Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 61 No. 23 June 6, 2019 $1 HONDURAS General strike hits gov’t ‘reforms’

Massive protests against privatization in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, including burning tires in front of the U.S. Embassy in late May.

By Sam Ordóñez It is not known who initiated this fire, and PRIDE MEANS reactions of progressive groups have been var- June 3 — A national strike began in ied. Some claim that the action is justified, due Honduras on May 30 protesting a series of to the recent interference of U.S. imperialism FIGHT BACK! 4, 6 reforms announced by the government. The in the country. For his part, former President strike was called in response a series of decrees Manuel Zelaya described the facts as false signed by the president on May 28 aimed at positives. restructuring the health and education sectors. The teachers' and doctors' organizations The demonstrations, which continued into have said the strike will continue with demon- the next day, suffered brutal police repres- strations planned for June 3 and 4. sion. It is a scenario repeatedly seen during the administration of President Juan Orlando From the 2009 coup d'état Hernandez (JOH). to JOH's dictatorship According to the teachers and doctors who Manuel Zelaya was president from 2006 to called the strike, the restructuring would lead 2009 when he was the victim of a coup d'état to massive layoffs and privatize these essential after proposing a referendum to measure pub- sectors. lic interest in a constitutional reform. In 2010, central government spending on Although the army, which kidnapped Zelaya education was 32.9 percent of the total budget; and sent him to Costa Rica on June 28, 2009, today it is only 19.9 percent. In public health, argued that Zelaya was unconstitutionally the figures were 14.3 percent in 2010 and are seeking a second term, the real reason for the 9.7 percent today. (Prensa Latina, May 31) coup was the progressive foreign policy of the Despite strong police repression of demon- Zelaya government. strators, the president was forced to declare In 2008, Zelaya had expressed a desire to WW PHOTO: SOFIA ADAMS that there would be neither mass layoffs nor join the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of LGBTQ solidarity at Queens, N.Y., Pride with Roxana privatization, and the presidential decrees Our America (ALBA), a regional organization Hernandez, a Honduran trans migrant, murdered by ICE. were not ratified by the National Congress promoted by the governments of Venezuela of the Republic. However, organizers of the and Cuba to combat the influence of U.S. actions have indicated they will continue imperialism. protesting until the reforms are completely This represented an unacceptable step for discarded. the Honduran oligarchy, which had already In addition to demonstrators injured by opposed the progressive government. When Al-Quds Day for Palestine 2, 11 Honduran police, several government and they found the opportunity, these sectors used police buildings are reported burned. It is their control of the media to fabricate a consti- also reported that a group burned tires at the tutional crisis and carry out a coup. Klan shut down in Ohio 3 entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Continued on page 9 Utah workers organize union 4 'Shock and awe' war on migrants 5 Subscribe to Workers World ☐ 4 weeks trial $4 ☐ 1 year subscription $30 Unite to fight abortion bans 7 ☐ Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/donate Editorial Water is not a felony! 10 Name ______

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City / State / Zip ______Venezuela 9,11 Niger 10 Workers World Weekly Newspaper workers.org 10 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011 212.627.2994 Solidarity with Yemen Page 2 June 6, 2019 workers.org NEW YORK Solidarity with Palestine on Al-Quds this week Hundreds rallied in New York City’s Times Square ◆ In the U.S. May 31 to mark International Day of Al-Quds, Arabic for Solidarity with Palestine on Al-Quds ...... 2 Jerusalem. Launched in 1979 as one of the first official acts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Quds Day is held interna- Palestine and the U.S...... 2 tionally on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Janet and Janine Africa: Historic press conference 3 Ramadan to support Palestinians resisting Israeli occupa- Dayton, Ohio: Anti-racists drown out the Klan . . 3 tion. This year millions joined demonstrations through- Anti-fascists defend Rep. Ilhan Omar ...... 3 out Iran, across Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen and around the world. Court allows racist gerrymandering in Ohio, Mich .4 Government forces attacked protests in Bahrain Utah: Theater workers organize a union . . . . . 4 and Nigeria, while Israeli troops fired on thousands of Boots Riley: 'I'm inspired by you' ...... 4 Palestinians gathered for the Great March of Return at Boston: 'No walls in the LGBTQ2S struggle' . . . .5 Israel's barrier around the besieged Gaza Strip. "We have no doubt that the ultimate victory will be for the righteous 'Shock and awe' war on migrants, prisoners . . . .5 and Palestine and that the land of Palestine will be a safe Activists close down Atlanta Detention Center . . 5 place for Muslims, Christians and Jews," Iranian President Stonewall Rebellion: Crowd rage ignites . . . . . 6 Hassan Rouhani said at a Tehran rally. Pride marches in Buffalo, Cleveland, New York . . 6 — Report by Joe Catron New York City, May 31. WW PHOTO: TONI ARENSTEIN Unite and fight against abortion bans ...... 7 Boston: Pro-choice forces defy right wing . . . . . 7 ABCs of capitalist crisis ...... 8 Palestine and the U.S.: Two sides of the same struggle WV educators refuse to back down, once again . .10 This slightly edited by the U.S. war machine. From the constant selling of mil- Al-Quds Day: Solidarity with Palestine ...... 11 greeting was given by itary weapons to Israel by the U.S. to the renowned coun- ◆ Around the world Siddika Degia, an orga- terterrorism exchange program provided by Israel to U.S. nizer with the NYC cops, the issue here is one of imperialism and the control Honduras: General strike hits gov't 'reforms' . . . 1 Peoples Power Assembly, of Black and Brown bodies. Chavismo trains leaders to defend Caracas . . . .9 at the Al-Quds rally in The renowned counterterrorism exchange program Solidarity stops weapons to Saudi Arabia . . . . 10 New York on May 31. is one where pro-Israel organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs committee send cops to Israel where Niger: Students demand U.S., French bases close . 10 From Brooklyn to the cops learn the benefits of tear gas to break up pro- Venezeulan right wing negotiates in Oslo . . . . .11 Palestine, killing people is testers and learn about the surveillance of neighborhoods. a crime. All tactics are used here in the U.S., like the famous New ◆ Editorial The constant killing York Police Department’s Muslim Surveillance Program. When a drink of water becomes a felony . . . . .10 of Black and Brown bod- In return, the Israeli military learns about drug war tactics ies by cops in the U.S. cops use here in Black and Brown communities. ◆ Noticias en Español and the occupation of What both the U.S. and Israel forget is that people in Honduras: Inicia paro nacional contra reformas . 12 WW PHOTO: TONI ARENSTEIN Palestine are not two sep- both Palestine and the U.S. will keep rising up and will Editorial: ‘Liberal’ – hasta a un punto ...... 12 Siddika Degia arate issues. They are in continue standing in solidarity with each other because, fact one issue perpetrated as we all know, the people united will never be defeated. ☐ Workers World 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10011 Join us in the fight Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] for socialism! 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Janet and Janine Africa: ‘We won’t celebrate until our MOVE 9 brothers are released’

By Betsey Piette was to be heard after six months, but it’s Philadelphia now eight months with no response. If this government had its way, we would MOVE 9 members Janet Holloway still be in jail. They planned for us to die Africa and Janine Phillips Africa, who there. But we won’t celebrate until we were recently released after spending bring our brothers home.” MOVE 9 mem- nearly 41 years in prison, held a historic bers Merle Austin Africa and Phil Africa press conference in Philadelphia on May died in prison. 30. They were joined by MOVE members Both women stressed how important Consuwella Dotson Africa, Carlos Africa their MOVE family and beliefs in the and Sue Levino Africa who all served writings of MOVE founder John Africa shorter terms following the police assault were in helping them survive decades of on their home on Aug. 8, 1978. imprisonment, including three years in Pam Africa, minister of confrontation solitary confinement. Ramona Africa—​ for the MOVE organization, chaired the imprisoned for seven years following impressive panel. Ramona Africa, the the deadly Philadelphia police bombing sole survivor of the state’s bombing of of the MOVE house on May 13 1985—​ the second MOVE home on May 13, 1985, echoed these sentiments. “This system made her first public appearance fol- has worked hard to break us up,” Ramona WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE lowing a prolonged, debilitating illness. said. “They tried to get me, Consuwella, Janine Africa, Pam Africa and Janet Africa speak at May 30 press conference in Philadelphia. Celebration of her birthday will be held Carlos and Sue to agree to the stipulation here on June 8. that if we did not associate with MOVE were attacked by prison guards who Mumia told him, ‘You sent nine people to The press conference marked the first we could come out earlier, but none of us used water hoses, night sticks, ice picks jail, but you admit you don’t know who time in over 40 years that several of the agreed to compromise.” and even baseball bats: “We survived the killed Ramp.’ ” MOVE members involved in the 1978 beatings. We fought because they had confrontation with Philadelphia police Resistance to brutal prison conditions attacked our sisters at the women’s house ‘Political climate worse today’ appeared together in public. MOVE 9 The women described the brutal condi- of corrections.” When asked to compare the political members Debbie Sims Africa and Michael tions they were subjected to in SCI Muncy Both women maintain their innocence climate in the 1970s to today, both women Davis Africa Sr., released in 2018, were women’s prison following their arrests in in the death of Philadelphia Police Officer responded that things are worse now unable to attend because of arbitrary 1978. They were initially put into “the James Ramp. He was shot in the back of than when they were imprisoned. Janine parole restrictions that prevent them hole”—​solitary confinement­—and told the head by “friendly fire.” Ramona Africa Africa noted: “Forty years ago there was from being with other MOVE members. by then Head of Security Edward Bennett stated that when Ed Bennett saw her in no progress, no freedom of speech — The event was held at the storefront that they would remain there for the dura- the yard at Muncy before her release, he unless you said what they wanted— but office of the Philadelphia Student Union. tion of their 30- to 100-year sentences. said, “We know you all didn’t kill that the system was more diplomatic and cov- The director, Julien Terrell, welcomed “A large guard punched me in the chest cop.” ered things up. They aren’t covering it the elder freedom fighters as important and knocked me across the cell,” Janet All the MOVE speakers recounted the up any more. Police shoot people in the examples for students currently involved Africa said, describing conditions. “They painful impact of learning about the bru- streets and nothing is done.” in education and social justice struggles. took our clothes, didn’t feed us, kept the tal deaths of 11 family members, includ- Janet Africa added: “The system has Janine Africa and Janet Africa opened lights on 24/7 and kept us in the hole for ing some of their own children, while in degenerated, but there is a lot of technol- the press conference by urging people three years.” prison, when police bombed the MOVE ogy now so that we can see things happen to continue the fight to release the three “They thought they could break us. house in May, 1985. in the open. Yet even with all these cam- remaining MOVE 9 members. Edward They don’t see women as strong, but they An audio statement from political eras, all these pictures, all these situations Goodman Africa was granted parole on were wrong,” said Sue Levino Africa. “We prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, welcom- with brothers and sisters being shot down April 1, but has yet to be released. Chuck did 50 days of a hunger strike, exercising ing the women’s release, was played. in cold blood by cops, they still try to tell Sims Africa and Delbert Orr Africa are throughout and going without even water Janine Africa stated: “Mumia is impris- us that didn’t happen.” still being denied parole. the last few days. They even sent me to oned because of his stance in support of “The political climate is bad, but don’t Janine Africa stated: “Delbert has a men’s prison to try to stop us, but we MOVE. He spoke the truth. One of the be discouraged,” concluded Janine Africa. always been singled out since police badly ended up breaking Ed Bennett’s back.” last things he did before police shot him “The power of the people is a mighty beat him following the 1978 confronta- Carlos Africa described how in was to call into a radio show to challenge force. It’s what got Mumia off death row tion. His most recent appeal for parole December 1981, he and MOVE 9 men Judge Edward Malmed who convicted us. and it’s what got us here today.” ☐ DAYTON, OHIO Anti-racists drown out the Klan By Arielle Robinson white-supremacist violence including twice and then for Donald Trump in 2016. as these hundreds of working-class peo- killer cops, with such names as Emmett Although the mainstream press seem ple made it known that white supremacy Hundreds of anti-racist people came Till, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Oscar to be unsure of why a KKK group from should never have a platform, whatever out May 25 to protest the Ku Klux Klan in Grant and Eric Garner. A fence was Indiana was in Dayton, Ohio, it seems its size. Dayton, Ohio. Members of the Honorable erected between the Klan and protesters, obvious to leftists. With Dayton one of As mosques and synagogues are shot Sacred Knights of Indiana were scheduled while police officers stood in front of the the most segregated cities in the coun- up by white supremacists, Black people to have a rally that day when only nine Klan, protecting the white supremacists. try and Trump territory, the KKK saw are murdered by police, migrants are members showed up. Their bullhorn was Over 700 officers and barricades were a chance to make themselves known to being detained and more unspeakable drowned out by the cheering and drum there. white working-class people who may crimes of the ruling class and its protec- beating of members of the New Black Dayton is one of the most racially seg- blame their economic issues on people of tors are committed, the people of Dayton Panther Party, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, regated cities in the United States and color instead of on the ruling class and its have shown that white supremacy will the Huey P. Newton Gun Club and more. has experienced economic declines in the policies. never have a platform. The people united A Black protester held a sign past decade. Dayton is in Montgomery The strong show of force by protesters is are fighting back. ☐ with the names of Black victims of County, which voted for Barack Obama an important blow to white supremacists, Anti-fascist crowd defends Rep. Ilhan Omar By Jim McMahan congressperson from Minnesota, because haters back. People chanted, “Hey Hey, the individuals who came to the far-right Bellevue, Wash. of her courageous statements in sup- Ho Ho, Islamophobia has got to go!” and counterrally, including the notorious port of the Palestinian struggle, against other anti-racist slogans until the racists Proud Boys, have a track record of pro- When Rep. Ilhan Omar was invited to U.S. support for the Israeli occupation, dispersed at the Bellevue Convention moting white nationalism, misogyny and be the featured speaker at the Washington against the U.S. war on Venezuela, for Center near Seattle. violent attacks on anti-fascist protesters. Council on American-Islamic Relations Muslim civil rights and against abortion The coalition posted a statement after We will continue to organize community event in Bellevue, Wash., during bans. their successful counterdemonstration actions against these bullies and bigots, Ramadan May 25, she was opposed by But the Community and Labor Against on their Facebook page: “Community & and we encourage all our friends and about 40 racist Trump followers. Fascism coalition organized an anti-rac- Labor Against Fascism is proud to have neighbors to join us! Together, we will The misogynist, white-supremacist ist, anti-fascist counterdemonstration, been present to show our support for show that solidarity and unity in action bigots called their demonstration to and the progressive crowd of 800 people Rep. Omar and everyone targeted by are our strongest weapons!” ☐ rant against Omar, Somali-American warmly welcomed Omar and pushed the racists, bigots and xenophobes. Many of Page 4 June 6, 2019 workers.org High court allows racist gerrymandering in Ohio, Michigan

