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Workers Need Unions, Break with Bosses' Political Parties AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE Kurdistan book fair marked by thirst for political discussion — PAGE 6 - 7 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE Vol. 82/no. 43 NOVEMber 19, 2018 Uber, Yellow UN votes 189-2 Workers need unions, break Cab drivers to demand end with bosses’ political parties need unity to to US rulers’ fight bosses Cuba embargo BY PETER THIERJUNG BY MARTÍN KOPPEL NEW YORK — The cutthroat UNITED NATIONS — On Nov. competition among Uber, Lyft, other 1, for the 27th year in a row, the U.N. e-hail car services, livery companies General Assembly adopted a resolu- and the Yellow Cab fleet bosses has tion presented by the Cuban govern- claimed a seventh suicide victim here. ment calling for “ending the U.S. eco- Fausto Luna flung himself in front of nomic, commercial and financial em- an oncoming subway train and died bargo against Cuba.” The resolution Sept. 26. The 58-year-old Uber driver passed by a 189-2 margin, similar to had told friends he was getting de- recent years, with the U.S. and Israeli pressed in face of mounting debts and governments voting against, and those increasing overtime. from Ukraine and Moldova not voting. LaMont Militant/Susan His situation isn’t unusual. Uber Seeking to blunt the effect of the vote, Rachele Fruit, left, SWP candidate for Georgia governor, talks with fisherman David Gilbert about lack of government response in wake of Hurricane Michael in Apalachicola, Florida, drivers’ incomes fell 53 percent from the U.S. government proposed eight Nov. 1. Right, Georgia’s Albany Herald quotes Fruit saying, “Only by uniting and building 2013 to 2017, according to a study re- amendments, all smearing Havana as a working-class movement in struggle can we fight to change the conditions that we face.” leased by the J.P. Morgan Chase Insti- a human rights violator. The eight were tute that same month. “Alongside the rejected, by a 114-3 vote in most cases. Workers, farmers seek road Join SWP taking ‘Militant’, rapid growth in the number of drivers Only the U.S., Ukrainian, and Is- forward out of capitalist crisis books to working class has come a steady decline in average raeli delegates voted for the amend- monthly earnings,” the report said. ments. More than 60 abstained, in- BY MAGGIE TROWE Millions of workers see in their Uber disputes the findings, saying cluding the representatives of the “The problems that the working own lives and lives of those they love declining incomes result from drivers United Kingdom, France, Japan and class faces — and working farmers how working people face the debili- “choosing” to work part time. most other imperialist countries. Also — are the result of the decay of the tating effects of the ongoing eco- Today more than 100,000 e-hail among the abstentions were the del- capitalist system that we live under, nomic, political and moral crisis of Continued on page 5 egates from Mexico, Argentina, Bra- and that only by uniting and building capitalist rule. The bosses and their zil, Colombia and Iraq. Another 10 a working-class movement in struggle didn’t vote. can we fight to change the conditions Fall Campaign to sell Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno that we face and that working peo- EDITORIAL Continued on page 3 Continued on page 4 Militant subscriptions government have nothing to offer and books except more wars, more opioid ad- diction, police brutality, injuries on Oct. 6 - Dec. 4 (Week 4) Do Washington’s trade sanctions the job, speedup, poor or no health Sub Subs Books Books care, deportations of friends and co- Country quota sold quota sold on China mean a new ‘Cold War’? workers, attacks on women’s right to UNITED STATES choose abortion, growing homeless- Albany 115 44 115 27 ness, deteriorating public transporta- Atlanta 85 42 85 23 tion, housing and more. Chicago 115 70 115 55 Most workers either held their nos- Dallas 50 32 50 26 es and picked a “lesser evil” or didn’t Lincoln 15 9 15 8 vote at all because they’re disgusted Los Angeles 125 50 125 25 with the never-ending disdain of the Louisville 30 11 30 14 rulers’ two parties. Miami 40 7 40 19 The rulers and their politicians — New Jersey 35 17 35 17 especially the liberal, meritocratic New York 110 61 110 36 cohort — see workers, as Hillary Oakland 85 36 85 16 Clinton explained in 2016, as “de- Philadelphia 55 22 55 22 plorables” who are “irredeemable.” Pittsburgh 15 8 15 3 Former President Barack Obama dis- Seattle 90 37 90 17 missed working people, decrying the Twin