, Jackson, Miss. Education and health care are universal in the Korean peninsula.” this country building socialism, allowing This is the reality that is not in the head- it to forge ahead in many areas. lines in the U.S. The Obama administra- One of these areas is the north Kore- tion’s “pivot toward Asia,” together with ans’ ability to strengthen their defense NATO’s more aggressive stance in Eastern by producing nuclear weapons. Was this Europe, are sobering reminders that glob- Cuba Caravan says their choice? Wouldn’t they have pre- al capitalism’s stagnation and decline are ferred to devote all their hard-won scien- driving the major imperialist powers to- tific and technological resources to solv- ward new war crises of their own making. ‘End the blockade!’ Which makes it more important than ing other problems? By Jim McMahan ever to demand an end to these hostile But the U.S. ruling class gave them no Seattle choice. As early as 1953, Washington was acts: U.S. troops out of Korea! Sign a threatening the DPRK with nuclear weap- peace treaty now! The 27th U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment Cara- van has been launched and is now conducting Books for the struggle educational work about the important role peo- PHOTO: IFCO/PASTORS FOR PEACE FACEBOOK Many of the books here can be read on- Low-Wage Capitalism: Colossus with ple can play in ending West Coast route of Friendshipment Caravan prepares to leave line at www.workers.org/books/ and are Feet of Clay — What the new globalized the U.S. blockade of Portland, Ore. available in pdf format. All can be pur- high-tech imperialism means for the Cuba. A July 5 demon- chased at major online booksellers. Also class struggle in the U.S., by Fred Gold- stration at Seattle City Centre demand- fery, from New Hope Missionary Bap- online at workers.org are many other stein. ed that Washington end this inhumane tist Church; Angela Gilliam, professor works by Sam Marcy, founder of Workers Marxism, Reparations and the Black policy. The rally was organized by the emeritus of Evergreen State College; Xo- World Party. Freedom Struggle, edited by Monica Seattle-Cuba Friendship Committee and chitl García, a U.S. graduate of the Latin Capitalism at a Dead End: Job De- Moorehead. set off the annual caravan sponsored by American School of Medicine in Havana; struction, Overproduction and Crisis in Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of IFCO/Pastors for Peace. and Thomas Davies, of Vancouver Com- the High-Tech Era — A Marxist View, by Cuba, by Leslie Feinberg. A similar protest was held on July 3 at munities in Solidarity with Cuba. The Fred Goldstein. The Roots of Lesbian and Gay Oppres- the Canadian/U.S. border outside Van- many cultural performers included the El Capitalismo en un callejón sin sali- sion: A Marxist View, by Bob McCubbin, couver, backed by Vancouver Commu- New Hope Missionary Baptist Choir. All da, por Fred Goldstein. preface by Shelley Ettinger. nities in Solidarity with Cuba. Seattle these individuals and organizations rep- Gaza: Symbol of Resistance, edited by A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, by Os- demonstrators carried signs demanding resented a wonderful spectrum of sup- Joyce Chediac. borne Anderson, preface by Vince Cope- an end to the blockade and the travel port for Cuba. Haiti: A Slave Revolution: 200 Years land, essays by Monica Moorehead and ban, which is still in force. Other placards The next day, demonstrators went to after 1804, edited by Pat Chin, Greg Mumia Abu-Jamal. called for the U.S. to return the U.S.-oc- local offices of members of Congress to Dunkel, Sara Flounders and Kim Ives. War without Victory: The Pentagon’s cupied Guantánamo Bay area to Cuba. call for an end to the inhumane 55-year High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist Anal- Achilles’ Heel, by Sara Flounders. Speakers included Gail Walker, exec- blockade. If organizing continues to in- ysis of the Changing Character of the What Is Marxism All About? A street utive director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace; crease working-class solidarity with Working Class, by Sam Marcy, introduc- guide for revolutionaries, by Fight Impe- Isel Calzadilla Acosta, a leading LGBTQ Cuba, the blockade should soon come tion by Fred Goldstein. rialism, Stand Together (FIST) activists. activist from Cuba; the Rev. Robert Jef- tumbling down. workers.org July 21, 2016 Page 11 After ‘Brexit’ Ranks of Labour Party swell in rebuff to immigrant bashing