By Martha Grevatt District—​nicknamed “snake on the News, April 25) Cleveland lake”—legislators​ created a long, narrow Michigan was ordered to district that runs 141 miles along Lake redraw the 2011 map of U.S. In 2004, Ohio became notorious for Erie and connects Toledo with part of Congressional and state legis- the deliberate suppression of Black vot- Cleveland. This forced Marcy Kaptur of lative districts by Aug. 1 and ers. The racist disenfranchisement, called Toledo and Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, to hold special early elections “Ohio’s first poll tax,” may have given the both of whom have progressive repu- in 2020 for some state Senate state’s 20 electoral votes to George W. tations, to run against each other in the positions. Bush—without​ which he would have lost Democratic primary. Kaptur won. As in Ohio, the lawsuit pri- to John Kerry. On May 3, a panel of three federal marily focused on “political”

Not much has changed in 15 years. judges ordered Ohio to redraw the map gerrymandering—​deliberate PHOTO: THE OHIO CHANNEL Only two of Ohio’s 16 Congresspeople are by June 14, stating it "dilutes the votes of advantaging of Republican At the Ohio statehouse in 2017, opponents of Black. The A. Philip Randolph Institute, a Democratic voters by packing and crack- Party candidates. gerrymandering show unequal districting map. constituency group of the AFL-CIO that ing them into districts that are so skewed However, racism is an unde- represents the interests of Black workers, toward one party that the electoral out- niable factor in Michigan as is a plaintiff in a 2018 lawsuit filed over come is predetermined.” (New York well. white. Michigan’s only African-American the way Ohio’s Congressional districts are Times, May 3) As University of Florida Professor Congressperson, Rep. Brenda Lawrence, constructed. To subvert their political rivals, Michael McDonald notes: “If more serves that district. Plaintiffs accused the Republican- Republicans overlooked provisions of the minorities were shoved into that dis- dominated state legislature of gerry- Voting Rights Act. The pack-and-crack trict than were needed in order to elect High court subverts will of voters mandering—​by definition “to divide strategy negatively impacted Black vot- a minority candidate of choice, then In both Ohio and Michigan, activists or arrange (a territorial unit) into elec- ers, among the many who reject the more the district becomes suspect. Then race have opposed gerrymandering through tion districts in a way that gives one blatant bigotry of Trump’s party. was used as a predominant factor in ballot initiatives. political party an unfair advantage.” the creation of that district.” (WDET, Voters Not Politicians enlisted scores (Merriam-Webster) Another case in Michigan June 28, 2018) When this happens it is of volunteers to put Proposal 2 on the The legislators redrew the The practice of gerrymandering is by actually a violation of the Voting Rights 2018 Michigan ballot, collecting over half Congressional district map in 2011, with no means unique to Ohio. A week before Act, even though the act has been cited a million signatures. That proposal was the intended result giving Republicans 12 the Ohio ruling, a three-judge panel (not by Republicans as a reason for creating to create an independent commission to out of 16 possible seats in the U.S. House the same federal judges who ruled in Black-majority districts. redraw the Congressional map after the of Representatives. The lawsuit alleges Ohio’s lawsuit) unanimously concluded The long 14th Congressional District 2020 U.S. Census. that Democratic Party voters were either that gerrymandering was “of histori- contains parts of two counties, connect- The measure passed with over 60 per- “packed” into a few Democratic strong- cal proportions” in Michigan. The “pre- ing all the Black-majority communities cent support—2.5​ million votes. holds or “cracked” into other districts dominate purpose … was to subordinate in southeast Michigan from Pontiac to Ohio’s anti-gerrymandering ballot where their voting strength was diluted. the interests of Democratic voters and Detroit. The district bypasses adjoining initiative, Issue 1, passed during the May In drawing up the 9th entrench Republicans in power.” (Detroit communities that are predominantly Continued on page 5

Inspired by Boots Riley Boston meeting Theater workers organize a union ’No Walls in the By Joanna Straughn The union became official in April. A representa- LGBTQ2S Struggle’ Salt Lake City tive of IATSE Local 868 Ticket Sellers and Treasurers in Washington, D.C., called to congratulate the new By Workers World Boston bureau The Salt Lake Film Society shows independent and unionists, showing them they’re not alone. Anti- international films, hosts entertainment events and worker laws like Utah’s “right-to-work” (for-less) will Workers’ Solidarity Day was marked by a May 31 meet- rents out its DVD film archive. Although it presents not stop the growing mobilizations of young people ing titled “No Walls in the LGBTQ2S Struggle,” sponsored itself as supporting educational experiences, workers organizing fighting unions. ☐ by Stonewall Warriors, International Workers’ Solidarity learning how to organize a fighting union was not an Network and Workers World Party. educational experience Film Society management had Boots Riley to workers: The meeting was dedicated to Roxanna Hernandez, a wagered on. Honduran trans woman who died in detention at the bor- Front-of-house staff sell tickets, serve concessions, der. Speaking about the heinous deaths of children in ICE operate projectors and clean up theater floors. At the ‘I’m inspired by you’ detention centers, Sam Ordóñez of Fight for Im/migrants and Film Society, they’re mainly young people, including Refugees Everywhere (FIRE) said, “To the right wing, a six- some who are LGBTQ2S, people of color and women. week-old embryo has a sacred right to live and matters even They’re drawn to work in an environment where more than the life of the mother, but once that child is born, their cultural interests can connect them to a commu- if it is a migrant, the only right it has is the right to die.” nity that enjoys critical conversations. On the other When speaking on reproductive and gender justice, disabil- hand, their wages have been kept low and they have ity activist Kristin Turgeon emphasized the need to reject the little say in how things are run. walls the bosses create to divide the working class, like rac- According to one theater worker, management ism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ2S bigotry and ableism. apparently hopes that workers’ interest in the orga- The next day she was on the front line fighting against a fas- nization will somehow compensate for inadequate cist, misogynist, anti-choice gathering in downtown Boston. wages. At the same time, they demean them by call- Remarks at the meeting by trans activists raised conscious- ing them “the popcorn people.” Workers’ previous ness about the discrimination trans people face in accessing attempts to demand higher wages continually met Below is the full transcript of Boots Riley’s May 28 video reproductive health care, including the violence of neglect, with management’s dismissive attitude. message to Salt Lake City theater workers: forced sterilization, unwanted procedures or being turned down When the Independent Spirit award-winning “Hey, what’s up, y’all. This is Boots Riley, writer and for needed procedures, racism and lack of funds. Trans people movie, “Sorry to Bother You,” played in the theater, director of ‘Sorry to Bother You.’ I want to say con- are demanding the medical measures necessary to be able to the front-of-house staff learned by observing the gratulations to you theater workers who are coming make an uncoerced, safe choice on whether or not to have chil- characters—​low-wage call center workers—​and together forming a union, joining a union, fighting for dren and the social supports necessary to raise healthy children. they mobilized. After contacting the AFL-CIO, they higher wages and benefits and all of that good stuff. A Boston Google worker, who asked to remain anonymous, is were put in touch with the International Alliance of And just seeing where your power lies. And, you know, trying to unionize their workplace where much of the workforce Theatrical Stage Employees. According to IATSE, so much of what you do is, as you know, about getting is precarious. “The company purports to be against bigotry and “Authorization cards went out to the bargaining unit stories to people. retaliation, but it is just the opposite. ... TVCs [temps, vendors in December, and by the end of February, more than “And the thing about what happens when people and contractors] can be fired at any time ... the workplace is 80% of people had signed on.” (medium.com, May 28) come together and fight, when people, especially when racially segregated with the majority white workers full time Just as confidence was growing, management began they do that on the job, it starts to tell a story to other and the majority of Black and Brown workers part-time,” they warning the workers not to join the union, spurring people. It’s not just the fight that’s there that exists in explained. Meeting participants enthusiastically pledged to doubts in some. That’s when progressive hip-hop artist, front of you; it’s about the story that is being told to offer concrete solidarity to any organizing efforts. Boots Riley, the film’s director, caught wind of the union millions of other people that will be finding out about Frank Neisser, a longtime WWP member, marked the 50th in formation and how his film had sparked it. He made what you’re doing. And just even in your local area who anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion by reading from Leslie a video of himself giving words of congratulations and that will inspire—​not just theater workers, but fast food Feinberg’s work “Lavender and Red,” which chronicles the encouragement to the workers, saying, “You’re seeing workers, you know, anyone, you know, retail workers—​ rebellion on a day-to-day basis. Neisser called on everyone to where your power lies and who that will inspire, not just so what you’re doing is very important. And I’m inspired come out and be part of the Stonewall Warriors/International theater workers, but fast food workers … retail workers, by you. Thank you so much.” Workers Solidarity Network contingent in Pride Saturday, so what you’re doing is very important. I’m inspired.” June 8. ☐ workers.org June 6, 2019 Page 5 ‘Shock and awe’ war on migrants, prisoners

