AUSTRALIA $1.50 · canada $1.50 · france 1.00 euro · new zealand $1.50 · uk £.50 · u.s. $1.00 INSIDE Youth throng Manila book fair for literature, culture, politics — PAGE 6 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE vol. 83/no. 38 October 21, 2019 Liberals push Halt Ankara’s UAW strike against GM impeachment, assault against is battle for all workers target is the the Kurds in Back fight to end bosses use of temps, two-tier pay working class north Syria! by terry evans by John Studer Impeachment hysteria is consum- Aiming to deal blows to the Kurd- ing the Democratic Party, pushing ish peoples’ struggle for national rights, their 2020 presidential candidates’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo- competition aside, as the party’s lead- gan has begun airstrikes on the Kurdish- ers in the House of Representatives controlled region of northeastern Syria. have launched “impeachment inqui- President Donald Trump announced ries” against President Donald Trump Oct. 6 the withdrawal of some U.S. in no less than six different House troops in Syria near the Turkish bor- committees. Their goal is to overturn der area, stating Washington would not the results of the 2016 election, and, if stand in the way of Ankara’s operation. possible, to get Trump indicted. “The Socialist Workers Party de- For the most zealous liberals, mands the Turkish rulers halt their evidence doesn’t matter. Days after attacks on the Kurds in Syria and the inquiry announcement, Hillary pull their forces back from the bor- Clinton told CBS News that Trump der,” Seth Galinsky, SWP candidate should be thrown out because he’s an for New York City public advocate, “illegitimate president.” said Oct. 9. “The Kurds have the Clinton derisively smeared workers right to self-determination. who backed Trump as “deplorables” “We also call for Washington to get in 2016. The real target of the Dem- all its troops and weaponry out of the Militant/Samantha Hamlin ocrats and middle-class left mania Middle East,” he said. Autoworkers picket line at Bolingbrook, Illinois, GM plant was reinforced by Steelworkers against the Trump presidency is the Erdogan plans to force hundreds of Oct. 5. As bosses force longer strike, UAW strikers need solidarity to stand up to auto barons. working class. The liberals believe the thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey BY ILONA GERSH around the country went on strike “deplorable” workers have to be cor- to move into the Kurdish-controlled FLINT, Mich. — So many drivers Sept. 16. Continued on page 9 Continued on page 4 were honking their horns in solidarity “We took cuts for GM when they that at times it was hard to carry on a were bailed out. Now they’re making discussion on the United Auto Work- a lot of money,” Christine Bradley, a Join 9-week drive to win readers ers picket lines at the General Motors 28-year-old assembly worker, told this plants here during an Oct. 5-6 solidar- worker-correspondent. “It’s our time ity visit. Some 49,000 GM workers at now. We gave up a lot. Now we can to ‘Militant,’ revolutionary books 33 factories and 22 parts warehouses Continued on page 7 Hong Kong ban on masks can’t stop struggle for political rights by Roy Landersen menting a highly controversial ban on As mass protests for political rights people wearing face masks at public and against Beijing’s interference assemblies. The Chinese government continued, the Hong Kong govern- applauded the repressive measure, de- ment announced Oct. 4 it was imple- claring it “extremely necessary,” and called for “all necessary measures” to restore order in the city. SWP: Working Carrie Lam, the pro-Beijing chief executive of Hong Kong, invoked people can make Continued on page 9 gains ‘when we Inside Militant/Eric Simpson stand and fight’ Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for San Francisco mayor, left, talks with Mark Iraqi protests demand jobs, Baldwin in San Leandro, California, Sept. 20. He decided to get a subscription to the Militant. by Susan lamont end to Tehran intervention 4 PAVO, Ga. — “The protest by by brian williams program and perspectives, and the Blackjewel coal miners in Kentucky Montreal rally: End ban on With an uptick in workers’ battles lessons of past battles by our class is an example of what working people wearing religious symbols 6 — like the UAW strike against GM around the world. The Militant urges can accomplish if we stand together and the Blackjewel coal miners’ fight all its readers and supporters to join in and fight,” Alyson Kennedy, the So- Independent truckers protest to win wages stolen from them by the helping make this a success. cialist Workers Party presidential new gov’t regulations 7 bosses — the Socialist Workers Party The drive, which runs through Dec. candidate in 2016, told Willie Head has launched a nine-week drive to 10, has an international goal of win- Oct. 2. Head is a decadeslong veteran –On the picket line, p. 5– expand the reach of the Militant and ning 1,100 subscribers and selling in the fight by farmers who are Black Idaho miners’ rally marks two- readership of books by SWP leaders 1,250 books. It runs concurrently with to keep their land. and-a-half-year walkout and other revolutionaries. a drive to raise $100,000 to finance Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett, The drive, which began Oct. 5, the work of the party. Next week we SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City California sheet metal workers is aimed at helping workers gain a will publish a list of area goals in the Council, were visiting Head on his end strike, cite gains deeper understanding of the party’s Continued on page 2 Continued on page 3 Join ‘Militant,’ books drive Titles by SWP leaders attract interest at Paris Fete Continued from front page dence and growing class consciousness. U.S. and worldwide. To facilitate this campaign, all Path- Central to this campaign will be finder books and copies of the Marxist exchanging views and sharing experi- magazine New International will be of- ences with workers, farmers and other fered at 20% off during the drive. exploited producers in cities, towns In addition, eight books that deal and rural areas, laying the groundwork with some of the central questions of for working together in solidarity with class politics and the party’s course strikes and other working-class pro- today are available at half-price with a tests, and on the party’s 2019 and 2020 Militant subscription. election campaigns. They are: Malcolm X, Black Libera- Through joining these working-class tion, and the Road to Workers Power, struggles, discussing their significance Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? and the class view of other political and The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class developments on workers’ doorsteps, Record, all by SWP National Secretary SWP members and partisans of the pa- Jack Barnes; Is Socialist Revolution in per can establish deeper relations with the US Possible? and In Defense of the union fighters and other class-struggle- US Working Class both by Mary-Alice minded workers and youth. Waters; “It’s the Poor Who Face the The drive is an international effort Savagery of the US ‘Justice’ System” Militant/Derek Jeffers — with participation by the SWP’s sis- by the Cuban Five; Tribunes of the LA COURNEUVE, France — “The workers movement here has been ter Communist Leagues in Australia, People and the Trade Unions by Karl pushed back hard for years, but we got woken up by the yellow vests,” Regis Canada, New Zealand and the UK, Marx, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Far- Lanier, a nurse from Amiens, on the left, told Pathfinder supporters at their as well as all others who join in, from rell Dobbs and Barnes; and The Jewish bookstand at the Fete de l’Humanite held here in Sept. 13-15. Amiens is an Iraq to the Philippines. Question by Abram Leon, a revolu- old industrial center 100 miles north of Paris. tionary in Belgium. Lanier was attending the festival for the first time in two decades, along Crisis of working-class leadership Available just a few weeks after the with his son Roman, second from left, a college student who brought his yel- Worldwide, working people in sus- drive begins will be a new Pathfinder low vest. They both said they had participated in the yellow vest protests last winter. They decided to get French-language editions of Teamster Rebellion by tained protests involving millions have book, The