Cities 65 27 65 23 fact they didn’t do as he told them. Washington 80 28 80 41 Continued on page 8 Total U.S. 1,110 501 1,110 372 Prisoners 25 13 UNITED KINGDOM AP Photo/Ben Marto Inside London 60 32 60 21 Chinese ship unloads at Oakland port July 2. Leveraging their huge domestic market, strong dollar, U.S. rulers impose tariffs on Chinese imports to wrest concessions from Beijing. Amazon robots intensify Manchester 50 25 50 16 the exploitation of labor 2 Total U.K. 110 57 110 37 by terry EVanS registers the greater strength of U.S. CANADA Following Washington’s imposition of capital today. Like all the trade pacts Marriott strikers fight bosses Montreal 50 19 50 10 widespread tariffs on Chinese imports Washington seeks, it’s aimed at advanc- over wages, hours, safety 3 Vancouver 45 23 45 19 and retaliatory measures by Beijing, the ing the bosses’ interests, not those of the Total Canada 95 42 95 29 liberal press that views President Donald working class. –On the picket line, p. 8– New Zealand 40 25 30 13 Trump as the cause of all ills are awash For years successive Democratic and Canada postal workers strike with claims that a new “Cold War” has Republican administrations have tried to over pay equality, health care Australia 30 15 15 1 been started by his administration. contain the rising influence of the Chi- ‘We’re working for peanuts,’ says Total 1,410 653 1,360 452 Washington’s protectionist measures nese capitalists. The Trump administra- striking New Zealand bus driver SHOULD BE 1,400 700 1,400 700 aren’t the onset of war, but are aimed at tion’s escalating tariffs are aimed at up- forcing Beijing into an agreement that Continued on page 8 Amazon robots intensify the exploitation of labor BY brian williamS $775 million and took the machines Amazon is the second-largest em- off the market. Amazon bosses then ployer in the U.S. after Walmart and made them the backbone of their dis- one of only two U.S. companies ever tribution centers. valued at over $1 trillion. It operates Today Amazon has some 100,000 huge fulfillment warehouses where robots hurtling about its over 140 ful- workers face relentless speedup and fillment centers worldwide — about unsafe conditions amid miles of con- 75 of them in the U.S. veyor belts, computer-set workloads The heart of Mim’s article is the and thousands of robots, all pushing idea that in a few short years there them to work harder. won’t be any workers, and Amazon’s “Amazon’s one-million-square warehouses will be 100 percent au- foot distribution center in Baltimore tomated. And so will their delivery is a massive fulfillment machine,” system — with a fleet of driverless Christopher Mims wrote in a gush- vans, pilotless blimps and drones ing Oct. 15 Wall Street Journal article for final drop-off. “Imagine a drone titled “How Robots and Drones Will dropping out of the sky to deliver you Change Retail Forever.” The ware- an iced coffee on your walk to work,” Reuters/Noah Berger house has “a dazzling combination of he says. “In fact, IBM already has a Amazon warehouse running in Tracy, California, 2014. Bosses installed robots as they ex- panded hiring. In face of speedup, boss harassment, unsafe conditions workers need a union. chutes, ladders, rollers and 11 miles’ patent for that.” worth of conveyor belts.” Bosses in China recently announced workers in the U.S. to $15 an hour. A of millions of dollars to the bosses to “Humans are rarely required to plans to open a factory where robots few days later they announced they operate there. move around here,” Mims claims. “It’s will make robots for use in factories would cut their losses by eliminating Amazon says the new facility will much faster, and cheaper, to have stuff there and for export in Asia. bonuses and stock options. stock 20 million products, employ brought to them.” Frederick Engels, one of the found- These moves follow strike actions 1,500 workers and ship 1 million or- “Resembling oversize Roombas ers of the socialist and modern work- over low pay and speedup by work- ders every day. FedEx bosses say their topped with Ikea shelving,” Mims ing-class movement, wrote about this ers in Amazon warehouses in Europe 425 workers in Sparrows Point will writes, 8-foot-tall robots scurry 150 years ago. The capitalists are “pe- this summer. A one-day strike was process some 15,000 packages hourly. around carrying up to 750 pounds of riodically seized by fits of giddiness organized at six facilities in Germany While the bosses — and politi- goods in their 40-odd yellow cubbies. in which they try to accomplish the July 17.
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