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Repression Elections 2020 The Internationalist No. 61 September-October 2020 50¢ Trump Looks to Cops and Fascists, Democrats Appeal to Pentagon Brass Repression Elections 2020 paeans to kill-crazed cops while conjuring You Can’t Fight up hordes of antifa pro- Internationalist photo Trump with testers invading white suburbs. The white- Democrats supremacist-in-chief vows that the only way OCTOBER 30 – U.S. capitalism is in a he could lose is if the heap of trouble, and as usual, the working vote is rigged, and re- class and oppressed are paying the price. fuses to say he would It’s about to get a lot worse. The country is hand over office. Mean- beset by a deadly plague, the worst in a cen- while, Republican op- tury, which is intensifying. The economy is eratives are recruiting in a new depression, the deepest since the armed “poll watchers” 1930s, with long-term consequences that to intimidate voters, are just beginning to be felt. An explosion particularly in black of outrage over racist cop brutality brought and Hispanic areas, and millions into the streets daily in the largest Republican lawyers are sustained protest movement in U.S. histo- gearing up to throw out ry, as the orgy of police murder continues mail ballots and jam unabated. The ruling class is sharply di- vote counts. Mean- vided after a failed impeachment process, while, Walmart, fore- while U.S. society is deeply polarized over seeing looting and civil Internationalist contingent at May Day march in New York City, 2018. just about everything. And now we are on unrest, as a “precautionary measure” has to-door canvassing, encouraging mail Repugnance for the immigrant-bash- the eve of an election which could easily pulled guns and ammunition off the sales ballots, relying on huge TV ad buys while ing, woman-hating, fascist-loving white – even likely – set off weeks of turbulent floors of its stores. Trump dominates social media. The Dems supremacist in the White House who is unrest and perhaps a constitutional crisis In answer to Trump’s “law and order” figure that anger over Trump’s COVID-19 running for reelection as president of the not seen since 1876. campaign, Democratic standard-bearer denial and revulsion against the racist mi- Confederate slavocracy is utterly justified. Of these many crises, the most imme- Joe Biden calls to shoot “rioters” in the sogynist president will be enough to win. Trump’s victory is a threat to the entire black diate is the election, not only for president leg (he just did it again) while his running They’re appealing to people yearning to population of the U.S., even as cynical mil- but also for control of Congress. President mate, Kamala Harris, brags she was Cali- return to “the way things used to be,” with lionaires like 50 Cent and Ice Cube back Donald Trump is stumping the country fornia’s former “top cop.” Biden & Co. nothing for workers who still haven’t re- him. But the Democrats, the party that has with incendiary speeches laced with rac- seem to be sleepwalking through the cam- covered from the depression following led every major war U.S. imperialism has ist appeals, shout-outs to fascist thugs and paign, holding no mass rallies, no door- the 2008 crash. continued on page 20 In Wake of Upsurge Against Racist Cop Terror Democrats’ Pro-Cop Ticket Vies with Trump Over “Law and Order” SEPTEMBER 18 – So this is what “democ- in the 1980 presidential elections between ing people in the heart, cops should “shoot racy” looks like, USA-style, as election a reactionary, segregationist Democrat and them in the leg.” season enters its final stretch: a hellscape a reactionary, openly racist Republican – With the choice for Biden’s running for the oppressed, workers and youth. Just both of them virulent anti-labor warmon- mate of Kamala Harris, California’s former being black can get you killed by the rac- gers – the newspaper then representing “top cop” (her words), the Democrats are Internationalist photo ist cops, as we keep seeing day after day. revolutionary Marxism headlined: “Rea- putting forward an ostentatiously pro-po- Amid unending fear of catching the coro- gan, Carter? Oh Shit!”2 lice ticket. They are vying with Trump for navirus, the threat of mass evictions looms. Today, after four more decades of who can best uphold the “law and order” If you’re not already one of the millions of capitalist decay, what is the “choice” being of racist U.S. capitalism. They are going workers who have already lost their jobs, presented? On one side is Donald Trump, all out to line up with the Pentagon brass there’s the constant worry that you could the vicious bigot, racist inciter and grifter dissed by Trump along with U.S. imperi- be next. In Wisconsin, anti-racist protesters who (as both liberals and old-line conser- alism’s intelligence apparatus. And they are gunned down