Turn to Industry: Forging a Farrell Dobbs and In Defense of the US Working Class by Mary-Alice Waters. toppled governments in Sudan, Alge- Proletarian Party by Barnes. It explains Fete de l’Humanite, an annual event organized in a working-class suburb how the SWP throughout its history ria and Puerto Rico in recent months. outside Paris by the French Communist Party, is open to all comers. Supporters But while hated rulers there have been has fought to build a party based in the of Pathfinder Press set up a booth every year, offering dozens of titles by lead- forced out, the governments that defend working class and in our unions. The ers of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries. the interests of the capitalist rulers re- title will be an invaluable tool to intro- Thirty-one copies of In Defense of the US Working Class, released in French main in place. What’s lacking is a revo- duce to workers door to door, among co- right before the book fair, were sold. Sales were 20% higher than last year. lutionary leadership capable of advanc- workers and at political events. Altogether, 190 Pathfinder books were sold at the festival, including 44 cop- ing the fight to build an independent Another opportunity to get books at ies of Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Burkinabe rev- working-class movement that can chart discounted prices is to sign up for the olutionary leader Thomas Sankara; 16 copies of The Communist Manifesto; a course toward taking political power. Pathfinder Readers Club. For just $10 a and 11 copies of The First and Second Declarations of Havana. This points to the importance of get- year, all of the hundreds of books pub- — Derek Jeffers ting into the hands of working-class lished by Pathfinder Press are available fighters a broad range of books that at a 25% discount. explain — from the past experiences To join in the drive get in touch with of our class — how we can transform the SWP or Communist League in your ourselves in struggle, gaining self-confi- area, listed in the directory on page 8. 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2 The Militant October 21, 2019 ‘Workers gain when we fight’ Continued from front page ban Revolution. “I have seen firsthand farm here. They were joined by Rach- what it means for workers and farm- ele Fruit, SWP candidate for Atlanta ers to have made a socialist revolution School Board. and taken power out of the hands of the “The same thing is true of the almost capitalists,” he said. “I tell other farmers 50,000 autoworkers on strike at GM and about what they’ve accomplished.” the broad solidarity they’re getting from He asked Kennedy and Jarrett what working people,” Kennedy said. The they thought of Democratic Party 2020 two SWP spokespeople are on a nation- candidates Elizabeth Warren and Ber- al tour campaigning to build the SWP. nie Sanders. “Our views are the oppo- Kennedy and Jarrett had visited the site of Sanders and Warren,” said Ken- encampment of Blackjewel miners in nedy. “We’re working to build a fighting Cumberland, Kentucky, fighting for pay movement of workers, to make a revo- that had been stolen by the mine bosses lution and take political power from the when the company declared bankruptcy capitalists. The Democrats are trying to July 1. The miners blocked a train filled band-aid their system in the hope of pre- with coal they had mined, determined to venting workers from rising up.” get their pay before allowing it to move. They talked for hours, discussing pol- Militant/Susan Lamont Although the encampment has ended, a itics, the SWP’s fighting program and Farmer Willie Head, center, meets with Alyson Kennedy, SWP 2016 candidate for president court order bars the train from moving, other battles by workers and farmers. and Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, Oct. 2 in Pavo, Georgia. and the miners’ fight continues. The SWP members thanked Head picket line, showing the working class is disorder, while he was walking around Kennedy and Jarrett have also joined for the visit, saying it would help them less racist and more united than ever.” naked and unarmed in his own apart- United Auto Workers picket lines in Ar- describe the crisis facing farmers today “You all have sparked me up!” said ment complex. It was only the efforts lington, Texas; Bedford and Kokomo, and to win solidarity with Black farm- Jackson. He renewed his subscription by Hill’s family and opponents of police Indiana; and Hudson, Wisconsin. ers’ ongoing fight to stay on the land. and bought Tribunes of the People and brutality that forced murder charges to “Coal bosses have been filing for Head renewed his Militant subscrip- the Trade Unions; Are They Rich Be- be filed against the cop. bankruptcy for decades, trying to break tion and got a copy of Tribunes of the cause They’re Smart?; In Defense of the While talking with supporters of Hill unions and assault wages and working People and the Trade Unions. US Working Class; and The Clintons’ outside the courtroom, Kennedy and conditions,” Kennedy told Head. “But Anti-Working-Class Record. Jarrett learned of the murder conviction this time the miners said, ‘Enough,’ and ‘You sparked me up!’ Jarrett and SWP supporters also vis- of Amber Guyger, the policewoman were joined with an outpouring of soli- Campaign supporters Jose Alvarado ited with Uber and Lyft drivers at the who shot and killed Botham Jean in his darity and support from fellow workers. and this worker-correspondent joined Atlanta airport. Jarrett explained that apartment in Dallas. She was sentenced “People everywhere know they’re Kennedy and Jarrett going door to door the campaign supports the fight to orga- to 10 years in prison the next day. getting shafted by the capitalist sys- in Hogansville Oct. 1. They visited nize “one union for all drivers,” app, taxi As of Oct. 8, the jury in the Hill tem,” she said. “But it takes workers and the home of Reggie Jackson, a former and limousine drivers. Three drivers got case was still out. working farmers deciding to act, like Walmart worker, who is disabled. Three copies of the Militant and thanked the The tour wound up with a lively the coal miners and autoworkers, to be- months ago Jackson had subscribed to party for stopping by. Militant Labor Forum that drew 25 gin to change things.” the Militant and bought a copy of Mal- Kennedy and Jarrett attended the people and raised $820 for the SWP Head farms corn, greens, soybeans colm X, Black Liberation, and the Road Decatur trial of the DeKalb County national campaign. and other crops. But like many small to Workers Power by SWP National cop Robert Olsen, who shot and killed farmers, he has worked industrial jobs Secretary Jack Barnes. 26-year-old Afghanistan war veteran Rachele Fruit, Lisa Potash and Jan- off the farm to be able to pay the bills. “That book shook me up,” Jackson Anthony Hill in 2015. Olsen shot Hill, ice Lynn from Atlanta contributed to Head said he agreed with Kennedy said. “They don’t teach you this history who suffered from PTSD and bipolar this article. about how workers and farmers need to in school.” stand up and fight, and described some Jackson spent 10 years in the army. of the struggles Black farmers in the “The Veterans Administration treats South have waged. vets badly,” he said. For veterans with ‘The stewardship of land and “We usually can’t get loans from the post-traumatic stress disorder “it’s a banks or the Department of Agricul- struggle.” ture,” he said. “The so-called political “How veterans are treated is a prime labor falls to the working class’ by john Steele to take political power.” leaders know that Black farmers aren’t example of how working people in gen- and Joe Young Komal Mohite, a McGill University getting anything, but they do nothing. eral are treated in capitalist society,” Jar- MONTREAL — Pierre-Luc Filion, student from Mumbai, India, said she Because you can’t get credit, you have rett said. “But it’s better to fight — like Communist League candidate in the agreed when Penner explained, “It’s to pay cash for everything.” the GM workers now on strike. You see Montreal riding of Longueuil-St. Hu- not possible to wage an effective fight Head has visited Cuba several times men and women, Black and Caucasian, bert, and Steve Penner, CL candidate against capitalism’s poisoning of the and is an outspoken supporter of the Cu- and other workers side by side on the in the federal riding of Papineau in earth’s land, water and air unless the