By Teresa Gutierrez Detained, depressed and dying trans woman, 36-year-old Dulce Rivera, The APA stated: “At a June 19 hearing, On May 21, NBC news issued a damn- described by NBC as being from Central Haney showed pictures to illustrate solitary In 2003, during the genocidal and ing report of conditions for migrants America—and​ they try to commit suicide confinement's harsh conditions, including criminal U.S. war against Iraq, the term detained in for-profit centers. Just like like so many detainees do, they are put in filthy cells that are ‘scarcely larger than a “shock and awe” was propagated. U.S. prisons that incarcerate more people isolation. king-sized bed,’ he said. As a result of the The British Telegraph wrote 10 years than any other country in the world, these This amounts to the government pour- endless monotony and lack of human con- later on March 19, 2013: “One expression centers amount to dehumanizing crimi- ing gasoline on a fire. tact, ‘for some prisoners ... solitary confine- above all others has become associated nal chambers of horror. Willingly or not, The New York Times reported on ment precipitates a descent into madness. with the invasion of Iraq: ‘shock and awe.’ administrators of these jails and deten- Oct. 2, 2018, that migrants detained in Many inmates experience panic attacks, Developed at the Pentagon, ‘shock and awe’ tion centers are torturing the detained. the country’s largest immigration deten- depression and paranoia, and some suffer was a doctrine designed to leave the enemy Scholars and social scientists have tion facility in Adelanto, Calif., regularly hallucinations,’ he said.” so demoralized and disoriented that its will amply documented how segregation has constructed nooses out of bed sheets in The report continues: “Former inmate to resist crumbled. … It has come to mean no social relevance; it amounts to tor- an attempt to commit suicide. The news- Anthony Graves, who spent 18 years on the application of overwhelming force, the ture. Incarcerated people enter detention paper cited a government report which death row, including 10 in solitary con- effective obliteration of the enemy, and for already traumatized. Whether they are stated that 15 out of 20 cells contained finement for a murder he didn't commit, many the term ‘shock and awe’ has come undocumented or accused of alleged rob- these nooses. (tinyurl.com/yyle5mll) Did drove home Hanley's points. ‘I would to epitomize the crudeness of the … [U.S.] bery, the scales of justice are already tipped the government then assign psychological watch guys come to prison totally sane, assault on Iraq.” (tinyurl.com/y3vmfqgo) to crush, not rehabilitate or assist, them. services to prevent suicide? Of course not. and in three years they don't live in the The Trump war against migrants—​as real world anymore,’ he said. One fellow NBC writes that thousands of detained Solitary confinement is torture well as the historic war against incar- migrants “were outlined in a trove of gov- inmate, Graves said, ‘would go out into cerated people of color—​employs the ernment documents that shed new light Conditions are horrible at migrant deten- the recreation yard, get naked, lie down “shock and awe” tactic. No bombs are on the widespread use of solitary con- tion centers, but they are far worse in regu- and urinate all over himself. He would being dropped as they were in Iraq—​a finement for immigrant detainees in ICE lar prisons. A 2012 American Psychological take his feces and smear it all over his crime that Washington must be forced to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Association report documented the impact face.’” (tinyurl.com/y3psc5am) account for. Although nothing can replace custody under both the Obama and Trump of the use of solitary confinement in U.S. Graves represents a heroic resister. the people who were massacred or the administrations.” (tinyurl.com/yy8zng7w) prisons. It quoted Craig Haney, a psychol- He managed to survive U.S. prisons. culture that was destroyed, the U.S. none- The documentation paints “a disturb- ogist and professor at the University of But the countless unknown people, U.S. theless must be forced to pay reparations ing portrait of a system where detain- California, Santa Cruz, who was appointed or foreign-born, who are jailed, shack- to the people of Iraq. ees are sometimes forced into extended that year to a National Academy of Sciences led, tortured, made fun of, taunted and It is a different kind of war, but the periods of isolation for reasons that have committee which studied high rates of criminalized for being poor or a person attacks against migrants and the incar- nothing to do with violating any rules.” incarceration in the U.S. of color—​and who continue to be tor- cerated are a war nevertheless. Despite Who is being detained and why? If dis- Haney toured and inspected dozens of tured—​must be defended. the overwhelming assault, migrants and abled migrants are in need of a wheelchair, U.S. prisons and interviewed hundreds The use of shock and awe in prisons is the imprisoned continue to organize and a cane or have a prosthetic, they are put of prison staff and inmates. According to an inhumane tactic applied to workers fight back, just as the people of Iraq did. into isolation. If they say they are gay or him, the approximately 80,000 inmates who merely want to survive—and​ to live There may be no bombs, but prison cell transgender, they are put into isolation. in solitary confinement are "at grave risk their lives. bars have come to symbolize tremendous If they complain against abuse from the of psychological harm” and “the condi- It is time to open up the jails and lock shock and awe. guards, they are rushed into isolation. tions of confinement are far too severe to up the Trumps of the world. ☐ Organized solidarity is urgently needed. If they are so depressed—​as was one serve any kind of penological purpose.” Activists close down Atlanta Detention Center

By Dianne Mathiowetz how the jail could be rehabilitated to a and, prior to that, the killing of Jamarion Atlanta “one-stop shop” for a broad range of ser- Robinson by FBI-led squads, saw family vices, including health care, job training members and Black Lives Matter activ- The multistory Atlanta City Detention and community empowerment. ists challenge the "official" stories. No Center was built prior to the 1996 Olympics The detention center sits on a large piece body-camera video is allowed on feder- to house the hundreds of poor and home- of valuable land in an area of Atlanta under- ally organized task forces. Moreover, fed- less people that the image-conscious cor- going gentrification. Undoubtedly, prof- eral agents involved have not been made porate elite were determined to banish it-minded developers will be pushing their available for questioning by the Fulton from the sight of a global audience. own agenda. But the determined activists, County District Attorney. At that time the City Council passed a especially those who have personal experi- Atcheson was unarmed and hiding in series of “quality of life" laws guaranteed to ence with the crimes of mass incarceration, a closet when he was killed by an Atlanta ensnare poor people, and Black youth and PHOTO: WOMENONTHERISE will be going into the next battle confident cop in an FBI-led squad. Seventy-six bul- men in particular, into days or even months Women on the Rise is one of many prisoner that "When We Fight, We Win!" lets fired at Robinson tore his body apart. in the jail. For the next two decades, the rights and community activist groups who While the city of Atlanta ordered its 1,700-bed facility was filled with those too “fought to win” in closing the Atlanta jail. Organizing to stop cop killing continues police to deploy body cameras during poor to pay the cash bond levied for traffic The same day the city announced the all interactions with the public, that still tickets and violations of city ordinances like zeroed in on the city's arrangement with ACDC closing, the city also announced has not reduced the number of officer-in- loitering or public intoxication. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement that Atlanta police would no longer par- volved shootings in 2019. The detention center deserved to be to house undocumented im/migrants ticipate in certain federal task forces. Videos from bystanders, however, have called a "concentration camp for the poor," in advance of deportation at ACDC. In The recent killing of Jimmy Atcheson produced charges against police. ☐ with its notorious record of medical neglect, response to outrage at the Trump admin- physical brutality and unsafe conditions. istration's family separation policy, the On May 28, the hated ACDC was offi- city ended the ICE contract, reducing the Gerrymandering in Ohio, Michigan cially closed. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance jail population by hundreds. Bottoms signed the City Council’s legis- Before its closing, the operating costs Continued from page 4 Unfinished struggle against racism, lation and ordered the establishment of of the jail amounted to about $33 million for democratic rights a community task force to repurpose the a year, with only about 150 or fewer men 2018 primary election, with a stunning In other words, racist, right-wing building for the benefit of city residents. and women locked up on a daily basis. 75 percent voting in favor. The initiative schemes to disenfranchise voters will con- Popular pressure from Women on the creates new terms for the next remapping tinue for the time being—​and perhaps will A victory for prisoner activists Rise, a organization of formerly incarcer- of voter districts, giving the minority be upheld by the current Supreme Court. The struggle to achieve the shutting ated women, along with scores of other party a greater voice in the process. This struggle over a basic democratic down of the ACDC involved years of community groups, ultimately achieved Ohio and Michigan Republicans right to vote is not occurring in a vacuum. effort by multiple groups that built cam- the jail closure as a step in changing the ignored not only the opinion of the judges Right now a record number of progressive paigns to steadily reduce the incarcerated racist, anti-poor, working-class-based but the will of the voters and appealed the women of color, some who even identify as population. system of incarceration. court rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court. socialists, are being elected to office. Voter A pre-arrest diversion program was When some called for diverting the $33 They asked for a stay of orders to redraw suppression is a political tool to counter- won with leadership from the Solutions million jail budget to the police department, the district maps until after the Supreme act and contain this significant trend. Not Punishment Collaboration and the activists made clear that their demand was Court hears earlier gerrymandering cases This movement for democratic rights is Racial Justice Center. That success was instead to fund services to uplift and repair from Maryland and North Carolina. taking place within the narrow context of followed by reforms in cash bail and mar- the communities whose members had been The high court agreed to stay the lower bourgeois electoral politics—​Democrats ijuana policies, which again kept large targeted by overpolicing, institutionalized court rulings in both states. This means vs. Republicans. But while the form is numbers of people out of jail. racism and white supremacy. the 2020 Congressional elections will regressive, its content is wholly progres- Immigrant rights groups such as Working with architects and city plan- likely be held with the current maps sive—​a still unfinished struggle against Georgia Detention Watch and Georgia ners, the "communities not cages" advo- intact. outright disenfranchisement. All genuine Latino Alliance for Human Rights cates already have design drawings of anti-racists need to pay attention. ☐ Page 6 June 6, 2019 workers.org Stonewall Rebellion: Crowd rage ignites

