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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 60 No. 48 Nov. 29, 2018 $1 As U.S. fires tear gas at Mexico border, Solidarity with refugees grows By M. Matsemela-Ali Odom San Diego

Nov. 25—This morning the San Diego Migrant and Refugee Solidarity Coalition held an International Day of Action in Solidarity with the Caravan and Exodus from Central America with the hundreds of migrants who have already reached the border at Tijuana, Baja California. Later in the day U.S. border police fired tear gas and rub- ber bullets at refugees trying to cross into the U.S. The MRSC, a multiracial collective of grassroots and radical organizations, grew out of a coalition that has been protesting the Otay Mesa migrant detention center for many months. Union del Barrio offers key leadership to the coalition, which includes members of Colectivo Zapatista, Border Angels, American Indian Movement, Workers World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Committee Against Police Brutality-San Diego, Palestinian Youth Movement and many other groups. Concerned that groups from outside the San Diego area have “parachuted in” with little-to-no regard for local orga- nizers, the MRSC issued a call focused on the needs and demands of people in San Diego and Tijuana. The group’s national call contained six demands: respect the right to asylum; process the asylum claims; acknowledge the role of U.S. intervention in Central America causing this exo- WW PHOTO: M. MATSEMELA-ALI ODOM dus; increase international solidarity, including from the U.N. and Red Cross; release migrants in detention centers; and prosecute anyone who violates the human rights of National asylum seekers.

Transnational solidarity DAY OF MOURNING 4 About 500 activists gathered at Larsen Field, a local park near the U.S.-Mexico border. There a multinational group of speakers addressed the crowd. Chicanx activ- DEFEND CHINA ists expressed internationalist solidarity with Central American refugees. Members of the Palestinian Youth against imperialism 8 Movement expressed their solidarity and declared an end to all borders from Palestine to Mexico. A moving appeal came from Mexican activists who have helped the migrants in their trek through Mexico. These HOTEL WORKERS WIN! 7 leaders expressed their gratitude to the crowd for their support and dispelled myths that the people of Mexico opposed the migrants. Following the Larsen Field rally, the crowd marched EDITORIAL: three-quarters of a mile east to the U.S.-Mexico border crossing. As hundreds of protesters walked down the What could be more important? 10 Camino de la Plaza, the crowd grew and traffic stopped. Despite the solidarity march disrupting traffic headed to the Las Americas Premium Outlets, a popular destination for tourists, San Diegans and Mexican nationals, pedes- trians and drivers greeted it with curiosity and support. Continued on page 6

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By John Steffin As its title suggests, the book depicts the trials and trib- ulations of a day in the life of a political prisoner in the In the U.S. “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is Soviet gulag system of political labor camps. The story is Solidarity with refugees grows ...... 1 the book credited with bringing down the Soviet Union. filled with cruel guards, innocent prisoners and degrading Setting aside the fact that the situation was by far more labor conditions. These conditions were certainly present Solzhenitsyn and Jordan Peterson, Part 2 . . . . .2 complicated, it is true that the book holds a special place in the gulag system, but Solzhenitsyn suggests at the end Car caravan demands: ‘Free Mumia’ ...... 3 in anti-communist history. that this was universal. Remembering Olivia Hooker ...... 3 Part 1 of this series drew out the similarities between Historians like Robert W. Thurston have shown that Day of Mourning honored at Plymoth ...... 4 Solzhenitsyn and Jordan Peterson, a well-known figure on conditions in the camps varied, but Khrushchev wasn’t the alt-right who wrote the forward for the new edition of looking for a proper appraisal. He needed those who would Statement from Leonard Peltier ...... 4 Solzhenitsyn’s book. Part 2 goes into the history of how join him in demonizing Stalin so that he could placate the Marxist feminism necessary for liberation . . . . 5 Solzhenitsyn’s work has been used by right-wing forces in Western imperialists. Solzhenitsyn was the man for the job, No to DeVos’ proposed Title IX regulations! . . . 5 the past. and Khrushchev personally approved the publication of the Oakland action supports refugee caravan . . . . .6 book. Overnight, Solzhenitsyn became a household name. Nikita Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn To make a long story short, Khrushchev’s campaign SF hotel workers stay strong ...... 7 Solzhenitsyn’s rise to international fame began with the failed and ultimately he was removed from power in 1964. The plight of home care workers ...... 7 political scheming of Nikita Khrushchev, who was First Solzhenitsyn’s reputation in the Soviet Union faltered as a Boston hotel workers win! ...... 7 Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union result, but many forces outside the USSR were eager to pro- when Solzhenitsyn published his first book, “One Day in mote his merciless attacks on the foundations of Soviet life. Around the world the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” in 1962. At the time, Khrushchev and his circle were trying to Dick Cheney and Solzhenitsyn Workers strike at Amazon in Germany, Spain . . 6 push through reforms that would open the Soviet Union When Solzhenitsyn published “Gulag Archipelago” in U.S. threatens China ...... 8 to the capitalist world. Underlying these reforms was the 1974, he was already well-known outside the Soviet Union. WWI, November 1918 ...... 9 belief that peaceful coexistence with the imperialists was Through Praeger Publishing, the CIA had circulated Haitians strike on Vertières anniversary . . . . 10 possible and the dictatorship of the proletariat wasn’t Solzhenitsyn’s works in the West, and when he was kicked needed. out of the Union of Writers of the USSR in 1969 because France: Mobilization of ‘Yellow Vests’ ...... 11 The program was controversial, and in order to imple- he refused to write one good word about the Soviet Union, ment it, Khrushchev needed allies. One of the main ways he the imperialists quickly awarded him the Nobel Prize in Editorial tried to build support was by attacking Stalin, who was still Literature in 1970 for his “ethical force.” What could be more urgent? ...... 10 very popular in the Soviet Union at the time. In his “secret The book’s publication was his most scathing critique of speech” of 1956, Khrushchev argued that all the repression the Soviet Union yet, and could not have come at a more Noticias en Español of the previous 30 years was because of one man, Stalin, opportune time for the imperialists. whose hunger for power and blood was enabled by a “cult For several years, the Soviet Union and the U.S. ‘E-carcelación’ ...... 12 of personality” that granted him impunity. had agreed to a period of detente, but by 1974, the sit- Incendios de California ...... 12 Whatever one thinks of Stalin and the privileged uation had changed rapidly—and not in Washington’s bureaucracy in the USSR, it is impossible to lay the blame favor. By the time “Gulag Archipelago” was published, for developments in the Soviet system on just one person. the U.S. had officially accepted defeat in Vietnam, the Khrushchev should know, since he played a big role in the Cuban Revolution had stabilized and was now sup- purges of the 1930s. But that is beside the point. porting liberation struggles in Africa, and the struggle What Solzhenitsyn’s first book offered Khrushchev was of the Arab people against Israel and the U.S. had gen- Workers World essentially the novelization of his “secret speech.” In fact, erated an oil embargo that shocked the U.S. economy. 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. the author said as much in the preface to the first edition Continued on page 3 New York, NY 10011 of his book. Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Join us in the fight Vol. 60, No. 48 • Nov. 29, 2018 Closing date: Nov, 28, 2018 for socialism! 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[email protected] [email protected] 323.306.6240 [email protected] New York, N.Y. 10011. workers.org Nov. 29, 2018 Page 3 workers.org Nov. 29, 2018 Page 3 Car caravan demands: ‘Free Mumia!’ By Betsey Piette prison-industrial system.” She also tar- Philadelphia, Nov. 24 Philadelphia geted the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for their efforts in September granted an extension to Dec. 3 in the DA Several cars decorated with signs to to institute draconian policies that would office search for missing evidence rele- “Free Mumia” traversed multiple Black further isolate and silence prisoners. vant to the case. community neighborhoods here on Africa raised the impact of prison pol- On Dec. 7 a Honk for Mumia will Nov. 24 as part of a Black Saturday Car icies on Black and other oppressed com- be held at 13th and Locust streets in Caravan for Mumia. The event, which munities, noting that untreated hepatitis Philadelphia, the location of the 1981 lasted more than three hours, included C in prisons eventually becomes a health shooting of Faulkner and serious wound- stops at busy intersections to distribute crisis for communities at large. Earlier ing of Abu-Jamal. The time of the event fliers and constant messaging over a loud- this week the Pennsylvania DOC settled is to be determined. speaker system. Despite the cold weather, a case to provide antiviral treatment for A community forum around the theme the caravan received a warm reception. thousands of prisoners suffering from “You can lock up prisoners but you can’t On the microphone Pam Africa, minis- chronic hepatitis C. Africa credited this silence them” will be held Dec. 8 from 12 ter of confrontation for the MOVE orga- victory to a groundbreaking lawsuit by to 4 p.m. at The People’s Sanctuary, 5507 WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE nization, raised that Mumia Abu-Jamal, Abu-Jamal in which the state was ordered Germantown Ave. The event will include prosecuted by the state for the murder in 2017 to give him treatment for the legal updates on Abu-Jamal’s case and The events are initiated by International of Philadelphia police officer Daniel infection. speakers and workshops on a number Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Faulkner and imprisoned since Dec. 9, The car caravan kicked off what will of related issues, including women in Abu-Jamal, International Action Center, 1981, is factually innocent, and should be be two weeks of activities focused on prison, the school-to-prison pipeline, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (NYC), Campaign released. Abu-Jamal was on death row the Dec. 9 anniversary of Abu-Jamal’s ending mass incarceration and e-carcer- to Bring Mumia Home, Educators for until December 2011, when his sentence frame-up in 1981. ation, the growing solidarity with prison Mumia, Food Not Bombs Solidarity and was converted to life in prison without Abu-Jamal’s case is currently going struggles internationally, and more. Workers World Party. parole. The struggle continues to bring through an appeal based on conflict of The Dec. 9 anniversary will be observed For more information on the events him home. interest of former Philadelphia District with an Ecumenical Service “amplifying or on the case, visit freemumia.com, Africa described the car cara- Attorney Ron Castille when he later ruled the voices of Mumia and all prisoners” mobilization4mumia.com, van as “a funeral possession,” intent on the case as a Pennsylvania Supreme from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Church of the Facebook/Mobilization4Mumia or on burying the “injustices of the Court judge. Abu-Jamal’s attorneys were Advocate, 18th and Diamond streets. [email protected] REMEMBERING OLIVIA HOOKER Survivor of 1921 Tulsa ‘Catastrophe’ By Dolores Cox attack on Greenwood’s Black commu- University and her Ph.D. in psychology Hooker’s death at a two-hour service of nity. During the massacre, racists set on at the University of Rochester. From remembrance on Nov. 23 at the Vernon The life of Olivia Juliet Hooker came fire and destroyed thousands of busi- 1963 until her retirement in 1985, she African Methodist Episcopal Church on to an end this year with her death on nesses, including stores, theatres, hos- was a senior clinical lecturer at Fordham Greenwood Avenue near down-town Nov. 21. She was born Feb. 12, 1915, in pital, schools and homes. Hundreds of University. She was also a civil rights Tulsa. Rep. Regina Goodwin stressed: Muskogee, Okla., one of five children. Black people were injured or murdered, activist. “This was not a riot, this was a mas- Janis Porter, Hooker’s goddaughter, some even burned alive. Bodies were The New York Times reported on Oct. sacre. This was no new-fangled thing said she died at their White Plains, N.Y., dumped throughout the city, as well as 4 that there are still racial disparities in young folks came up with. It was Dr. home. Her mind was clear, and she did thrown in the river. There are unmarked Tulsa. The Greenwood section remains Hooker who said this was a massacre.” not have dementia, but she was just tired. mass graves. City and state officials were predominantly Black. The impact of (newson6.com, Nov. 23) She had no surviving relatives. slow to publicly acknowledge these hor- anger, fear and trauma linger. The Rev. Dr. Robert Turner said: “She Hooker was the last known survivor rific events. The article said that Tulsa Mayor G.I. had to leave everything she and her of the 1921 racist attack in Tulsa, Okla. Olivia Hooker was only six years old Bynum has renewed efforts to locate the family knew. That didn’t deter her. She Over the decades, she referred to it as a when the Tulsa massacre occurred. She victims’ mass graves, further uncover the continued on in her education, got a “Catastrophe,” stating that “other people recalled that her mother ordered her history of the racist attack, and provide Ph.D., and went on to serve her country. call it the Tulsa race riot. It wasn’t a riot. and her siblings to hide under the dining closure for the victims and their families. A country that never really did much for We were victims.” (New York Times, room table and be quiet. From under He stated: “It’s one of the defining events her as far as justice,” reported the same Nov. 23) the table, Hooker heard people using for our city. We … [still] grapple with media. The Tulsa massacre is often referred to an axe to destroy the family piano. She not just the event itself, but also a racial When asked what kept her going, Dr. as one of the deadliest episodes of racial witnessed her grandmother’s bed being reconciliation in the aftermath of it. We Olivia Hooker answered, “It’s not about violence in U.S. history. Ignored for a soaked in kerosene, her first “ethnic” can’t hope to reconcile as a city if we’re you, or me, it’s about what we can give to long time, it took a struggle by survivors doll’s handmade clothes being torched not committed to doing everything we this world.” (BBC News, Nov. 25) and their relatives to bring the truth to on the clothesline, food on the stove need to fully understand what happened An article titled “Dr. Olivia Hooker, public view. being dumped on the floor, and the house in 1921.” teacher, survivor of 1921 Tulsa racist Dr. Hooker was a founder in 1997 of being ransacked. attack” by Dolores Cox was posted the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, which It was horrifying trying to keep quiet as ‘It’s about what we give to this world’ April 6 at workers.org. issued a report four years later, exposing a child, she said: “The most shocking was The community mourned Dr. Olivia a cover-up by city and state officials. In seeing people you’d never done anything 2003, Hooker joined a lawsuit with 400 to irritate would just, took it upon them- plaintiffs against Tulsa and Oklahoma, selves to destroy your property because but the Supreme Court dismissed it. On they didn’t want you to have those things. Feb. 20, Oklahoma legislators announced And, they were teaching us a lesson. Solzhenitsyn & Jordan Peterson the 1921 racist attack would be added to Those were new ideas to me,” Hooker the online public school curriculum. Continued from page 2 stated. (NY Times, Nov. 23) refuge. This he did not do. Instead, he rid- The U.S. leaned on the Soviet Union to iculed the U.S. elite for their depression, The ‘Catastrophe’ ‘They smashed everything …’ tamp down the struggles in the Middle passivity and lack of courage; declared In 1921, the segregated, self-suffi- East, but it did not cooperate. The Washington Post reported on that individual rights had been over- cient Black business and residential In short, the U.S. was losing ground Nov. 22 that Dr. Hooker stated in a June extended; and called the West a failed community thrived in Greenwood. This to struggles for socialism and national interview, “We could see what they were model. 40-square block area in Tulsa was known liberation on a global scale. Most of the doing. They took everything they thought If he had not already been there, as “Black Wall Street.” bourgeoisie were now of the opinion that was valuable. They smashed everything Solzhenitsyn now occupied a political On May 31, false rumors circulated a more aggressive stance was needed. they couldn’t take. My mother had [opera position outside both communism and that Dick Rowland, a Black teenage shoe Solzhenitsyn, who was known to be singer Enrico] Caruso records she loved. liberalism. As mentioned in Part 1, this shiner, had sexually assaulted a white against detente, became a perfect ally They smashed the Caruso records. It was the year Solzhenitsyn offered his female elevator operator. He was in a in this period. Not only did he receive took me a long time to get over my night- “Letter to the Soviet Leaders” recom- downtown building in order to use the enormous praise in the imperialist press, mares. I was keeping my family awake mending they dissolve the Soviet Union only bathroom available to Black people. he was even invited to the White House screaming.” and form a patriarchal ethno-state of The Oklahoma Historical Society later by two young warhawks named Donald Her father’s business was destroyed, Russian nationals. reported that Rowland probably tripped Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. and Hooker’s family moved to Topeka. What this history shows is that if and stepped on her foot, causing her to As with Khrushchev, however, Kan., but they subsequently returned to Solzhenitsyn’s works are again on the scream. He was exonerated in September Solzhenitsyn soon outgrew his han- Tulsa, where she attended high school shelf, someone wants them there. 1921. dlers in the U.S. In 1978, Solzhenitsyn and then moved to Ohio. Hooker enlisted Next: Why we’re seeing a new edition A white lynch mob stormed the court- was invited to give the commencement in the Women’s Reserve of the Coast today. house where Rowland was taken after address at Harvard and was expected to Guard in early 1945, becoming one of the his arrest. What ensued was a two-day, praise Western values over communism first African-American women to sign up. torch-carrying rampage and terrorist and thank the U.S. for providing him Hooker got her M.A. from Columbia Page 4 Nov. 29, 2018 workers.org Day of Mourning honored at Plymouth