Montreal, and a number of supporters world’s toilers unite in an internation- Special offer on books ... went to the “climate crisis” rally here al movement. Sept. 27. They spoke with workers and “It can’t be done on the basis of the students about how rapacious capital- reactionary call by the Climate Strike ist competition for profit is the driving Canada organizers to ban fossil fuels,” $5/$3.50 force behind damage to the environ- said Penner. “This would mean turning ment, and that the working class is the our backs on the over 800 million work- only force capable of ending it. ers and peasants in Asia, Africa and oth- $8/$6 The event had all the trappings of er areas underdeveloped by imperialism a government-sponsored affair. The that need energy to develop electricity, school boards closed schools and many modern industry and open the door to $8/$5 students were organized by teachers to culture and politics.” attend the event, in some cases receiv- Mohite said, “There are hundreds of ing free lunches. The city provided free millions of people in India alone in ex- public transportation. actly that kind of situation.” “They have to do something,” Ni- Communist League campaigners cole Biernocik, a student from Con- featured New International no. 14, $12/$7.50 $8/$5 cordia University, told Filion. “The which includes a statement by the So- situation is irreversible.” cialist Workers Party, “The Steward- “It isn’t irreversible,” replied Filion. ship of Nature Also Falls to the Work- “The bosses and their profit system ing Class: In Defense of Land and La- are responsible. It’s not in their class bor.” It explains how these questions $5/$3.50 interests to stop attacking workers developed historically and outlines $8/$5 and nature. We can do something the SWP’s program. — the working class can organize “Green politics,” it says, leads “away and build unions to fight for work- from the fight for independent working- Prices are: ers control of production. 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The Militant October 21, 2019 3 Iraqi protests demand jobs, end to Tehran intervention by terry evans hardships working people face, Mahdi Despite unbridled government and said Oct. 4 his government had “no paramilitary assaults that have left over magic solution.” 100 dead, 6,000 wounded and hun- The next day, government forces dreds jailed, working people continue opened fire on protesters in Baghdad to protest in Baghdad and cities across with water cannons and tear gas gre- southern Iraq. They are demanding an nades. Saraya al-Khorasani paramili- end to years of unemployment, wide- taries, one of the Tehran-backed forces, spread corruption and the Iranian rul- started using live ammunition. “They ers’ military and political interference had snipers in buildings targeting the in the country. protesters,” one marcher told the media. The actions, which began Oct. 1, The leader of the largest bloc in par- take place as Washington continues to liament, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, intensify its sanctions against Tehran pulled his forces out of the assembly that have made life difficult for work- Oct. 5, calling for new elections. A few ers in Iran. The rulers in the U.S. and other parties have followed suit. Iran both have forces stationed in Iraq Ameer Al Mohammedaw/DPA via ZUMA Press and vie for influence against each other. Actions target Tehran’s intervention Protesters in Baghdad Oct. 1, one of many actions across southern Iraq. Working people have Washington maintains 5,000 troops in used opening of political space with the defeat of Islamic State to press demands for jobs, Some participants carry photos of for- services, for the fall of the government and for Tehran’s hated militias to leave the country. the country to defend the interests of the mer deputy head of Iraqi counterintelli- U.S. rulers and push back Tehran’s mili- gence operations Abdul-Wahab al-Saa- to increase their regional power and in- mobilizations in 1979. It was not until tary and political power there. di, who the government replaced Sept. fluence by force of arms, extending the the mid-1980s, on the heels of a long, The Baghdad government is still 27. Saadi wanted to limit the power of nearly four-decade-long political coun- bloody war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, largely dependent for its military de- Tehran-backed militias known as the terrevolution that pushed back the work- that the predecessors of today’s Iranian fense on Shiite militias organized by the Popular Mobilization Forces. ers, farmers, women and oppressed na- regime were able to consolidate power. Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Under pressure from Washington, tionalities who carried out the historic Since then they have made gains Working people have used the open- Mahdi issued an order in July to bring Iranian Revolution of 1979. in extending their reach in the region, ing of political space since the defeat of the Tehran-backed militias under great- That was a far-reaching, popular backing the Bashar al-Assad dictator- Islamic State — which had seized large er government control. But they still re- social revolution, not a religious ji- ship in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, parts of Iraq in 2014 — to organize tain widespread sway. had as the U.S. rulers and their media Houthi rebels in Yemen, and in Iraq. widespread protests against successive “Iran and Iraq are two nations whose falsely portray it. Workers organized Tehran’s rulers won a victory when Iraqi governments, first in the summer hearts & souls are tied together,” Ayatol- councils in factories, refineries and the Iraqi government re-opened its bor- of 2018 and again today. lah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader elsewhere and fought to extend their der crossing with Syria at Qaim, Sept. Protesters demand jobs, improved of Iran’s bourgeois clerical government, reach over politics. 30 for the first time in eight years, giv- supplies of electricity, water and sanita- tweeted Oct. 7. “Enemies seek to sow The bourgeois-clerical figures who ing a boost to Tehran’s efforts to resur- tion, and removal of Tehran’s grip from discord but they’ve failed & their con- rule in Tehran today came to power in rect Syria’s Assad. Tehran-backed mili- the country. Increasingly they demand spiracy won’t be effective.” a counterrevolution that pushed back tias have control of much territory along the removal of the government of Prime The aim of Iran’s capitalist rulers is against the toilers who led the massive Iraq’s Syria border. Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, which took office a year ago. While insisting he will meet many of the protesters’ demands for change, Mahdi’s government has Halt Ankara’s assault against the Kurds in north Syria! responded with curfews, cutting off the Continued from front page tions troops out of two border outposts. an anti-missile system from Moscow. internet, arrests and assaults. area of northeastern Syria once his mili- Facing bipartisan criticism in Con- In response to the Turkish govern- Politicians have been “stealing, steal- tary occupies it. He hopes this “Arabi- gress that he was abandoning a U.S. ment’s threat to push back and pun- ing from the year 2003 until now,” zation” would separate Kurds in Turkey “ally,” Trump said he had no intention ish Syrian Kurds, commanders of the Yousif Emad, a 25-year-old unemployed from their brothers and sisters across of abandoning the Kurds and threatened Kurdish People’s Protection Units worker with a wife and child, told the Fi- the border in Syria and create a base of to “obliterate the Economy of Turkey” if (YPG) ordered their forces closer to nancial Times Oct. 5. “Enough.” support to thwart the Kurds’ struggle for Ankara’s forces did anything he deemed the Turkish border. “Our rights have been taken. Our self-determination. “off limits.” None of the 1,000 troops the Kurdish regional officials are seeking dreams were taken,” Emad said, as Turkish government forces launched U.S. rulers deploy in northeastern Syria protection from the Syrian and possibly he tried to get past government secu- airstrikes on Kurdish fighters in Ras have been told to leave and most still re- even the Russian government “to fill the rity forces to reach fellow protesters in al-Ain and other Syrian border villages main in areas controlled by the Syrian void,” they say, if U.S. forces depart. But Baghdad’s central square. Oct. 9, three days after a phone call be- Democratic Forces. like Washington, both Damascus and “I live in a very small house in a bad tween Trump and Erdogan. Washington has been engaged in a se- Moscow have long records against the neighborhood,” he said. “No sewage, no Some 30 million Kurds are an op- ries of disputes with Ankara, its fellow Kurds’ fight for national rights. Assad electricity, no water. How do you expect pressed nationality spread across Iran, NATO member, including opposition to says he wants to seize control of north- me to live?” Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Over decades the Turkish regime’s decision to accept east Syria back from the Kurds. Official unemployment figures have the capitalist rulers there suppressed not dropped below 8% over an entire Kurds’ struggle for rights and a home- two decades, with youth unemployment land, with the complicity of Washing- For further reading remaining double that figure. ton and other imperialist powers. The With disdain for these growing U.S. rulers have turned support for the Washington’s Assault on Iraq Kurds on and off, as best serves their imperialist interests. Opening Guns of World War III After millions of working people “Despite the results of the U.S. military ‘victory’ militant joined an uprising against the Bashar in Iraq, an imperialist-imposed Mideast ‘peace’ is al-Assad dictatorship in Syria in 2011, further from Washington’s grasp than ever.” labor Kurds were able to carve out an au- — Jack Barnes in New International no. 7. tonomous area. That region expanded forums as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces helped lead the ground efforts California to defeat the reactionary “caliphate” $14 US Imperialism Has Oakland of Islamic State. This area now covers Lost the Cold War U.S. and Chinese Rulers’ Intensifying some 25% of the country, including Rivalry. Speaker: Jeff Powers, Socialist “The exploiters have not been able to resolve the $25 Workers Party. Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. Do- most of its oil. 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4 The Militant October 21, 2019 on the picket line African conference advances solidarity with Cuba Are you involved in a union organizing drive or strike? Brought soli- darity to fellow workers on the picket line? Let us know! Send articles, photos and letters to [email protected] or through our website, or mail them to 306 W. 37th St., 13th floor, New York, NY 10018. Idaho miners’ rally marks strike since Sept. 5. two-and-a-half-year walkout “Most important, we kept our medi- MULLAN, Idaho — Some 100 cal and pensions,” Jose Rojo told the members of United Steelworkers Local Militant at the plant gate Oct. 4. The 5114 and supporters marched and ral- company backed away from earlier de- lied here Oct. 5, marking two and a half mands that workers contribute to long- years since silver miners at the Lucky standing, fully-paid medical premiums. Friday mine went out on strike against The strike featured mass picketing by Hecla Mining Company. members and supporters of the Sheet The company wants to gut the union- Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation enforced system under which workers Workers Local 104. The company hired bid on job crews based on seniority, a some strikebreakers but not a single system miners say helps protect their striker crossed the picket line. Teamster safety and lives. The company also delivery drivers refused to drive through the picket lines and Building Trades Militant/Ved Dookhun wants to increase miners’ medical in- ABUJA, Nigeria — Over 300 people marched almost 2 miles through surance payments and cut bonuses and unions donated supplies and money to the streets here and rallied at Freedom Fountain Park in the Nigerian capi- silver premiums, an important part of the striking workers. tal Sept. 25 to protest the U.S. rulers’ economic war against the Cuban what miners take home. The four-year contract includes an- Revolution. The demonstration demanded an end to harsh U.S. sanctions Hecla bosses want to run the mine nual wage increases from 70 to 75 cents against Cuba and the end of Washington’s occupation of Guantánamo. 24/7 except for two holidays a year, an hour. Initially organizers projected marching to the U.S. Embassy, but U.S. Bruce Baraby, who has worked at Lucky “We wanted to get more,” John Henry authorities in a complaint to the Nigerian government asked that the po- Friday for 35 years, told the Militant. “In told the Militant. “The cost of living is lice stop the protest from getting to the embassy. Organizers agreed to an the past the company always asked for going up. Rents have gone up hundreds alternative route, and Washington’s violence-baiting of the action only volunteers for holiday or Sunday work,” of dollars in the past three years. served to enliven participants’ resolve. he said. “Now they want to make this “What gets me is the gap between The march took place on the last day of the Sixth African Continental mandatory for all workers. It’s not worth how much money these companies Conference of Solidarity with Cuba. Nearly 300 delegates participated in what your body has to go through work- make and what they pay us. The three days of discussion and debate on how to advance solidarity with ing underground.” greed, it’s getting worse. We were Cuba on the African continent. Twenty-nine delegations from 26 coun- Baraby said that the mine has been just trying to get a little more, a lit- tries in Africa participated, along with three non-African delegations — operating at a limited capacity with tle extra, to pay the bills and so we Cuba, Venezuela and the U.S. management personnel and about a can afford to take the family to the The conference was broadly sponsored by the Nigerian labor move- dozen scabs who have crossed the amusement park.” ment, with members and leaders from the Nigerian Labour Congress; picket line. — Joel Britton Trade Union Congress; the National Union of Textiles, Tailoring and Gar- At the rally, Local President Dave ments Workers and the National Union of Air Transport Employees join- ing in the discussion. The Nigeria Cuba Friendship and Cultural Associa- Roose thanked the wives and relatives Albany nurses fight for union con- tion and the Amilcar Cabral Ideological School also played a prominent of the miners “who have been the cor- tract, against short staffing part in the conference. ALBANY, N.Y. — “What do we nerstone of the fight, including keep- — James Harris ing a food bank going for the length want? Contract! When do we want it? of the strike.” Roose told the Militant Now!” chanted hundreds of nurses and that negotiations are ongoing with the their supporters outside Albany Medical company. Center here Sept. 25. per paycheck for a family. Center voted 1,161-582 to be represent- — Edwin Fruit “We nurses love to take care of our The two-part action, one held ed by the New York State Nurses As- patients but, at this point we have a crisis around morning shift change and sociation. Albany Med tried to intimi- California sheet metal workers in the hospital, most significantly staff- the other during lunch time, was the date nurses from the Philippines work- end strike, cite gains ing,” Jennifer Bejo, a nurse at the hospi- largest protest the nurses have orga- ing at the hospital but failed. “They STOCKTON, Calif. — After 26 tal, told the rally. nized so far in this fight. Members of told some nurses they would lose their days on strike, workers voted Oct. 1 In addition to demanding a reduction the Laborers Union, United Union of green card if the union won,” said Ma- to approve a new contract with Simp- in the nurse-to-patient ratio in order to Roofers, SMART rail union Local 83, ria Bartolome, a nurse at the rally. That son Strong-Tie, a maker of metal parts provide safe care, nurses are fighting nurses from the nearby Veterans Ad- hasn’t happened. used in the building and construction for adequate on-the-job training and ministration hospital and some nursing Negotiations have stalled since the industries. Three hundred and nine- against high medical insurance premi- students joined the action. union vote. “They are not taking us se- teen workers at the plant had been on ums, which nurses reported were $350 Last year, nurses at Albany Medical riously. We are short staffed. We want a voice on staffing. They will not even look at us,” said Karen Gerstenberger, a 25, 50, and 75 years ago