Leslie Feinberg’s I had two policemen on each side of me. I Stonewall combatant Sylvia Rivera 120-part series on didn’t quite go willingly into the [police] stressed a very important point about Part 66 connections between wagon. I didn’t want to be arrested. Even the rebellion that ensued. Rivera was LGBTQ and socialist though I was handcuffed, I jumped up a Venezuelan and Puerto Rican trans- history, “Lavender & Red,” appeared in and [put] one foot on the right side of the gender youth who had lived homeless Workers World newspaper from 2004 to door and one foot on the left of the door. I on the streets of Manhattan since she 2008, and is available for free download sprung up like a jumping jack and pushed was 10 years old. Before her death, she at workers.org/book/lavender-red. backwards, knocking the police down to stressed the role in the rebellion of the the ground, almost against the wall of the homeless gay/trans street youth—​Black, By Leslie Feinberg Stonewall. Well, they finally dragged me Latinx and white and gender-defiant—​ into the [police] wagon.” who could not afford the Stonewall door A number of accounts of the confronta- Tom, a participant, remembered Ray admission charge or the overpriced, tion between cops and the crowd outside battling against arrest. “A couple more watered-down drinks. The vest-pocket WW PHOTO: DEIRDRE GRISWOLD the Stonewall Bar mark the prolonged were thrown into the van. We joined in park across the street from the bar was Leslie Feinberg speaking for freedom for struggle between police and a cross- with some who wanted to storm the van, their home. (Personal interview, 1997) Mumia Abu-Jamal, Town Hall, New York City, dressed butch lesbian as a qualitative free those inside, then turn over the van. Rivera emphasized that at the moment 1999. turning point. According to Village Voice But nobody was yet prepared for that kind of ignition of the rebellion, “It was street journalist Howard Smith, “It was at that of action. Then a scuffle at the door. One gay people from the Village out front—​ Carter: “The crowd, however, was beyond moment that the scene became explosive.” guy refused to be put into the van. Five or homeless people who lived in the park being intimidated by mere sirens and Smith wrote that the crowd roared: six cops guarding the van tried to subdue in Sheridan Square outside the bar—​ the caravan had to push slowly through “Police brutality! Pigs!” him with little success. Several guys tried and then drag queens behind them and the furious protesters, who, enraged, Gino, a Puerto Rican construction to help free him. Unguarded, three or four everybody behind us.” (Feinberg, “Trans pounded on the police vehicles. Danny worker, joining in the shouts of “Let her of those in the van appeared then quickly Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue”) Garvin recalls the noise as ‘people would go! Leave her alone!” reportedly dislodged disappeared into the crowd. This was all Danny Garvin described how police tried run over, grab the [police] wagon, and a loose cobblestone and heaved it across anyone needed.” to push back those gathered around them. start shaking -- ba-boom! ba-boom!!’” Christopher Street. Eyewitness Steve Yates As police hurriedly tried to load other This allowed the crowd to make an import- Martin Duberman reported, “One remembered, “It landed on the trunk of a prisoners into the police wagon, one ant discovery: a big stack of new bricks at queen mashed an officer with her heel, police car with a terrible screech, ‘scaring 18-year-old participant saw “a leg in nylons a Seventh Avenue South construction site. knocked him down, grabbed his handcuff the shit’ out of a policeman who was stand- and sporting a high heel shoot out of the Garvin explained, “They would come at keys, freed herself, and passed the keys to ing next to the car.” back of the [police] wagon into the chest us with nightsticks, and we would have to another queen behind her.” According to Stonewall employee of a cop, throwing him backward. Another disperse onto Seventh Avenue, where the Inspector Pine was left with eight Harry Beard, one or more people in the queen then opened the door on the side of people were able to see the bricks.” plainclothes detectives and one uni- crowd were able to slash all four tires on the wagon and jumped out. The cops chased Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, who led formed cop, all surrounded by an enraged the police cruiser with the butch lesbian and caught her, but Blond Frankie [who the raid, ordered police to drive off quickly crowd. Those among the hundreds who prisoner inside. worked the door at the Stonewall] quickly with prisoners in the police wagon and surrounded police threw their precious Raymond “Ray” Castro, a Puerto Rican managed to engineer another escape from three cop cruisers and “just drop them off pocket change in a hard hail, shouting, baker, recalled how he fought his own the car; several queens successfully made at the Sixth Precinct and hurry back.” “Dirty copper!” and “Here’s your payoff!” arrest. “At that point I started pushing back their way out with him and were swallowed People in the crowd around the They hurled bottles, cans, bricks, a dam- and wound up with two plainclothes police up in the crowd.” (Duberman,“Stonewall”) police wagon began beating on its sides, aged fire hydrant and dog excrement at pushing me. The next thing I know, there’s Michael Fader reported seeing the cops demanding to know the names of those police. A youth named Timmy reportedly two plainclothes cops and two uniformed “leave the van unattended—the​ doors were imprisoned inside. According to Voice heaved a wire-mesh garbage can, which police in the melee. I was knocked to the open, so they left. That raised the emotional reporter Lucian Truscott, “A cry went shattered the Stonewall’s plate-glass win- ground by one of their billy clubs, [which,] level, the excitement of them getting away.” up to push the [police] wagon over, but dow, which was reinforced with plywood. put between my legs, tripped me. At that The multinational crowd of hundreds it drove away before anything could Cries of “Gay power!” and “Let’s get ‘em” point the handcuffs got put on me, and massed around the police was made up of happen.” articulated the detonation of mass rage. they had a [police] wagon right in front of those brave enough and angry enough at The slashed tires of one or more of There was nowhere for the police to the entrance to the Stonewall. When I got oppression to be drawn to a confrontation the vehicles slowed down the police exit. retreat except back into the Stonewall—​ shoved up to the door of the [police] wagon, with the police. According to accounts compiled by David the very bar they had raided. ☐

Buffalo dyke march Pride in the CLE day Hundreds marched in the 4th annual “Pride in the CLE” Saturday, June 1, in Cleveland to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. A tremendous turnout at the march and festival that followed demonstrated that the current right-wing attack on the community will not succeed in pushing back the struggle for full equality. Pride in the CLE was sponsored by the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland. Mallory McMaster, pride direc- tor at the center said, "Being visible in public and showing the community that LGBTQ people exist here and contrib- ute to the community is a form of resistance and protest in a world where we're so oppressed and silenced and unseen.” The International Workers Solidarity Network distributed PHOTO: MICHAEL YEH signs stating, “No walls in the LGBTQ2S community” and By Marge Maloney and Ellie Dorritie “Solidarity with Im/migrant workers.” Buffalo, N.Y. liberation struggle back to Buffalo's Pride events for the 50th anniversary of the ­— Photo and report by Susan Schnur On Saturday, June 1, about 200 Stonewall Rebellion. women and gender-oppressed people The Solidarity Bloc declared its intent marched up one of Buffalo’s busiest to “Make Buffalo Pride for the People, Queens, N.Y. Pride streets for the 19th annual Dyke March. not profit,” proclaiming: Led by Black and Brown women, the • Pride for the People is accessible During Queens Pride, Workers Hernandez, PRESENTE!" and "Fuck the march had chants, banners and signs and inclusive. World Party members joined in the police!" The contingent, organized by condemning the war on the LGBTQ+ • Pride for the People brings #TGNCSilentWalk commemorating the Latinx trans women, highlighted the facts community, the war on women, the war community together to celebrate lives of Dana Martin, Ashanti Carmon, Claire that transphobia kills and sex work is work. on people of color and on all oppressed milestones and organize for our Legato, Jazzaline Ware, Muhlaysia Booker ­— Photo and report by Sofia Adams people. The strongest message was for futures. and Tamika Washington, all trans women the need to unite the struggles of all • Pride for the People is united of color murdered in the U.S. in 2019. the oppressed and to be in the streets against a corporatized, white- The contingent also honored Johana demanding change. washed, profit-driven Pride. Medina Leon, trans asylum seeker from On Sunday, June 2, the many • Pride for the People remembers the El Salvador, who died June 1 in Immigration thousands-larger, bank-sponsored Pride radical origins that gave us the right and Customs Enforcement custody, and Parade took place. Workers World Party to march. Roxana Hernandez, trans asylum seeker Buffalo marched in this year's parade, The Solidarity Bloc encouraged partic- from Honduras, dead in ICE custody in 2018. supporting an Anti-Capitalist Leftist ipants to wear black, in direct contrast to The contingent message was well Solidarity Bloc and acting in unity to the overpriced rainbow merchandise that received by the Queens community, bring radical politics and the LGBTQ+ surrounds the parade. ☐ with many joining in the chant, "Roxana workers.org June 6, 2019 Page 7 Why it’s necessary Unite and fight against abortion bans

By Sue Davis Ohio ban on April 11 and the Alabama rate. He notes these states have been and ban on May 24, and are preparing a suit are politically dominated by a right-wing, The criminal anti-abortion network in against the Georgia ban. white-supremacist majority. But, he writes: the U.S., praised and promoted by the rac- The most heartening aspect of the “Where Black resistance has taken hold in ist, reactionary Don in the Oval Office, was fightback has been in the streets, with the South, it has consistently proved to be hard at work the last two weeks of May. a massive outpouring of women, gen- the most visible bulwark against reaction- A Missouri abortion ban was signed into der-nonconforming people and male ary rule.” (May 27-June 9) law on May 24. The U.S. Supreme Court allies defending Roe in 500 cities across According to an Atlanta Journal- issued a split decision in an Indiana abor- the country on May 21. The most popular Constitution poll, 49 percent of Georgia’s tion case on May 27, affirming the need to slogan everywhere is: “We won’t go back.” population opposes the anti-woman bill, bury or cremate fetal remains, but choosing Meanwhile, Nevada, Illinois and compared with 44 percent who favor it. not to rule on ending pre-viable abortions. Vermont recently passed laws affirming Seven out of 10 Georgians oppose over- A Louisiana abortion ban was signed into Roe, joining New York and Oregon, which turning Roe, with 78 percent of Black law on May 29. The last remaining clinic passed such legislation previously. voters saying abortion should be legal in in Missouri stayed open due to a May 31 most or all cases. temporary restraining order. Whose right to ‘personhood’? Vicious impact on Black women May 31 was the 10th anniversary of Dr. Medically incorrect “heartbeat” Boston, June 2. WW PHOTO: LIZA GREEN George Tiller’s murder in Wichita, Kan.—​ bans now place the “personhood” of an The African-American medical direc- who was called “St. George” by co-workers embryo—not​ yet a fetus—above​ that of a tor at Alabama Women's Center for NAACP board, in a May 30 Nation article. and other abortion providers because of his woman. (Planned Parenthood calls these Reproductive Alternatives, Dr. Yashica Katha Pollitt, a longtime defender of compassion and empathy for women. “six-week bans.”) This is truly a crime Robinson, told CNN on May 18: “As a women’s right to abortion, summarized While any one of these events could against women’s and gender-oppressed mother and a physician, this abortion the current explosive, destructive war merit its own article, their shared aspects people’s human rights. ban is deeply personal. … I am angry at against women’s human rights in a May is the current violent attack on the 1973 Willful ignorance of the reproductive the politicians who do not see women as 24 New Yorker article: “Indifference to U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing process and hostility toward women, responsible decision makers and there- women and children isn’t an oversight. … abortion, Roe v. Wade. driven by religious zealots in evangelical, fore believe the care I provide should The point isn’t to prevent unwanted preg- The so-called “abortion wars” started Roman Catholic and various “orthodox” be outlawed. I am enraged that the state nancy. … The point is to roll back moder- even before Roe. The misnamed religions, has now led to “forced preg- of Alabama would force me to choose nity for women.” anti-abortion “National Right to Life nancy bills.” That’s what Stacey Abrams, between what is ethical and medically Who will this outrageous war against Committee” was founded in 1967. Now nationally known Black politician, calls appropriate care, and breaking the law.” child-bearing people hit the hardest the attacks that ramped up in the 1980s the bill in her state of Georgia. Robinson is most concerned about under patriarchal, misogynist capitalism? have gone nuclear. Though Abrams’ religious family taught how poor Black women will be affected The poorest of working women and all Between Jan. 1 and May 20, some 378 her abortion was wrong, she’s a leader in given the Alabama Department of Public the gender oppressed: women of color, abortion restrictions were introduced in the the fight against the bans. “[E]very woman Health report in 2017: While “there young gig workers, im/migrants, trans states. An unprecedented 40 percent were should have a choice. … That’s the fun- were 31 pregnancy-related deaths out and gender nonconforming people, rural abortion bans, according to the Guttmacher damental crux of this. … [It’s] a decision of 100,000 live births for white women, residents, disabled women and those try- Institute on May 30. Guttmacher noted that women can make to determine their that number more than doubled for black ing to survive domestic violence. that between Jan. 1, 2011, and May 31 of economic future, to determine their health women. When compared to the [Center But the crisis also offers those who this year, 479 abortion restrictions became care. It’s a decision they make about how for Disease Control and Prevention’s] oppose U.S. ruling-class domination a law in 33 states. That is more than a third they control the creation of their family.” national average of 12.4 deaths per chance to join this human rights movement of all 1,271 curbs since 1973. (YouTube, June 1) 100,000 for white women and 40 deaths and fight back. Here’s a chance to answer None of the current bans have gone An article by Zak Cheney-Rice in New per 100,000 for Black women, these that old-time labor union call for solidarity: into effect, thanks to legal intervention York Magazine notes that 55 percent of numbers are particularly stark.” “An injury to one is an injury to all.” by the Center for Reproductive Rights, Black people in the U.S. live in the Deep “We must expose the hypocrisy of the which filed May 24 to stop the Mississippi South, where Georgia has the second-high- so-called ‘pro-life’ movement,” wrote Rev. Davis is a longtime reproductive justice ban. The American Civil Liberties Union est U.S. maternal mortality rate and Dr. William J. Barber II, a leader of the activist and author of the pro-choice novel and Planned Parenthood filed against the Alabama the sixth-highest infant mortality Poor People’s Campaign and member of the “Love Means Second Chances.” BOSTON Come out for Pride at 50! Pro-choice forces defy right wing Come out for Workers World! June is Pride month. Rallies and June 2—Around 100 pro-choice marches worldwide are commemorat- activists gathered in the Boston ing the 50th anniversary of the historic Common to confront a group of Stonewall Rebellion! From the begin- anti-abortion extremists attempt- ning, Workers World Party has a proud ing to hold a rally and march history of reporting on and participating there. The action was initiated by in the living struggle for LGBTQ2S jus- Boston Feminists for Liberation. tice and equality. Foremost these days is The activists took control of fighting transgender oppression, to stop the Parkman Bandstand where right-wing legislative attacks on both the right wing was planning to trans and gender-nonconforming youth speak. The right wingers quickly and adults and to stop brutal physical WW PHOTO: MONICA MOOREHEAD A photo of Gay Caucus of YAWF (Youth called for backup, hiding behind attacks and murders, which especially Against War & Fascism, a former youth the police in order to set up their target trans women of color. group of WWP) banner at a New York City sound system. Do you know that Workers World has Pride march in the early 1970s. An undercover police officer used pep- WW PHOTO: LIZA GREEN made major theoretical contributions to per spray in an attempt to force an activist the LGBTQ2S struggle? One was publi- to end patriarchy and capitalist oppres- retreat, and seven pro-choice demonstra- presence protecting the right wing, pro- cation of “The Roots of Lesbian and Gay sion. So if you want to both fight for the tors were arrested over the course of the choice activists continued to march and Oppression: A Marxist View” (World liberation of LGBTQ2S people and strug- day. Witnesses reported several instances hold space around the bandstand and View Forum, third ed., 1993), which gle against capitalist exploitation, help of the police allowing right-wing provo- chant “Pro-life, that’s a lie! You don’t care drew on Frederick Engels and Dorothy build Workers World newspaper. cateurs to escape into the crowded park if women die!” and “Queer, straight, Black, Ballan for a dialectical materialist expla- We invite you to join the WW while their victims were arrested. white, let’s unite for abortion rights!” nation of LGBTQ2S oppression. Another Supporter Program, which was set up Despite the constantly increasing police was the body of work of Leslie Feinberg, 43 years ago to help us publish anti-rac- — Report by Sam Ordóñez a proud WWP leader, who created the ist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQ2S, work- first Marxist analysis of transgender ing-class truth and build campaigns Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba history and struggle in such books needed to crush capitalism and usher as “Transgender Warriors: Making in socialism. Write checks to Workers by Leslie Feinberg History,” “Transgender Liberation: World and mail them, with your name This ground-breaking book is a compilation of 25 articles Beyond Pink and Blue” and “Rainbow and address, to 147 W. 24th St., 2nd about same-sex love and sex/gender variance in Cuba’s Solidarity in Defense of Cuba.” Floor, New York, NY 10011. Or click on pre- and post-revolutionary history. That analysis drives Workers World’s Donate on workers.org. Know that we Available at major online booksellers. view that the LGBTQ2S struggle is an are grateful for your help in building the integral component of the overall struggle revolutionary press in the U.S. ☐ Page 8 June 6, 2019 workers.org ABCs of the capitalist crisis

