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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 58, No. 27 July 14, 2016 $1 Stop Trump! 5 Puerto Rico’s new phase WW PHOTO: JEREMY BAUMANN People resist financial junta By Berta Joubert-Ceci

On June 30 when President Barack Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act — PROMESA (meaning promise in Span- ish) — it triggered a new phase of struggle in the island/ archipelago. The law, passed by the U.S. Senate a day earlier and described by most corporate media as a “help” to Puerto Rico, has, on the contrary, the intention to establish a collection agency through a Financial Control Board for the benefit of bondholders at the expense of the Puerto Rican people. The rush for approval was due to the July 1 expira- See page 4. tion date for the payment of nearly $2 billion in interest and principal of the more than $70 billion in public debt that the island has accumulated over the years. On the island, Gov. Alejandro García Padilla had already sub- Baltimore mitted to the Puerto Rican Legislature a bill declaring a moratorium on debt repayment. He announced that the WWP candidates government did not have sufficient funds available to make payments on the debt and provide basic services wage petition and essentials for the people at the same time. blitz In fact, on July 1, the much-discussed default arrived, adding to the more than $400 million that was unpaid in May. Hours earlier on the same day, as a prelude to the announcement of default, the auditing firm KPMG re- leased its voluminous report — as demanded many times by creditors and the U.S. Congress — on the Puer- to Rican government’s financial status for 2014. Accord- ing to KPMG, the government by then had already accu- mulated a deficit of $50 billion. KPMG questioned the government’s ability to continue operating. (elnuevodia. com, July 1) Whoever reads García Padilla’s statements on the de- fault, and the necessity to put the needs of the people first, might think that he is governing on behalf of the WW PHOTO: SHARON BLACK people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Both Baltimore Workers World Bureau candidates Andre Powell for mayor and Sharon Black for García Padilla and earlier governments, whether the city council president. Hundreds of copies of Workers “populares” of the PPD (the ruling Democratic Popular Baltimore volunteer petitioners are joined by Workers World newspapers were distributed, along with copies of Party) or the “estadistas” of the PNP, (pro-statehood World Party Presidential Candidate Monica Moorehead a proposed local “Freddie Gray Justice Bill,” which would New Progressive Party), have by and large taken person- and WWP First Secretary Larry Holmes. The group pic- empower communities to disband racist police. Local ac- al advantage of their positions of authority, enriching tured, along with others, were at the weekend Afr­ ican tivists declared the weekend a resounding success. themselves and filling their administrations with cor- American Festival called AFRAM. They were there to sign See Campaign statement defending Sacramento ruption while ruling in the interests of U.S. imperialism. up Baltimore voters to gain ballot access for local WWP ­anti-fascist fighters on page 5. As a result, what is happening in Puerto Rico is that the majority of the people have become enormously dissatisfied with their government and with their unde- fined colonial status. BREXIT PLUS

Bad things happen — all together • 65 million people forced to migrate 6 To better understand this new phase of the struggle 7 in Puerto Rico, we need to see the context in which it • Build worldwide worker solidarity occurs. The fiscal crisis has had serious consequences in 2 many areas of the country. The measures the govern- Cops killed man in wheelchair ment has implemented — with the advice of U.S. com- Continued on page 10 DNC protesters: ‘We have right to rise up!’ 4

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Cops kill man in wheelchair, no charges

By Edward Yudelovich  In the U.S. Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn has refused to Cops kill man in wheelchair, no charges ...... 2 charge four Wilmington police officers in the shooting death of Jeremy “Bam” McDole, a 28-year-old African An urgent appeal from one of the MOVE 9 ...... 3 American. Dole was killed last September while sitting Peltier on 41st anniversary of ‘Incident at Oglala’ . . . . .3 in his wheelchair. Roll back the rent! ...... 3 Black community leaders and residents were outraged ‘Shut down Trump and the RNC’ ...... 4 by this result of an eight-month investigation by the Del- ‘DNC protests to go on with or without permits’ . . . . .4 aware Department of Justice. The department report cit- W. Va./Ohio Valley protests Trump and coal bosses . . . .5 ed Senior Cpl. Joseph Dellose for “extraordinarily poor PHOTO: DAMIAN GILLETO police work” during the incident. Prosecutors initially Jeremy McDole, killed by cops in Wilmington, Del. A global crisis: Nearly one in 100 forced to migrate . . . .6 considered filing a felony assault charge against Dellose. But this is not reflected in the report. The Brexit vote: (delawareonline.com) “Jeremy was paralyzed and he could not run or hide. ... The need for global working-class consciousness . . . . 7 The report found Dellose fired at McDole with a shot- The tactical response reflected deliberate indifference to Black hockey players ...... 8 gun about two seconds after ordering him to put his the life of Jeremy.” In their statement the family said they Out of the headlines, Flint’s water still unsafe ...... 8 hands up and said Dellose “should not be employed by the will continue to pursue a federal wrongful death suit. Al-Quds rallies protest apartheid Israel ...... 11 city police in any role where he would carry a firearm in On Dec. 3, 2015, to mark the International Day for public.” It noted that the city’s “use of force policy” needed Persons with Disabilities, the People’s Power Assembly  Around the world updating, and that officers get little training for response (PPA) organized a protest in New York’s Penn Station to Puerto Rico’s new phase: People resist financial junta . . . 1 to similar situations among people who are psychologi- say “Disabled Black lives matter!” and to highlight the ter- French unions will stay in the streets ...... 6 cally, mentally, emotionally or physically disabled. minal’s infamous lack of access for disabled commuters, Okinawans resist U.S. military bases ...... 9 The report released a 911 transcript in which a resident especially wheelchair users. Dedicated to the memory of reported a man in a wheelchair had shot himself. When McDole, the protest rocked Penn Station with chants of A century of wars since ‘the great slaughter’ ...... 11 the dispatcher says, “They’re going to take him out,” the “Jeremy McDole! Say his name!” and “Disabled people  Editorial caller is heard responding, “Don’t kill him!” In a later in- need decent jobs, quality health care, not police terror!” Mexico: Working-class warriors in the battle of ideas . . . .10 terview with investigators, the caller said she never saw a The PPA is an organization in support of the Black gun. No gun was ever found. Lives Matter movement to combat the rising epidemic of  WWP Presidential Campaign police murders, particularly of youth of color. Baltimore WWP candidates wage successful petition blitz 1 Fighting back for Black and disabled people On July 10, the PPA will again protest police murders WWP petitioning for ballot status in Wisconsin ...... 5 The Rev. Donald Morton, executive director of the of disabled people of color at the second annual New York Solidarity with anti-fascists in Sacramento ...... 5 Complexities of Color Coalition, said: “Now that ... we City Disability Pride Parade, marking the anniversary of have come to this conclusion, I don’t know that I can tell the Americans with Disabilities Act. The parade, gath-  Noticias en Español our communities to remain calm. There is only so much ering in Union Square Park at 11 a.m., will march and Nueva fase de lucha en Puerto Rico ...... 12 a community of people can take.” roll up Broadway to Madison Square Park for a disability Cumbre OTAN en Varsovia amenaza guerra a Rusia . . . 12 Mahkeib Booker, who launched the Delaware chapter rights festival from noon until 4 p.m. of Black Lives Matter, said the lack of charges tells the Af- The Disability Pride Parade was inspired by the civil rican-American community that their lives don’t matter. rights movements of people with disabilities, people of McDole’s family commented: “Our family disagrees color and women — as well as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, with the conclusions of the report ... which seems to re- trans and queer people who just held the largest LGBTQ flect the historic fact that, we believe, no police officer in parade in New York City’s history, which this reporter Delaware has ever been charged with a crime for the fatal was proud to march in. use of force on a civilian. Blacks suffer three times the Yudelovich is a World World Party activist with emo- Workers World death rate of whites at the hands of police nationwide. tional and one-sided hearing loss disabilities. 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. New York, N.Y. 10011 Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 58, No. 27 • July 14, 2016 Closing date: July 5, 2016 Editor: Deirdre Griswold Who we are & what we’re fighting for Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, Kris Hamel, Monica Moorehead; Web Editor Gary Wilson ­degrading people because of their nationality, sexual or Hate capitalism? Workers World Party fights for a Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; ­socialist society — where the wealth is socially owned gender identity or disabilities — all are tools the ruling Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash and production is planned to satisfy human need. This class uses to keep us apart. 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An urgent appeal from one of the MOVE 9

The following appeal was written by all those that didn’t understand their role, parole board will do the next time around. Michael Davis Africa, one of the unjust- that they fully intend to finish up where the Anyone claiming to be conscious knows ly imprisoned MOVE 9 and a member of cops and city officials left off on Aug. 8. full well that the decision they claim to be the Move Organization. While there has always been some de- contemplating in 2016 and beyond was al- On The Move! bate about the guilt of the men, one fact ready decided back in 1978, when we sur- On Aug. 8, 1978, the MOVE Orga- that has never been disputed is the in- vived their murderous assault. nization’s headquarters was attacked nocence of the MOVE women. Police on At this point we are asking people to in a pre-dawn raid by several hundred the scene, the district attorney and the urge all their friends and justice-minded Philadelphia cops and officials. Under courts all collectively agree that none people to sign the petition aimed at U.S. cover of smoke, tear gas and thousands of the MOVE women could possibly be Attorney General Loretta Lynch, urging of gallons of water from water cannons, guilty of the death of that cop. Yet Deb- her to investigate the wrongful and ongo- the cops fired thousands of bullets at us bie, Janet and Janine have now spent ing imprisonment of the MOVE 9. People from all directions. During the assault the last 38 years of their lives in prison; can sign the petition by going to www. one cop was killed and several other cops victimized by the same cops and officials causes.com/campaigns/92454-free-the- and firemen were wounded, all from po- that dropped a bomb, brutally murdering move-9. lice fire. However, MOVE members were their children on May 13, 1985. People have to demand justice not charged for the assault we all miracu- Debbie, Janet and Janine were all de- just from the 1 percent but also from the lously survived. nied parole in June of 2016. The parole masses in the ranks of the 99 percent who We were all given a sentence of 30 to 100 board, at the insistence of Philadelphia of- will never fight to occupy anything other years in a railroad trial. That 30 year min- ficials, continues to deny their release. And than jobs that exploit for the one percent imum was up as of August 2008 and we even worse, the parole board actually gives cops, parole agents, prison guards feed- were all given our first parole denial. Sev- the MOVE women longer sanctions than ing their families while enslaving yours. Michael Davis Africa eral more were to follow making it clear to the MOVE men. The issue is not what the On The Move! Long Live John Africa!