nurse of 35 years. Abby Tilsner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Albany County Executive, joined the picket line on her lunch break from nearby St. Pe- October 24, 1994 October 24, 1969 October 21, 1944 ters Hospital, where she works as a With almost unanimous bipartisan As Oct. 15 drew to a close, Ameri- With the approval of Washington and nurse. “Health care should be a right, support, U.S. president Bill Clinton has cans across the country attempted to the counter-revolutionary Stalinist gang not a profit-making insurance busi- launched a mammoth military buildup comprehend the meaning and impact in Moscow, the British imperialists are ness,” she said in discussions with in the Persian Gulf in preparation for a of the historically unprecedented day of moving armed forces into Greece to nurses there. possible military attack on Iraq. action. Millions went into the streets to crush the insurrectionary Greek work- — Jacob Perasso In a matter of days, tens of thousands express their overwhelming opposition ers and install in Athens the rotten Greek of U.S. troops have poured into the re- to the Vietnam war. government-in-exile as the guardian of gion, along with hundreds of bombers From New York, Chicago and San capitalist private property. Read about the battles that and other war material. Francisco to Pocatello, Idaho, Juneau, Events in Greece provide one of the forged the US labor movement Washington’s new military moves Alaska, and Memphis, as one news clearest demonstrations of the reaction- against Iraq come as thousands of U.S. analyst commented, “The mood of the ary purposes animating the policies of troops occupy the Caribbean country of country was O-U-T!” the Allied imperialists. Last week the Haiti. In the last two months, the Clinton The direct, mass action by millions Greek masses rose and seized Athens administration has stepped up its provo- showed that they felt their desires, as and Piraeus as Nazi forces began evac- cations and attacks on Cuba, tightening expressed in the normal electoral chan- uating the country. Partisan forces in restrictions on travel to the island and nels, have been thwarted. They went other towns and innumerable villages creating an explosive situation with the into the streets to make their opinions likewise rose and took control. Nowhere detention of 30,000 Cuban emigrants at known. In New York hundreds of thou- did they have difficulty in overcoming its naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba. sands took part in rallies all over the city resistance by the retreating Nazis and $27 U.S. defense secretary William Per- — many of them occurring simultane- their Greek collaborators. ry said that one of the options being ously. New York’s board of education Churchill and his friends decided to considered was pre-emptive military estimated that high school absenteeism intervene. Against whom? Obviously See distributors on page 8, strikes against Iraq. was “well over 90 percent.” against the insurgent masses! or order at www.pathfinderpress.com The Militant October 21, 2019 5 Youth throng Manila book fair GM strike fight for all workers Independent truckers protest new gov’t regulations Continued from front page placed workers, lifting the doors from for literature, culture, politics get it back.” station to station, and welding. Now we Since 2007 the auto barons of the work two stations instead of one. It’s a BY MIKE TUCKER students were glad to see Pathfinder’s Big Three — General Motors, Ford, lot of area to cover, walking back and MANILA, Philippines — Over titles on women’s liberation. They and Fiat Chrysler — have wrenched forth. The robots eliminated the mate- 150,000 people flocked to the 40th bought six books, including Feminism concessions from their workers. This rial drivers that supplied the line, but Manila International Book Fair held and the Marxist Movement by Mary- accelerated with GM’s carefully pre- they hired 100 more temps to keep the in the huge Mall of Asia shopping Alice Waters, and Cosmetics, Fash- planned 2009 bankruptcy — where line going at the speed they wanted.” complex Sept. 11–15. This was larg- ions, and the Exploitation of Women the bosses dumped all the lines that As a result, many workers have car- er than last year. Over 100 publish- by Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed and weren’t turning enough profit — fol- pal tunnel, added Jane Stoffel, a per- ers and distributors, mainly from Waters. These were among the top lowed by the U.S. government’s mul- manent worker. the Philippines, set up at the event, selling titles at the fair. Abortion and tibillion-dollar “bailout.” Among the strikers in Michigan and including the two main national divorce for women remain illegal in GM now pays new hires less money, Ohio are 850 Aramark workers who book chains. the Philippines. just over half what “legacy” work- are also members of the UAW. There were novels, religious and ers get, followed by an eight years “We make $8 to $9 less per hour educational titles, reference books, Event discusses capitalist ‘learning’ “progression” that never gets you all than the GM skilled workers. And and political literature, as well as chil- Two books published by Pathfinder the way equal. More than 7% of GM we’re all classified as janitors,” said Angry truckers staged a “10-4” protest on the dren’s books and comics. Many titles Press were presented at an event here workers are now temps at even lower Aramark pipefitter Bob Glass, who has Mall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. were in English, which is taught here drawing almost 50 people Sept. 14. wages, who have no guarantee they’ll worked at the GM plant for eight years, 4, above, to call attention to increasingly onerous starting in kindergarten. The titles were Are They Rich Because ever be hired on full time. And they’ve “even though there are about 35 skilled government regulations that threaten the liveli- The growing instability of the capi- They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Militant/Baskaran Appu cut labor costs further by contracting trades workers working for Aramark. ” hood of independent owner-operators. When talist world order, including rising ten- Learning Under Capitalism, by Jack Interested youth discuss, buy literature in Pathfinder booth at Manila book fair Sept. 14, fol- out work and spinning off parts plants. Aramark workers went on strike 24 truckers use citizens band radio, “10-4” means, lowing meeting presenting Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Learning “I get the message.” Similar actions took place in sions between Beijing and Washington Barnes, national secretary of the So- This paid off big time for GM boss- hours before the GM workers. “The Under Capitalism, and Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. South Dakota, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana. in the Pacific — as well as the political cialist Workers Party in the U.S., and es, who made $35 billion in profit over company threatened the other work- “Forty-four truckers gathered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Oct. 3, dropped and economic crisis in the Philippines Women in Cuba: The Making of a time.” He urged the students present, Jamil, a 19-year-old student, told the the last three years. ers that they’d lose their jobs if they our trailers, and drove up to the Mall in Washington, D.C., the next day for the itself — were a lively topic of discus- Revolution Within the Revolution by including some from his classes, to use Militant. He had learned of the meet- “I’ve never been on strike before,” didn’t cross our picket line,” said Jer- protest,” Chelly Bartow Menkhoff, vice president of United States Dedicated sion at the Pathfinder booth. what they have learned to help advance ing while visiting the booth the previous Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, and assembly worker Bradley said. “You emiah Ball, an Aramark painter. “A Drivers, told the Militant in a phone interview Oct. 8. Her husband Harry Pathfinder also had a booth last Yolanda Ferrer, three leaders of the the struggles of working people. day. It connected him with “issues of can feel the strength of solidarity. It few drove up in their trucks and turned Menkhoff, inset, is an independent operator. year which was well received. Books Cuban Revolution and the Federation world politics, especially with regard to gives me goosebumps. I decided I around and