WW reprints here Part 1 of an arti- recovered, some workers are supplanted the chair of the Federal cle, slightly abridged, by Sam Marcy, by the onward march of technology. At Reserve Board in times of the late chairperson of Workers World the present time, when innovation and economic crisis. Congress Party, that appeared in the April 12, new technology have reached a wild and plays a role in it, too. 1992, Workers World. Despite the years uncontrolled level, millions have been so The president, whether that have passed since then, his analysis displaced. Republican or Democrat, is highly relevant to understanding the Every phase of capitalist prosperity, it plays the point man as the relationship between workers and capi- should be remembered, carries the seeds advocate of low interest talists today, as signs of a new downturn of its own destruction. rates or "cheap money." in the economy multiply. This is supposed to help Unemployment 'too high'? the mortgaged farmer, George Meany, a one-time leader of the In a recent interview, President George the poor home owner, AFL-CIO, was by no means a paragon of [H.W.] Bush permitted himself to say that or little business person trade union militancy. But toward the end he thinks unemployment is "too high" borrow from the bank at Sam Marcy meeting with Fidel Castro in October, 1993. of his term, he had much time to think and believes the economy will soon spurt low interest rates. About about the many capitalist recessions and upward. He didn't bemoan unemploy- 650,000 small businesses the unpaid labor of the worker, who pro- recoveries he had seen. ment itself, just that it is too high. have died so far in the past decade, leav- duces a surplus over and above what is During the late 1970s the news was This is the acceptable political and the- ing hardly a trace behind. required generally or historically to per- full of economic data about the recession oretical premise that underlines capital- The lower interest rates are really for petuate the working class. going on. A reporter from the big-busi- ist ideology: There is and always will be the industrialists. The big banks give the All the rest is merely the exchange of ness press asked him, "When is a reces- unemployment. If 5 million or 7 million ones that are thriving lower rates. As for values within the system, and can at best sion over?" "The recession is over," are unemployed, that's legitimate and in the ones that don't make it, the banks only be peripheral to capitalist exploita- Meany replied, "when everybody goes accordance with the norms of capitalist can establish themselves as the first and tion. For example, you can multiply the back to work." development. Only when it's too high most important secured creditors in case averages on the stock exchange a million- Every worker, especially the unem- should the government be concerned. of bankruptcy. fold, but that in and of itself cannot gen- ployed, would eagerly agree with his Otherwise, it's up to the individuals to There has been such an avalanche of erate profit. The profit merely changes answer. Yet not one bourgeois economist solve their own problems. failures that it has overpowered some of hands. will agree with this definition. It's a commentary on the capitalist the biggest banks. But all that is part and Real profit comes from the sweat and There are many so-called independent political system and its leaders, espe- parcel of the merits of the “free enter- blood of the working class. Without that, economic institutes. But they're all ori- cially the current Democratic presiden- prise” system. the capitalist system cannot maintain ented toward the myth that the capitalist tial candidates, that they don't take Bush The chair of the Federal Reserve Board itself. system and economic crises are eternal. on for this. They don't see unemployment historically plays the role of the hard- The fact that the capitalist stock market They may be very interested in an eco- itself as an evil that corrodes the working headed, tight-fisted guardian of the is rising is not evidence that the capitalist nomic upturn, but getting everybody back class and the lower echelons of the mid- money supply. Usually the president and economy itself is rising. On the contrary, to work? That is not their concern. dle class, who are constantly falling to the the Congress say that interest rates should the stock market may be rising because bottom of the pit with each shakeout of be lower. But the chair replies: "Not yet. there has been a severe restructuring Economic growth not same as jobs the financial system. It will endanger the credit standing of the of the capitalist economy, throwing out Their concern is "getting the economy government. If that goes, the whole uni- millions of workers. The market is antic- moving again" — an altogether different Reports of economic recovery verse might collapse." ipating fabulous profits from the restruc- concept than getting everybody back to The latest issue of Business Week Eventually, however, the chair gets turing of the capitalist economy. work. (dated March 30, 1992) proudly pro- around to lowering interest rates, and Whether the capitalist cycle of produc- Of course, the capitalist system can't claims that "The recovery is here at that is supposed to ease the economic cri- tion has been restarted has to be exam- run without workers. The workers are last" and "KA-Boom—the rebound is sis. Pretty soon, almost everybody will go ined independently of any ephemeral the one indispensable element in capi- underway." back to work, according to the economic improvement in economic conditions talist production. But full employment Most of their statistics are derived from mythology of the bourgeois economists. generally. This improvement may herald is another matter. If Meany had been the releases of the Federal Reserve Bank. In March [1992], the Federal Reserve an oncoming capitalist recovery, or it may more knowledgeable about the origin and This is a bankers' bank. Commercial reported an economic improvement. fizzle out just like the last one. development of the capitalist system, he banks can borrow from it at a low inter- Among other things, it said there was "a Furthermore, to expect that a right- might have noted that ever since the first est rate that no individual could ever hope slow but widespread advance in the econ- wing Republican chairman of the Federal worldwide capitalist crisis, back in 1825, to get. omy since the end of January." But fur- Reserve Board, just reappointed by a reac- there has been no capitalist recovery The chair of the Federal Reserve Board ther on it narrows its estimate to "some tionary Republican president, will take an where everybody went back to work. is Alan Greenspan. Few people are likely improvement in economic conditions." Olympian view of the capitalist economy to know the names of the six other bankers The two assessments are not identical. and not be influenced by the elections is Army of unemployed on the Federal Reserve Board. They're all The Federal Reserve measures its words ridiculous. Is it possible to avoid a flood Some workers are always left behind — appointed, and the public isn't supposed carefully. of phony statistical evaluations calculated not just because of the ill will or greed of to be concerned that they're all white, all Economic conditions may improve if, to overwhelm the electorate? the capitalist class, but because, on pain men, all rich bankers and industrialists in for instance, you as a house painter agree The havoc caused by the capitalist crisis of losing out in their competition with this "democratic society." Heaven forbid to paint my apartment and I borrow some has become so severe that the capitalist other capitalists, they must introduce that anyone should ask why no workers $500 from the bank to pay you. You are newspapers in some regions are compet- labor-saving devices which cut down the are on it! then able to pay the rent for your apart- ing with each other to give vivid pictures labor force. The Federal Reserve Board plus the ment and the insurance for your old car. of the devastation suffered by millions of This is as inevitable as the rising sun. directors of the 12 district banks are in Many examples like that can add up to families throughout the country. Even the It has been one of the immutable effects charge of the central banking system. economic improvement, especially if they TV networks are forced to show at least of every capitalist crisis, resulting in a Their role in charge of the money sup- are multiplied by the millions. once a week the homelessness, hunger so-called reserve army of hundreds of ply makes them more omnipotent than But in a general way, an improvement and continuing slump in Bush's stand- millions of unemployed worldwide. any ancient monarchy. This bank has a in economic conditions as it is posed in ing with the electorate. Some of the truth (Of course, if a war follows a capital- Federal Open Market Committee that the Federal Reserve survey is not the must come out one way or another. ist crisis, and if it's long enough and big deals with the financing of the govern- same thing as restarting the capitalist But what is sorely missing is an expla- enough, it will "employ" everybody.) ment's obligations. It buys and sells dol- cycle of development. nation of the causes of the capitalist eco- This reserve army of unemployed exists lars and bonds, and conducts currency nomic crisis. Whatever criticism does not only at the beginning of a recovery, wars abroad. What starts up the economy again? appear leads to illusions and hinders but when it begins to gallop, and even at A restart of the economy begins with independent action by the working class. its very climax. It's a fact of the historical The game of interest rates the employment of workers, from whom To be continued. evolution of capitalism. Historically, there's a neat game that the capitalists extract real profit. The cap- Even after the economy has fully goes on between the U.S. president and italist system of exploitation begins with