Peltier on 41st anniversary of ‘Incident at Oglala’

June 26, 2016 our lives on the line because people who But what will we do if the next admin- Sisters, brothers, friends and supporters: participated in these ceremonies, and istration rolls back those gains made over June 26 marks 41 years since the long people who stood up for our elders and the past eight years? summer day when three young men were our traditional way of life, were brutally I often receive questions in letters from killed at the home of the Jumping Bull fam- beaten, killed or disappeared. Paramili- supporters about my health. Yes, this last ily, near Oglala, [S.D.], during a firefight in tary groups and death squads ruled some year has been particularly stressful for which I and dozens of others participated. reservations and each day was a battle. me and my family. My health issues still While I did not shoot (and therefore did If an uninvited, unknown or unrec- have not been thoroughly addressed, and not kill) FBI agents Ronald Williams and ognized vehicle pulled up to your house, I still have not gotten the results of the Jack Coler, I nevertheless have great re- the first reaction was that you were being MRI done over a month ago for the ab- morse for the loss of their young lives, the visited by someone who meant to do you dominal aortic aneurysm. loss of my friend Joe Stuntz, and for the harm in some way. This was learned be- As the last remaining months of Pres- grieving of their loved ones. havior on the reservations. This was ex- ident Obama’s term pass by, my anxiety I would guess that, like me, many of cruciatingly true in the 1970s. increases. I believe that this president is my brothers and sisters who were there Hey, I don’t want to be all doom and my last hope for freedom, and I will sure- that day wish that somehow they could gloom here. I see over the decades that in ly die here if I am not released by Jan. 20, have done something to change what some important ways, life has improved 2017. So I ask you all again, as this is the happened and avoid the tragic outcome for our Peoples. President [Barack] most crucial time in the campaign to gain of the shootout. Obama’s extraordinary efforts to forge my freedom, please continue to organize This is not something I have thought Leonard Peltier a strong relationship with our Tribal public support for my release, and always about casually and then moved on. It’s an” out of me at a boarding school. At that Nations is good cause for a new sense of follow the lead of the International Leon- something I think about every day. As I time, Native Peoples were not able to speak optimism that our sovereignty is more ard Peltier Defense Committee. look back, I remember the expressions of our own languages for fear of being beat- secure. By exercising our sovereignty, life Thank you for all you have done and both fear and courage on the faces of my en or worse. Our men’s long hair, which is for our people might improve. We might continue to do on my behalf. brothers and sisters as we were being at- an important part of our spiritual life, was begin to heal and start the long journey In the Spirit of Crazy Horse… tacked. We thought we were going to be forcibly cut off in an effort to shame us. to move past the trauma of the last 500 Doksha, killed! We defended our elders and chil- Our traditional names were replaced by years. Leonard Peltier dren as they scattered for protection and new European-American names. to escape. These efforts to force our assimilation Native people have experienced such continue today. Not long ago, I remem- assaults for centuries, and the historical ber, a Menominee girl was punished and trauma of the generations was carried by banned from playing on the school’s bas- Roll the people that day — and in the commu- ketball team because she taught a class- nities that suffered further trauma in the mate how to say “hello” and “I love you” days that followed the shootout, as the in her Native language. We hear stories back authorities searched for those of us who all the time about athletes and graduates had escaped the Jumping Bull property. who face opposition to wearing their hair As the “First Peoples of Turtle Island,” long or having a feather in their cap. the we live with daily reminders of the cen- With this little bit of my personal his- turies of efforts to terminate our nations, tory in mind, I think it is understandable eliminate our cultures, and destroy our that I would then, as a young person in rent! relatives and families. To this day, ev- the 1960s and 1970s, be active in the In- erywhere we go there are reminders — digenous struggle to affirm our human, souvenirs and monuments of the near civil and treaty rights. Our movement extermination of a glorious population of was a spiritual one to regain our ceremo- Class lines were clearly drawn as over groups are growing more active and Indigenous Peoples. nies and traditions and to exercise our 500 mostly Latina and Latino tenants strong from fighting racist landlords and Native Peoples as mascots, the dis- sovereignty as native or tribal nations. demanding, “Roll back the rent!” filled a developers, especially in communities of proportionately high incarceration of For over 100 years some of our most hearing at Cooper Union College after at- color. our relatives, the appropriation of our important ceremonies could not be held. tending a militant rally outside. The June In large numbers, tenants joined to- culture, the never-ending efforts to take We could not sing our songs or dance to 27 meeting was the final Rent Guidelines night to pressure Mayor Bill de Blasio’s even more of Native Peoples’ land and our drum. When my contemporaries and Board hearing for a million New York appointed Rent Guidelines Board, which the poisoning of that land all serve as re- I were activists, there were no known sun City apartments. Classified as regulated, finally voted for zero rent increases for minders of our history as survivors of a dances. Any ceremony that took place the rents on these homes of mostly work- one-year leases and a two percent in- massive genocide. We live with this trau- had to be hidden for fear of reprisals. ing-class tenants have risen to increas- crease on two-year leases. Furious land- ma every day. We breathe, eat and drink One of our roles as activists for the ingly unaffordable levels. lords soon attacked this decision. it. We pass it on to our children. And we welfare of our Peoples was to create More and more tenants must pay over The struggle continues to control the struggle to overcome it. space and protection for Native Peoples one-third of their income for rent. As rents so that they are affordable for all Like so many Native children, I was who were trying to reconnect to our an- gentrification and homelessness abound tenants in the city, whatever their in- ripped away from my family at the age of cient cultures and spiritual life. This was in the city, community organizing of ten- come. nine or so and taken away to get the “Indi- dangerous and deadly. It meant putting ants has leaped forward. The tenants’ — Report and photo by Anne Pruden Page 4 July 14, 2016 workers.org

They’ll be marching in Cleveland to ‘Shut down Trump and the RNC’ By Martha Grevatt heavy price.” Ohio is an “open carry” state, The Detroit Active and Retired Em- meaning that outside of the People from all walks of life will be ployees Association is sending a delega- convention space, where fire- marching on the Republican Nation- tion to the march. DAREA President Bill arms are prohibited, they can brandish dation that both anti-Trump activists and al Convention. Workers World spoke to Davis explained: “I think we all have to their guns in public. city residents are being subjected to. some committed activists who have been stand up for the rights of all people. We The people of Cleveland, especially The city administration has established organizing for the “Shut down Trump will not stand by and let the RNC take us people of color, are facing threats simply an “event zone,” within which free speech and the RNC” march to take place Sun- back to the 1930’s Nazi Germany!” by living there. barely exists during the convention. The day, July 17, on the eve of the convention. Southerners are mobilizing too. “This Terrea Mitchell, an organizer and ac- zone was made smaller after a lawsuit was Donnie Pastard is a longtime Cleve- year we have decided to mobilize a car- tivist with New York People’s Power As- filed, but still extends for blocks in any di- land community activist. She has also avan from North Carolina to Cleveland sembly, is going “basically to support the rection from the RNC site. There is only been organizing a “Real Cleveland Neigh- because it is an especially polarizing activists there on the ground in Cleveland. one permissible march route inside the borhoods” tour to show the devastation time for our class,” said Dhruv Pathak, a Cleveland is a majority Black city that is zone and marchers have only 50 minutes wrought by the economy outside of the Charlotte, N.C., labor and community ac- being gentrified and during the conven- to begin and end their march. A “Dump ritzy downtown area where the conven- tivist. “Racist billionaire Donald Trump tion space it is going to be taken over by Trump” march planned for the Monday tion is happening. is bringing out the most hateful, racist, a lot of right-wing folk. And it’s important the convention opens has been denied a “There are many reasons this march Islamophobic sections of this country. So that the activists there on the ground have permit to start from Public Square, the is important to me,” she said. “My rea- it is our duty as activists, organizers and folks coming out to support them because heart of downtown Cleveland. sons can be summed up in the words of socialists to mobilize to show these bigots they’re facing violence and intimidation The movement knows from past con- Tavis Smiley and Cornel West: ‘There are that hate won’t be allowed, and wherev- from the folks that will be attending the vention protest experience that they are over 150 million poor people in America er there is hate that it will be met with a RNC. There are racist, fascist and white the ones being targeted. As Mitchell stat- [USA] who are not responsible for the fightback.” supremacist groups that will be descend- ed, “It seems that the Cleveland police damage done to them by the elite society. ing upon Cleveland that, in my mind, will are not going to be going against those The poor did not create the deindustrial- Standing up to intimidation be there with the purpose of trying to in- [RNC] people but are going to be tough ization of America, the poor do not start Marching on the RNC demands cour- cite violence,” she explained. on the left contingent.” wars, and the poor didn’t create greed.’ age and conviction. A mob of Trump State repression against the right to People all over the country are refus- The bought-and-paid-for government in supporters is descending upon Cleve- protest, which has already begun with ing to be intimidated. Shut down Trump the USA obliges Wall Street on the backs land, and some of them have physically door-knocking by the FBI, Cleveland po- and the RNC! See iacenter.org for protest of the poor, and the poor are paying a assaulted anti-Trump protesters already. lice and others, is another form of intimi- calendar. ‘DNC protests to go on with or without permits’