went home because they “Everything we use or eat was brought in by a truck,” Chelly Menkhoff said. Gains for Cuban Women by revolutionary leaders, in their own of Cuban Women. women and the working class.” would come to the picket line every didn’t want to scab on us. We’re mem- “The truckers move the country, not the government. But the government words, cover the class struggle and Speaking on the panel were Jonald Laurinaria introduced the book day even though we only have to picket bers of the same UAW local. And now makes rules and regulations” that undercut safety and increase costs. Some building a revolutionary party in the T. Bagasina, a high school teacher and Women in Cuba. “This book is about Interest among youth four hours a week.” we’re on the same picket line, with the states are proposing big increases in the minimum required insurance for U.S., the Americas, Cuba, Africa and former president of the Student Coun- the Cuban Revolution and through Supporters of Pathfinder were in- Among the key issues in the strike same struggle.” truckers. Others are pushing measures favoring driverless trucks. Asia, and the world. These include cil at the Polytechnic University of the these three women leaders we also vited by students from PUP to set up are workers’ demands to make tem- GM says it needs more concessions Two eastern Kentucky Blackjewel coal miners and their wives — Chris and titles by Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin; by Philippines (PUP); Maria Miel Lau- learn how the revolution changed the a table at their campus Sept. 18. Over porary workers permanent and “No to compete with its nonunion rivals in Stacy Rowe and David and Wanda Pratt — drove to Washington to join the Fidel Castro, Malcolm X and Thom- rinaria, from the Philippines-Cuba social standing of women in Cuba,” 100 books and three subscriptions to more tiers.” Union officials are also the U.S., including Toyota, Hyundai, protest. The Menkhoffs met the miners when they visited Cumberland, Ken- as Sankara, who led a revolution in Cultural and Friendship Association she said. “This began before the 1959 the Militant were sold as students and demanding GM reopen or keep open Honda and Volkswagen. tucky, to back miners blockading the rail tracks of Blackjewel, a bankrupted Burkina Faso; and on women’s eman- and Janet Roth from the Communist victory, with Fidel Castro and the Cu- others swamped the table. four plants it plans to shutter. With its bank accounts flush — GM coal company. The coal bosses stole the miners’ final paychecks and then cipation. The booth was staffed by League in New Zealand. The meeting ban communists in the July 26 Move- One of them was Diana Taala, a There are thousands of GM “gyp- is sitting on $17.5 billion in cash — tried to move coal out to sell. volunteers from Australia, Canada, was conducted in English, which is ment, who led the struggle in Cuba teacher, who bought three books and sies” who’ve had to move to new plants the bosses are hoping to wear strikers “The miners won because we got our point across,” Wanda Pratt told the New Zealand, the United States and commonly spoken here. and understood the central place of a Militant subscription, after already when theirs were shut down. down. They say they need to lower Militant. “You can’t do to workers what Blackjewel tried to do to the miners the Philippines. Are They Rich Because They’re women in the revolution.” having gotten a dozen Pathfinder “They count on us temps,” Jessica labor costs by $5 an hour or more by without getting a fight.” “I have waited a whole year to get Smart? “is about how class relations “As class and national conflicts in- titles at the book fair. Taala said she Fields told the Militant. “We work six increasing the number of temps and South Dakota truckers organized by a group called “The Disrespected this book,” said Cerise Guerrero, a are not exclusive to the workforce,” tensify,” Janet Roth explained, “work- is interested in working-class histo- days a week, plus Sundays if the line making permanent workers pay more Trucker” carried out a “slow roll” on interstate highways around Sioux Falls, high school teacher, as she purchased Bagasina told the meeting, “but are ing people need these books published ry and politics, “because here in the is running. But we can’t ever call off. for health insurance. then continued to Pierre, the state capital, and some drove on to the Mall. “We’re planning a public protest meeting with an open mic Oct. 24 in History of the Russian Revolution by embedded throughout capitalist so- by Pathfinder Press to help arm us for Philippines they are always filtering I called off one day because my father In 1999, 83% of car assembly plants Pierre,” Shawn McIntosh, 58, an owner-operator from South Dakota, told the Leon Trotsky. Since it was sold out ciety, including in the education sys- the battles we will be engaged in.” what books and news we can read. was dying, and my supervisor tried to in the U.S. were union. Today the fig- Militant. “Trucks without drivers are going to kill a lot of people. All this tech- when she visited the booth last year, tem.” The book’s presentation of how She said that as socialist workers use They want us to be passive. But we ure is just 44%. Some 20% to 25% write me up.” nology is so they can put us out of business. Is it worth people getting killed?” she took a day off work the first morn- it is class relations that determine the them in their work “we find a growing need to know what happened before.” They don’t get paid vacations, any of workers at the nonunion plants are — MAGGIE TROWE ing of the fair to make sure she got dynamics of every society provokes openness and interest among working The previous week a similar table kind of pension, not even a 401(k). temps. In some plants as much as 40%. it this time. She also got five other ti- interest. Sixty-five copies were sold people, regardless of where they were was set up at the University of the They pay more for health insurance Many of those workers are watching tles and a subscription to the Militant during the fair and on local campuses. born or where they live.” Philippines where some 40 books and that covers less than permanent work- the GM strike closely. ers can legally opt out of joining the Krista Brewer, who works at Horse- newspaper. “Education is presented as formal “The working class,” she said, “is three Militant subscriptions were sold. ers alongside them. Many union officials have argued union. Autoworkers in both states are shoe Casino in Baltimore, which is or- Several students came into the schooling,” Bagasina said. “Without it the only class capable of leading a Over 500 books and 37 Militant that the reason the Big Three’s com- overwhelmingly in the union. Almost ganized by the UAW, organized a trip Pathfinder stall looking for answers they say, you are uneducated. But learn- revolution to end capitalist rule.” subscriptions were sold at the book GM bosses keep on pressing petition is nonunion is because they all of the workers at the GM plant in Oct. 1 with two other casino workers because they had read Animal Farm ing should be for everyone for a life- “The meeting was eye-opening,” fair itself. “Before the new plant was built in are mostly located in the South, in so- Arlington, Texas, are in the union. And and two retail workers from a non- by George Orwell as part of their high 2017, we made 36 doors an hour,” said called right-to-work states. the local there had one of the highest union Walmart in Landover, Mary- school studies. The novel satirizes the body shop worker James Honea. “Now But both Michigan and Texas are “yes” votes for a strike. land, to the picket line at the GM parts Stalinist degeneration of the Russian we build 50 an hour. The robots re- also right-to-work states, where work- center in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Revolution. Despite the decline of Montreal rally: End ban on wearing religious symbols Government attack on union They brought brownies, cases of water Stalinist forces in the Philippines, the By Beverly Bernardo activist in a group called The Right to court to challenge the law. They argue GM bosses have gotten help in their and 16 pizzas with them. Maoist variant of Stalinism remains MONTREAL — Some 300 pro- Teach for All in Quebec, welcomed pro- that women are the main victims. New book available Nov. 1 attempt to undermine the strike. On “The picket line is a good place if you active