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By Marco Teruggi The leaders of the United Socialist components must be ready for the com- hand, has been divided on the matter. Caracas Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are in the prehensive defense in each territory.” One sector is involved in the attempt at vanguard of the political leadership of The training is intended to respond dialogue, like the representatives of Juan Teruggi is an Argentine journalist liv- the training plan. to two principal possible scenarios of Guaidó acting under U.S. orders and ing in Caracas. This article appeared "Caracas is a city of peace, a city of life, conflict. joined by the Un Nuevo Tiempo [A New June 1 in pagina12. Translated by and we are going to defend it with the The first is well known; it concerns the Time] party. Michael Otto. organization of our people, the civil-mil- actions that the right wing carried out in But another sector has insisted there is itary union, and with the preparation 2013, 2014, 2017 and at the beginning of no longer anything to talk about or nego- June 1 — A defensive wall is surround- and knowledge that we are developing this year. These consisted of attacks on tiate. That group clings to the argument ing Caracas. Over 10 days, some 1,700 in this effort of comprehensive training," PSUV and commune offices, health and that they can only get rid of Chavismo men and women have received defense explains Erika Farías. She is the mayor child care centers, and on Chavista lead- through an act of international force. To training. The goal is to reach 100,000 by of the Municipality of the Liberator of ers, as well as provocative night actions this end, for example, they work pub- October, with training centers in 22 par- Caracas and a member of the leader- and attempts to create chaos in work- licly on the fictional [goal of] reinserting ishes [neighborhoods] to cover the 117 ship of the PSUV and the Francisco de ing-class areas. The right wing has been Venezuela into the Treaty of Reciprocal territorial hubs in the capital and assure Miranda Front. infiltrating and hiring armed groups for Assistance via the National Assembly. that the city becomes a swamp that can several years in order to challenge daily The U.S. government, for its part, swallow up any attempted coups. Unified defense plan involves masses life in the working-class neighborhoods publicly maintains that any solution The first training site is located south The training exercises include sev- and to deploy in times of attack. depends on the departure of [President] of the city in Macarao. It was in Macarao eral organizations: the PSUV, the allied The second scenario involves one that Nicolás Maduro, and has returned where the right wing burned the head- parties [Communist Party of Venezuela the government has condemned: the pos- to supporting Guaidó through Vice quarters of a communal organization on (PCV) and the Free Homeland Party sibility that the right wing may attempt President Mike Pence. The question that April 30, while cameras were all focused (PPL)], the social and communal to use mercenary forces composed of var- has been around since the beginning of on Juan Guaidó, Leopoldo López and the movements and the members of the ious agents, such as paramilitaries, crim- Guaidó's self-proclamation is how far is handful of members of the military in Constituent National Assembly. inal gangs and private contractors. In the United States willing to go? their failed coup. Leaders of social move- The exercises have three objectives. that situation, Caracas’ regions — whose While those are the public debates, ments and Chavista grassroots organi- First, organization of defense through overpopulated hills look like labyrinths what is being prepared behind closed zations, including people of every age the design and execution of a plan in a whose paths are stairs and balconies — doors? The right wing, following the U.S. group, took part in this training day. unified manner among the different par- could be a battleground for the irregu- plan — and depending on its financing This is the first time they have put their ticipants, in order to form a nucleus in lar forces. The organized people must be — has already carried out violent actions hands on a rifle or learned techniques for each territory. Second, to carry out the prepared to spot enemy movements and during the days surrounding Guaidó's territorial reconnaissance. No one forced exercises as such. Third, the productive know how to act to stop them. self-proclamation [as president] at the them to come; they are ordinary people effort, where the objective is that each end of January. The rightists attempted from organized neighborhoods. They are of the 22 parishes will have a center for What is to come: Dialogue or combat? to forcefully enter from Colombia on living the day-to-day struggle that has training and food production. The training plan in Caracas advances Feb. 23, unleashed attacks on the elec- been transformed into a battle for gas, Colonel Boris Iván Berroterán de hand-in-hand with the central commit- tric power grid, and attempted a polit- transportation and controlled prices. Jesús, commander of the Area of ment Chavismo has made since January: ical-military coup at dawn on April 30. The training has various elements: Comprehensive Defense 414 Caricuao, to carry out dialogue with the opposition What if they aren’t yet willing to agree learning how to make maps of the neigh- explains: “All Venezuelans have co-re- in order to reach an agreement. The first on a process in Oslo that does not con- borhood, mobilizing with weapons, sponsibility in the defense of the home- attempts at dialogue occurred secretly cede Maduro’s exit? Chavismo has doing physical exercises, and learning land, as it is written in article 326 of the for months. During the past two weeks, to prepare for all possible scenarios. about first aid, evacuation and self-de- Constitution. It is not only a question talks in Oslo, Norway's capital, have been Caracas is the epicenter of the Bolivarian fense. The instructors are members of the of arms. We are going to create a very public. Revolution’s power that the coup forces Bolivarian Militia, the body made up of important logistical chain. There must Chavismo has demonstrated unity seek to overthrow. So Chavismo is conse- more than 2.5 million women and men, be eight or nine people in the rear for around the search for dialogue and has quently preparing on the front lines for the backbone of the so-called Doctrine of each combatant who is trained here; the affirmed that it will insist on reaching an any further attacks around and within Comprehensive Defense of the Nation. instruction must be continuous; and all agreement. The opposition, on the other the city. q HONDURAS General strike hits gov’t ‘reforms’

Continued from page 1 advantage of almost 5 percent of the but the budget votes had mysteriously disappeared. continues to be Publicly, the U.S. government under The manipulation of the count was so cut, pushing up Barack Obama condemned the coup, obvious that even the Organization of prices for fam- but allowed the junta to overthrow the American States, which normally serves ilies in need of democratically elected president. In fact, to seal U.S. imperial decrees, condemned medical services. emails from Hillary Clinton, then sec- the fraud. Washington immediately rec- The theft retary of state, reveal that the U.S. gov- ognized the results. of Indigenous ernment was negotiating with the coup The Honduran people took to the lands has not leaders, most of whom were trained in streets to protest the theft of the presi- stopped since the School of the Americas (in the U.S.) dency, which led to police repression with the Spanish con- and had close ties to the Pentagon. tear gas and a 10-day curfew. Since then, querors arrived, The U.S. then recognized the results of the intense struggle to restore democracy but under JOH it the presidential elections in November of in the Central American country has not has intensified. that year, despite being held under a mil- ceased. The murder of itary junta. The new conservative presi- Indigenous envi- dent, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, received great JOH's neoliberal offensive ronmental activ- praise from the Obama administration When the right wing took power in ist Berta Cáceres Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 2019 for his efforts toward "reconciliation," Honduras in 2009, it immediately began by U.S.-trained despite the fact that during his term of to implement the typical neoliberal pro- state forces is just the most famous The oligarchy in its own propaganda office journalists who supported Zelaya gram. The objective of these elites, in example of the use of state violence to about these cities admits that they use or opposed the coup began to disappear. service to imperialist interests, is to gut push through mines and “megaprojects” Hong Kong, which was founded as a The current president came to power social services and open the country to against the wishes of the Indigenous British colony to control China after the in 2014 and has been criticized for his the demands of the transnationals. Peoples who own the land being used. Opium Wars, as a model. (tinyurl.com/ corruption and increased state repres- The current attack on health and pub- If disinvestment in public services, y5rb3g65) sion against his rivals. Although the lic education would be the final blow dispossession of Indigenous terri- These ZEDEs imply a return to the rightists had accused Zelaya of trying against these services, which have been tories and state repression were not direct colonialism of past centuries, as to run for a second term as a pretext for under siege for the last decade of conser- enough, imperialism now seeks to create they are designed to serve as an entry the 2009 coup, JOH was able to run for vative rule. "Zones of Employment and Economic point for transnational corporations and reelection without judicial problems. School salaries were frozen from Development” (ZEDE). These areas foreign capital. Their nominally "auton- The 2017 election was characterized 2010 to 2016, and since then there have would be “model cities” oriented toward omous" system would actually turn them by blatant fraud from JOH's National been only small increases. Investment foreign investment, controlled by a com- into colonies of American and European Party. The vote count was suspended sev- in school infrastructure is almost com- mission chosen directly by the president. companies that want to operate in eral times, in one instance for three days, pletely suspended. These cities will have their own judicial, Central America. q and when it resumed, the opposition Hospitals lack all kinds of supplies, economic and administrative systems. Page 10 June 6, 2019 workers.org

editorial When a drink of water becomes a felony Many people hike for pleasure through in the border desert in the last two intensified, reprisals are ramping up In the prosecution of Warren and the beauty of the Sonoran Desert near decades—​which is still an undercount against those who help migrants. attacks on these aid organizations, the Ajo, Ariz., as you might visit a state park of the actual number of people who have Early in 2018, NMD released a video U.S. government is attempting to crimi- near where you live. died or gone missing. showing U.S. Border Patrol cops destroy- nalize basic acts of human care. While hiking in the desert, Scott On May 20, Warren commented to ing more than 3,000 gallons of water Scott Warren has pointed out that Ajo Warren discovered the brutal reality Democracy Now! about the increasing NMD had put out for migrants in the was once a copper mining town where the facing migrants at the U.S. border as he mortality rate: “We went from finding desert. It was after the video was released company policed who crossed the border. began to run into people who had just human remains every other month to that Warren was arrested at a site where Now, in this era of transnational capital walked through the 100+°F desert and finding five sets of human remains on a migrants were receiving life-saving aid. exploitation, the U.S. government has were in desperate need of water. single trip hiking through the Growler Syracuse University’s Transactional made border policing into a big for-profit Warren became a volunteer with Valley, and then going back a week later Records Access Clearinghouse reported business built on dying bodies and incar- Tucson-based No More Deaths (NMD). and finding two more sets of remains, and that there has been a 30 percent increase cerating refugees. This and other humanitarian aid groups then, on a single day of searching, finding nationwide since 2015 in the number of The brutal hand of capitalism tries in southern Arizona leave water and food eight sets of remains and bodies of people people arrested annually for allegedly over and over again to split up oppressed in the desert for migrant travelers. And who had died in adjacent areas.” harboring or assisting undocumented and working people—​tries to make us now Warren is on trial—​he faces felony Migrants coming into or already in migrants. turn against each other and betray each charges and 20 years in prison from the the U.S. are suffering systematic racist For many of the people who live along other—to​ intensify profit. U.S. government for giving succor to peo- demonization, medical neglect amount- the desert borderlands, it is not unusual Over and over, we affirm that we ple who would otherwise die of thirst. ing to deliberate genocidal intent, crimi- to have someone knock on the door and will succor each other, support each This is not an exaggeration of the dan- nalization and incarceration that includes ask for water or help. No More Deaths other, fight for each other against this ger facing migrants. There have been assault and rape. and other organizations try to broaden death-dealing system. We pledge: No more than 7,000 known migrant deaths Now, not only have attacks on migrants and deepen that neighborly help. Borders in Workers’ Struggles! ☐ WV educators refuse to back down, once again By Workers World West Virginia bureau Mitch Carmichael called the education workers While every single survey taken since February shows “obstructionists.” most people in the state do not want to privatize public Following the successful defeat of the West Virginia On June 3 the Senate reconvened, again drawing huge education, free-market capitalists appear to be in a hurry omnibus education bill, SB 451, in February 2019, protests. The legislators passed the misnamed “Student to do so. Senate Republicans called for a special session in June Success Act.” Many rank-and-file educators are worried the Democrats to reintroduce the same legislation. SB 451 tied a school The new bill includes charter schools, increased class are beginning to show their true loyalty to ruling-class employee pay raise to anti-public education proposals, sizes and the elimination of seniority. The Senate added interests and are starting to soften their position on charter such as for-profit charter schools, increased class size an amendment making it illegal for a school superinten- schools. Only time will tell what will happen next. and elimination of seniority rights. dent to close schools during a worker walkout. A sepa- Unions plan to return to Charleston June 17 when the Education workers carried out a two-day walkout on rate bill created voucher programs known as Education bills will be taken up by the House of Representatives. ☐ Feb. 19-20, which ultimately killed the bill. The previous Savings Accounts (ESAs). year, teachers and support staff waged a nine-day strike that paved the way for education worker actions in several Who is promoting this bill? other states. The bills are being promoted by The Senate reconvened on Saturday, June 1, think- union-busting outfits such as the Chamber ing no one would show up since most school districts of Commerce and the West Virginia are closed for summer break. The Senate also chose Manufacturers Association. that date to avoid another walkout. To the Senate’s sur- On Friday, May 31, Trump-appointed prise, hundreds of education workers did show up at the Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sent Capitol building in Charleston, wearing mostly red and out a tweet supporting the Student Success holding signs. Members of education unions, as well as Act, writing, “West Virginia has an opportu- representatives of other labor unions, came together in nity to improve education for all & put the a demonstration of unity. needs of students first. Looking forward to Coincidentally, June 1 is also the date of the first seeing bold moves to offer robust options PHOTO: AFT Workers’ Solidarity Day. like charter schools and ESAs and support West Virginia education workers and their allies rallied across the state on No new bill was passed June 1. Senate President great teachers. Let’s get it done.” Jan. 9, the one-year anniversary of their historic strike, here in Saint Albans. FRANCE & ITALY NIGER Working-class solidarity stops Students demand U.S. and weapons from arming Saudi Arabia French bases close