By Deirdre Griswold and racism in both countries. It can be This comes from an online journal put outmatched by the mass of people joining seen in the U.S. in the large numbers of up by the Red Flag group in the Labour who want to see a new kind of politics.” Since the right-wing of Britain’s Con- young whites who have joined the Black Party: “The attempted coup launched by (redflagonline, July 7) servative Party, together with the even Lives Matter movement to protest kill- Labour’s parliamentary rebels has failed This refers to Tony Blair, a former further right United Kingdom Indepen- ings of Black and Brown people by police. to oust Jeremy Corbyn — but it has pro- prime minister of Britain from the La- dence Party, initiated a referendum man- In Britain, the news that hasn’t been voked a renewed membership surge. bour Party, who went along with George dating that Britain leave the European picked up by the U.S. media is that “Figures confirmed by the New States- Bush’s war against Iraq and also car- Union, the capitalist media generally 200,000 people joined the Labour Party man show 200,000 people have joined ried out austerity attacks on the British have spun the victory for “Brexit” as ev- in the two weeks after the referendum. the party in the last two weeks, taking workers. He has just been exposed by idence that white workers in Britain are And they mostly joined in order to sup- total membership to 600,000. Labour is a special commission as having know- afraid of and hostile to immigrants. port the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, now the biggest it has been for 50 years ingly accepted Washington’s lies about This certainly must be true of some, who opposed the anti-immigrant cam- and the biggest left party in Europe. … “weapons of mass destruction,” which who were bombarded with the most vi- paign but then was censured by Par- “Local parties report that the bulk of Iraq never had, but which were used as cious and false anti-immigrant propa- liamentarians in his own party. They new recruits are joining to defend Jere- the excuse for going to war against that ganda before the vote, in the same way charged that he couldn’t lead the party to my Corbyn. Alan Johnson’s constituency oil-rich country. that the constant drumbeat in this coun- victory in the next general election. party, Hull West, recently voted over- These developments could lead to a try’s tabloids and talk radio blaming im- These politicians who hold down seats whelmingly to endorse Corbyn’s lead- renewed struggle by workers in Britain, migrants for the layoffs and plant clos- in Parliament don’t really represent the ership, as did Angela Eagle’s branch in whatever their national origins, religion ings has panicked some white workers membership of the Labour Party. This was Wallasey. or language, to overcome the negative as- here to be for billionaire Donald Trump. shown yet again when the rank-and-file “Right wingers have been joining too, pects of Brexit and unite to beat back the But this is not the whole story. There is members of the party then voted in their but the heirs to Blair who lost the 2010 bosses’ plans for austerity and further a healthy rejection of immigrant bashing local constituencies to support Corbyn. and 2015 elections have been completely job cuts. Wisconsin: Petition blitz for Moorehead-Lilly campaign Continued from page 2 community meeting with vice presidential ror aimed at oppressed peoples. Others “This racist, capitalist, patriarchal, ple; if we call ourselves revolutionaries; if candidate Lamont Lilly, both sponsored by focused on Bradley board members like imperialist system must be destroyed, we want our communities, environment, the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Move- millionaire Art Pope, who has advised sisters and brothers — from the root to land, earth and water supply to all thrive ment (wibailoutpeople.org) with WWP Wall Street and its servants in Wisconsin the fruit,” said Lilly, addressing the latest — all of this s—t has to go! support. about how to bring more Jim Crow laws, police murders of Philando Castile and “As Brother Malcolm X stated in his A militant picket targeted the Bradley policies and conditions to the state. Alton Sterling as well as the important beloved ‘Message to the Grassroots,’ ‘NO- Foundation, an anti-worker think tank, role of the Black Lives Matter movement. BODY can give you freedom. NOBODY which funded the racist tract “The Bell You can’t reform capitalism — “You cannot reform racism. You cannot can give you equality or justice. If you’re Curve” and has promoted many nation- Build People’s Power! reform white supremacy. You cannot re- a man, woman or full