By Stephanie Tromblay build the Muskrat Falls mega-hydrodam that will destroy lands and homes in Indigenous people and supporters Labrador. Energy from this dam would gathered despite sub-zero wind chills run through the Maritimes, through pre- for the 49th National Day of Mourning cious forests in Maine, into the U.S. and at Plymouth, Mass. The undaunted Plymouth at the expense of Indigenous crowd included Indigenous peoples lives, culture and food. whom the pilgrims menaced and mur- Wampanoag elder Bert Waters, 88, dered—Nipmuc; Mashpee, Aquinnah read a statement from Native political and other bands of the Wampanoag; prisoner Leonard Peltier and led the Narragansett; Massachusett; Pequot and march through Plymouth. When the other Indigenous nations from the imme- march arrived in front of the pebble called diate region. “plymouth rock,” the march paused to Cole’s Hill showed vibrant solidarity hear Juan Gonzalez, with a message from with flags and signs from many different WW PHOTO: RACHEL DUELL the Council of Maya Elders. June Sapiel Indigenous nations as well as supporters National Day of Mourning at Plymouth, Mass., Nov. 22. and Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot) from many communities—Puerto Rican/ spoke about the battles against fossil fuel Taino, Haitian, Palestinian, Filipino, James also discussed recent attacks Trump or Obama. It has been happening pipelines. Black Lives Matter and disabled support- on the Mashpee Wampanoag: “The for centuries to Black and Indigenous This writer (Tromblay, Huron/Metis ers. Moonanum James, Wampanoag, Department of the Interior ruled that the families.” non-status, undocumented Tsalagi her- co-leader of United American Indians of Mashpee Wampanoag should not be able Munro also raised the struggle around itage) spoke connecting the movement New England, opened the rally: to take their own ancestral territory into Missing and Murdered Indigenous against violence toward women—“most “The Pilgrims came here as part of a trust. ... [T]he Mashpee are threatened Women, Girls and Two Spirits sharply seen in the numbers of murdered commercial venture. They didn’t need with having their very own land ripped (MMIWG2S): “Indigenous women and and missing Indigenous women, girls religious freedom—they already had that away from them for a SECOND time. Two Spirits have been under attack since and Two Spirits, and the lack of records back in the Netherlands. The Mayflower [It] represents an attack on the self-de- 1492.… One of the many reasons that thereof—which must acknowledge that Compact was merely a group of white termination and sovereignty of all Native Indigenous Nations all over are fighting this violence is part and parcel of the men who wanted to ensure they would Nations throughout the country. … Stand against pipelines and fracking and mining capitalist idea of ‘man over nature.’ ... All get a return on their investment. When With Mashpee and support pending leg- is that man camps are set up for the work- the carbon in the atmosphere, the assault they arrived ... one of the first things the islation that would give Mashpee the right ers. The men have huge sums of money of fossil fuel pipelines on clear water and Pilgrims did was to rob Wampanoag to petition for land to be taken into trust.” and lots of drugs such as meth and heroin air, and the assault on the remaining graves at Corn Hill and steal as much of to entice Indigenous women, who often undeveloped lands around the globe are their winter provisions of corn and beans Ongoing genocidal attacks end up being addicted and trafficked. a war on Mother Earth. Indigenous peo- as they were able to carry. ... UAINE co-leader Mahtowin Munro, Some of these sisters disappear, some get ple are leading the fight to protect Mother “The first official thanksgiving did not Lakota, spoke of ongoing genocidal killed.” Earth.” take place in 1621 when the Pilgrims had attacks, including the longtime kidnap- Red dresses were hung from the stage As James said to the crowd on Cole’s a harvest-time meal provided largely by ping of Native children and placement in to symbolize MMIWG2S. As Munro Hill, “We will continue to gather on this the Wampanoag. Instead it was officially residential schools, foster care and adop- explained, “Murder is the third leading hill until the U.S. military and corpora- proclaimed by Gov. Winthrop of the tion outside of their communities and the cause of death for U.S. Indigenous women. tions stop polluting the earth. Until we Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to cel- current attacks on the 1978 Indian Child In Canada, several thousand Indigenous dismantle the brutal apparatus of mass ebrate the massacre of over 700 Pequot Welfare Act. “ICWA was declared uncon- women are considered to be missing incarceration. We will not stop until the men, women and children on the banks stitutional by a federal court in Texas. or murdered. In cities like Winnipeg, oppression of our Two-Spirit siblings is of the Mystic River in Connecticut. ... Before that law was passed, about a Indigenous youth—many of them in fos- a thing of the past. When the homeless “Gov. Winthrop wrote: ‘Those that third of Indigenous children were being ter care—women and Two Spirits disap- have homes. escaped the fire were slain with the removed from their families and adopted pear all the time. In border towns with “When people from Mexico, Central sword; some hewed to pieces, others run into white families. Mexico, women disappear all the time.” and South America are no longer demon- through with their rapiers ... they thus “But now there are many forces, ized and targeted by politicians in search destroyed about 400 at this time. It was ranging from for-profit adoption place- Attack on the environment of a scapegoat. When the Palestinians a fearful sight to see them thus frying ment agencies to religious fundamen- Munro and others speakers addressed reclaim the homeland and the autonomy in the fire … horrible was the stink and talists to right-wing think tanks such the Indigenous struggles against fossil Israel has denied them for the past 70 scent thereof, but the victory seemed a as the Goldwater Institute, that want to fuel pipelines and other corporate and years. When no person goes hungry or is sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers return us to those destructive times. ... governmental assaults on clean water, left to die because they have little or no thereof to God, who had wrought so won- [T]he media says that the separation of air and lands. Marjorie Flowers, Rigolet access to quality health care. When union derfully for them.’ families by [Immigration and Customs Inuk, a Labrador land protector who trav- busting is a thing of the past. Until then, James continued, “And yet the history Enforcement] is a new phenomenon ... eled from Labrador in the far north, raised the struggle will continue.” books call us the savages.” this is not something that just started with the struggle against the Canadian plan to