By Betsey Piette in Haiti and wars in Africa. Philadelphia Other speakers included ACLU attorney Mary Kath- Representatives of over a dozen groups erine Roper; Cheri Honka- planning protests in Philadelphia during la, with the Poor Peoples’ the Democratic National Convention Economic Human Rights joined forces at a press conference June Campaign; Jody Dodd, 28 to say they would take to the streets — from Up Against the Law with or without permits. The press con- Collective; Del Matthews, ference was organized by the Philadelphia whose son Frank McQueen Coalition for Racial, Economic and Legal was killed by police in 2014; (R.E.A.L.) Justice and Workers World Brianna Jones, from the Party, which are coordinating marches to DNC Actions Committee; “Shut Down the DNC” on July 26. and Asa Khalif, with Black This event and a lawsuit by the Amer- Lives Matter, whose cousin ican Civil Liberties Union may have had Brandon Tate-Brown was results: On July 1 two of the groups an- also murdered by police in nounced they had received word that 2014. their applications for march permits Many commercial as would be granted. well as independent media WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE At the press conference, speakers outlets covered the press News conference, June 28. A dozen groups call for shutting down the DNC. voiced concerns that the city had either conference. delayed approval or outright denied per- he is planning space in several prisons phia has a shameless legacy of arresting mits to march during the DNC from July to hold protesters at the DNC. He says activists — from communists during the Test case for new citation law 25 to 28. Several also denounced efforts he supports freedom of speech, and now McCarthy period to members of the Black An incident on June 30 shows how the by Mayor Jim Kenney to ban marches in he’s banning ‘rush hour’ protests. He’s Panther Party, the MOVE Organization police interpret the new law on citations. Center City during morning and after- the same person who ran on a platform and, more recently, activists marching R.E.A.L. Justice organizer Rufus Farm- noon rush hours during the DNC. Groups to end the racist stop-and-frisk policies, under the Black Lives Matter banners.” er was on his way to a meeting in North that have frequently marched in the city yet has failed to do so.” Civil rights attorney Larry Krasner Philadelphia when he noticed police during rush hour accused Kenney of Deandra Jefferson, also of R.E.A.L. asked: “If Philadelphia can shut down pushing an older man to the ground. trying to use the DNC to set a precedent Justice, denounced Philadelphia’s plan to Center City streets for the annual Mum- Farmer told Workers World that when that could then be used against future spend $60 million on the DNC instead of mers Parade, or after major wins by he left his car to video the incident, police demonstrations. reopening shut-down city schools. “The sports teams, shouldn’t allowing access from the 26th District threw him to the While the actual convention will be DNC is not coming to Philadelphia to ad- for First Amendment protests be more ground and handcuffed him, injuring his held at the Wells Fargo Center, miles dress gentrification,” she stressed. “They important?” knee and breaking his toe. Farmer was away from Center City, most DNC dele- will not even be talking about racism in Krasner also reminded the city that at- given a “rough ride” through sections of gates will be staying at hotels in down- the city where the MOVE organization and torneys in Philadelphia have a “remark- North Philadelphia and finally released town Philadelphia, and are expected to an entire Black community was bombed able record” of wins at trials of protest- behind the precinct. spend considerable time there. under another Democratic mayor.” ers, including the 400 people who were “They took the cuffs off, handed me a Erica Mines, from R.E.A.L. Justice, Scott Williams, of Workers World Par- arrested during an earlier DNC and sev- $300 citation, and told me I was free to opened the press conference with a list of ty, noted that Wells Fargo, one of the big- eral recent anti-police brutality actions go,” Farmer reported. “I didn’t even know demands that included decriminalizing gest banks in the world, which was found- in Philadelphia. where I was, but I did know that police First Amendment-protected protests by ed on profits from slavery, is hosting the Shani Akila, an organizer with the from the 26th District have one of the allowing all protesters, with or without DNC. “The DNC has a sordid history of Black and Brown Workers’ Collective, highest reported rates of police brutality.” permits, to march in the streets in front cutting welfare, expanding prison popu- spoke for poor people pushed out of their Farmer was wearing a “Free Mumia” of the convention. Mines also called on lations and promoting wars abroad,” said communities by gentrification: “Now T-shirt, which was torn by the police. He the city to repeal the rush hour ban and Williams. “We are concerned that labor, they are preparing to shut us out of the reported that police called him a “profes- to shut down prisons where the mayor LGBTQ, impoverished, immigrant and DNC and shut down our protests. We sional protester,” making it clear they knew plans to hold demonstrators. Black and Brown communities — those have every right to rise up against a sys- him. He and Erica Mines made interna- “We don’t trust the city,” charged who have the most reason to protest in tem that is murdering us and we have ev- tional news in April when they confront- Mines. “Mayor Kenney proclaimed that the streets — could be denied their rights ery right to be heard.” She also called out ed former President Bill Clinton during a protests would be decriminalized, yet long after the DNC leaves town. Philadel- Hillary Clinton for supporting repression campaign rally for Hillary Clinton. workers.org July 14, 2016 Page 5 WWP petitioning for ballot status in Wisconsin

By Milwaukee Workers World Bureau liams, from the Philadelphia Branch of many capitalist-imperialists attacks.” WWP, is out in the streets of Milwaukee On July 2 “The Grass Is Greener” Organizers are now on the ground in daily to get Moorehead-Lilly on the ballot. radio show on Riverwest Radio inter- Wisconsin collecting signatures needed He says the majority of workers and op- viewed Steve Millies, a retired Amtrak to obtain ballot status for Workers World pressed people he and fellow organizers worker and WWP activist, who is or- Party candidates Monica Moorehead for are meeting are supportive of the WWP ganizing in Milwaukee to get WWP on U.S. president and Lamont Lilly for U.S. 10-point revolutionary socialist program. the ballot. Millies now lives in New York vice president. WWP candidates were on “Wisconsin since 2011 in particular City, but is originally from Milwaukee. the ballot in Wisconsin in 2000. has been the epicenter of the all-out as- (­riverwestradio.com) Lilly will be at two events on July 7 in sault on our class, which includes union The two July 7 events are sponsored by Milwaukee: a “Stop the Bradley Founda- busting and a host of other racist and the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Move- tion!” protest and an evening meeting on anti-worker attacks by Wall Street forces ment. The “Stop the Bradley Foundation!” “Building People’s Power.” and their servants like Gov. Scott Walk- protest is at 4:30 p.m at 1241 N. Franklin The weekend of July 1-3, WWP mem- er,” Williams told Workers World. “We’re Pl., Milwaukee, and the “Building People’s bers from Detroit, New York City, Phila- in Wisconsin with our comrades and Power” community conversation, which delphia, Boston, Buffalo, Rockford, Ill., friends to build solidarity between work- Moorehead will join via Skype, will be at and Durham, N.C., were joined by mem- ers and oppressed peoples in a combined 7 p.m at 734 N. 26th St., Milwaukee. bers and friends in Wisconsin at farm- struggle against the ruling class and to For more information about these ers’ markets, campuses, supermarkets get socialism on the ballot.” events, visit wibailoutpeople.org and and numerous other locations to gather Added Williams: “We’re in Wisconsin facebook.com/wibailoutpeople, or call signatures and distribute July 7 event in- to get Monica Moorehead and Lamont 414-395-0665. To make a much-needed WW PHOTO formation. Organizers from Chicago and Lilly on the ballot because they have the contribution to help cover expenses for Andrea Bañuelos and Tommy Cavanaugh of other cities will be coming to Wisconsin experienced perspective and fightback the WWP “Put Socialism on the Ballot” the Rockford, Ill., branch of Workers World Party, petitioning for WWP ballot status the week of July 3. spirit with a party behind them that our Wisconsin campaign, see July 3 in the Riverwest neighborhood in In Wisconsin since July 1, Scott Wil- class needs to fight and win against the gofundme.com/wwpwisconsin. Milwaukee. Solidarity with anti-fascists in Sacramento

Monica Moorehead for president. Lamont Lilly for Vice President.