human being, you wide attacks on poor and working people Danielle Boachie, from the Chicago form imperialism. You cannot reform TAKE it! Down with the cops and up — from union busting to defending killer Branch of WWP, opened the “Building sexism. You cannot reform capitalism. with the people. Workers and oppressed cops. People’s Power” community meeting fea- And you sure as hell cannot reform the MUST unite. Revolution is the only solu- A speak-out led by WWP organizers turing Lamont Lilly with a poem by Assa- Democratic or Republican parties. Both tion! All power to the people!” and members of other groups described ta Shakur that has become a Black Lives of those f—-ers are foul.” During the discussion, many Black the many ways the Bradley Foundation is Matter anthem. Then WWP Campaign Lilly stressed the need to fight for so- women called for action in response to an enemy of the people. Speakers stressed Manager Teresa Gutierrez introduced cialism to end poverty, racism and war ongoing police terror, occupation of their that racist foundations like Bradley create Lilly. Later, presidential candidate Mon- once and for all: “If we want to survive, communities such as Sherman Park, and the conditions for police and vigilante ter- ica Moorehead spoke via conference call. sisters and brothers — if we love the peo- police harassment in areas like the Mil- waukee lakefront. Members of the Lati- no/a community described Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and de- An appeal to boycott Olympics portations and pledged solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Oth- Continued from page 3 ers expressed solidarity with the LGBTQ disproportionate number being Black Monica Moorehead for President • Lamont Lilly for Vice President people killed in Orlando at the Pulse and Brown people. The deaths of Michael Workers World Party Election Campaign 2016 nightclub. Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra [email protected] • 917.740.2628 • fb.com/mooreheadlilly2016 Bland and hundreds more since 2014 at- twitter.com/wwp2016 test to the dehumanization of Black lives when it comes to the lack of arrests, con- victions and sentencing of police who kill with impunity. 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a la UE (Grupo Comunista Revoluciona- Detengamos el racismo de Brexit rio, 26 de mayo) Por supuesto, todos los arreglos financieros y comerciales están sujetos a negociaciones, pero el efecto incon solidaridad obrera mundial mediato es un duro golpe. Solidaridad internacional y Por Fred Goldstein a favor de la inmigración. gada de musulmanes a EUA. Trump voló conciencia de clase Boris Johnson, del Partido Conser- a su campo de golf en Escocia y anunció El referéndum Brexit en Bretaña es el vador y ex alcalde de Londres, es el jefe que él pensaba que el voto de Salida era La forma de dar un golpe desde la iz- resultado de una campaña reaccionar- de la campaña Salida. Al tiempo del ase- bueno - a pesar de que Escocia votó por quierda en la UE es abrir una campaña ia y racista por el ala derecha de la clase sinato de Cox, la campaña puso carteles Permanecer. de la clase obrera contra el capital eu- dominante británica, que impulsó la vic- con una imagen de miles de refugiados ropeo - para combatir el dominio de los toria de Salida y sacó a Bretaña de los 28 sirios y el subtítulo “El punto de ruptura.” La derecha se aprovecha bancos y las corporaciones multinacio- miembros de la Unión Europea. La foto fue tomada realmente en la fron- de la crisis económica nales a través de fronteras internaciona- La clase obrera y la clase media de tera con Eslovenia. El cartel fue denun- Lo que ocurrió en Bretaña está suce- les. Las/os trabajadores franceses están Bretaña enfrentaron un referéndum so- ciado como falso por toda Bretaña por las diendo en todo el mundo imperialista. involucrados en una feroz batalla contra licitado por el primer ministro conser- fuerzas pro Permanecer y tuvieron que La larga crisis económica - la incapaci- el régimen de Hollande. Sería muy opor- vador David Cameron, en el que se les ser removidos. dad del capitalismo para recuperarse del tuno para el movimiento obrero y el mov- dio una opción onerosa: permanecer en El voto para Permanecer entre los ha- golpe que recibió en 2008-09 - está soca- imiento radical en toda Europa que abri- un bloque económico imperialista que bitantes de raza blanca fue del 46 por vando empleos, salarios y las condiciones era sus propias luchas de solidaridad - y ha impuesto políticas de austeridad y ciento. Entre las/os oprimidos la votación de trabajo en todas partes. La