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By Leonard Peltier they will be able to live happy, successful for her use only!! She is going on a long Posted Nov. 20. lives, at least decent lives, that most of hard journey, so she will need help now the poor underprivileged in my genera- and then. One day, if she continues her Greetings Sisters, Brothers, Elders, tion never got to experience or enjoy in studies to be a Medicine Woman, I know Friends and Supporters. [their] short lives. things can change as time goes by, but away with Columbus Day! Hell, we may Well here it is, sorry to say, another So, I sit back and look at the world, if she makes it, she will be an enormous just win the War for Survival yet. year, and I’m still writing to you from and I wonder if I will ever get to see the help to Native Nations’ hospitals. My last thoughts on this day, that we a prison cell. I am still in pain from my outside world again, free from this prison My friend Harvey Arden passed yester- Native People call a Day of Mourning, illnesses with no knowledge of whether I cell? At 74 it is not looking too good for day on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, 5:20 P.M. are for my sisters’ and brothers’ family will ever get treatments for them. But I’m that to happen. But I keep my hopes alive He was a very good and kind man who by blood and by AIM that are now in alive and still breathing, hoping, wish- and pray as hard as I can that it will hap- loved Native People and the poor and the Spirit World, and to them I say Lila ing, praying for not just my pains, but for pen. If not, when they bury me I want to sick. We are all going to miss him. I hope Pilamaya, thank you for your love and all Native Nations and the People of the be laid to rest face down and with a note he has a good safe journey to the Spirit work for The People. World who care and have positive feel- pinned to my ass with the words in large World, and I hope our Relatives will all My thoughts are also with the youth ings about what is happening to Mother bold letters, “Kiss my ass!!” … just in case be there to greet him with open arms; that such as the Water Protectors and all peo- Earth and against the evils committed by someone wants to study my bones years would be very pleasing to him. See you ple young and old who are working to Wasi’chu in their greed for her natural from now:)!! soon, my Kola. protect Mother Earth. I hope someday in resources. On a more pleasant issue one of my Politically we are finally making gains the near future to be with you and part It doesn’t seem as if any changes for the grandaughters Ashley is in college at in Congress; two great Native ladies of this march and join you in the feast good or safety of Mother Earth will hap- University of Arizona, Flagstaff, and she made it in the House of Representatives! prepared by Native People and wonder- pen soon. But the good hearted people are wants to be a Medicine Woman! How They are Shanice Davids, Ho Chunk of ful supporters who have joined together fighting back, and some good people are awesome is that? My baby, a doctor! Wow! Wisconsin, for Kansas and Deb Haaland, today to honor our Ancestors. winning in the struggles to beat back some How proud am I! You would not believe Laguna Pueblo, for New Mexico. On Pine of this evil and to make the Changes, the just how much I am! I could use a little Ridge my nephew Julian Bear Runner In The Spirit of Crazy Horse safety networks, we need for our grand- help now and then for her; don’t send it made it as President of the great Lakota Doksha children and great grandchildren so that to me, but send it to ILPDC earmarked Nation! I’m hearing more states are doing Leonard Peltier workers.org Nov. 29, 2018 Page 5 Marxist feminism necessary for liberation By Zachary Richardson became transformed into its opposite, with marriage “Bourgeois feminism has a tendency to disregard any Chapel Hill, N.C. and childbearing isolating and insulating women from racial or class analysis,” stated Watts, but “feminism and social production, making her totally dependent on her women’s liberation are inherently a form of class strug- A thorough Marxist critique of class society is essen- husband, and reducing her to the role of procreation for gle.” She said, “When we think of women workers across tial to a truly liberatory feminism, argued members of inheritance, and to the role of servant for husband. the whole population—Black women, LGBTQ women, Workers World Party at a public meeting here Nov. 10. Much of the meeting’s most engaging discussion came etc.—we see that there are very real disparities there.” Organized and facilitated by Durham WWP’s Logan when the three detailed the differences between bour- Moreover, in the era of #MeToo—a movement Emil, Meghan Watts and Taylor Cook, the meeting was geois and Marxist feminisms, particularly the “white” the three noted was started by Tarana Burke, a Black held at the club and event space Nightlight. Before a full nature of bourgeois approaches, which explicitly and woman—the hollow promises of liberal/bourgeois fem- room, Emil, Watts and Cook gave a materialist analysis implicitly center the white, monied woman’s struggle as inism are increasingly difficult to square with the lived of the systemic oppressions facing women and LGBTQ central to the struggles of all women, including those experiences of so many. “Even the ‘right kind’ of woman individuals, detailed WWP’s historical role in these who are subject to special oppressions due to race, gen- cannot achieve justice within this system,” Watts said, struggles, and then led a discussion on how to advance der identity and/or sexuality. pointing to the example of Christine Blasey Ford, whose the causes of feminism and LBGTQ rights in the era of A truly comprehensive liberatory movement, they Sept. 27 testimony against Brett Kavanaugh during con- #MeToo. said, would incorporate a systemic analysis of who suf- firmation hearings to consider his nomination as a U.S. “There was a time when patriarchy didn’t exist,” said fers most under capitalism and why. They cited WWP’s Supreme Court Justice riveted the nation. Despite sev- Emil, laying out the historical development of “women” Monica Moorehead, who wrote in 2017 that the “femi- eral credible accusations of sexual assault, Kavanaugh as a specific class in society as detailed by Marxists like nization of labor manifests itself with women workers, was still confirmed. Friedrich Engels and WWP’s Dorothy Ballan. Emil especially the most oppressed women, Black, Latinx “Capitalism is the vehicle as well as the means of cre- explained that patriarchy was a product of the division of and Native, being in the forefront of not only economic ating these oppressions,” Cook continued. She added labor between women and men, the development of pri- struggles, but also leading in political struggles. Those that although bourgeois feminism can provide some vate production and surplus value by men, and a focus range from the Fight for $15 and a Union movement, to immediate gains, it often comes at the price of but- on securing and maintaining familial wealth through Indigenous water rights at Standing Rock, Black Lives tressing other oppressions—particularly those against inheritance, among other things. Matter led by Black trans women and, of course, the already-marginalized racial, class and gender groups. Emil, Watts and Cook utilized a passage from Ballan’s struggle for reproductive justice.” It can be difficult for those who benefit from bourgeois groundbreaking 1971 work “Feminism and Marxism” to The danger of a bourgeois/white approach to femi- structures to accept their own culpability, Cook said. further explain their point: “The conversion of social nism, said Cook, was its tendency to provide false solu- “When you’re a part of any oppressing group, it’s easy property to private property eventually meant even the tions, to focus on efforts to “shatter the glass ceiling to want distance—but we have to accept the truth if we conversion of humans to private ownership. … This rather than the structures that created it.” want to destroy those oppressions.” No to DeVos’ proposed Title IX regulations!

By Sue Davis Rewire quoted the statement of the National Center they had not been, although a DOE staffer told this for Transgender Equality: “Transgender people know all reporter that they were supposed to be registered before U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos too well the experience of having our stories put on trial, the “Thanksgiving” holiday. ran a touchdown Nov. 16 for her predator-in-chief coach our experiences disbelieved and our suffering ignored. If Some pro-survivor groups are noting that the length of Donald Trump—when she introduced a revised pro- adopted, this rule will put more barriers between trans- the comment period is shorter than the more frequently posal for Title IX regulations addressing sexual violence gender survivors and justice.” used 90-day period—perhaps to limit responses during and misconduct in K-12 schools and colleges and univer- Statistics published Nov. 16 by the Center for American finals and semester break. A Nov. 21 blog on the National sities that receive government funding. Progress confirm that. Campus sexual assault is a wide- Women’s Law Center website (nwlc.org) stresses that Survivors’ advocates, women’s and LGBTQ rights spread national problem when 1 in 5 women and 1 in 20 the law cannot be finalized or implemented until the organizations, and educational and legal groups men report some form of sexual assault during college. DOE “reviews each comment and either makes changes quickly united to oppose the new rules. Not only do the Women of color join LGBTQ students in having higher to the rules, or explains why they’ve ignored the element revamped rules include a more stringent definition of rates of sexual assault compared with other students. of the public’s input.” misconduct, decrease schools’ jurisdiction and liability, Out of fear of retaliation or privacy issues, 80 percent of The NWLC notes that the link to submit comments and promote “due process” for attackers, but predictions students choose not to report abuse. on the DOE website hasn’t been posted yet, so it pro- are that these rules will discourage students from report- vides detailed instructions on how and where to submit ing abuse and often lead them to drop out. Send comments to stop proposed changes written comments by mail. While stating that the Center One of the major changes in Title IX is that the stan- But the DeVos regulations are not yet final. There will also help survivors and allies submit electronic com- dard needed to convict an accused will change from will be a 60-day comment period when all institutions ments, it reports: “[L]egible handwritten messages are “preponderance of evidence” to “clear and convincing and individuals are invited to respond to the proposed often especially effective at persuading public officials … evidence.” The bar will also be raised for what counts as regulations, after which the DOE is supposed to make particularly when received in large numbers.” sexual harassment from “unwelcome conduct of a sexual changes reflecting that feedback. But before the com- nature” to “unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that ment period begins, the revised regulations must be Part 2 will detail how the proposed Title IX is so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it officially listed on the Federal Register. As of Nov. 27, regulations are anti-survivor and pro-predator. effectively denies a person access to the [school’s] edu- cation program or activity.” This is just another plank in the anti-woman, anti- LGBTQ agenda of the viciously misogynous, totally reac- Give Workers World a gift! tionary Trump administration. Title IX is the landmark civil rights law, passed in the A thousand and one charities ask for You can’t find these news reports and Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex handouts at this time of year. Workers World analysis elsewhere. discrimination in federally funded education programs, is hardly a charity. Please send Workers World a gift this year, including sexual assault, rape and sexual harassment, Workers World is a valuable resource. And so we can keep publishing them. 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By John Catalinotto represented by unions. That doesn’t mean there is no U.S. More than 600 workers walked out of organizing. A group of Somali Muslim Amazon’s buildings in Bad Hersfeld and women workers at Amazon’s Shakopee, Rheinberg, Germany, on Black Friday, Minn., warehouse are planning a job Nov. 23. The Verdi service workers’ union action in December over workplace con- represents the Amazon workers, who are ditions and religious accommodations. asking for higher wages and better work- The workers have held meetings with ing conditions. Amazon has a reputation Amazon management protesting speed- for pressuring workers horribly, espe- ups and the inability to take breaks from cially during the peak retailing season work in order to pray. starting now. The women in Minnesota are the first In Spain, according to UNI Global group in the U.S. that has made some Union, workers at Amazon’s Madrid- us and does not want to reach any agree- According to GMB Union officer Mick headway organizing against the powerful area San Fernando de Henares facility, ment.” (AP, Nov. 23) Rix, about 500 workers in Britain also company. They voted to stage a large pro- where 1,800 workers are employed, also Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was recently demonstrated at five Amazon ware- test and walkout on Dec. 14, in the thick stopped work that day. They were last on named the richest person in the world. houses. “What we’re saying is Jeff Bezos, of the holiday season, according to the strike during Amazon Prime Day, July This ego boost gives him bragging rights you’re the richest man in the world, you Nov. 20 New York Times. 16-17. That day is another major shop- among other top exploiters of the world’s have the wealth and ability to make sure The giant company has 110 warehouses ping day at Amazon. workers, like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet your workers are treated with respect and across the U.S. The one in Shakopee On a picket line, 38-year-old employee and Mark Zuckerberg. dignity,” Rix said. (TeleSur English, Nov. needed 1,000 workers when it opened in Eduardo Hernandez said, “[Black Friday] It also eliminates any chance he can 23) 2016. is one of the days that Amazon has most plead poverty if the more than half mil- There are more worker actions in Workers at Whole Foods, which is sales, and these are days when we can lion people who work for Amazon decide Europe than in the U.S. because more owned by Amazon, have also recently hurt more and make ourselves be heard to fight for higher wages. That’s just what workers are unionized there. None of begun talks of organizing. q because the company has not listened to happened on Nov. 23. Amazon’s U.S. warehouse workers are Oakland action supports refugee caravan

By Judy Greenspan repression and violence faced by migrants in the U.S. She spent 11 months in detention and her ankle A community rally was held at Fruitvale Station in the bracelet was only recently removed. “We must heart of East Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 25, led by young start collecting basic needs for people on the cara- Central American migrant activists to show solidarity van—food and warm clothing,” Aguilar stated. She with the caravan of Central American families seeking urged everyone who could to go to the U.S.-Mexico asylum in the U.S. Organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras, border and support migrant families. today’s event was called to support the international Day Arlette Jàcome, cofounder of Central Americans of Solidarity with the migrant caravan. for Empowerment and a Guatemalan activist, Chris Lopez, a Honduran immigrant with Pueblo Sin talked about repression that the caravanistas faced Fronteras, welcomed everyone to today’s protest: “We when traveling through Guatemala. “The people of are here today in solidarity. We are here to support the Guatemala supported the caravan and give them rice rights of all migrants to seek asylum.” and food. Later, Guatemalans joined the caravan in A major emphasis of today’s protest was Honduras Mexico because of extreme hunger and racism,” said and the repressive regime that has created the condi- Jàcome. tions leading migrants to seek refugee status in the U.S. The young activist pointed out that the Indigenous Honduran flags were prominent in the crowd. people are suffering from malnutrition because the Christian Pineda, a University of California-Berkeley Guatemalan government will not let them grow their student who received asylum in 2015, spoke about pov- own food. “Poverty is political,” she added. “We have erty, violence and corruption in his country. “More than had decades of U.S. intervention that has caused both 56 percent of the people live in poverty,” Pineda stated. this poverty and racism. When people say they are “I would see dead bodies on the way to school. People hungry, we need to give them asylum.” are fleeing to find safety.” Pineda noted that Honduran Organizers urged everyone to attend upcoming President Juan Orlando Hernández secured re-election local events to build support for the Caravanistas and with the support of the U.S. and Donald Trump. their fight for political asylum. q Verónica Aguilar, a Salvadoran migrant who came WW PHOTO: JUDY GREENSPAN to the U.S. last year on a similar caravan, talked about Solidarity with refugees grows