here. testers rallied here Sept. 28 despite a testers. She introduced co-chair Bouch- “There is little doubt that the target of Oct. 4, two former members of the are new to unions, to be part of some- Like many others, three high school steady rain to demand that reactionary era Chelbi, a Muslim woman who teach- Law 21 is hijab-wearing women, and, The Turn to Industry: UAW’s public relations departments, thing and feel welcome,” Brewer said. Law 21 be repealed. The Quebec law es English as a second language. as the numerous cases of female teach- Rev. Peter Laarman and Frank Joyce, Some strikers say they were in- prohibits school teachers and many “We have examples of teachers who ers losing their jobs or being refused Forging a Proletarian Party publicly demanded the entire UAW ex- spired last year by the round of teach- Women in Cuba: other public servants who toil in so- are very qualified, but they’re being a job suggest, the effect of the law is Explains the working-class program, compo- ecutive board resign because of federal ers strikes around the country. “I was called positions of “authority” from denied jobs because they won’t give disproportionately felt by women,” the sition, and course of conduct of the only kind Department of Labor agents’ accusa- very influenced by that,” striker Barry The Making of a Revolution wearing hajibs, yamulkes, crosses or up their religious beliefs,” Chelbi said. coalition writes. They join the English of party worthy of the name ‘revolutionary’ in tions of corruption against UAW of- Burdue told the press at the picket line Within the Revolution any other religious symbols. “We have interns who are being de- Montreal School Board, the National the imperialist epoch. ficials, including several indictments. at GM’s Parma facility in Ohio, com- By Vilma Espín, Asela de los The government has already had to nied internships by school boards and Council of Canadian Muslims and the The only kind of party that can recognize Even though neither one has been part menting on the West Virginia teachers Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer retreat in the face of widespread opposi- people who are being harassed in the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in the most revolutionary fact of this epoch — of the UAW in more than 15 years, strike. “I thought it was awesome that tion to this attack on freedom to practice streets of Montreal. We want people challenging Law 21. the worth of working people, and our power their attack on the union in the midst they walked.” “We believed one’s religion. They added a “grandfa- to know that this is happening be- “The Communist League’s cam- to change society when we organize and act of the strike got big play in the Detroit “I hope our strike encourages other in women’s ther clause” that allows workers em- cause of Bill 21.” paign calls for the repeal of Law 21, against the capitalist class in all its economic, Free Press and the Detroit News. places to stand up,” he said. courage and ployed before the passage of the law to Among the rally speakers were its sole aim is to divide working peo- social, and political forms. The capitalist government’s inter- One other group watching carefully capacity to fight. continue wearing religious symbols, but Charles Taylor, a well-known philoso- ple,” Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist This book is about building such a party in vention in union affairs is never good are UAW members at Ford and Fiat We knew the bars them from doing so if they change phy professor emeritus at McGill Uni- League candidate in Longueuil-St. the United States and in other capitalist coun- for working people. Only the union Chrysler — their contracts are tem- precedent would jobs. The law bans all newly hired work- versity; Violaine Cousineau, a commis- Hubert, told more than 20 people at tries around the world. members themselves have the right to porarily extended until after the GM ers from wearing them. sioner at the Montreal School Board; a campaign meeting after the protest. decide how to run their own affairs. workers contract has been ratified. have enormous Jack Barnes is National Secretary of importance in A coalition of groups opposing the and a representative from the Quebec “Supporters of my campaign in the the Socialist Workers Party ‘Strikes encourage you to stand up’ the future. “ law announced Sept. 5 it is making League of Rights and Freedom. Oct. 21 federal elections, and of Steve Amy Husk from Louisville, Kentucky; $17 — Fidel Castro 50,000 buttons that have the interna- The day before the rally the Coalition Penner, the CL candidate in Papineau, Special offer through Dec. 31: $15 $12 GM workers continue to win soli- Dan Fein from Chicago; and Arlene tional stop symbol printed over “Loi 21.” Inclusion Quebec became the fourth will continue to build and join actions darity and morale is high on the pick- Rubinstein from Washington, D.C., pathfinderpress.com Jennifer Alvez Nadeau, a teacher and group to take the Quebec government to like the one today.” www.pathfinderpress.com et lines. contributed to this article.

6 The Militant October 21, 2019 The Militant October 21, 2019 7 In Teamster battles, ‘Workers learned to fight as a class’ The following excerpt is from Team- rank-and-file workers no voice in the ster Power, by Farrell Dobbs, one of decision. Such “labor statesmanship” Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for amounts to proclaiming an overall October. The title is about how mem- “truce” between the workers and the bers of Teamsters Local 574 learned to bosses. Actually no truce results at wield the union power forged through all. The capitalists simply use their three 1934 strike victories in Minneapo- government to attack the trade union lis. Under class struggle leadership, the movement under the guise of a “na- Teamsters extended their union through- tional emergency”; and the workers, out the Midwest, helped organize other deprived in such a situation of their unions and the unemployed, and strove strike weapon, get it in the neck. for political independence. The book is A development in the fall of 1934 the second volume in a four-part series involved this very issue. In the name by Dobbs, who emerged from the ranks of “national recovery,” President to become the central organizer of the Franklin D. Roosevelt asked labor Teamster’s 11-state campaign to union- to forgo its right to strike. Concern- ize over-the-road truckers. Dobbs went ing disputes with employers, he said, on to serve as national secretary of the trade unions should accept decisions Socialist Workers Party from 1953 to by government boards as final and 1972. Copyright © 1973 by Pathfinder binding. William Green, president of Press. Reprinted by permission. Minnesota Historical Society the AFL, was quick to second Roos- Teamsters Local 574 used its union power to back other struggles, including that of hosiery workers at Strutwear Knitting Co. in Minneapolis, above, who won a union in 1935-36 strike. evelt’s proposal and call upon the la- bor movement to put it into practice. Books of were undermined by harsh reality. Il- Such ambitions cause them to seek Local 574 gave both Roosevelt and lusions about the police being “pro- collaborative relations with the ruling Green its answer through an editorial tectors of the people” began to be dis- class. Toward that end the bureaucrats in The Organizer: the month pelled. Eyes were opened to the role of argue that, employers being the pro- “Labor cannot and will not give up the capitalist government, as revealed viders of jobs, labor and capital have the strike weapon. Labor has not in the By Farrell Dobbs in its methods of rule through decep- common interests. They contend that past received any real benefits from the Workers who have no radical back- tion and brutality. At the same time exploiters of labor must make “fair” governmental boards and constituted ground enter the trade unions steeped the workers were gaining confidence profits if they are to pay “fair” wages. authorities. What Labor has received in in misconceptions and prejudices that in their class power, having emerged Workers are told that they must take a union recognition, wage raises and bet- the capitalist rulers have inculcated into victorious from their organized con- “responsible” attitude so as to make the terment in conditions of work, has been them since childhood. This was wholly frontation with the employers. bosses