austeridad no sólo luchas simbólicas. anti-obreras a cientos de millones, o ele- fue la siguiente: 67 por ciento asiáticos, es una política universal, en Wall Street Esto es fácil de decir pero difícil de gir la opción de Salida dirigida por una 70 por ciento musulmanes, 70 por cien- y en Frankfurt, París, Londres, Roma y hacer en un corto plazo. Pero si el movi- campaña racista y demagógica para salir to chinos, hindúes el 70 por ciento y 73 Rotterdam. miento de las/os trabajadores en Europa de la UE basada en una retórica anti-in- por ciento de los negros. Esto dice mucho Seguro que el voto Salida dio un golpe pudiera comenzar y dar un giro para en migrante. sobre el carácter racista de los votos de a la UE. Pero ese golpe no es en beneficio vez de ser reactivo y defensivo, pensara El iniciador de la posición política de Salida. (Independent, 25 de junio) de la clase obrera, incluso si trae el caos en términos de lucha - no sólo contra la Salida, fue Nigel Farage, jefe del Partido La mayor organización musulmana, al comercio y al capital financiero impe- UE, sino contra el sistema capitalista - en Independentista del Reino Unido, (PIRU) la Asociación Musulmana de Bretaña, rialista. El voto británico por abandonar una base continental, sería un gran paso un partido racista. Las fuerzas pro Salida votó a favor de Permanecer porque, en- la UE ahora está siendo aclamado por el adelante. tornaron la campaña en un referéndum tre otras cosas, una votación pro Salida Frente Nacional en Francia, por la Alter- Una lucha contra la UE podría ser una sobre la inmigración. sería “aumentar los niveles de crímenes nativa para Alemania, por el derechista lucha contra la austeridad que se impone El PIRU se ha convertido en el tercer de odio contra los musulmanes británic- Partido Democrático de Suecia, por la a Grecia. Tal lucha hubiera sido oportu- partido más grande en Bretaña, consigui- os.” (Sunday Express, 26 de junio) derecha en los Países Bajos, Austria y na cuando el gobierno de Syriza llegó al endo 4 millones de votos en las últimas Sayeeda Warsi, ex ministro del gober- Hungría y por Donald Trump. poder en 2015 y se convirtió en el primer elecciones. Lo ha logrado agitando el te- nante Partido Conservador, renunció y Todas estas fuerzas ultra-derechistas, gobierno de Europa en oponerse abierta- mor contra las/os inmigrantes, especial- cambió al campo Permanecer a causa de racistas y casi fascistas ven al voto Sal- mente a la austeridad. Era, por supues- mente desde la crisis de las/os refugiados que “difunde mentiras, odio y xenofobia” ida como una apertura y les facilitará to, un régimen social demócrata que no sirios y otros que huyen de la guerra en el Y añadió: “No quiero que la campaña Sal- ser más agresivas. No será en beneficio podía conducir una lucha por sí solo con- Medio Oriente. ida dirija este país.” (Express Tribune, 27 de las/os trabajadores y oprimidos, si la tra el capital financiero alemán y todos El líder del PIRU, Farage, declaró de junio) UE se desintegra en bloques de gobiernos sus séquitos, y finalmente capituló. públicamente en marzo del 2015 que capitalistas de derecha. Una clase para sí misma “Hay un problema especial con algunas Primordial mostrar solidaridad También vale la pena señalar que siem- de las personas que han venido aquí y Las fuerzas pro Permanecer en el Par- pre ha habido un ala derecha de la clase Karl Marx dijo que la clase obrera debe que son de la religión musulmana y no tido Conservador, dirigido por Cameron, dominante británica que nunca se recu- convertirse en una clase “para sí misma”. quieren ser parte de nosotros. La gente basaron sus argumentos exclusivamente peró de la pérdida del imperio y nunca Eso significa que debe estar consciente ve una quinta columna que vive dentro en la amenaza a la economía. Por su- se ha reconciliado con acomodar a las de su posición de clase en la sociedad y de nuestro país, que nos odian y quieren puesto, esto era importante para las/os potencias continentales, especialmente la posición de todas las demás clases, so- matarnos”. (The Guardian, 12 de marzo trabajadores porque la retirada es una Alemania y Francia, en cualquier forma bre todo la clase dominante. Sobre todo, de 2015) amenaza para la economía y los empleos. de asociación. Siempre ha habido una la clase obrera debe estar consciente de Farage y el PIRU también ponen en Pero Cameron y sus fuerzas nunca men- llamada ala “euroescéptica” de la clase las opresiones especiales. Tiene que ver la mira a las/os trabajadores de Europa cionaron el peligro de la islamofobia, los dominante británica. cómo el intento de dividir