Continued from page 1 gracious in its reception of the Central American asy- that a young girl was seriously injured. Once the marchers reached the border crossing, lum seekers — just as many had earlier been for Haitian In their eagerness to repress, CBP agents were wit- speeches and chants resumed. In a volume surely loud migrants to the city. However, reactionary forces have nessed speeding down Camino de la Plaza so fast that enough to be heard across the wall in Tijuana, protestors also mobilized in opposition. they almost broadsided a car leaving the shopping chanted, “Let them in! Let them in!” “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Highly unpopular Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel center. This border wall has got to go!” and other messages of Gastélum, of the far-right National Action Party, has The Mexican Interior Ministry has said it would solidarity. instigated local panic and even begun to wear a red base- deport the people detained for rushing the border. The It became evident that the U.S. Customs and Border ball cap inscribed “Make Tijuana Great Again” — taking refugee conflict presents the incoming government of Patrol intended to ramp up their maneuvers even before his cues from Trump’s bombastics. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador with a crisis, skirmishes occurred on the Mexican side of the border. since most of Lopez’s voters are sympathetic with the Twin CBP Blackhawk helicopters circulated above, and CBP fires upon asylum seekers refugees, while Washington will demand that he repress CBP agents patrolled Camino de la Plaza in Chevy Tahoe Some have wondered whether the U.S. president’s them. SUVs and even all-terrain vehicles. approval of the use of force against the asylum seekers The protests on both sides closed the border for five The MRSC march was held in concert with an even was mere hyperbole. Reports have noted that many of hours to pedestrians and autos, disrupting the regular larger action across the border in Tijuana. As many as the troops deployed are unarmed and their numbers flow of business. Las Americas Premium Outlets was 1,000 refugees and supporters marched there, demand- seemed to be decreasing. However, the CBP’s use of also forced to shut down. While people on social media ing their asylum claims be respected. force this past Sunday underscores the seriousness of and at the border expressed concern over the delays, the Over the past month, the refugees had begun to Trump’s words. general consensus was in support of the refugees. arrive. Many of the earliest arrivals consisted of peo- As a group of about 500 refugees and activists began Sunday, Nov. 25, signals a long struggle ahead for the ple of oppressed genders and sexualities who had faced to run toward the border crossing, in hopes of gaining migrants and their allies.q state-sponsored repression and sexual assault in their entry and having their cases heard, the CBP fired tear gas home countries and later by Mexican authorities. and rubber bullets from the United States into Mexico at By many accounts, the Tijuana working class has been the asylum seekers, including children. There are reports workers.org Nov. 29, 2018 Page 7 SF hotel workers stay strong

On Nov. 22 — a national holiday, which many insulting economic proposals from Marriott and have as a paid day off or get with increased hol- more resolved than ever that One Job Should Be iday pay — the striking Marriott Hotel workers Enough.” Some 5,200 hotel workers are still on were out on the picket line in San Francisco. It strike between San Francisco and Hawaii. was their seventh week without a paycheck. The next day, “Black Friday,” a massive picket The workers are strong and determined to line marched through San Francisco’s down- win what they deserve in the most expensive city town shopping area, ending at the central Union in the U.S. The website of their union, UNITE Square. HERE, asserts, “We’re united in the face of — Story and photo by Shane Hoff

The plight of home care workers ‘Thanksgiving’ on the picket line in San Francisco