The following statement was issued ers as victims and build a rally around group inside the U.S. There has never prime motive is to keep those within our on June 29 by Monica Moorehead and this fraudulent claim. Heinbeck does not been a whites-only or English-only or class — the workers and oppressed of the Lamont Lilly, the 2016 Workers World speak for white workers. TWP is not a U.S.-born-only labor movement. You world — pitted against one another. The Party presidential and vice presidential workers’ party in any sense of the word. can see that in the names of great labor ruling class is the only class that fascists candidates. The TWP is an extra-legal terrorist orga- leaders like Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, serve, despite their demagogic rhetoric. The Workers World Party national elec- nization that works hand-in-hand with A. Philip Randolph, Ferdinand Smith, We do not believe in “free speech” for vi- tion campaign sends its warm greetings police violence like the KKK. Humberto Silex, Emma Tenayuca, John olent and divisive hate rhetoric. We also to Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento and These fascists are making another Handcox, Odis L. Sweeden, George Ad- differ with those now criticizing the cops salutes its members for freezing out the fraudulent claim — that white work- des, Stanley Nowak, Larry Itilong and for not intervening and arresting people fascist, misnamed “Traditionalist Work- ers are the “traditional” workers — as if Cesar Chavez. in Sacramento. We know what that would ers Party” and preventing their rally from wage slaves who are African-American, Also names of U.S. labor’s martyrs put have looked like — more of our comrades taking place on June 26. Our hearts are Latino/a, Asian, Indigenous, Arab, Mus- shame to the fascist, stereotyped formu- injured, since the police are the enemies with Antifa in the aftermath of this violent lim, migrant, LGBTQ, differently abled lation of the “traditional” worker: Au- of the workers and oppressed peoples. TWP attack, which specifically targeted or women are somehow newcomers or gust Spies, Louis Lingg, George Engel, We are concerned to hear the police people of color and transpeople. We wish outsiders. Long before this country was Adolph Fischer (Haymarket Martyrs), are combing through videos and pic- all the anti-fascists wounded in this attack even founded, the 1% of the day profited Joe Hill (IWW), the Ludlow Massacre tures, looking for opportunities to arrest a full and speedy recovery. We need these from the genocidal theft of Native lands victims (Western Federation of Miners), people. We stand in solidarity with any courageous warriors back on the streets. and the unpaid labor of enslaved Black Ella Mae Wiggins (National Textile Work- anti-fascists who may face arrests as a We denounce fascist groups like the people. The Industrial Revolution was fi- ers Union), Ralph Gray (Sharecroppers result. We support the right of anti-racist TWP. We despise their name, which nanced by the slave trade. Even before a Union), Curtis Williams (Ford Hunger and anti-fascist forces to defend them- employs the classic Hitlerite tactic (the third of Mexico was stolen by the U.S., its March), Virgil Duyungan and Aurelio selves from right-wing terrorism by any official name of the Nazis was National original inhabitants slaved in the mines. Simon (­UCAPAWA), Nagi Daifullah and means necessary. Socialist Workers Party) of attempting All members of the multinational work- Juan De­ La Cruz (UFW), Danny Lee Over- Although WWP was only able to be to dupe white workers into thinking that ing class on July 4, 1776, were “tradition- street (CWA), the five Greensboro Com- present with Antifa in a limited way fascists represent their interests. The al workers.” munist Workers Party martyrs massacred on June 26, we are with you 1000 per- fascists do not. The billionaire fascis- in North Carolina by the white suprema- cent: SHUT THEM DOWN! Shut down tic Trump does not. Michael Heinbeck, A history of workers resistance cist KKK in 1979, among many others. the whole racist, capitalist system of founder of the TWP, has personally as- The multinational working class has All fascistic movements, from Trump to wage-slavery! Workers of the world and saulted anti-Trump protesters. He then a militant, fighting tradition which in- the forces behind the Brexit vote in Brit- oppressed peoples of the world unite and had the nerve to paint Trump support- cludes every oppressed nationality and ain, are tools of the capitalist class whose fight for socialism! W. Va./Ohio Valley protests Trump and coal bosses

By Jeremy Baumann sharpshooters in military fatigues stood Klux Klan and not be a racist.” proud, card-carrying member of the Wheeling, W.Va. on the rooftops of buildings across the The reactionary fundraiser was put Sheet Metal Workers International Asso- street. together by an evangelical coal baron ciation, Local 33, told WW: “While Rob- An angry crowd of mostly youthful The anti-Trump crowd was unintimi- named Robert Murray, who is the CEO of ert Murray wants to brag about owning protesters confronted the racist presi- dated by the militarized police presence. Murray Energy Corporation. Murray has union coal mines and wants to call him- dential candidate, Donald Trump, out- Some Trump supporters yelled incom- a history of participating in right-wing self a philanthropist, to me, he is just an- side the WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, prehensible epithets, but they were out- politics. In 2012, he was under investiga- other racist union-buster. He and Trump W.Va. Trump was the featured speaker numbered and quickly shut down. tion for “violating federal election laws” should both be shut down.” for an “invitation only” fundraiser on West Virginia state NAACP President in Ohio. The confrontation took place just a June 28 with coal company executives Owens Brown, a former coal miner, par- Also in 2012, Murray laid off 156 coal couple of weeks before the Republican and other capitalist officials from the ticipated in the protest and told Workers miners — for which action he blamed the National Convention in Cleveland, where Ohio Valley area. World, “Wherever Trump goes, it is im- re-election of President Barack Obama — Trump and his band of bigots will be con- Protesters chanted, “Racist! Sexist! portant people respond and show that shortly after he forced them to listen to a fronted by “Shut Down Trump and the Anti-gay! Right-wing bigots go away!” they do not agree with his bigotry.” Brown prayer he had written. As a self-serving RNC.” Workers World newspapers and and “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist further explained, “While some people proponent of resource extraction, it is not fliers announcing protests at both July USA!” as the candidate’s mostly white in this area might say they ‘like Trump surprising that Murray is also an outspo- capitalist party conventions were dis- and middle-class audience members in because he promises to bring back coal ken denier of global warming. tributed throughout the crowd, encour- business suits were escorted into the mining jobs,’ one cannot support a candi- Labor also had a presence at the aging them to attend the events that are side of the hockey arena. Meanwhile, date that is endorsed by the terrorist Ku ­anti-Trump protest. Marcus Long, a planned and to march on July 17. Page 6 July 14, 2016 workers.org

This article is based on a June 30 talk. Teresa Gutierrez is Workers World Party’s ­presidential campaign manager and co-­coordinator of the New York May 1 Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. A GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Nearly one in 100 forced to migrate

By Teresa Gutierrez

The recent Brexit vote in Eu- rope was closely tied to the is- sue of migrants and refugees. ­Mirrored by the racist, demagog- ic campaign of Donald Trump here in the U.S., the campaign to “Leave” the European Union was carried out within an anti-immi- grant context. With capitalism at a dead end, racist scapegoating Teresa Gutierrez has become a priority for the cap- italists in order to divert attention from the economic crisis. Now, almost half of Syria’s This is shameful and mer- 23 million people have been its an immediate, worldwide, ­displaced. working-class response. Why? Furthermore, people from Because the crisis of the forced Western Africa are forced to migration of workers is of epic leave after decades of Interna- proportions. tional Monetary Fund struc- It is a massive humanitarian tural adjustment policies. Even crisis. It is genocidal, a crisis that the IMF itself admitted that its was created by the bloody hands A collapsed capitalist economy and NATO aggression forces millions to migrate. schemes are “flawed, have increased in- of U.S. and British imperialism. equality and [have] not … delivered eco- This is not just an issue of migrants but rialist wars of regime change in Syria, the rights of refugees, including, accord- nomic growth,” all of which are, of course, of refugees and workers and should be Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan and so ing to the United Nations, the number utter euphemisms. (African Independent, treated accordingly. on that are forcing workers to leave in the one right of safe asylum. June 24) This massive displacement, this gigan- first place. A few months ago, the world witnessed tic wave of forced migration primarily Those wars include starvation sanc- the horror of mass dislocation. Refugees’ Hidden casualties of war from the Middle East, Africa and Asia tions and planned destabilizations. dire conditions worsened when the U.N. The crisis of forced mass migration to Europe and elsewhere, has resulted in Take Libya. This country had once Food Program exhausted its funds and has many victims. Articles have been the largest dislocation of humanity since been a state where its resources, the very cut aid to hundreds of thousands that published about the tens of thousands World War II. That is a stunning fact. oil the corporations go to war for, had were living in miserable refugee camps in of migrant children that are “missing” This amounts to World War III. That been nationalized and helped give Libya Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. in Europe, purported victims of crimi- the working-class and progressive move- the highest standard of living in Africa. The U.N. agency needed $236 million nal gangs, an unspeakable tragedy. And ment in Britain could not stay the hand of It was months of bombing as well as the to keep the program funded through that is a woefully conservative figure. this war is one thing; to be sucked into the assassination of its leadership — Gadhafi November 2015. Yet, the U.S. has spent (­Politico, May 3). ideology of the right wing is another. in 2011 — that devastated Libya. Imperi- much more than that on wars in Syria The Politico article stated: “The closure This bodes ill for the working-class alism destroyed the entire infrastructure and Afghanistan. According to national- of European borders and lack of an effec- movement, not only in Europe but in the of this country in one fell swoop. priorities.org., U.S. taxpayers have paid, tive strategy to cope with wave after wave U.S. as well. And now the European elite turns its every hour since 2001, a whopping $8.36 of refugees … often leave unaccompanied “Leave the EU” and “Build the Wall” back on the very people it bombed, after million for its wars! minors crossing into Europe with no- are two sides of the same coin: divide and creating the very conditions that forced That is why Syria today has the highest where to turn. And that makes them easy conquer the multinational working class those people to leave. number of people displaced by war. prey for smugglers and traffickers.” with the issue of immigration. We have all seen the pictures pub- Syrians have been forced to leave in re- One can only imagine the unspeakable lished by the capitalist media, the painful cord numbers because the Pentagon and pain of a parent fearing that their child War, sanctions and austerity pictures of waves of migrants at sea, of NATO targeted civilian infrastructure, may have gotten caught up in the Europe- caused the refugee crisis drowned children, of boats capsized with irrigation, hospitals, schools, water puri- an sex trade. How repulsive of our enemies to use people who never make it, whose families fication and local industries. On July 1, the International Migrant the issue of forced migration as an an- back home will never know what hap- U.S. and NATO sanctions have been Alliance distributed a statement from the swer to the ravaging effects of the auster- pened to them. imposed on Syria since 2010. And this World Council of Churches dated June ity measures sweeping Europe. The very Rarely are these pictures accompa- was followed by the arming and financ- 28, 2016. As documentation of worldwide forces that are laying off workers in Lon- nied by admissions of what caused this ing of mercenary forces. This war has forced migration varies from source to don, Detroit, Khartoum, Mexico City or ­migration. destroyed a formerly prosperous country source, and is conflictive, the WCC state- Dhaka are the very forces that are driving In reality, the vast majority of the peo- where the population had modern infra- ment is important to publish. workers to leave their homelands. ple in the pictures are not migrants at all. structure, free, quality health care, and The statement said, “The world is in It is U.S. and British and NATO impe- They are refugees and should be accorded free education. the midst of a historic crisis of forced dis- French unions will stay in the streets