By John Catalinotto dock area carrying the banner: “Stop arms traffick- By G. Dunkel ing, make war on war.” Would the Saudi-flagged ship be able to load Luigi Cianci, a leading Camalli, said the fol- On May 25, at the call of the Union of Nigerien Students (USN), a weapons in France or Italy bound for use in the lowing: "During the Vietnam War we blocked the few thousand students marched through Niamey, the capital of Niger, brutal war against the 30 million people of Yemen? docking of American ships and in 1971 we orga- chanting, “Down with foreign military bases,” “Down with the French The events of mid-to-late May gave an excellent nized a ship to aid the Vietnamese population. army” (Niger is a former French colony), “Down with the American example of the potential of international solidar- And we did the same during the Gulf War. army,” and “Down with the jihadists and Boko Haram.” ity among European workers, which is also an act “Even if we are far fewer today and we want to Niger is landlocked, just south of Algeria and just north of Nigeria of solidarity with the oppressed Yemenis. defend our jobs, we do not want to do it at all costs: in West Africa. It abuts seven countries, and most of the 23 million First in mid-May, dockworkers, human rights The war in Yemen is one of the greatest humani- Nigeriens inhabit its densely populated south along the Niger River. activists and anti-war organizations prevented tarian catastrophes of recent years: 60,000 killed, The rest of the country is in the Sahara Desert. It should not be confused the Saudi cargo ship from loading at Le Havre, 90,000 children dead from malnutrition, one mil- with Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with 201 million Nigerians. France. The protests there had prevented the lion people affected by the cholera epidemic. We Last year, a Boko Haram guerrilla ambush killed four U.S. Special loading of weapons on the ship, the Bahri Yanbu. explained these things to our members and they all Forces soldiers and exposed a U.S. presence in Niger, one of the poor- They then warned Italian dockworkers that the agreed on the boycott.” (Il manifesto, May 17) est countries in the world. In mid-May this year, another Boko Haram Bahri Yanbu would soon be docking at Genoa, an For the moment at least, the delivery of weap- ambush killed 28 Nigerien soldiers and wounded a dozen more, basically industrial and port city on the west coast of Italy. ons to the Saudi monarchy was halted. The in the same locality. The U.S. Special Forces and their French counter- The dockworkers there, called “Camalli,” though French protesters and Genoese dockworkers have parts stood by while their Nigerien allies were taking all these casualties. their number has decreased from 8,000 in 1987 given a splendid example of working-class soli- The U.N. Human Development Index calculates Niger is the seventh to 1,000 today, have a history of internationalist darity in Europe at a time when right-wing par- poorest country in the world, with 40 percent of its inhabitants living and union activity. That dates from the anti-Fas- ties have shown their ugly racist and xenophobic on less than $1 a day. However, Niger contains one of the world’s largest cist resistance during World War II to the militant heads. It is an example of working-class solidarity uranium deposits. struggles of the autumn of 1969, to refusal to load in Europe that contrasts with the united actions of At the May 25 protest, some placards read: “No to sub-contracting ships bringing weapons to the U.S. occupation in European imperialists bankers and corporations our national sovereignty” and “Our territory has been independent since Vietnam. carried out by the European Union bureaucracy. August 3, 1960.” The defense minister of Niger has admitted that he When the authorities refused a request from the Even better, the French and Italian workers is unsure of what the United States is doing at its base near Agadez, a dockworkers union to inspect the ship, they refused have cooperated in solidarity with the embattled historic town that grew up as a crossroad trading center in the Trans- to load the ship. They instead demonstrated in the people of Yemen. ☐ Sahara trade. (jeuneafrique.com, May 25) ☐ workers.org June 6, 2019 Page 11 After failed coup attempt Venezuelan right wing negotiates in Oslo

By Marco Teruggi 5,000 people. After that, López and many Consequently, he did not take into con- The government’s political situation Caracas, Venezuela of the leaders fled to various embassies. sideration the possibility of modifying the inside Venezuela puts it in a stronger Speculation proliferated from that order of the three steps he had promised position for dialogue, while its economic Published first in pagina12.com.ar. moment on. Elliott Abrams, U.S. Special from day one: Put an end to “usurpation,” position is weaker. Data published by the Translation by Michael Otto. Envoy for Venezuela, said that every- establish a transitional government and Central Bank of Venezuela indicate the thing had been set up by those who he hold “free elections.” difficulties: The gross domestic product May 31—The​ panorama in Venezuela alleged had made commitments. He contracted by 52.3 percent between the has changed during the course of one claimed that the commander-in-chief of Opposition demands Maduro resign third quarter of 2013 and September 2018. month. At dawn on April 30, Juan the army (FANB), the president of the On May 28, a second round of talks took Inflation in 2015 was 180.9 percent, 274.4 Guaidó, the fugitive Leopoldo López, and Supreme Court of Justice, and the chief place in Oslo. Guiadó, the self-proclaimed percent in 2016, and 862.6 percent in 2017; several deputies of the National Assembly of the Presidential Honor Guard had been "president," reiterated his rhetoric, adopt- it skyrocketed to 130,060.2 percent in 2018. had publicly led an attempted military involved. ing the tone of an ultimatum. Guiadó was What room for maneuvering does the coup. Over the past several days, the According to Abrams, there was a reinforced by men from his Popular Will government have with such statistics in scene has now shifted to Oslo, the capital 15-point agreement. However, that party, including his envoy to the United an economy subjected to an international of Norway, where Chavismo’s representa- agreement has never been disclosed or States, Carlos Vecchio, a fugitive from jus- economic and financial blockade—​and tives and a sector of the opposition have confirmed. Neither was the purported tice. Vecchio asserted: “All options depend with oil production that still shows no been negotiating. participation of the people he named. On on Maduro's departure.” There would be signs of a recovery? There is a direct relationship between the contrary, the three officials Abrams nothing to negotiate other than the form of the two events. The collapse of the April claimed to have been involved appeared Maduro’s exit and his destination. Chavismo committed to dialogue 30 political-military coup attempt has with President Nicolás Maduro and carried On May 29, the Norwegian Ministry of Guaidó announced that he had not forced the right wing to publicly recog- out their respective assignments. Foreign Affairs—​which called for maxi- reached an agreement in Norway and that nize their adversary at an arena using Even the media that supported the mum caution regarding the confidenti- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called to dialogue. attempt to overthrow Maduro openly ality of the results—​reported through a support him. Venezuela’s government, Things didn’t quite go according to challenged this version of the April 30 communiqué that the meeting addressed through Minister of Communications plan that morning in April. What was operation. They called into question the economic, political and electoral issues. Jorge Rodríguez, a participant at both supposed to happen? Venezuelan right wing, as well as the Part of the resolution would require meetings in Oslo, says it will continue The rightists were going to liberate actors in Donald Trump's administration elections in order to be adopted. Where, working "for peace, agreement, democ- López from house arrest via the main gate and internal tensions in the White House when and under what conditions would racy and the defense of the Constitution," (the Altamira overpass in east Caracas) concerning strategy toward Venezuela. they happen? That is one aspect of the following the Chavismo commitment to and place him next to Guaidó to lead an The U.S. president favored getting out debate on which there is no agreement. dialogue. uprising, in which they would meet with of the crisis by resorting to dialogue, Maduro made that commitment clear soldiers from the military barracks, high while the John Bolton-Mike Pompeo axis Bolton: U.S. strangling economy when he said: “It has taken a lot to get to commanders of the Bolivarian National wanted to advance towards a military The other core issue is economic: The Norway, several months of secret conver- Armed Force (FANB) and sectors of gov- escalation. Venezuelan economy is being strangled sations.” The president added: "Be cou- ernment institutions. They sought to by a U.S. blockade that seeks to suffocate rageous, tell your people the truth” about unleash a massive popular movement Guaidó faced internal dissent the people. U.S. National Security Advisor what happens in Oslo. there that would move in a massive wave The still-existing speculations were John Bolton graphically explained: “It’s If the right-wingers who went to towards the Miraflores Palace. modified by information about the first sort of like in Star Wars when Darth Vader Norway—subject​ to U.S. orders—​aban- round of talks in Norway. These talks had strangles somebody, that’s what we are don the new dialogue, will they return to Few on streets with opposition taken place unofficially before May 17, doing to the regime economically.” Bolton’s machine guns or to a pattern of escalating In fact, the only thing that happened when they became public. Guaidó faced objective now is to strike at the heart of violence? Their discourse has boxed them was that López, Guaidó, some assembly accusations from his own ranks. the government's plan to control high into a position defined by a maxim: The members and leaders, about 40 armed Those who accused Guaidó pointed food prices, by blocking food imported by only thing they will accept is that Maduro men and the chief of the intelligence ser- out that he went to Oslo without inform- Venezuela’s Local Supply and Production leave. The sticking point is that to nego- vice were joined on the streets by only ing other sectors of the opposition. Committees (CLAP). tiate is to give in, among other things. ☐ Al-Quds Day Workers World Party solidarity with Palestine Int’l Action Center solidarity with Palestine This slightly edited message of soli- seemingly impossible odds and over- Nathaniel Chase delivered this mes- Palestinian solidarity movement, darity with the Palestinian people was whelming U.S. military power also know sage of solidarity on behalf of the including the Boycott, Divestment and delivered by Sara Flounders, speaking it is possible to resist because Gaza has International Action Center at the Sanctions Movement (BDS), continues for Workers World Party, at an Al-Quds survived and continues to fight. Al-Quds rally in New York City’s Times to gain strength. Day rally in New York City’s Times The U.S. empire and the Zionist state of Square on May 31. And because they know that the Square on May 31. Israel won’t survive. Israel can’t last a day unbreakable will of the Palestinian peo- without U.S. military aid, U.S. diplomatic We don't want no two states, we want ple is an inspiration to billions across Resistance is justified when people are cover and U.S. political and economic '48! We don't want no two states, we want the planet to press forward in their own occupied! Greetings from Workers World power arming it and keeping that colonial, all of it! We want all of it! struggles for national liberation, to strike Party on Al-Quds Day! apartheid outpost alive. That's right, we want all of it, because powerful blows against the dying beast of Al-Quds Day, Jerusalem Day, always But Zionism, despite every high-tech every inch from the river to the sea is U.S. imperialism. the last Friday of Ramadan, is an interna- weapon, drone and tank, can’t defeat Palestine. So as we mourn the many martyrs of tional day acknowledged and celebrated Gaza—​surrounded, isolated impov- Today, as we gather with millions of peo- the Palestinian cause, let us also celebrate around the world. Millions march on this erished Gaza! The Zionists have failed ple around the world on Al-Quds, let us cel- their resistance and chant for the whole day in solidarity with Palestine and the again and again to defeat or to silence the ebrate the extraordinary resistance of the world to hear: "From the river to the sea, Palestinian resistance. Palestinian struggle. Palestinian people, who for 71 years—since​ Palestine will be free!" ☐ This resistance has continued despite Organized peoples’ resistance is the the settler-colonial Zionist movement dis- impossible odds, desperate condi- most powerful weapon. Consciousness placed 750,000 Palestinians to create the tions, starvation, mass imprisonment and mobilization of a whole people are racist state of Israel—​have fought back and killings, land expropriation, aerial more powerful than any weapon the U.S. against genocide and the theft of their bombardment. can provide or Israel can deploy. homeland. And Al-Quds Day is a day born in There are no walls in the workers’ strug- For 71 years the Palestinian people revolution, 40 years ago in the great gle. It is truly one global struggle. Our have faced down the most powerful war Iranian Revolution of 1979, as a salute to struggle in the U.S.—against​ racist cops, machine ever assembled, that of U.S. Palestinian resistance. against anti-migrant ICE [Immigration imperialism and its puppet state Israel, Palestine reminds us again and again of and Customs Enforcement], against cut- and yet they remain unbowed. the capacity of a whole people to organize, backs affecting oppressed people—​is This resistance is terrifying to the U.S. to mobilize, to resist—for​ decades and gen- stronger when we declare that Palestine and Israel because they know that no erations—until​ liberation can be won. is also our struggle. matter how many bombs they drop, no Palestine is a resistance that inspires Today, on Al-Quds Day here and matter how many villages they destroy, every country facing U.S. sanctions, around the world, we are with Palestine, no matter how many protesters they imperialist wars, invasions, coups and we join with resistance. From the river to shoot, they cannot break the spirit of the occupations. In Yemen, in Iraq, in Syria, the sea, Palestine will be free! Palestinian people. WW PHOTO: TONI ARENSTEIN in Venezuela, in Cuba and in north Korea, From the river to the sea, Palestine will Because they know that the global Al-Quds Day, May 31, NYC. peoples’ movements that are facing win! ☐ El capitalismo en un Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected] callejón sin salida Fred Goldstein utiliza las leyes de la acumulación capitalista de Marx, y la tasa decreciente de ganancia, para demostrar por qué el capitalismo global ha llegado finalmente a un ¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los paises unios! workers.org Vol. 61 Núm. 23 6 de junio 2019 $1 punto de inflexión.