By Mike Kuhlenbeck under the banner of capitalism. Home shoulder the burden of on-the-job costs care health is dominated by for-profit without compensation. For example, In the United States, over 2 million agencies. CDC data from 2014 indicates many agencies do not provide company home care workers were at “higher risk home care workers are paying the price that of the 12,400 home care agencies vehicles for direct support professionals, of injury than registered nurses and for the greed of the few. operating in the U.S., 80 percent of them forcing them to drive their own cars, pay licensed practical nurses.” (tinyurl.com/ Home care workers help people with were for-profit organizations, with the for their own gas and pay for repairs. y8n599w5) “disabilities, chronic illnesses, or cogni- other 20 percent nonprofit or govern- From there, it only gets worse. Home The stress of the job combined with tive impairment by assisting their daily ment owned. care workers have lower job stability, financial insecurity are responsible for living activities,” as noted by the Bureau As with other health care entities — shorter working hours and are less likely the high turnover rate in this field. BMC of Labor Statistics. This field includes pharmaceutical companies raise costs to have fringe benefits than those work- Nursing even fears there might be a personal care aides, home health aides, for lifesaving medicines and health ing in hospitals and nursing homes. As shortage of home care aides in the future. nursing assistants and direct support insurance companies raise premiums — a result, over 20 percent of home care Home care health services are a neces- professionals. these for-profit agencies will continue workers live in poverty. sity, as are the workers providing them. The Centers for Disease Control and overcharging clients and underpaying Besides the financial toll, these jobs But with mass privatization and cuts Prevention found 4.9 million adult home care workers. also take a physical and mental toll on to nonprofit and government-owned patients received some form of home Hourly wages for home care workers these workers. agencies, these services are treated as health care in 2013. As the senior popu- have “barely risen” over the past decade, In 2017, a study from the American a luxury and the workers are treated as lation increases, so will the demands for according to the Paraprofessional Journal of Public Health concluded: expendable. home care services. Current projections Healthcare Institute study “Home Care “Workers jobs affect their health-related Home care workers, along with the indicate that home care work is the fast- Workers: Key Facts.” (phinational.org, quality of life.” AJPH ranked home care people they help, will continue to suf- est growing occupation, with 1 million August 2018) Adjusted for inflation, aides (along with nursing and psychiatric fer financially, mentally and physically jobs to be added by 2026. the median hourly wage for home care aides) among the occupations “reporting under the current system. Only revolu- While one cannot put a price tag on workers was $11.03 in 2017 compared to the most cases of workplace injuries and tionary change will provide such services a human life and the quality of that life, $10.66 in 2007. illnesses.” (tinyurl.com/ybshkssn) to those who need them and fairly com- the home care health industry does so In many cases, workers have to One BMC Nursing review found that pensate those who provide them.q Boston hotel workers win! By Ed Childs and G. Lechat Public support has been very strong. in today’s defensive period can hardly to add changes to the contract periods as Boston Teamsters refused deliveries of laundry, be overstated. Striking is only possible an additional demand. liquor and other essentials. Other unions through concerted organization. Some Only because of the credible threat Boston’s UNITE HERE Local 26 contributed thousands of dollars to the unions have made the strategic decision member consciousness represents to Marriott hotel workers ended their strike fund; members bulked up picket to focus on growth, advocacy and electo- employers was this even possible. Short or 46-day strike with a decisive victory. lines and rallies. Rank-and-file members ralism to resist the mounting pressures very long contracts demanded by employ- Chanting “One job should be enough!”— of weaker unions, which lacked under- they face, including RTW. But develop- ers can tie up unions in constant defense the slogan of this historic national strike standing of the strike that these solidarity ing the member consciousness required or cause them to fall into inactivity, but that included locals from Detroit, San efforts represent, organized support dele- to strike is the only serious threat to cap- this rank-and-file-enabled strategy put Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle gations on their own. ital’s relentless attacks. the union years ahead of management’s and Hawaii— Boston workers ratified Community groups and passersby ges- Obviously, striking is very difficult. mergers and acquisitions. a new contract with anti-union Marriott tured and honked approval or dropped off Within days workers run low on the The strikers’ loud and spirited chants International on Nov. 17. coffee and warm clothes. Relatively few necessities of daily life. A few days later, over the beat of makeshift drums, 12 For Local 26, which also represents scabbed or heckled strikers. Celebrities, it is already time to apply for food stamps. hours a day, at seven hotels in bitterly dining hall workers at Harvard University especially unionized athletes who crossed However, hotel workers knew that accept- cold temperatures, traveled up to pent- who struck for 22 days in 2016, this is a picket lines while in Boston, were booed ing management’s take-backs meant not house suites and into corner offices blocks second landmark victory for the work- and scorned online. making ends meet anyway. Similar to away. Gentrifiers filed noise complaints, ing class in the current national struggle Curiously, some crossing the picket Harvard, where workers’ only alterna- pricey downtown hotel rooms had to be against “right-to-work” (RTW) laws and line expressed support, in evidence of tive to going on strike was losing their deeply discounted, and the Nov. 6 Wall other anti-union actions like the Janus contradictory tendencies, while some health care, hotel workers recognized the Street Journal reported “weaker demand” decision. showed sympathy but also unfamiliarity power of the strike and their power to win impacting Marriott’s bottom line. Inside, Marriott acquires a new hotel property with strikes. On the other hand, this also against the unacceptable. service standards plummeted. But street almost every day. After purchasing the revealed that class consciousness, enough The strike is a demonstration of worker action was only part of the picture— the country’s biggest hospitality chains— to radically change systemic inequality in power— not, as the anti-union logic goes, tip of an enormous iceberg of work- including Sheraton, Westin and Ritz— the U.S., could be developed. a risky decision made by “union bosses.” ing-class power underneath. the company was determined to prevent It reflects the organization and power Because of decades of workers’ organi- unionized housekeepers, cooks, wait- Strike the only serious threat workers have already built for themselves zation, Marriott was forced to concede on staff and door attendants from making to capital’s attacks through years of struggle. wage, pension, health care and workplace progress on their most important issues. The 2016 Harvard University Dining demands, with mostly immigrant women Marriott wanted to outsource food ser- Services victory received worldwide Building rank-and-file workers’ power of color leading the way and setting a new vices and impose hundreds of layoffs for attention and reintroduced the strike to Union hotel workers prepared for a standard for U.S. workers. each local. today’s working class. Wall Street is on decade to coordinate this multicity bat- Many lessons from this momentous However, city-by-city, hotel workers the attack, and these days striking is no tle. They voted to substantially increase strike will inspire and guide working- have been out-organizing this megacor- longer just a negotiating tool. Workers dues to shore up strike funds. Shop stew- class organization for years to come. poration. The details of UNITE HERE’s who organize the power to shut down ards trained members to survive weeks More and more workers are facing strug- new achievements in Boston, and in their workplaces are winning. of hardship, organizing food pantries gles that are both offensive and defensive. other cities that have ratified contracts, Workers are fighting back trium- and other relief in order to negotiate a Increasingly polarized times have inten- are under wraps until striking workers phantly even in states with anti-union, contract that would serve the needs of a sified attacks on the working class by an in Hawaii and San Francisco also see “right-to-work” (for less) laws, as in diverse membership. emboldened bourgeoisie. But workers victory. Michigan, where collective bargaining While national companies like Verizon with nothing to lose but their chains are Local 26 won on respect and dignity as is very difficult. Despite that, Detroit’s have always employed the coast-to-coast rediscovering the strike— with a world well as bread-and-butter issues. Workers UNITE HERE Local 24 hotel workers strike strategy, this strike of 10 locals, to win. made strong demands for women’s rights have already won. They’re also winning each with their own contracts, is some- Childs is chief steward, Harvard at work, health and safety, immigration in Republican-dominated “red states” thing new. It required aligning contract University Dining Services, UNITE and union rights, as well as wages, job like West Virginia and Oklahoma, where periods for all cities that struck. Thanks HERE Local 26. security, pensions, health care and hold- teachers’ strikes have succeeded. to rank-and-file development, locals near ing onto their jobs. The significance of the strike effort the end of contract negotiations were able Page 8 Nov. 29, 2018 workers.org US threatens China — as new superpower By Sara Flounders Every economy in the world will be exploitation that reaped enormous profits Tencent, with 647 million active users, impacted. The Nov. 16 Asia-Pacific for the U.S. and other global capitalists. is the world largest online community. China’s growth into the world’s sec- Economic Cooperation Summit in Papua Private minority stakes in state firms Alibaba is the largest e-commerce plat- ond-largest economy is being evaluated New Guinea, with 10,000 delegates and were sold. The communes were broken form in the world. by all the corporate media, reflecting guests, was so riled by the trade war, up and land was leased. Many forms of Smartphone payments in China are debates in U.S. ruling circles and the U.S. new tariffs and U.S. Vice President Mike small businesses were allowed. years ahead of those in the U.S. Chinese top military command. Pence’s arrogant demands that diplomats In recent years, through thousands of companies operate a cyberspace of cre- They are forced to admit that most of could not even issue a closing statement. strikes and job actions, workers in China ative short videos, podcasts, blogs and their hopes and dreams that the Chinese The Nov. 30 meeting of the Group of 20 in have won increased wages, social benefits streaming TV. For example, WeChat has government could be easily overwhelmed, Argentina is under a cloud of uncertainty. and improved working conditions. 889 million users who socialize, play and that Wall Street would find an open Remembering past Western domi- There are many different views of this games, pay bills and buy tickets all from road into China, are now dashed by the nation and humiliation, China is deter- process and its future dangers for the the mobile messaging app. reality of a stable government that seems mined to defend its national sovereignty, socialist organization of society. But in to have wide mass support and growing both economically and now militarily. almost all the deals with Western capital, National laws on sexual prosperity. China has imposed its own tariffs on U.S. China has insisted on keeping the tech- harassment, workers’ rights The New York Times Sunday edition products. Confrontations are accelerating nology and blueprints and demanded that The social gains in China are monu- ran a 20-page special supplement titled with U.S. warships carrying out aggres- Chinese workers be trained in operating mental, especially when compared to no “China Rules” on Nov. 25. It begins with sive “freedom of navigation” exercises in and running the enterprise. This was a rights, no education and no standing for the admission: “The West was certain the South China Sea. radically different deal than other coun- women, and no rights for any workers or China would fail. Government-controlled The “pivot to Asia” is a major mili- tries had previously required. And while peasants, before the Chinese Revolution. economies stifle growth. Oppression tary reorientation of the Pentagon war Western technology and funding of fac- As in every country, social gains, espe- smothers innovation. The Internet is an machine to focus on China. Aircraft car- tories were welcomed, Western-funded cially for women, are uneven and in con- untamable force. A new middle class will riers with nuclear weapons, destroyers, political ideas, organizations, opposi- tinuing struggle. demand a vote. None of these proved nuclear submarines and Terminal High tional political parties and media were In China, many gains have been cod- true. China is a superpower and it may Altitude Area Defense missile batteries tightly monitored by the state and by the ified into national laws, rather than soon surpass the United States. This is are being moved into place. Communist Party. through piece-by-piece struggles against the story of how it got there.” every corporate boss or laws passed state Of course the whole supplement is full U.S. demands State-owned enterprises predominate by state. of self-congratulatory myths about the Under the screen of diplomatic nego- What frustrates the capitalist class, far The inclusion in China’s civil code of “democracy and freedom” of imperialist tiations, just what are the fundamental more than China’s incredible growth, is laws to curb sexual harassment in the countries. But there is also recognition changes in China’s policies that U.S. cor- that the top 12 Chinese companies on the workplace is ahead of what exists in the of 40 years of uninterrupted growth in porations and banks want? Fortune 500 list are all state owned. They U.S. and most other countries. China and that the country is on track The Trump administration — and include massive oil, solar energy, tele- Included in the draft of the new civil to become the world’s largest economy. other major imperialist powers — want communications, engineering and con- code, presented to the National People’s “Economic growth in China has been 10 to reverse China’s industrial and develop- struction companies, banks and the auto Congress Standing Committee on Aug. times faster than in the U.S. and it is still ment policies. Their terms seem abstract: industry. They receive state support and 27, management and employers are more than twice as fast,” the Times states. ease restrictions on market access, end subsidies. (fortune.com, July 22, 2015) responsible to take measures to prevent, It is an incredible accomplishment! forced technology transfers for corpora- Chinese firms filled an unprecedented stop and deal with complaints about sex- More than 800 million people have tions setting up factories in China, respect 115 places on the Fortune Global 500 list ual harassment. Victims can demand been pulled out of dire poverty. This is intellectual property and patents, and for 2017. There were only 10 Chinese perpetrators “assume civil liability” for a measure without precedent in modern weaken currency controls. firms on the list in 2000. The U.S. has committing sexual harassment through history. The rate of extreme poverty in For example, Trump accuses China trended in the other direction: from 179 words or actions or by exploiting some- China is now less than 1 percent, accord- of keeping its currency artificially low in firms in 2000, only 143 U.S. firms were one’s subordinate relationship. (reuters. ing to World Bank studies. Yet China order to boost its export industry. The in the top 500 in 2017. com, Aug. 27) remains a developing country, because value of Chinese currency, the yuan, is The U.S. is opposed to subsidies to The China Labour Bulletin states: its per capita income is still a fraction of largely shut off to foreign speculators. state-owned enterprises and declares “China has a comprehensive legal that in “advanced” countries. Interest rates are set to help guide the the subsidies an “unfair advantage.” framework that gives workers a range While opening the country to foreign economy. They consider SOEs to be squeezing out of entitlements and protects them from capital investment, organized and cen- The hostility is sharpening. It is an the profits the global capitalists feel are exploitation by their employer. Workers trally planned attention was focused on all-out effort to fundamentally overturn rightfully theirs. They are enraged that have the right to be paid in full and on raising the economic level of the whole Chinese economic policies put in place SOE profits are plowed into developing time, a formal employment contract, a population, especially in rural and most starting in 1978. and modernizing China’s most under- 40-hour working week with fixed over- underdeveloped areas. developed regions. This “unfair advan- time rates, social insurance covering pen- From an illiteracy rate of more than Market socialism: a compromise tage” granted to state-owned industries sions, healthcare, unemployment, work 80 percent at the time of the Chinese Market socialism, or “socialism with is the primary reason given by the Trump injuries and maternity leave, severance Revolution in 1949, illiteracy is now Chinese characteristics,” is the compro- administration for new tariffs on Chinese pay in the event of contract termination, totally eliminated. China today produces mise of maintaining a planned economy steel and aluminum. (industryweek.com, equal pay for equal work, and protection more graduates in science and engineer- while opening up a market economy. It April 17) against workplace discrimination. ing than the U.S., Japan, South Korea and is described in China as a primary stage Both the Obama and Trump “Workers also have the right to form an Taiwan combined. of developing socialism in an underdevel- administrations and the World Trade enterprise trade union and the enterprise The billionaire deciders and power bro- oped country. Organization have opposed subsidies to union committee has to be consulted by kers of U.S. imperialism are totally hos- Since 1978 China has experimented China’s SOEs. management before any major changes to tile to the dramatic improvement in the with ways of attracting foreign invest- This is sheer hypocrisy! The largest workers’ pay and conditions.” (clb.org.hk) lives of hundreds of millions of people in ment and different forms of integration U.S. corporations are military contrac- China. into the global capitalist market. They tors with billions in federal subsidies, but Belt and Road Initiative Whether this stunning growth will made deals with many Western corpo- super-rich investors reap all the profits. threatens U.S. position continue, despite U.S. imperialism’s rations, while maintaining centralized Privately owned U.S. agribusiness has China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road determined effort to stop it with tariffs, control of the state apparatus. They also received decades of subsidies. Privately Initiative provides infrastructure loans, a trade war and military encirclement, is continued many forms of public, cooper- owned Wall Street banks received U.S. equipment and training to countries in now debated in ruling circles. Can they ative and social ownership. federal bailouts, a giant subsidy totaling Africa, Asia and Latin America for a net- stop China? Special economic zones were estab- $16 trillion, in the 2008 global financial work of trade routes, with new rail lines, As the Washington Post explained: lished to lure Western technology. These crisis. ports, highways, pipelines, telecommu- “The trade war isn’t about trade. The zones, with thousands of labor-intensive It was during the 2008 crisis that the nications facilities and energy centers trade war is about the United States try- factories and millions of workers earn- difference in who controls the state stood linking countries on four continents. ing to contain China and counteract its ing low wages, were centers of capitalist out in sharpest contrast. China saved It includes financing to promote urban rise.” (Sept. 24) and further strengthened its state-owned planning, potable water, sanitation and The Suppression of Bo Xilai enterprises, while letting the privately food development. China is calling it the owned and foreign-owned corporations “plan of the century.” It is projected to and the Capitalist Road: fend for themselves. be 12 times the size of the U.S. Marshall Can Socialism be Plan, which rebuilt Western Europe after Revived in China? China’s internet is way ahead World War II. An expectation of big capital glob- Imperialism is worried that China’s This 32-page booklet is a compilation of ally was that the wide use of the inter- huge, unfolding global infrastructure articles from Workers World newspaper, net would forcibly pry China open to projects could challenge the U.S.-led with a new introduction, written by Fred Western pressure, ideas and propaganda. world order. Goldstein. But China allowed Chinese innovators to Because the most powerful U.S. corpo- Read online at workers.org/books. compete in setting up privately owned rations are military industries, U.S. aid is but monitored internet companies. Today built around enormous debt for military Alibaba, Tencent, Weibo, ByteDance, equipment purchases that are quickly TikTok and Baidu rival Amazon, Google, obsolete. Facebook and YouTube. Continued on page 9 workers.org Nov. 29, 2018 Page 9 Part 3: Revolution sets up Bavarian Soviet Republic, seizure of Berlin First imperialist world war ends, November 1918 By this time 100 years ago, World War could save some of the old ruling struc- Sometimes all it took I—fought mainly among the imperialist ture, along with their privileges. This old was a group of armed powers in Europe and rightfully called structure had prepared its defense. Since sailors to land, and the “The Great Slaughter”—was finally draw- 1916 the German General Staff had made workers would join them and change who ing to a close, its end accelerated by the plans for an elaborate defense of Berlin ran the city. 1917 Russian Revolution a year earlier. and the Kaiser should the masses revolt, There was no “good side” in this war that which they apparently expected was likely brought death to 20 million people. The as war sacrifices continued. major states on both sides of the 1914-18 The General Staff prepared a chain of political changes among war—Britain, France, Russia, Germany command and set out the key points of the workers? Could they and Austria-Hungary—were all oppres- the city to be held, from the railroad sta- isolate the workers from sor nations, as was the United States, tion and post office to the Kaiser’s palace. the revolutionary senti- which did not enter World War I until On paper, it was a perfect plan. It had mid-January 1919, they made a desperate ments of the fleet? April of 1917. only one problem: It needed obedient and brutal move. They collaborated with There is another important point: Once This article focuses on developments troops to carry it out. There were none the military officers of the Freikorps—the the sailors began to revolt, it was almost in Germany, especially the events in to be found. Berlin’s population did not officer-led organization of military reac- impossible for them to safely retreat with- the first nine days of November 1918, need Facebook or even cell phones for tionaries—to execute the leaders of the out first upending the monarchy. Leaving when an uprising of sailors of the North word to travel that the troops would not Spartacist League. the monarchy intact left all the sailors at Sea Fleet ended the war and forced the shoot down the workers. The Spartacist group was too small risk. They had mutinied. At a minimum German ruler, the Kaiser, to abdicate. On Nov. 6, Prussian Gen. Alexander and weak to seize power on its own, as they faced long terms in military prisons, The text is from the book: “Turn the Guns von Linsingen, who was in charge of this the Bolsheviks had done in Russia. The at a maximum, execution. From the sail- Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and repressive machinery without gears, still Independent Socialists vacillated and ors’ point of view, the struggle had to be Revolutions” by John Catalinotto. had the arrogance to forbid a demonstra- refused to challenge the Majority Social seen through to its conclusion: political The revolt leaped over central Germany tion set for Nov. 7. The workers wanted Democrats. Consequently, the German revolution. to Bavaria in Germany’s south. Although to celebrate the first anniversary of the working class was unable to take advan- In addition—and this is essential—the it was part of the German Reich, Bavaria Russian Revolution. And they did. As each tage of the revolt in the military, seize sailors were armed. After the first repres- had the structure of a separate kingdom. hour passed, even Von Linsingen was power in its own name and smash the old sion in Kiel, they distributed tens of thou- There, as early as Nov. 3, a mass demon- beginning to get the message. His troops state. sands of weapons and ammunition. This stration in Munich, the capital, against were in place at key points throughout the meant they could march into city after continuing the war freed political prison- city, but he began to doubt they would fire Who led? Workers or sailors? city, connect with striking workers and ers from Stadelheim prison. on the workers. Lt. Cmdr. Von Forstner made an place a tacit ultimatum before the mili- On Nov. 5, at a mass anti-war demon- important assertion in his pamphlet: tary authorities and, more importantly, stration in Munich, both the Social Goodbye to Berlin that the rebellion came not from within before the rank-and-file soldiers: Either Democratic Party and the more leftist Instead of waiting to find out, Von the fleet but was brought in from the join us or we fight! Once discussions Independent Socialists called for a meet- Linsingen said goodbye to Berlin on outside by social-democratic organiz- began, the troops on land could see that ing of the entire population two days later, the evening of Nov. 8 without ever giv- ers. Von Forstner refused to believe the if they joined with the sailors and work- on Nov. 7, the one-year anniversary of ing an order to fight. The next morning, impulse came from the sailors them- ers in solidarity, they would represent the the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918, workers sponta- selves. Perhaps, since he was a subma- new power in that city and could reach meeting would be to demand an end to neously began a general strike, shutting rine captain, he imagined the relations out city to city until they took Berlin. the Kaiser’s rule. That Nov. 7 afternoon, every factory in Berlin. There was no within the entire fleet mirrored those on Again in history, the collapse of the 100,000 people cheered the 12 speakers resistance from the old government. his submarine, where a handful of offi- capitalist military forces—albeit a tem- who demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. With the empire vanished, two diverse cers, mates and ordinary sailors worked porary collapse—opened the door to The soldiers in Munich at the Nov. 7 political leaders each declared a repub- closely together, shared conditions and a successful political revolution by dis- demonstration moved in military forma- lic—really two different kinds of repub- dangers, and depended on each other to solving the prior-existing structure and tion to release their comrades, who had lic. Karl Liebknecht, recently released survive in combat. opening the path to a possible social rev- been confined to quarters by their offi- from prison for his anti-war agitation Even then, Von Forstner might have olution. Unlike in Russia a year earlier, cers. Thus, the opening of the military and a co-leader with the still-impris- overestimated the loyalty of the sailors however, the German working class and revolt in Munich began with the freeing oned Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist on his vessel. Still, the hierarchical rela- its disparate parties were unprepared to of 250 soldiers who had been confined in League, declared a socialist republic in tionship on a big battleship, with much seize this opportunity to take power and the military prison for their “revolution- the afternoon. greater privilege and comfort for the offi- wield it in their own class interests. ary acts,” as their officers judged them. Friedrich Ebert, who had rushed to beat cers, was more likely to accentuate class Ernst Toller, whose book is quoted in Soldiers in trucks with red flags patrolled Liebknecht to the punch, had declared a differences and antagonisms. Parts 1 and 2 of this article, served for the streets, and Bavaria’s capital was in democratic (capitalist) republic two hours Organizer Ernst Kuttner argued, on the six days in April 1919 as president of the the hands of the soldiers and workers. earlier. The two declarations signaled the contrary, that the revolutionary impulse short-lived Soviet Republic of Bavaria struggle that was to take place between came more from the sailors than from and was jailed when the counterrevolu- Soviets control Bavaria these two political tendencies. the worker-organizers. This is believable. tion won. The class battle continued for By the morning of Nov. 9, the south- On one side, Ebert and the conserva- For the sailors, everything was an imme- 14 more years of the Weimar Republic ern region of Germany was controlled tive Majority Social Democrats defended diate question of life and death. Also, the and ended in the defeat of the workers by the Councils of Workers, Soldiers and the rule of the capitalist ruling class sailors’ living conditions on the fleet mir- in 1933, when Adolf Hitler’s Nazis took Peasants of the Free State of Bavaria. of Germany, but without the Kaiser rored that of workers in factories, only power. Bavaria’s King Louis III put up no resis- and eventually without any trace of the under more repressive conditions. This failure to seize power eventually tance. On Nov. 13 he abdicated and fled to monarchy. On the other side was the Is it really possible, though, to sepa- had tragic results for humanity. But this his estate in Hungary. Spartacist League, which was to develop rate the political changes taking place does not negate the historic lessons of the The main target of the North Sea Fleet into the Communist Party of Germany. in the working class and the population heroic revolt of the sailors of Germany’s uprising was Berlin, the capital of the The Independent Social Democrats, as a whole from those within the fleet? North Sea Fleet. empire, which was the seat of power of the whom Lutz referred to as playing a role in The sailors were from the working class To read all three parts of Chapter Hohenzollern family monarchy, of which the November revolution, held an inter- in the major cities and had family mem- 16, “The Revolt of the Kaiser’s Blue Kaiser Wilhelm was the last ruling mem- mediate position. bers who were Social Democrats. Some Youths,” reprinted from “Turn the Guns ber. Germany’s old noble ruling class was Over the next two months the Majority were themselves workers and union Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and ready by this point to try to set up a con- Social Democrats did all they could members as civilians. Could the officers Revolutions” by John Catalinotto, go to stitutional monarchy led by Prince Max to restrain the revolutionary workers possibly isolate the sailors from these workers.org. of Baden if, by pushing out Wilhelm, they from taking over the government. In US threatens China — as new superpower Continued from page 8 now even billionaire, capitalists in China industries at the provincial, city and Hands off China! should be evaluated. rural township levels. A lot is in rapid They are not able to match China’s Big debates will continue within the The Chinese working class now num- transition. development proposals. But U.S.-funded progressive U.S. working-class movement bers 623 million people. Its social weight But in the final analysis, clarity and nongovernmental organizations and on the social character of the Chinese and political consciousness are growing. militant working-class solidarity are media outlets are waging widely pub- experiment in “market socialism.” Thousands of strikes and job actions have essential in opposing all threats to China licized scare campaigns against these It is valuable to study the impact of the consolidated new gains in pay and work- from U.S. imperialism and its giant mili- sorely needed development projects. global and internal capitalist market and ing conditions. Its capacity to organize all tary machine. Meanwhile, China is reining in a num- a growing consumer society in China. The future society will be decisive. Opposing sanctions, economic threats, ber of projects by Chinese capitalists who forms of socialist planning in the econ- There is much we don’t know about trade wars, increasingly hostile media lies were seeking ways to move their profits omy and in the culture hold lessons for the ownership of the productive forces and military encirclement by U.S. imperi- outside of Chinese government controls the many developing countries. in China — by the state, by Chinese and alism is not open to debate. through exploitative foreign investment The social weight, legal status and foreign capitalists, and about the many Hands off China! q schemes. inheritance rights of the millionaire, and forms of collective ownership of small Page 10 Nov. 29, 2018 workers.org What could be more urgent?