By G. Dunkel FO (Workers’ Force) contingents in the has called for another national march on that it can force austerity on the work- march called for a general strike, accord- July 5, the date when the National Assem- ing class in France. But the labor move- Even if the French government forces ing to video clips. bly begins its final deliberations of the bill. ment won’t give up, and has stayed in the the new labor law through the National In the Dordogne Department (county), After a meeting set for July 8, the co- streets for four months. Some 98 percent Assembly without a vote, the unions in the according to France Bleu radio station, alition will announce further steps. The of French workers are employed under coalition opposed to the new law intend the CGT Energy 24 Union cut the elec- coalition consists of the CGT, FO, FSU collectively bargained, legally enforceable to stay in the streets. According to public tricity to the homes of Socialist Party par- (Unitary Union Federation), Solidaires agreements, and they are fighting to keep opinion polls, 70 percent of the people liv- liamentarians June 27-28 to protest their Unitaires Démocratiques (SUD), the Na- these guarantees. ing in France oppose this law. Even if Par- support for the new labor law. Dordogne, tional Union of French Students (UNEF), When Prime Minister Manuel Valls liament passed this reactionary law, the though rural, has historically been a cen- National High School Students (UNL) and spoke recently at Montpellier, a city of unions argue it should not be enforced. ter of radical activism. the Independent and Democratic Federa- about a quarter-million people in southern The CGT labor confederation points In the Paris area, unions stopped col- tion of High School Students (FINL). France, at the opening of a light rail line, out in a communique issued June 28 that lecting tolls on some roads and blocked The only French union which supports he was booed and hissed by the crowd over even the U.N. International Organization access to some shopping centers and auto the new labor law is the CFDT (Democrat- the new labor law. It is interesting that the of Labor has declared that this law vio- routes before the march. ic French Confederation of Labor), which print media wrote about “dozens of protest- lates international conventions. As one marcher told the French news- is politically close to the current so-called ers” while the video clip on FranceTV.info The 11th major national demonstra- paper Le Monde on June 28, “There is an Socialist government. shows hundreds of people booing him. tion on June 28 drew 200,000 protesters illusion of calm, but the anger is immense.” The French regime is trying to show Even if the new labor law is passed, the and strikers throughout France. Some The coalition organizing the protests the bosses at home and in other countries struggle won’t be over. workers.org July 14, 2016 Page 7

This article is based on closing remarks given by Workers World Party First THE BREXIT VOTE: Secret­ary, Larry Holmes, at a June 30 meeting in New York City. Go to A GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN CRISIS youtu.be/6-r_fxzMF00 to hear The need for global opening and closing remarks. Nearly one in 100 forced to migrate working-class consciousness

placement — of people obliged to leave By Larry Holmes their homes, communities and countries to escape conflict, persecution, repres- No doubt, there is sion, natural and human-made disasters, hatred of the Europe- ecological degradation, or other situa- an Union on the left International tions that endanger their lives, freedom in Europe. The EU is working-class or livelihood. an anti-worker, reac- solidarity “During 2015 … displacement … sur- tionary conspiracy on and battling passed all previous records, exceeding the part of European racism are 65 million people — or one out of every imperialist bankers to the main goals. 113 people on earth. Conflicts and insecu- intensify the exploita- May 1, New York City. Teresa Gutierrez rity in the Middle East — especially the tion of workers and tragically continuing war in Syria and in to wage war on the WW PHOTO: parts of Africa — have been major drivers oppressed. However, BRENDA RYAN of this exodus. those who think that “In the same year, more than a mil- the Brexit vote was Larry Holmes. lion people crossed the Mediterranean to progressive are miss- below Europe as refugees and migrants. More ing the point. than 3,770 people perished during 2015 You cannot sepa- in the course of this hazardous crossing, rate the vote to leave and more than 2,850 more are thought to the EU from the racist, anti-immigrant relatively more privileged have been lost already so far this year. campaign that was central to it. More- workers, here and there. “In Central America … the United Na- over, nowhere is the left benefiting from They’re getting frantic, tions High Commissioner for Refugees the vote, but racist and fascist forces are. and this should drive them stated that the number of asylum seekers No, the task is for the working-class towards revolutionary so- from Honduras, Guatemala and El Sal- movement to take the political initiative cialism and against cap- vador increased from 20,900 in 2012 to away from the racist and fascist forces. italism and to embrace 109,800 in 2015. The reason why there is some confu- their Black and Brown sis- “These crises have demonstrated that, sion about understanding and analyzing ters and brothers. in today’s world, it is impossible to remain what happened with this vote is because We have not given up insulated in one’s own safety and comfort there are contradictions. The ruling class on the white workers, but That’s how we view this development. from the suffering experienced by such of the world is not happy about what hap- we’re not naive either. We know, especial- What has globalized high-tech capital- vast numbers of people seeking refuge. pened. One of the important things for ly if there’s the absence of a strong revo- ism done? Ultimately, it has created two Closing one’s eyes and ears to the plight capitalism is having their political estab- lutionary alternative, racists and fascists roads for the working class. Either we of the victims was never acceptable, and lishment — the ruling class parties — be will pull them in and tell them that the will allow capitalism in its desperate ep- now it is no longer feasible. ... able to control what happens in their cap- way to bring it back to the way it was — och of decay and death to force workers “All too often, the response by govern- italist elections. when you were a little more privileged — into more intense competition with each ments and societies of countries in which Why did they spend so much money and is to turn the clock back, meaning close other for disappearing, low-paying jobs suffering people have sought safe haven time? Why do the media prop up these po- the borders and push out all those Black on a vicious and violent scale. That’s one has been one of fear, rejection and exclu- litical institutions of capitalism and impe- and Brown workers that you see driving direction. Or workers will begin fighting sion. All too often, political actors have rialism? So that they can manipulate the cabs and ringing cash registers, etc. This not just based on nationality or geogra- sought to galvanize public concern and to working class and the masses and that is what’s going on there. phy but more and more on the basis of increase fear for political advantage. ... things come out their way in elections. It We’re not writing white workers off, seeing each other as a global class, as the “Longstanding and fundamental prin- is a symptom of the political situation of but we are not going to abandon the op- capitalists do. ciples of international humanitarian law capitalism that is in deep crisis that things pressed workers, who frankly — and there We would argue with anyone, including have been questioned and undermined, are not going their way. They’re not that are exceptions to this but historically this our British comrades, those who have a including the right of asylum — the fun- thrilled about Donald Trump but that is generally true — are the vanguard of strong position, those who agree with us, damental principle that all people … are doesn’t change Trump’s character. the struggle for revolutionary change. We and those who are in between, that this entitled to seek international protection This was a big blow to the big bour- hold them up. We hold them up unabash- is the question. This is a central question regardless of … any criterion other than geoisie, to the extent that it’s crumbling edly, unapologetically. that is posed by this election. What road need. in many ways. This was a blow to their es- for the working class? Break it up and as Challenges for the movement “This principle … is enshrined in the tablishment for what they’ve been trying the capitalists would prefer we do, fight Universal Declaration of Human Rights to do ever since the end of the first and the Our Party more than any other par- each other, close the borders, blame the 1948. The Refugee Convention was a col- second imperialist world wars, that is, to ty is against ridiculous, opportunist, immigrants, not the capitalists. lective international response to the suf- strengthen these institutions, whether it’s self-serving polemics. We have nothing Or do we have a strategy that can lead fering of — mostly European — refugees NATO or the United Nations or the World whatsoever to gain from it. We are com- to uniting the workers more and more on in the aftermath of the Second World Trade Organization or NAFTA or the Eu- pletely open to discussing everything a global basis? Can someone show me the War. The principles and obligations de- ropean Union, in order to compete but with comrades or potential comrades argument that shows that this is what the fined … are just as relevant and necessary also to have these institutions and these anytime anywhere. If there’s something vote for Brexit did? The Party is not per- in the context of the current global crisis agreements help them wage their war to that they can shed light on that we don’t fect but we don’t see it. as they were then in the post-World War exploit the workers at a greater magni- know about, okay. But we refuse to be na- But just finishing the point, it’s a huge II European refugee crisis.” tude. We will see the fallout. It’s a contra- ive about racism. development. It mirrors political develop- diction. That is one point. We would advise them: Don’t get dug ments in this country of the working class French unions will stay in the streets How to answer Brexit and Trump? But it is a mistake to downplay the rac- into a bad position; don’t become captive movement, which is confused, to a large In light of this global humanitarian ism. We don’t have to live in Manchester or because for some reason you decided to extent demoralized — talking about the crisis, what should the working class and London or any other place — speaking as downplay and minimize the role of rac- vanguard elements — and that this has revolutionary movements consider in re- a Black communist in New York City — to ism. Based on that, we can all go forward. been going on for a long time, too long as sponse? Here is a suggestion. Build a glob- understand racism and understand what Actually, this is such a big event com- we all know, based on setbacks like the al movement of solidarity that demands: a lot of white workers and a lot of white ing at a time when the capitalist system collapse of the Soviet Union and all sorts is so fragile. This is one of the contradic-  U.S., NATO out of Syria, Libya, middle-class people can be pulled into. of other things. This is a challenge. tions, too. This is what has them worried. ­Afghanistan and everywhere! What are we talking about? Let’s say a Who wants to come together now little bit about it because it’s a big problem It’s really a continuation of an earlier on the basis of this goal and talk about  Reparations for Africa! in uniting the working class. The British point. The capitalist system is so fragile how we’re going to build a revolutionary  Stop U.S. death funds in Central Amer- working class has a different history. But that anything, any political upset, any worldwide working class? How are we ica and Mexico! U.S. out of Latin Amer- it’s not unlike the U.S. working class in economic upset, whether it’s in the finan- going to strengthen internationalism, not ica! Cancel the debt of Puerto Rico! many respects. The strength of it and the cial markets, whether it’s the collapse of a just with rhetoric but actually and prac- bank, it can be the snowball, so to speak,  Demand refugee status for all the strength of British imperialist stability was tically? And how are we going to forge that starts the whole thing crumbling. displaced from wars, climate change or based on a white working class that, rela- unity with the more oppressed sections of That’s good. But that doesn’t negate the economic violence! tively speaking, was more privileged than the working class? the oppressed, whether they be in Britain danger that this poses. These are the big questions on the ta-  Build solidarity, not walls! or whether they be in one of the colonies. Why is it such a tremendous danger ble. No matter what disagreements we  Make December 18 “World Day of Mi- We know all about that in the U.S. now? We don’t want to sound like mor- have now and historically with other gration” and June 20 “World Refugee Now what’s happening is that global- alists. We are scientists. We are com- groups, Workers World Party is prepared Day,” global days of class solidarity! ization is pauperizing even those formerly munists. We are dialectical materialists. to sit at that table. Page 8 July 14, 2016 workers.org SOULS ON ICE Black hockey players