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Por Sam Ordóñez falso positivo los hechos. Obama por sus esfuerzos hacia la “recon- Las organizaciones de maestros y médi- ciliación” pese a que durante su mandato 3 de junio—­ El 30 de mayo empezó en cos han afirmado que el paro continuará empezaron a desaparecer periodistas que Honduras un paro nacional en protesta con manifestaciones planeadas para el apoyaban a Zelaya o se oponían al golpe. de una serie de reformas anunciadas por lunes y martes. El actual presidente llegó al poder en el gobierno en los sectores de salud y 2014 y ha sido criticado por su corrupción educación. Del golpe de estado en 2009 y el aumento de la represión estatal con- Las manifestaciones, que siguieron el a la dictadura de JOH tra sus rivales. Aunque la derecha había viernes, sufrieron represiones brutales Manuel Zelaya fue presidente de 2006 acusado a Zelaya de buscar otro término por parte de la policía. Es un escenario a 2009, cuando fue víctima de un golpe presidencial como pretexto para el golpe que se ha visto repetidamente durante de estado después de proponer un refe- de 2009, JOH se presentó a la reelección el gobierno del presidente Juan Orlando rendo para medir el interés público en sin problemas judiciales. Manifestación de maestrxs en abril en Hernández (JOH). una reforma constitucional. La elección de 2017 fue caracterizado Tegucigalpa, Honduras. El paro nacional y las manifestaciones Aunque el ejército, que secuestró a por un fraude descarado por parte del par- se han convocado en respuesta a una serie Zelaya y lo mandó a Costa Rica, argu- tido de JOH. La cuenta de votos se suspen- presupuesto, haciendo que suban los de decretos firmados por el presidente el mentaba que Zelaya buscaba un segundo dió varias veces, en una instancia durante precios para las familias que necesitan día 28 de mayo que buscan reestructurar término (que violaría la constitución), la tres días, y al reanudar había desaparecido los servicios médicos. los sectores de salud y educación. verdadera razón por el golpe fue la política misteriosamente la ventaja de casi 5 por El robo de tierras indígenas no ha Según los maestros y médicos que con- exterior progresista del gobierno de Zelaya. ciento de los votos del candidato opositor. cesado desde que llegaron los conquista- vocaron el paro, dicha reestructuración En 2008, Zelaya expresó el deseo de La manipulación de la cuenta fue tan dores españoles, pero bajo JOH ha inten- resultaría en despidos masivos y la priva- unirse a la Alianza Bolivariana para los obvia que incluso la Organización de sificado. El asesinato de Berta Cáceres por tización de estos servicios esenciales. Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA), Estados Americanos, que normalmente fuerzas estatales entrenados por EEUU es En 2010, el gasto del gobierno central una organización regional promovida por sirve para sellar los decretos imperiales de solo el ejemplo más famoso del uso de la en educación era 32,9 por ciento del pre- los gobiernos de Venezuela y Cuba para EE.UU., condenó el fraude. Washington violencia estatal para silenciar a los pue- supuesto total, hoy es solo 19,9. En salud combatir la influencia del imperialismo reconoció inmediatamente los resultados. blos originarios ejerciendo sus derechos a pública, las cifras son 14,3 por ciento en norteamericano. El pueblo hondureño tomó las calles sus tierras ancestrales. 2010 y 9,7 por ciento hoy. (Prensa Latina, Esto representaba un paso inaceptable para protestar el robo de la presidencia, Si la desinversión en servicios públicos, 31 mayo) para la oligarquía hondureña, que ya se cosa que provocó la represión policial con el despojo de los territorios indígenas, y Pese a la fuerte represión policial de oponía al gobierno progresista. Cuando gases lacrimógenos y un toque de queda la represión estatal no fuera suficiente, el los manifestantes, el presidente fue obli- encontraron la oportunidad, usaron el de diez días. Desde entonces no ha cesado imperialismo ahora busca crear “Zonas de gado a declarar que no habían ni despi- control que tenían sobre los medios de la lucha intensa para restaurar la demo- empleo y desarrollo económico.” (ZEDE) dos masivos ni privatización, y se logró comunicación para fabricar una crisis cracia en el país centroamericano. Estas “ciudades modelo” serían ciuda- que los decretos presidenciales no fueran constitucional y llevar a cabo el golpe. des orientadas a la inversión extranjera, ratificados por el Congreso Nacional de Públicamente, el gobierno estadou- La ofensiva neoliberal de JOH controlados por una comisión escogido la República. Sin embargo, los organiza- nidense de Barack Obama condenó el Cuando la derecha asumió el poder directamente por el presidente. Estas ciu- dores de las acciones han indicado que golpe, pero dejo que se llevara a cabo en Honduras en 2009, inmediatamente dades tendrán su propio sistema judicial, seguirán en protesta hasta que las refor- el golpe. Los correos electrónicos de empezó a implementar el típico programa económico, y administrativo. mas se descartan completamente. Hillary Clinton, que en aquel momento neoliberal. El objetivo de estos élites, en La oligarquía en su propia propaganda Además de los manifestantes heridos era Secretaria de Estado, revelan que el servicio del imperialismo, es destruir sobre estas ciudades admite que usan por la policía hondureña, se reporta la gobierno norteamericano negociaba con los servicios sociales y abrir el país a los como modelo a Hong Kong, que se fundó quema de varios edificios gubernamen- los líderes del golpe, que muchos de los deseos de las transnacionales. como colonia británica para controlar tales y policiales. También se reporta cuales fueron entrenados en la Escuela de El ataque actual contra la salud y la a China después de la Guerra del Opio. que un grupo quemó neumáticos en la las Américas y tenían relaciones persona- educación pública sería el golpe final con- (tinyurl.com/y5rb3g65) entrada de la embajada de los Estados les con el Pentágono. tra estos servicios que llevan una década Estas ZEDEs implican una vuelta al Unidos en Tegucigalpa. asediado por la derecha. colonialismo directo de siglos pasados, No se conoce quien provocó el incen- Apoyo sincero Los salarios escolares fueron congela- ya que están diseñados para servir como dio, y las reacciones de los grupos pro- Los Estados Unidos reconoció los resul- dos de 2010 a 2016, y desde entonces solo punto de entrada para transnacionales gresivos han sido varias. Algunos afirman tados de las elecciones presidenciales en han tenido incrementos pequeños. Se ha y capital extranjera. Su sistema nomi- que la acción es justificada, debido a las Noviembre de ese año aunque se celebra- terminado casi por completo la inversión nalmente “autónomo” en realidad los injerencias recientes del imperialismo ron bajo una junta militar. El nuevo pre- en infraestructura escolar. convertiría en colonias de las empresas norteamericano en el país. Por su parte sidente conservador, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, En los hospitales faltan todo tipo norteamericanas y europeas que quieren el expresidente Manuel Zelaya calificó de recibió grandes alabanzas del gobierno de de insumos, pero se sigue cortando el operar en la América Central. ☐

editorial ‘Liberal’ — hasta a un punto Los llamados medios de comunicación No mencionan literalmente docenas por un golpe de estado de la CIA en 1953. real saudí? ¿Que los 700 príncipes con- liberales en los Estados Unidos, especial- de elecciones que han tenido lugar en Una creación de las compañías petroleras trolan toda la economía y la política del mente el New York Times, el Washington Venezuela desde que el movimiento lide- de los Estados Unidos, fue derrocado en estado? ¿Que no hay elecciones en Arabia Post y algunas fuentes de noticias de tele- rado por Hugo Chávez tomó el poder en una revolución popular en 1979. Esa revo- Saudita? ¿Y que estos príncipes teocráti- visión, profesan la independencia. Pero no 1998, a través de una elección. Tampoco lución les llevó al actual gobierno. cos tienen una excelente relación con el se atreven a ofender a sus dueños de clase parecen recordar que el ala derecha del Venezuela e Irán ahora se consideran gobierno de los Estados Unidos? dominante en asuntos internacionales ejército venezolano secuestró a Chávez en "enemigos" de los Estados Unidos. Eche un vistazo a la entrada de clave. 2002, pero fue rescatado por una movi- Pero no Arabia Saudita. Wikipedia sobre Arabia Saudita y busque Tomemos, por ejemplo, el "informe" lización masiva del pueblo venezolano. En este momento, el ejército de los una discusión de la familia real. Hay una que nos entregan cada día en tres impor- El gobierno de los Estados Unidos hace Estados Unidos está brindando apoyo fotografía tomada en 1985. Haga clic en tantes países productores de petróleo: un mes, con la ayuda de los medios cor- logístico y material para el bombardeo ella y verá una hermosa foto de Ronald Venezuela, Irán y Arabia Saudita. porativos, esperaba instigar a los milita- genocida de Arabia Saudita en Yemen, un Reagan y Donald Trump mirando mien- ¿Con qué frecuencia se nos dice que la res contra el presidente Nicolás Maduro, pequeño país que enfrenta la hambruna tras Ivana Trump le da la mano al Rey oposición venezolana (que ahora está en pero esta vez no sucedió. y el genocidio a manos de esta sangrienta Fahd en la Casa Blanca. Ivana ha sido desorden) surgió de la falta de "democra- ¿Con qué frecuencia se nos dice que el guerra saudí/ EE.UU. reemplazada, pero las políticas inter- cia" y elecciones "fraudulentas" en ese pueblo iraní está gobernado por una teo- Incluso cuando informan sobre esta nacionales reaccionarias dictadas por país? Estas frases se repiten una y otra cracia dictatorial? Los medios de comuni- situación espantosa, ¿los medios de las grandes empresas de EE.UU. siguen vez, no solo por los medios abiertamente cación imperialistas no hacen mención de comunicación liberales aquí recuerdan a vigentes. de derecha aquí, sino por aquellos que los horrores llevados a cabo por su predece- su audiencia que Arabia Saudita es políti- ¿Por qué el Times, el Post, NPR y otros reclaman objetividad. sor, el sangriento Shah, quien fue instalado camente una dictadura total de la familia no mencionan eso? ☐