In all the dire news about the increased [1.5ºC] of warming, they concede that it society in which cooperation for the com- into the atmosphere. From 2007 to 2014, severity of climate change and its cata- may be politically unlikely.” (New York mon good has no place. vast tropical forests were leveled at the strophic effects, the most important Times, Oct. 7) In early human society, when people rate of three acres every minute to make element is not just downplayed — it is So the science and the technology DO lived communally and shared what they way for palm oil plantations. In 2015, missing altogether. exist to avoid this catastrophe. Shouldn’t had, it was to everyone’s benefit to work fires set to then clear the land raged For example, in a report issued Oct. 8, that mean a worldwide mobilization to together to solve problems. Even with out of control. NASA satellites detected the United Nations Intergovernmental make sure it gets done? limited technology, humans were able to more than 120,000 hot spots. All this was Panel on Climate Change predicted that Yet it is “politically unlikely.” If anyone accomplish daunting projects think of the the direct result of supposedly environ- as soon as 2040, rising world tempera- thinks that means we just have to get rid huge stone statues on Easter Island and mental-friendly legislation in the U.S. tures will bring inundated coasts, intensi- of Trump and his cronies, think again. the massive circles of Stonehenge. What promoting biofuels over coal. Big U.S. fying droughts, worsening food shortages U.S. administrations have been warned sacrifices they made to demonstrate their investors like Black Rock were in on the and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral about this problem since the 1980s. Both ability to literally move mountains! deal. (“Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help reefs. (“IPCC Special Report on Global Democratic and Republican administra- Class society changed all that. The Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Warming of 1.5ºC”) tions decisively rejected the advice of the interests of those owning property in the Catastrophe,” New York Times Magazine, This stunning report, prepared by scientists. (“Losing Earth: The Decade form of enslaved people, land and finally Nov. 20) more than 200 scientists from 40 coun- We Almost Stopped Climate Change,” capital became antagonistic to the inter- How did U.S. corporations get such tries, quantifies the cost of damages to New York Times Magazine, Aug. 1) ests of those doing the work. Human sol- influence in Indonesia? Through a mil- the world economy at $54 TRILLION, Global warming is not a problem of idarity was destroyed. Greed triumphed itary coup and massacre of a million but doesn’t even attempt to put a number science and technology. It’s a problem over the common good. Indonesians in 1965 that destroyed on the loss of lives. of class relations. It demonstrates, in the For human society to be sustainable, solidarity by decimating the once-pow- This means that a 3-year-old today most urgent way, that private ownership there must be solidarity. It was no acci- erful Communist Party there. (Read could face a terrifying world when they of the means of production stands in the dent that the early anthem of the work- “Indonesia 1965: The Second Greatest reach 25. way of carrying out rational decisions ers’ movement in the U.S. was “Solidarity Crime of the Century” at workers.org/ Can anything be done to avert this about the economy. Forever.” books.) staggering prediction? The cause of While climate change most damages Capitalism breaks down solidarity. Nothing about climate change is inevi- global warming and climate change is the people who have the least, it affects It pits boss against workers, worker table. It’s all connected to the class strug- now well-established: the accumulation all of society. Given what we now know, against worker, nation against nation; it gle to take the means of production, as of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas in turning back this catastrophe should be divides us by gender and sexual expres- well as science and technology, out of the the atmosphere, resulting mainly from at the top of everyone’s agenda. Instead, sion, by our place of birth, by our hair hands of capitalist exploiters and use it, burning fossil fuels. the big corporations and banks are totally and skin color, by language, by religion, not for the profits of the few, but for the But while scientists say that “it is invested in doing only what turns a profit ad nauseam. common good. Which is another way of technically possible to achieve the rapid for them. And they can’t do otherwise Right now, Indonesia is at the epicen- saying, we urgently need to ramp up the changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees because capitalism is a dog-eat-dog ter of countries releasing carbon dioxide struggle for socialism.q Haitians strike on Vertières