By Dolores Cox one eye from a hockey injury, which he kept secret. In the U.S., O’Ree suffered The 2015-16 National Hockey League many indignities and racist remarks has ended. But 22 years before the NHL during games, including hostility from was established, the Colored Hockey his white teammates and from other League of the Maritimes was formed in white teams, much like what Jackie Rob- 1895 in Canada. Initiated by Black Bap- inson experienced. tist churches in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Between 1961 and 1974, O’Ree played the league was comprised of the sons in the minor leagues with the Los Ange- and grandsons of enslaved Africans who les Blades and San Diego Gulls. He won had escaped from the U.S. The league two scoring titles in the Western Hockey consisted of teams from Africville, Am- League (WHL). In 1978 he retired from herst, Dartmouth and Halifax. The CHL hockey at age 43. Now his retired num- formed 25 years before the U.S. Negro ber hangs from the rafters in the San Di- Baseball League was ­established. ego arena. The CHL helped pioneer the sport of ice In 1984, O’Ree was inducted into the hockey. Despite the racist beliefs of many New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame. In whites about what Black athletes were Black hockey stars Herb Carnegie, Willie O’Ree 1998 in San Diego, he became the capable of in a cold-weather sport, CHL and Angela James. NHL director of youth development players defied the established myths. for the NHL Diversity Task Force. Unfortunately, their contributions were player to sign an NHL contract with the That task force is a nonprofit pro- ignored or simply stolen as white teams New York Rangers in 1950. But he never gram for minority youth to encour- and hockey officials copied elements of made it to the ranks of the pros, despite age them to play hockey. the Black style or sought to take credit for his good statistics in the minor leagues. The Bruins and the NHL laud- Black hockey innovations. The first professional Black player in ed O’Ree at Boston’s TD Garden in For instance, historically, the CHL was the NHL was Willie O’Ree, born in 1935, 2008 on the 50th anniversary of the first league allowing the goaltender also from Fredericton. He is referred to his NHL debut. That same year, his to drop to the ice to stop the puck. The as the “Jackie Robinson of ice hockey” hometown of Fredericton honored Orioles in the Niagara District Hockey because he was the first Black player to him by naming a new sports com- League during the 1930s were one of the break the NHL color barrier. Previously, plex after him, and the NHL cele- early all-Black teams. the first hockey player of color to break brated him during its 56th All-Star the barrier was Chinese: Larry Kwong in game in Atlanta. In 2010, O’Ree A score of firsts 1948, a decade before O’Ree. received the Order of Canada, the Canadian Herb Carnegie from Freder- O’Ree was playing in the minor leagues highest award for Canadian citi- icton, New Brunswick, was the first star with the Quebec Aces when the Boston zens, for being a hockey pioneer and in the Colored Hockey League. He be- Bruins called him up to replace one of dedicated youth mentor in Canada gan his career in 1938 with the Toronto their injured players. He made his debut and the U.S. Young Rangers, then went to the Buffalo with them in 1958 against the Montreal Alton White was the second ath- Ankerites, who played in mining towns Canadiens. That year he became the first lete of African descent to play on a in Ontario and Quebec. In the semi-pro Black player in hockey league history to U.S. major league ice hockey team. Quebec Provincial League, Carnegie was appear in two NHL games. In the 1970s, he played in the WHL named Most Valuable Player in 1946-48. In 1961, O’Ree returned to the NHL for the New York Raiders, Los Ange- Born in 1930, Canadian player Art Bruins to play 43 games at the position les Sharks, Michigan Stags and Bal- Dorrington, center, was the first Black of right wing. He was 95 percent blind in timore Blades. White was the first Out of the headlines, Flint’s water still unsafe

By Martha Grevatt volunteers to ensure that Flint residents done to the children from lead remains then passed on to Flint residents, whose Detroit have access to safe drinking water, told a constant source of grief for parents bills are already among the highest in the Michigan Radio on June 30, “Anywhere and for young people who are suddenly country. The massive infusion of need- Only a few months ago the Flint wa- from 50 to 70 percent of folks that we’re struggling and failing in school. Funds to ed funds has not been forthcoming from ter crisis was front-page news around seeing have filters that are not working.” help ameliorate the damage via early in- either Washington or the state. So far, 33 the country. The world learned of the Not every medical expert agrees that tervention and proper nutrition are just service lines have been replaced. The most lead-poisoning crisis caused by the state filtered water is now safe for everyone. now beginning to trickle in. recent state budget bill, which includes and city officials’ decision in April 2014 Genesee County Medical Society, a Flint more money for Flint, will only pay for to draw water from the highly corrosive area doctors’ group, advises high-risk Water crisis not only about lead another 500 line replacements. The Mich- Flint River and the same officials’ failure populations to still use bottled water and The other problem with the filters is igan House of Representatives passed the to add anti-corrosive chemicals. tells everyone to keep testing their water that many other contaminants in Flint’s bill just before its summer recess after a Today, outside of Flint’s surrounding for lead. water besides lead are getting through, massive grass-roots call-in campaign. area, headline stories are infrequent. This is because a recent water flush- including Legionella bacteria. At least 12 Meanwhile, the Natural Resources De- One that did draw attention was the June ing program — intended to force more people died since 2014 from an outbreak fense Council released a report June 28 28 report by the federal Environmental water through the system to make an- of Legionnaires disease caused by the stating that — based on EPA data — 5,363 Protection Agency, stating that filtered ti-corrosive chemicals effective — “may failure to add anti-corrosive chemicals to U.S. water systems serving 18 million Flint water was safe to drink, even for have dislodged more of the particulate Flint River water. However, suspicions are people do not comply with the federal pregnant women and children under six. matter and we’re concerned it may have growing that additional pneumonia-re- Lead and Copper Rule. Violations include The recommendation was based on the gotten caught in aerators and may have lated deaths, such as that of 68-year-old failure to test the water and inadequate drop in lead levels in filtered water. increased the amount of lead in the sys- Bertie Marble, were actually caused by treatment. That means over 5,000 Flints On the surface that seems like wonder- tem.” undiagnosed cases of Legionnaires’. are waiting to happen! ful news. But the reality is more complex. Dr. George Natzke, of GCMS, urged The cause of the painful skin rashes, The report does not indicate how many Leaving a filter and spare cartridges with anyone whose filter is not functioning hair loss and breathing difficulties after of these water systems have been privat- instructions on someone’s doorstep — as to keep drinking bottled water. (wnem. showering, bathing and playing in kids’ ized. Veolia, the world’s largest private some agencies have done — is not going com, June 29) swimming pools has yet to be identified. water company and a notorious union to help someone who can’t read or whose Based on Hood’s and Natzke’s as- Lead is not the cause, and the problem buster, is being sued by the state of Mich- primary language is not English. sessments, it is likely that a majority of did not go away after the switch back to igan for its role as a paid consultant in Now volunteers are going door to door, Flint’s 100,000 people still depend en- Detroit water. 2015. Veolia’s report on Flint water quali- checking on who needs filters and/or re- tirely or partially on bottled water. With The only real solution, as any Flint ty falsely stated that the water was safe to placement cartridges. They are seeing the Michigan National Guard no longer resident will tell you, is to replace the drink and was in compliance with federal people with filters that are broken, don’t fit assisting with distribution, bottled water 10,000-plus lead service lines and ulti- regulations. their faucets or are not attached properly. is harder to come by. mately the whole aging infrastructure. This is what happens — and will con- They are also seeing cartridges that have The Centers for Disease Control and Since the entire system was subjected tinue to happen — under the capitalist expired or don’t fit the filters people have. Prevention recently announced that to the corrosive river water, which is 19 profit system. Billions of people world- Some homes still don’t even have filters. blood-lead levels in Flint’s children dou- times more corrosive than Detroit water, wide lack access to clean, affordable wa- Michael Hood, who runs Crossing Wa- bled after the switch to the Flint River damage to the pipes has caused a spike in ter while billionaires keep getting richer. ter, which is coordinating a number of and fell after the city went back to De- water main breaks. Only socialism can prevent more Flint social service agencies and organizing troit water. Yet the cognitive damage The cost of water loss and repairs is disasters from taking place. workers.org July 14, 2016 Page 9 SOULS ON ICE