by a white-supremacist vatives decry) has made the Republican pitch themselves as the more consistent vigilante. And now much of the West Coast Party his own. On the other is Joe Biden, warmongers against China, Russia and – of has gone up in flames, literally. the segregationist, saber-rattling Democrat course – North Korea. It’s not an apocalyptic movie out of who fueled mass incarceration. An exam- Far from a surprise, what we’re wit- Hollywood – it’s what the “death agony of ple that says it all: when Trump threatened nessing anew is how this Wall Street party 1 capitalism” looks like in 2020. Forty years anti-racist protesters by tweeting “when “for the people” operates. After millions ago, when voters were given the “choice” the looting starts the shooting starts,” come out in the streets demanding an end Biden’s response was that instead of shoot- 1 The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks to police terror; after “progressive” Demo- of the Fourth International, known as the 2 The headline is from the 25 July 1980 issue of crats (and their echo chamber on the re- “Transitional Program,” is the founding docu- Workers Vanguard; published by the then-revo- formist left) work overtime to channel ment of the world party of socialist revolution lutionary Spartacist League. The WV of that era protest into calls for “defunding” the cops; established by Leon Trotsky in 1938. was the forerunner of The Internationalist. continued on page 7 As U.S. Convulsed Over Racist Police Murder SL Silence = Capitulation to the Democrats OCTOBER 2 – Decaying American capi- in by Democratic governors, together with talism is mired in deep crisis. In the half- Democratic mayors, bringing massive police Internationalist photo year since mid-March, 200,000 people repression to bear against anti-racist protest- have died of COVID-19, the worst plague ers from Rochester to NYC to Chicago to in a century, due to the inability of the U.S. Portland, Los Angeles and innumerable other medical system to protect the population. cities across the country. Ditto. Since April, over 50 million people have ● Murderous provocations by racist and lost their jobs, and now temporary layoffs fascist groups in Portland, Oregon and in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a racist vigi- are becoming permanent unemployment. lante murdered two anti-racist protesters and For more than four months, the country wounded a third. Ditto. has been in uproar over the unending pan- ● Trump’s military mobilization against demic of racist police murder: 1,235 civil- anti-racist protesters in Washington, D.C.; ians killed by cops so far in 2020 (as of federal “snatch squads” and occupation forc- September 29), 760 since George Floyd es in Portland; a federal kill squad’s blatant was asphyxiated in Minneapolis in May. assassination of an anti-fascist activist from On top of this, we are now deep into Portland. Ditto. a putrid election campaign in which the ● Amidst the mass protests, concerted ef- Democratic and Republican parties vie forts by the Democratic Socialists of America over who can best carry out racist repres- and innumerable reformist leftists to snare sion, imperialist aggression and the con- newly politicizing youth via illusions in “de- tinued political subjugation of the work- funding” the police (or “abolishing” capital’s Internationalist contingent in in Brooklyn in June 19 march against racist ers and oppressed. The Democrats have repressive forces under capitalist rule). Ditto. police violence. answered mass protest against cop terror ● As election season has heated up, the by presenting the “law and order” ticket of talism?” in The Internationalist No. 60, website on the killing of George Floyd Democrats have escalated saber-rattling Joe “Shoot ’Em in the Leg” Biden and Ka- May-July 2020; and “Only Revolution or the mass protests against racist police threats and provocations against the Chinese mala “Top Cop” Harris. Exploiting mass Can Bring Justice!” in Revolution No. 17, terror. And this despite the fact that the deformed workers state, while lining up sup- port for Biden-Harris among the military and revulsion against Donald Trump’s bigotry August 2020). core issue posed is black oppression, intelligence “community,” including talk of and threats, they have gone into overdrive Contrast this with the Spartacist which the SL, from its inception, cru- the armed forces intervening if Trump tries to to line up labor, black people, Latinos and League, which once upheld revolutionary cially emphasized as key to proletarian revolution in the citadel of imperialism. steal the election. Ditto. youth behind the pro-cop duo. Most of the Marxism (and still claims to do so today) Their silence speaks volumes: the SL’s As we noted in our June article, the left goes with the flow.
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