By G. Dunkel In a brutal massacre in the Port-au- for decades, but have sharpened in par- “The United States supports the human Prince neighborhood of La Saline on ticular since the disastrous earthquake of rights of people everywhere to freely It's an uprising. Some 80 percent of Nov. 13, a pro-government militia killed 2010. Both the Nov. 20 Washington Post express themselves and peacefully pro- Haitians went on strike for days after at least 15 people and dumped their and the Nov. 23 New York Times reported test, and supports the Haitian govern- massive protests throughout the country bodies in garbage pits, according to a on this uprising in Haiti as if it were not ment as it safeguards both those rights, on Nov. 18. That date marked the anni- report by the newly founded Open Eyes connected to Haiti’s extreme poverty, and the security of public and private versary of the Battle of Vertières, which Foundation. reinforced by the U.N. occupation acting property.” This has to be seen as interfer- sealed the victory of the Haitian revolu- as a proxy for the U.S., nor to the U.S. ence in another country’s internal affairs. tion in 1803. Major protests, marches and Pressure on Haitian government to picking the last two Haitian presidents. Haiti has every right to make its own disruptions continued through Nov. 24. The Haitian government is currently decisions without any U.S. intervention.q President Jovenel Moïse was sched- resign under tremendous popular pressure to uled to lay a traditional wreath at the The protests on Nov. 18 started out in resign. However, the U.S. embassy in memorial to the heroes of Vertières near good spirits, with marchers chanting and Haiti issued the following statement: Cap-Haïtien, but the boiling anger of the dancing to bands marching along with people led him to deposit the wreath at them. When the marchers confronted the Musée du Panthéon National Haitien, the police, however, the tone changed. 100 yards from the presidential palace, Videos show cops prowling the streets, while a five-minute, 50-second prere- rifle or gun in hand, throwing tear gas corded speech was played on national grenades. Protesters built barricades of television. tires and other trash, which they set on The tens of thousands of people who fire from time to time. came out in Port-au-Prince Nov. 18, The Haitian National Police claimed as well as in most of Haiti's major cit- that three people were shot dead. A ies, including Jacmel, Les Cayes, Cap- major opposition group, the Democratic Haïtien, Gonaïves, Saint-Marc and and Popular Sector, an alliance between Léogâne, were demanding to know outspoken lawyer André Michel and the “Kot Kòb Petwo Karibe a” “Where is the Lavalas Family party, claimed that 11 PetroCaribe money?” The slogan refers to people had died, 47 had been wounded the billions of dollars Haiti got through a and 75 arrested. The Haitian Press special deal with Venezuela, which let the Network reported Nov. 18 that six Haitian government use its profits from people were killed in protests in Petit- discounted oil to finance development. Goâve, Jacmel and Cap-Haïtien. This vast sum, for the least developed The U.N. Police Force, which is country in the Western Hemisphere, supposed to be “advising” the various could have brought people ravaged by Haitians police forces, had U.N. patrol earthquakes and hurricanes the develop- cars surveying the action. ment they need, but this money appears While the protests began over the to have “evaporated” into the pockets of PetroCaribe corruption, the attacks some politicians and their spouses. on President Jovenel Moïse and his But there were other pressing rea- Haitian Bald Head Party (PHTK) sons to hit the streets: Two out of three grew sharper and more intense as the Haitians live on less than $2 a day; less week progressed. Calls for his resigna- than 50 percent have access to pota- tion or dismissal became much more ble water and less than 25 percent have frequent. access to sanitation. Although the unions There were reports that residents of have been demanding a much bigger different neighborhoods in Port-au- raise, the government recently doubled Prince also set up barricades to keep the minimum wage to $5.11 for an 8-hour the cops out. day. Tensions have been rising in Haiti PHOTOS: HAÏTI LIBERTÉ workers.org Nov. 29, 2018 Page 11

France: Mobilization of ‘Yellow Vests’ marks new stage of struggles By Rémy Herrera Spontaneous struggle in Paris Île-de-France, Vaucluse, Normandy, always be smiling? Would we insist that Paris, France In Paris, the action was an indescrib- Brittany, in the north of the country, in the poor people who are fighting for their able mess that the police were unable to Corsica, and as far away as French overseas survival and dignity be photogenic? Nov. 22 — A profoundly new mass departments. On Réunion Island (more control. A crowd of tens of thousands of Organized left should join rebellion mobilization has emerged in recent yellow vests, extremely heterogeneous than 5,800 miles from Paris in the Indian weeks in France: that of the “yellow and absolutely unclassifiable, was made Ocean) where social inequalities are bla- Much more worrying is the fact that vests.” That’s the name and color of the up of young adults (sometimes with tant, protests turned to rioting. The army the leaders of the left-wing parties and high-visibility jacket that every motorist their children), retired people (including in Réunion was called upon to repress the trade unions are still—at the present is supposed to have in their vehicle to use, grandmothers who had seen their pen- rebellion, and a curfew was introduced time, and quite broadly—keeping a dis- for their safety, if necessary. It was worn, sions reduced), office employees, work- in the most rebellious towns. On social tance from this popular rebellion. Do they as a uniform of common struggle, by ers, artisans, motorcyclists, truckers, taxi networks, the yellow vests have already fail to understand that the revolt of the yel- hundreds of thousands of French people drivers, civil servants, medical assistants, warned: next day of struggle is Nov. 24. low vests opens the current second stage expressing their disapproval of President of the French people’s struggles against high school students, even young busi- Macron ignores mass uprising Emmanuel Macron’s actions. ness people, veiled women, young people neoliberal tyranny and for social justice? This is a new mobilization in terms from the cities, rastas, people of all colors An outstanding actor, with a smile on Can’t they understand that this is the of its origin, scale and forms of popular and religions, from all walks of life. They his face and full of contempt, President continuation, in an innovative, combat- rebellion. It all started on a small scale at all swept, in incredible disorder, along Macron seems to ignore this mass upris- ive, lively and extraordinarily broad scale, the end of October with a simple citizen the Champs-Élysées singing the national ing, as unprecedented as it is heteroge- of the same process of generalization of petition, without any party or union affil- anthem, La Marseillaise, “Paris, on your neous — but he seems motivated and mobilizations that launched thousands iation, without leaders or organizations, feet, rise up” and, of course, “Macron determined to continue the fight. Will of unionized comrades into strikes and posted on social networks. It called for resign!” he be able to do so for long when sur- demonstrations last spring? the cancellation of the fuel tax increase Multiple small improvised groups of veys reveal that between 75 and 85 per- Do they not see that the yellow vests, recently approved by the government. yellow vests arrived from all over. They cent of the French say they support the in their own way (not without courage, A few days later, nearly a million peo- were very mobile and managed to make yellow vests? For the time being, the risk and danger), are determined to fill ple had signed it, and slogans were begin- their way through and bypass — with- President has simply warned that he will the gaping void left because the institu- ning to call to “shut down the country.” out violence — the lines of police and be “intractable” in the face of the “chaos” tionalized left for decades now has aban- This protest movement initially con- gendarmes, who were overwhelmed on on Réunion Island. doned the defense of the class interests cerned the price of gasoline and the high all sides. Barricades were improvised in Usually so sure of himself, Prime of all workers and of internationalism taxes. It quickly included “the high cost various parts of the capital, made up of Minister Édouard Philippe appears on toward the peoples of the world? Do they of living,” “low purchasing power” and security barriers, wooden pallets, bicycles the defensive when he states that “the fail to realize that it is the class struggle a “boycott of the big department stores” and everything else that lay around on the government will not change course” and that makes history? before it finally focused on one clear slo- road. Garbage cans were set on fire. “will not tolerate anarchy.” Minister of Fortunately, things can change. And gan: “Macron, resign!” Luxury shops in upscale districts pre- the Interior Christophe Castaner, for his what seems forgotten in the leadership, The common point of these confron- ferred to close their doors — although part, is overplaying his firmness. the bases will take care of reminding them. tations, which were everywhere in the no windows were broken or robberies Called upon to help, Minister of Ecology On Nov. 20, the first transport union country, was to express a general malaise, reported. Here, we read a slogan: “To and Energy François de Rugy says—no announced its support for the yellow vests. a “fed-up” feeling of the population, and a arms!” (words from the national anthem); kidding—that the fuel tax should be used On the evening of Nov. 21, the actions rejection of the social inequalities caused there, we could see the banner: “Neither to finance the “ecological transition.” For of the electricians and gas companies by the application of Macron’s neoliberal Macron nor fascists, Black Blockage Total” how many euro cents, if France does not resumed intensifying (if they had really program. (Total is the French oil multinational have an environmental policy? The anxi- ceased since June). Several refineries The peak was reached Nov. 17: Some which, it seems, did not pay what it owes ety of the government is palpable. and oil depots (in Gonfreville-L’Orcher 280,000 yellow vests (according to police to the tax authorities.) On another, a draw- That the right and the far right are and Oudalle near Le Havre, Feyzin in the figures), scattered over 2,000 rallies ing of a guillotine, without comment. We trying to co-opt the mobilization of the Lyon suburbs, La Mède near Marseille, throughout France, blocked access to key could hear: “It is like May 68,” “Angry,” “It yellow vests, who have no visible lead- but also on other sites, notably those roads, motorway tolls and supermarkets. is war” or “Macron to the stake.” ers, is obvious and expected. It is just as supplying Blagnac (Toulouse) and Saint Most of the groups were inexperienced Despite the riot control CRS lines, sev- significant that the mainstream media Exupéry (Lyon) airports) declared them- and spontaneous in the streets. Many eral thousand peaceful but vocal dem- insidiously insist, in order to discredit selves on strike. people were taking part in their first onstrators managed to enter the street the movement and fuel the hostility, on At the same time, we learned that political protest. Fewer than 10 percent leading to the Elysée Palace before being reporting (extremely rare) xenophobic “captain of industry” Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the demonstrations were registered repelled by the shields, batons and tear or homophobic statements made during of the French automotive group Renault with the police force in a district (pre- gas of the security forces, and finally dis- these actions by a few demonstrators and chairman of the board of directors fecture), which is the usual procedure. persed. Everyone was stunned — includ- (who were immediately stopped by their of Nissan, was arrested and summoned In many villages in rural areas, this was ing the yellow vests and police officers. own friends on the spot). by the Japanese courts on suspicion of the very first time a demonstration had We’ve never seen this before. At a time of savage capitalism and a tax fraud and embezzlement of the com- taken place. The next day, protests continued dominant ideology that stirs up hatred pany’s funds for personal purposes. Is a The day’s outcome included one death throughout France, and the day after that, and pits one against the other in an popular revolt against that world so diffi- (an unlucky yellow vest woman was Nov. 19, access to some 20 oil refineries attempt to save the elites, the people who cult to understand? mowed down by a driver who had lost was blocked. On Nov. 20, in Paris, railway endure and suffer are also the victims of control of her vehicle), nearly 500 were tracks from Gare du Nord were invaded these contradictions. It is precisely the Herrera is a Marxist economist, a injured, including about 10 seriously and journeys to Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle role of militant and enlightened progres- researcher at the Centre Centre national (and 93 police officers), and more than airport were slowed down. sives to stand by them in the struggle to de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS), 280 were arrested for “acts of violence” In almost all regions of France, the show those who are misled the road to who works at the Centre d’Économie de (mostly motorists who had broken into people continued to carry out blockades: solidarity and fellowship. la Sorbonne, Paris. WW staff translated the barricades). In Toulouse, around Lyon, Bordeaux, Should the faces of the exploited this article.