Black player to score 20 goals in a sin- gle season, in 1972-73 with the Sharks. Okinawans resist U.S. military bases Black hockey players He was also the first Black player to ever score a “hat-trick” in a major league By Kathy Durkin game. A hat-trick is when a single player achieves three goals in a single game. Resistance is alive and well in Oki- The next Black Canadian player in the nawa. Some 65,000 people rallied on NHL was Mike Marson, drafted by the June 19 in Naha, the island’s capital city, Washington Capitals, who also played for to protest the U.S. military presence on the LA Kings. The first Black NHL play- their island. Signs called for the with- er born and trained in the U.S. was Mike drawal of Marines in the largest protest Grier, born in 1975 in Detroit. He debuted in 21 years against U.S. bases. with the NHL Edmonton Oilers in 1996 at This demonstration was sparked by the right wing. Grier retired in 2011. rape and murder of an Okinawan woman Canadian Grant Fuhr was the first by a former U.S. Marine working at Kade- Black NHL goalie, the first Black play- na Air Base, a horrific but not uncommon er on a team that won the Stanley Cup occurrence. The Asia-Pacific Journal awarded for the NHL championship, and of July 1 said 120 rapes by U.S. military the first to be inducted into the Hockey personnel had been reported in Okinawa Hall of Fame. since 1972. Notably, in 1995, 85,000 peo- Jay Sharrer from Canada was an NHL ple protested the kidnapping and rape of linesman. In 2001, he became the first a 12-year-old girl by three U.S. soldiers Black referee to officiate at an NHL game. on the island and demanded closure of Sharrer’s first game was between the Phil- the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station. adelphia Flyers and the Florida Panthers. Instead, the U.S. and Japan agreed to June 19, Naha, Okinawa. 65,000 protesters demand U.S. bases get out. The first Black Canadian captain in move the Futenma base from Ginowan, NHL history (2003-04) was Jarome a populous city, to a more remote site. Suzuyo Takzato, of Okinawa Wom- Iginla. A five-time All-Star playing with But in 2010, 100,000 island residents en Act against Military Violence, the Calgary Flames, Iginla was their all- strongly protested construction of a said, “We seek the withdrawal of all time leader in goals, points and games new base. Some 76 percent of the is- bases and forces to ensure that peo- played. In 2002, Iginla became the first land’s residents dispute the relocation ple in Okinawa can live in peace.” Black hockey player to win a gold medal of Futenma base to the seaside village (Japan Times, May 22) in the Winter Olympics. of Henoko, where the people are also Thousands rallied outside Kadena NHL players are now required to en- vehemently against it. Air Base on May 25, two days before roll in a diversity training seminar be- In February, tens of thousands of President Barack Obama was sched- fore each season. Racially based verbal people circled the Parliament in Tokyo, uled to visit Hiroshima. Protesters abuse is punished through suspensions while simultaneous protests were held again called for the removal of all and fines. In the 2015-16 season, there in several other cities, all against the U.S. bases on Okinawa and decried were only 20 Black or biracial players construction of a base in Henoko. a new base in Henoko. Because of in the NHL or NHL affiliates, the most The June 19 demonstration demand- mass pressure, Abe had to tell the prominent being P.K. Subban. In 2013 ed that the base be moved off Okinawa U.S. to “take measures to prevent Subban was the first Black player to win altogether. This was echoed by Takeshi something like this from happening the NHL’s Norris Trophy, awarded to the Onaga, Okinawa’s governor, who had again.” He warned of rising anti-U.S. league’s top defenseman. rescinded permission for Futenma’s re- sentiment due to U.S. soldiers’ Superstar Angela James was the location. But the June 28 Japan Times crimes, but omitted mention of the “Wayne Gretzky of women’s ice hockey.” reported that Onaga will not sue the massive opposition to the Pentagon’s James played on a college men’s team, central government over this issue. presence in Okinawa, careful to went on to lead Canadian women’s ice Moving the base has now been postponed Japanese government, led by Prime Min- avoid jolting the U.S.-Japan alliance. hockey to an Olympic gold medal, and until 2025 due to mass opposition. ister Shinzo Abe, and asserts that its mil- Okinawa was the site of a horrific was inducted into the Black Hockey Hall Serious crimes by U.S. troops and em- itary presence on Okinawa is necessary three-month battle during World War II, of Fame. James was also one of the first ployees have ignited massive protests to protect U.S. interests. Pentagon forces in which 100,000 islanders, 80,000 im- three women ever inducted into the In- against U.S. bases on the island, putting a can be deployed from Okinawa to any- perial Japanese soldiers and 12,000 U.S. Out of the headlines, Flint’s water still unsafe ternational Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, and spotlight on the ever-present anger at and where in the Pacific in under six hours. troops died. When Okinawans commem- in 2009, after a bylaws change, into the opposition to the U.S. military presence So Washington is intransigent about orated that battle this June 23, they con- Hockey Hall of Fame. by the majority of Okinawans. This strug- maintaining its bases there. demned construction of a new U.S. base African descendants in the U.S. have gle is always ready to erupt. Five years At the same time, Abe, who represents on their land. They also called for dras- yet to be fully included or accepted into after the 1995 mass actions, a historic 11- the right-wing, militaristic arm of Japan’s tic changes to the U.S.-Japan Status of society. As a result, there is still “the mile human chain encircled Kadena Air capitalist establishment, has proposed Forces Agreement, which gives the U.S. first Black person to achieve, acquire, do, Base when then-President Bill Clinton legislation overturning the Japanese jurisdiction over cases involving crimes enter into, obtain, become, receive, per- visited Okinawa in July 2000. Constitution’s post-WWII peace clause. committed by its military personnel. form, the first to … etc.” Since there has Two months of protests took place He is seeking to eliminate obstacles to U.S. bases opposed for 60 years never been a level playing field, opportu- in 2010 demanding Futenma’s closure. further militarizing the country. nities for Black people have never been On April 25 of that year, 100,000 Oki- Japan agreed to the U.S. occupation equal to those for whites. nawans demanded all U.S. bases off the U.S. war games aimed at China of Okinawa after World War II. In the Sources: “Black Ice” by George and island. Two years later, on Sept. 9, once Washington promotes these moves, mid-1950s, Washington saw the island as Darril Fosty, Nimbus Publishers, 2008; again 100,000 island residents rallied — the May 27 New York Times explained, a strategic military outpost and started Angela James, Ontario Black History this time against the U.S. installation of “to deepen American diplomatic and building bases there, aimed at People’s Society. (See hhof.com.) Osprey helicopters at Futenma, but they military investment in the region, but China and the Soviet Union. The U.S. dis- also sought the base’s permanent closure. needs the help of allies.” The countries’ possessed thousands of Okinawan land- joint strategy is aimed at subverting and owners to build 39 bases on 20 percent of ‘A virtual military colony’ MARXISM, REPARATIONS confronting China and the Democratic the island’s land, but not without massive & the Black Freedom Struggle “For many Okinawans, every crime is an People’s Republic of Korea. opposition. affront that symbolizes resentment over On June 18, two U.S. aircraft carriers, In 1972, the U.S. loosened its grip An anthology of writings from Workers World the disproportionately large U.S. military somewhat and turned the island over to newspaper. Edited by Monica Moorehead. 140 aircraft, six smaller warships and presence in Okinawa,” admitted Stars and Japanese government administration. Racism, National Oppression 12,000 sailors conducted war games in & Self-Determination Larry Holmes Stripes, a newspaper serving the U.S. mili- the Western Pacific, in a threat to China. However, to date, no land has been re- Black Labor from Chattel Slavery tary, on May 24. Residents call their coun- They were ostensibly conducted because turned to its original owners and the U.S. to Wage Slavery Sam Marcy try “a virtual military colony.” of China’s maritime claims in the South military still has control over one-fifth of Black Youth: Repression & Resistance Okinawa makes up 1 percent of the China Sea, which is 7,000 miles from Okinawa, despite popular opposition. LeiLani Dowell landmass of Japan, yet it houses 74 per- the U.S. mainland. Pentagon pressure on Okinawa is the largest island in the The Struggle for Socialism Is Key cent of U.S. military facilities in that China has increased with that country’s Ryukyu chain, 400 miles southwest of Monica Moorehead country. More than half the 47,000 U.S. economic development, which has raised Japan, with the Pacific Ocean to the east Domestic Workers Demand a Bill of Rights troops stationed in Japan are on the is- and the East China Sea to the west. Ja- Imani Henry hundreds of millions of Chinese people Black & Brown Unity Saladin Muhammad land. Washington gets worried when the out of poverty. pan’s Meiji government forcibly annexed Harriet Tubman, Woman Warrior movement against U.S. bases becomes Abe’s militarism does not go unchal- the islands in 1879, quashing a strong Mumia Abu-Jamal activated, especially as the U.S. is accel- lenged elsewhere in Japan. A growing an- people’s resistance. Racism & Poverty in the Delta Larry Hales erating its military presence in the region ti-war movement there, including a new The Uchinanchu, as the Okinawans Haiti Needs Reparations Pat Chin and seeks full collaboration with Tokyo. generation of youth, has mobilized strong call themselves, have never ceded their Alabama’s Black Belt Consuela Lee U.S. imperialism has increased its na- demonstrations against his policies. sovereignty to Japan. Many of the island’s Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion val presence in the Western Pacific in its But the biggest protests continue to be residents assert their right to self-deter- John Parker drive for regional domination. Washing- on Okinawa. Some 2,000 people demon- mination as they demand the removal of Available at major online booksellers. ton has established closer ties with the strated at Camp Foster on May 22, where all U.S. bases. Page 10 July 14, 2016 workers.org Working-class warriors in the battle of ideas