sobre la base del Este, como las/os polacos y rumanos, ataques contra polacos y rumanos, ni No quieren que los imperialistas del de su condición migratoria, así como la quienes son explotadas/os como mano tampoco admitió que el racismo era un continente, quienes han tenido que hac- raza, el color, el género y la orientación de obra barata en Bretaña. Él advirtió tema fundamental en la campaña. er ciertas concesiones a la clase obrera sexual es un instrumento letal utiliza- sobre una “ola de delincuencia rumana” Jeremy Corbyn, cabeza del Partido en los últimos años, les diga que tienen do en contra de la solidaridad y con la en el 2014. Él propone institucionalizar Laborista, sí se pronunció en contra del que dar cuatro semanas de vacaciones o intención de ocultar los verdaderos en- la discriminación en el trabajo legalizan- odio y la islamofobia y visitó una mezqui- licencia remunerada por maternidad, o emigos: los ricos, los explotadores, las do “empleos británicos para trabajadores ta para mostrar su solidaridad con la co- que cumplan con la normativa ambiental clases poseedoras. británicos”. munidad musulmana. Esto a pesar del establecida en Berlín y París. Marx también dijo que la clase obrera hecho de que Corbyn tiene un historial Estas son las fuerzas que han triunfa- no tiene patria. (Esto no se aplica a las Rampantes ataques antiinmigrante de oposición progresista a la UE. do en el referéndum Brexit. Son fanáticos nacionalidades oprimidas.) Lo que es La campaña pro Salida estaba llena de De las anécdotas y estadísticas anteri- que con su chovinismo rabioso han per- común a todas/os los trabajadores es que consignas y grafitis denunciando a pola- ores parecería claro que era mejor votar judicado su propia posición respecto a la son explotados por los patronos, y que se cos y musulmanes y llamando a “hacer en pro de Permanecer mientras se daba exportación al mercado capitalista más ven obligados a vender su fuerza de tra- Bretaña grande”. Se difundió falsamente una explicación antiimperialista, an- grande en el mundo, con 500 millones bajo diariamente. Este es el caso de las/os la noción de que Turquía se convertiría en ti-UE que mostrara solidaridad con las de clientes potenciales. Han puesto en trabajadores británicos, los trabajadores un miembro de la UE y entonces Bretaña personas oprimidas, a permanecer en si- peligro su posición como centro financie- griegos, los trabajadores irlandeses, los sería inundado por musulmanes. lencio y abstenerse, dejando su posición ro de Europa. Han coqueteado con una trabajadores estadounidenses, los traba- Uno de los seguidores de este campo desconocida. Además, cualquiera que crisis económica que tendrá consecuen- jadores sudafricanos o los trabajadores asesinó a Jo Cox, una miembro del Par- sean los argumentos antiimperialistas, cias nefastas para sus ganancias y para venezolanos. Nuestra clase debe resistir tido Laborista en el Parlamento conocida está claro que el movimiento Salida es un las/os trabajadores. la búsqueda de ventajas de unas/os sobre por apoyar los derechos de inmigrantes. movimiento de derecha con una agenda La UE tenía $741 mil millones en in- otras/os sobre una base nacional. Ella fue asesinada el mismo día en que flagrantemente racista. versiones en Bretaña para 2014. Todas Las/os trabajadores británicos sólo iba a dar un discurso ante el Parlamento Mostrar solidaridad con las/os oprim- estas inversiones están ahora fuera de pueden unirse como clase cuando se idos es particularmente urgente a luz de la UE, dañando los intereses financieros unen con los trabajadores musulmanes, la crisis de los refugiados y la crisis gen- estadounidenses y británicos. Los EUA los trabajadores polacos, los trabajadores eralizada de las/os trabajadores inmi- tienen 2.750 empresas en Bretaña, con rumanos, los trabajadores indios, los tra- grantes - desde el Medio Oriente, hasta unos 1,2 millones de trabajadoras/es y bajadores pakistaníes, los trabajadores af- la frontera sur de EUA. La oposición de $558 miles de millones invertidos allí. ricanos, los trabajadores filipinos, los tra- la clase trabajadora a la Salida sería una Estos incluyen los mayores bancos - Mor- bajadores irlandeses y así sucesivamente. buena respuesta a Donald Trump, quien gan Stanley, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase , Cuando llegue ese día, los días que le quiere construir un muro para mantener Goldman Sachs, entre otros - que quizás queda a la clase capitalista estarán nom- Libertad para Oscar López Rivera, ¡YA! a las/os mexicanos fuera y detener la lle- ahora tengan que solicitar licencias, etc. brados.