Incendios de California son crisis del capitalismo

Continúa de página 12 El programa del Departamento de Trump continúa negando que el com- han dado las respuestas. En California, las Corrección y Rehabilitación de California portamiento humano produce calenta- casas vacantes superan a la población sin Como de costumbre, la administración paga a los prisioneros de $1 a $2 por día miento global y que esta es una causa hogar. Las/os activistas exigen que llene- de Trump quiere evitar pagar los fondos para combatir incendios activos, más importante de más incidentes de sequía. mos los hogares que tenemos en lugar de de emergencia federales para desastres tiempo libre de sus sentencias. Más de La vegetación se torna seca e inflamable, alimentar la burbuja inmobiliaria. de este tipo. En su lugar, utiliza los fon- 2.500 prisioneros están arriesgando proporcionando más combustible para los Las/os activistas también piden pagar dos para desplegar tropas federales en la sus vidas combatiendo incendios en incendios. Las líneas eléctricas mal pues- a los trabajadores—los bomberos pobres ahora militarizada frontera sur. todo el estado. (tinyurl.com/ydbus2at y tas pueden iniciar un incendio y luego los y encarcelados—los salarios que merecen Las/os activistas sociales e incluso los tinyurl.com/ydy9colb) vientos de Santa Ana lo propagan. en lugar de explotar su trabajo y costarles políticos preguntan por qué Trump no Al utilizar este trabajo “voluntario”, Los incendios forestales de California la salud y, en última instancia, la vida. ha enviado más bomberos, rescatistas y el estado dice que ahorra de $90 a $100 son síntomas de una crisis en el capita- Por último, las/os activistas quieren trabajadores de la salud para ayudar a las millones al año. También aduce que lismo. La explotación y el desprecio por crear una infraestructura que sea sosteni- personas devastadas por los incendios. ayuda a los reclusos a aprender nue- la tierra y los recursos y por las personas ble y reduzca nuestra huella de carbono, En cambio, gran parte de la lucha con- vas destrezas mientras trabajan en un pobres y trabajadoras han creado esta en lugar de crear más vertederos que lle- tra incendios se deja al sector más alie- entorno de equipo. Por supuesto, ningún experiencia anual de terror para las/os nen nuestra atmósfera con gas metano, nado de los californianos, su población trabajo en este campo está garantizado residentes. que aumenta la probabilidad de estos encarcelada. para ex prisioneros. Sin embargo, las/os más oprimidos ya incendios. Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

¡Proletarios oprimidos de todos los paises unios! workers.org Vol. 60 Núm. 48 29 de noviembre 2018 $1 ‘E-carcelación’: Nuevas ganancias para prisiones Por Betsey Piette poblaciones penales, y ayudó a lanzar clase, sino que también están significati- MOVE 9, se le concedió la libertad con- un amplio movimiento en contra de los vamente influenciados por el sesgo gene- dicional en junio de 2018, después de Desde principios de la década de 1980, aspectos de la encarcelación en masa. ralizado en el sistema de justicia penal”. haber sido encarcelada injustamente las corporaciones se han beneficiado de Esto ha llevado a cambios en la condena O’Neil llama estos algoritmos basados en durante casi 40 años, se le exigió que las inversiones a gran escala en lo que se de jóvenes a cadenas perpetuas, a los computadora “opiniones integradas en llevara un monitor de tobillo, y su movi- conoce como el “complejo industrial de límites de la pena capital y al inicio de las matemáticas”. miento limitado al Condado de Delaware, prisiones”. Este impulso para aumentar reformas de la fianza. A pesar de que la opción de usar un en las afueras de Filadelfia. La naturaleza los márgenes a cuesta de las/os traba- Sin embargo, como advierte Alexander monitor en lugar de pagar una fianza en arbitraria de esta imposición se hizo evi- jadores pobres y oprimidos, despropor- en su artículo de opinión “The Newest efectivo puede parecer una “salida de la dente cuando su esposo, Mike Africa Sr., cionadamente personas de color, se ha Jim Crow”, “ las recientes reformas de la cárcel”, los dispositivos de monitoreo fue liberado en octubre y no enfrentó la convertido en un elemento clave en el cre- justicia penal contienen las semillas de un GPS vienen con una etiqueta de precio misma restricción. cimiento del encarcelamiento masivo. Las sistema aterrador de e-carcelación.” (New considerable: alrededor de $300 men- condiciones en la mayoría de las prisiones York Times, 8 de noviembre) Alexander suales que debe pagar el usuario. Tasas de reincidencia en aumento parecen esclavitud moderna. define el uso creciente de monitores de Los dispositivos limitan la capacidad Como resultado de estas condiciones Desde 1983, cuando se otorgó a tobillo en lugar de la fianza en efectivo de ir más allá de un área controlada, lo draconianas, las tasas de reincidencia CoreCivic el primer contrato para priva- como “e-carcelación”. que dificulta la obtención o el manteni- están en aumento. En 1980, el 17 por tizar los establecimientos penitenciarios, Ante las crecientes demandas de refor- miento de un trabajo, el cuidado de sus ciento de las personas liberadas fueron la población carcelaria de EUA se ha mul- mas penitenciarias, las corporaciones seres queridos o la visita de familiares que enviadas de regreso a prisión debido a tiplicado por cinco, de 500.000 a más de penitenciarias con fines de lucro han no se encuentran en el área designada. “violaciones” de libertad condicional. 2,2 millones. En 1987, WCC, ahora GEO, encontrado nuevas formas de reforzar Como explica Alexander, “estás efectiva- Esto aumentó a un tercio de las admisio- recibió su primer contrato de prisión. sus ganancias. El Grupo GEO y otras mente sentenciado a una prisión digital al nes en prisión en 1999, y las cifras siguen Para el 2017, estos dos gigantes de pri- tres grandes corporaciones ahora tienen aire libre. Un paso en falso traerá policías aumentando. siones privadas tenían ganancias anuales el monopolio de los contratos para pro- a tu puerta”. El monitoreo electrónico es esencial- combinadas de $4 mil millones. porcionar monitoreo electrónico de per- Los estados también utilizan amplia- mente una extensión del encarcelamiento No están solos. Un informe del Proyecto sonas en libertad condicional en más de mente los monitores de tobillo para en masa que limita en gran medida la de Responsabilidad de Correcciones del 30 estados. Sus ingresos combinados por monitorear a las/os individuos en liber- libertad de las personas en libertad con- Centro de Justicia Urbana, publicado monitoreo electrónico superan los $200 tad condicional. En lugar de liberar a las dicional y su capacidad para evitar el re a principios de este año, encontró que millones. personas después de haber cumplido su encarcelamiento. El crear una condi- más de 3.100 compañías han obtenido Alexander abrió su artículo de opinión condena, el uso de dispositivos de moni- ción prolongada de arresto domiciliario, miles de millones de ganancias anuales reconociendo las victorias electorales de toreo de tobillo se ha convertido en la también puede utilizarse para apoyar el por contratos con alrededor de 130 cen- medio término para legalizar la mari- última condición de supervisión impuesta aburguesamiento al evitar que las/os pri- tros penitenciarios. Estas corporaciones huana (Michigan), restablecer los dere- a las personas en libertad condicional. sioneros pasen a los barrios seleccionados privadas ahora administran casi todos chos de voto a 1,4 millones de personas El estudio realizado en julio de 2018 por los inversionistas de bienes raíces. los aspectos de las prisiones, incluida con condenas por delitos graves (Florida) por el Centro para la Justicia en los Alexander finaliza su artículo de la administración de casos, construc- y dictar veredictos unánimes de jurado en Medios encontró que las condiciones opinión citando la voz cautelar del ción, equipamiento, servicios de ali- juicios por delitos graves (Louisiana). de supervisión de libertad condicional Reverendo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: mentos, atención médica, operaciones y Sin embargo, señala que aunque la se han vuelto más estrictas, incluyendo “Cuando las máquinas y las computado- telecomunicaciones. “práctica de la fianza en efectivo final- pruebas regulares de drogas, prohibicio- ras, los motivos de lucro y los derechos de Varios contratos corporativos de pri- mente está llegando a su fin”, las nue- nes a las personas con las que se puede propiedad se consideran más importan- siones garantizan pagos por cama para vas políticas en varios estados se basan asociar y un amplio conjunto de tarifas y tes que las personas, los trillizos gigan- el almacenamiento de trabajadoras/es en “algoritmos de evaluación de riesgos multas. En Wisconsin, por ejemplo, las tes de racismo, materialismo extremo y indocumentados y sus familias. En agosto para recomendar a las/os jueces si una personas en libertad condicional pueden militarismo no pueden ser conquistados”. de 2018, el Departamento de Corrección persona que ha sido arrestada debe ser enfrentar más de 70 condiciones para la Ella agrega: “No prestamos atención a su de Pennsylvania firmó un contrato de $15 liberada” sin restricciones o encadenada libertad condicional. advertencia en ese entonces. ¿Haremos millones con Smart Communications, con con un dispositivo de monitoreo GPS. El estudio del CJM observó la asom- hoy una elección diferente?” sede en Florida, para procesar el correo brosa cantidad de personas afectadas. Los llamados para reformar el encar- personal de las/os prisioneros. ‘E-carcelación’ Desde 1980 hasta 2015, el número de celamiento en masa seguirán siendo limi- Alexander cuestiona el uso de e-carce- individuos a nivel nacional en libertad tados y, en algunos casos, se convertirán Beneficios amenazados por lación basado en modelos matemáticos condicional aumentó de 1,1 millones a 4,3 en obstáculos a menos que logremos reformas populares supuestamente “ciegos”. Ella cita a la millones. Las filas de individuos en liber- confrontar el sistema del capitalismo con La publicación en 2010 de “The New científica de datos Cathy O’Neil, quien tad condicional, el enfoque de su informe, fines de lucro que sigue tratando a los Jim Crow” por Michelle Alexander des- llamó a estos modelos “armas de des- casi se cuadruplicaron de 220.400 a seres humanos como poco más que pro- tacó el papel que el racismo ha jugado trucción matemática” que “no solo están 826.100. ductos básicos. en el dramático crecimiento de las altamente correlacionados con la raza y la Cuando a Debbie Africa, miembro de Incendios de California son crisis del capitalismo Por Gloria Verdieu y planificación social para enfrentar emer- tarde del 16 de noviembre, el número ofi- a las personas que permanezcan adentro M. Matsemela-Ali Odom gencias, complicada por un presidente cial de muertes era de 71, pero el número o limiten las actividades al aire libre. ultraderechista. de personas desaparecidas fue de 1.011, 16 de nov. 2018—En las últimas dos Los incendios en sí mismos son el dado que muchas de las personas mayo- Los irresponsables tuits de Trump décadas, los incendios forestales se han resultado directo del desarrollo excesivo res o discapacitadas no tienen forma de Miles de personas viven en tiendas de convertido en un problema que afecta de partes de California que antes no esta- escapar. Ubicado a unas 60 millas al norte campaña, después de haber tenido que cada vez más la salud y la vida de las/ ban pobladas por razones divergentes, de Sacramento, el incendio en Camp ha abandonar sus hogares, angustiadas, os californianos. Actualmente, hay más pero relacionadas. En el sur de California, incinerado toda la ciudad de Paradise, perdiendo todo lo que tienen. No saben de 20 incendios activos en California el fuego en Woolsey ha consumido en destruyendo más de 12.000 estructuras y cuándo pueden regresar a sus hoga- según el sitio web de CAL FIRE, gran medida propiedades inmobiliarias 150.000 acres. res para salvar lo que queda, si es que fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps. de alto precio en hermosas áreas vírge- Los fuertes y extremadamente secos quedan. Algunos se conocen como incendios nes que se venden a personas adineradas. “vientos de Santa Ana” que se originan En medio de todo este sufrimiento, forestales nacionales que son naturales El incendio en Camp, en el Norte de tierra adentro han extendido el humo del el presidente tuiteó que el estado de y ocurren anualmente en California des- California por otro lado, ha afectado a fuego, que puede verse cientos de millas California ha administrado mal sus bos- pués de un verano largo y seco. muchas/os californianos más pobres y en múltiples direcciones y ha empeorado ques causando los incendios. Sin lugar a La abundancia y la frecuencia de la envejecientes, algunas/os de los cuales la calidad del aire, que ya era deficiente. dudas, Donald Trump está atacando al actual ola de incendios, sin embargo, han sido expulsados ​​de las áreas urbanas Las personas que viven a cientos de gobierno de California, que es progresista puede verse como el resultado del capi- costosas—en otras palabras, debido al kilómetros de los incendios respiran aire en comparación con él. El gobierno fede- talismo anárquico y el impulso de las aburguesamiento. cargado de humo, que es peligroso espe- ral, sin embargo, posee el 98 por ciento ganancias en el sector inmobiliario. Y las El fuego en Camp, uno de los incendios cialmente para las personas con enferme- de las tierras forestales en California graves consecuencias de muerte y des- más letales en la historia de California, dades cardíacas, asma u otras afecciones y es responsable de su mala gestión. trucción pueden atribuirse a la falta de ha demostrado ser trágico. A partir de la respiratorias. Las autoridades aconsejan Continúa a página 11