feel that unions are a necessary won in spite of such boards. ... The strike true of Local 574 members. They began To intensify the learning process al- part of their businesses. On every count is the one weapon that the employers re- to learn class lessons only in the course ready so well started, the union leader- the ruling class is given a big edge over spect. ... Whether or not there is a period of struggle against the employers. ship now initiated an educational pro- the union rank and file. … of industrial peace will depend upon the Their strike experiences had taught gram. Study courses open to all mem- Local 574’s leadership flatly repudiat- employers’ reply to our demands.” (Em- them a good deal. Notions that workers bers were organized. The curriculum ed the bankrupt line of the class collabo- phasis in original.) have anything in common with bosses included economics, labor history and rationists. There can be no such thing as It did not follow from this position politics, public speaking, strike strat- an equitable class peace, the member- that Local 574 called strikes lightly. egy, and union structure and tactics. ship was taught. The law of the jungle There are always hardships involved organizeOctober Book s Wherever practical, officers’ reports at prevails under capitalism. If the workers for the workers in such struggles. If the of the Month membership meetings were given with don’t fight as a class to defend their in- union moved blithely from one walkout a view toward making them instruc- terests, the bosses will gouge them. … to the next, without careful regard of all PATHFINDER tive as well as factually informative. Union bureaucrats are quick to in- factors in the situation, it could easily 30% Articles of an educational nature were clude a no-strike pledge in contract wear out its fighting forces. The impor- READERS CLUB discount SPECIALS printed in the union paper. The themes settlements and refer grievances to tant thing is that a union stand ready and varied from analysis of local problems arbitration. The workers lose because able to take strike action when required. 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The Civil Human Rights Front, an umbrella organi- of the outcome of this second witch hunt attempt, ini- Three days before, the Chinese rulers held a huge zation of some 50 political, labor, professional and reli- tiated on the heels of the failure of the inquisition run military parade in Beijing to showcase their emer- gious groups, has mobilized protests of between 1 and by former FBI boss Robert Mueller. Trump should be gence as a growing capitalist competitor against U.S. 2 million people several times since June. The group booted out because of his “unfitness” for office. Blow dominance. In his address marking the 70th anniver- issued a statement rejecting the ban on wearing masks agrees with Clinton that the problem is working peo- sary of the founding of the People’s Republic, Chinese that was established on the basis of “severe colonial ple, who he insists are reactionary and racist. He says President Xi Jinping asserted, “There is no force that law” imposed by the British rulers in 1922. the only reason Trump is in the White House is be- can shake the foundation of this great nation.” The anti-labor law was last used in 1967 by British cause of his “base.” Despite a police lockdown of Hong Kong that day, authorities to put down pro-Beijing “riots” supporting The Democratic House leadership says they got tens of thousands protested, continuing their challenge the so-called Cultural Revolution, a violent bureau- word of two “whistleblowers” who are unidentified to the Chinese rulers’ authority. cratic upheaval in China. CIA operatives. The first of these issued a complaint Xi called for stability in Hong Kong, unity among The Civil Human Rights Front noted the main rea- based on secondhand reports from other anonymous different ethnic groups in China — a cover for the re- son for demonstrators “wearing masks and industrial people about Trump’s phone calls with Ukrainian gime’s brutal suppression of the Uighurs — and the respirators is for protection from tear gas.” Surgical government officials. “complete unification” of the country. This is a ref- masks have commonly been worn in Hong Kong since The CIA is the U.S. rulers’ political police tasked erence to incorporating Hong Kong and Macau, the the deadly outbreak of the SARS virus there in 2002- with operations abroad. It is notorious for decades of special administrative regions of China now run under 03, as well as for protection against pollution. The interference in the affairs of other governments, and the “one country, two systems” arrangement, as well organization’s statement said the masks were “also a with torture and abuse against workers’ organiza- as to Taiwan, a self-governing island for the past seven political gesture.” The authorities use high-tech sur- tions and political struggles. It was set up and staffed decades, claimed by Beijing. veillance to identify and target protesters, using tech- in 1947 by “Cold War” liberals, and these types have Xi’s goal to impose direct rule by the central gov- niques employed at home by Beijing. honeycombed its ranks ever since. ernment throughout greater China is threatened by the The protests began in opposition to Lam’s efforts Both of the unnamed CIA agents are represented by developments in Hong Kong. to adopt a hated extradition bill, which would have al- Andrew Bakaj, a lawyer with close ties to the Demo- For weeks, Hong Kong police have been escalat- lowed Beijing to demand the deportation of “suspects” crats, and who previously worked for Hillary Clinton. ing their violent attacks in pitched battles with mostly to the mainland for trial. But after Lam was forced to The Democrats’ ire is focused on Trump’s urging youthful demonstrators. On Oct. 1, live ammunition drop the bill, protests continued, demanding direct Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into was used for the first time against the protests. An election of the city administration by universal suf- past efforts to sabotage exposure of corruption there. 18-year-old student was shot in the chest and seriously frage; a probe into cop violence; and an amnesty for Trump mentioned Hunter Biden, the son of Democrat- wounded. Rubber bullets and tear gas canisters were arrested demonstrators now numbering over 2,000. ic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, to Zelensky. fired, while 269 protesters were arrested as police tried They are also fighting to defend freedom of speech While he was vice president, Joe Biden was tasked to disperse thousands of demonstrators. and assembly. as the Barack Obama administration’s “point man” for Ukraine. In that role he used threats and bribery to get Ukrainian officials he didn’t like deep-sixed. And his son was suddenly appointed to the board of scandal- letters plagued Ukrainian natural gas giant Burisma, with a Illinois prison book ban issues you sent me. Editor’s note: It seems that, sweet salary of $50,000 a month. The Militant keeps me in- for now, we have won a victory Similar U.S. government arm-twisting, bribery and I was reading the front-page ar- influence peddling has marked all administrations, ticle in your Sept. 9 issue on the formed about the situation in my against the Florida prison sys- Island of Enchantment Puerto tem’s efforts to suppress the Mili- Democratic and Republican alike. Florida gulag system’s overturn- “We have not spoken directly to the whistleblower,” ing the ban on several issues of Rico. tant. On Aug. 30 the Literature We have been victims of U.S. Review Committee reversed the Adam Schiff, Democrat in charge of the House Intelli- the Militant and I came across gence Committee, one of those leading the witch hunt, the information about the Dan- capitalism for many years and bans on the last six issues that now my people on the island had been impounded and to our flatly lied Sept. 17. The New York Times admitted Oct. ville Correctional Center’s at- 2 that he and his staff members had been meeting with tempt to remove 200 books from have stood up and confronted knowledge no issue of the paper the reality that the U.S. has never has been impounded since then. the CIA operative for weeks. the library. I have been challeng- In another Times article, Allison Stanger portrays ing these folks for censoring our helped us. 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