Now is the time for working people in lege and have remained “disappeared.” ing and apathetic cogs in profit-making gles and those of Mexican teachers. Im- the United States to act in solidarity with The Oaxacan section of the CNTE has machines. Big business doesn’t want mediately, the Chicago Teachers Union, the valiant teachers’ struggle in Mexico. been militantly resisting state repression workers asking critical questions about the California Teachers Federation and The teachers’ union, the National Coor- and attempts to break their union. how they can take charge and tear down MORE, the movement of rank-and-file dinator of Education Workers (CNTE), Workers in the U.S. should pay close the system exploiting them. Let alone re- educators in the Social Justice Caucus of announced an indefinite teachers’ strike attention to how the state is attacking the place capitalism with a system they run the United Federation of Teachers in New beginning July 5. teachers’ union. Before the federal gov- in their own interests. York City, sent messages of solidarity to That Mexico’s teachers need solidari- ernment brought out their guns, the state In the U.S. there are ongoing, insidious the CNTE. Some U.S. teacher unions held ty from laboring people everywhere was first imposed new certification testing neoliberal attempts to privatize public demonstrations and “die-ins” to educate brutally proved in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, for who could teach. These requirements education, “standardize” the curriculum the public about the struggle in Mexico. on June 19 when federal police fired on were culturally biased and designed to to fit the plans of big business and strip Class-conscious teachers are warriors in teachers, students and Indigenous people eliminate teachers from rural, impov- teacher unions of the power to fight for the battle of ideas between the working who had taken the teachers’ side. Thirteen erished and Indigenous backgrounds. their students. Right-wing legislators are class and the ruling class. died and over a hundred were wounded. Those teachers are the most militant attacking university programs that teach Just as U.S. unionists have begun to This is not the first murderous attack fighters for economic and social justice histories of fightback, especially liberation show support for the valiant general by the Mexican state on teachers. In 2014, for workers and oppressed peoples. lessons from people of color and women. strike of French workers against their 43 student teachers were kidnapped from The capitalist bosses need school sys- Militant U.S. teacher organizations capitalist government, now is the time for activist Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ Col- tems to produce workers to be unthink- see the connections between their strug- all-out working-class solidarity.

Puerto Rico’s new phase: People resist financial junta Continued from page 1 panies, including those contained in Plan cruit nurses, teachers, doctors and other agriculture. Puerto Rican experts have its approval of PROMESA, a large group Krueger 2015 — have driven the people professionals. Even more troubling is the proposed other, more appropriate ways of youth assembled early on June 30 in into poverty and despair. recruitment of police. With the excuse to counter Zika, but the government has front of the gates of the Federal Court To list just a few of the situations that that there are more Latinos/as in U.S. cit- not listened to them. Thanks to protests, in San Juan. There, they set up a “Camp impact the people and diminish their ies now, they recruit Boricuas to be used however, the fumigation that would have Against the Junta” and said they will quality of life: against Black and Latino/a people. This begun on July 1 was stopped. The United not leave until their demands are heard. ● Increased violence and crime, in- is what none other than the police force Front continues with demonstrations the Their call is for people to unite against the cluding theft and carjacking that have of Baltimore has done — the city where week of July 4 when public hearings are Financial Control Board (Junta), against become a daily occurrence. the murderers of Freddie Gray go unpun- being held on the use of Naled. colonialism, against spraying Naled and ● Foreclosures of mortgages on homes ished! Some 1,600 Puerto Ricans have On June 30, the militant and class-con- in defense of the beaches, public educa- and repossession of automobiles. registered to take the police exam! scious union UTIER, representing the tion and the people. Through their Face- ● Deterioration of health caused by the workers of the Electric Energy Authority book page (@Campamento Contra La high cost of medical services and the lack The struggle begins! (AEE), held a successful, islandwide 24- Junta), they publicize their demands and of doctors and other health professionals Although there is still no unity of ac- hour strike to protest and fight against receive messages of solidarity from orga- who migrate to the U.S. daily. tion, different sectors in Puerto Rico are the attempt to privatize and restructure nizations and individuals on the island as ● Hunger and poverty exacerbated by mobilizing. the AEE. That is being reorganized under well as from the United States. layoffs, lack of basic services and the high With consistent and militant actions, the guidelines of Lisa Donahue of Alix- On July 1, federal agents threatened cost of living as a result of multiple taxes teachers have managed to stop one mea- Partner for the benefit of bondholders. to evict the camp, but gave no deadline. the government has imposed to remedy sure in the Puerto Rican Legislature, the Among Donahue’s proposals are to re- Since then, however, the camp has been the lack of available funds. “Bhatia Plan.” This plan aimed to imple- duce medical plan benefits and retirees’ growing as more people show up. ● Add to the above an epidemic of the ment the privatization of many schools, pensions. During the strike, the workers Organizers called for a day of action on Zika virus and the loss of trained workers the dismissal of thousands of teachers marched from the AEE main office and July 4 with the following message: “We and professionals recruited by U.S. gov- and the destruction of public education, packed the streets on the way to the Cap- call this demonstration as an action to ernment agencies. among other regressive provisions. itol and the governor’s residence in San show opposition to the colonial status On the last point it is important to re- The United Front Against Aerial Fumi- Juan. of all Puerto Ricans and, through edu- port a dangerous development regarding gation, composed of several environmen- Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, president cational media and artistic means, to police recruitment that occurred a few tal, health, agriculture, social justice and of UTIER, highlighted the importance of denounce the imposition of a Financial days ago. other organizations, has called for vari- the union when he declared, “We in the Control Board. This event is symbolic be- The fact that there is an impoverished ous actions, including demonstrations ­UTIER have struggled to build funda- cause as the United States celebrates its but well-trained workforce in Puerto against aerial spraying of the deadly tox- mental rights for the whole working class independence, it is simultaneously estab- Rico, which is bilingual and has U.S. cit- in Naled, which the Centers for Disease of our country. It is with this principle that lishing projects to enslave and imprison izenship, attracts U.S. agencies that offer Control and Prevention proposed be used we defend with all our power our medical its colonies. Now is the time for the Puer- better salaries than on the island. Work- to “eradicate” the mosquito that carries plan and retirement system, which should to Rican people to speak out together ers not only earn less in Puerto Rico, but the Zika virus. be guaranteed for all citizens. But unfor- as one: #NoALaJuntaDeControlFiscal, those fortunate enough to have jobs are In Puerto Rico there is enormous op- tunately that is not our reality as a people, #NoALaDeuda, #SíALaDescolonización at risk of losing them. position to its use not only because it’s which must not stop us from fighting to To follow this movement on Facebook U.S. agencies have already been to harmful to people, but also for its dam- achieve it.” (utier.org, July 1) and to send messages of solidarity, ac- Puerto Rico from the United States to re- age to bees, which in turn would harm As soon as the U.S. Senate announced cess the page at tinyurl.com/hzvvpj6.

Nueva fase de lucha en Puerto Rico Continúa de página 12 cios en el plan médico y las pensiones de tadounidense, un puñado considerable tanto en la isla como en EUA. perjudicaría la agricultura. Han someti- las y los jubilados. Durante el paro, que de jóvenes fue a manifestarse frente a los Convocaron un día de acción para el 4 do otras formas más adecuadas para se dio a nivel de toda la isla, celebraron portones del edificio del Tribunal Federal de julio con el siguiente mensaje: “Convo- combatir el zika, pero aún el gobierno una concurrida marcha desde las insta- en San Juan en la madrugada del jueves. camos esta manifestación como un acto no las ha aceptado. Sin embargo, gracias laciones de la AEE recorriendo calles del Ahí establecieron un Campamento Con- de demonstrar oposición a la condición a las protestas, se detuvo la fumigación área metropolitana. tra la Junta (#campamentocontralajun- colonial de todxs lxs puertorriqueñxs que iba a comenzar el viernes 1ro de ju- Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, presidente de ta) y dicen que no se irán hasta que sus y denunciar la imposición de una Junta lio. El Frente seguirá con movilizaciones la UTIER, resalta la importancia de este demandas sean oídas. A través de su pá- de Control Fiscal a través de medios ed- esta semana cuando se celebrarán vistas sindicato cuando declara que “Nosotros gina de Facebook, envían y reciben men- ucativos y artísticos. Esta manifestación públicas sobre el uso del naled. en la UTIER hemos luchado por con- sajes y hacen conocer sus demandas. Su es simbólica ya que mientras los Esta- El jueves 30 de junio, el militante y struir una base de derechos para toda la pedido es la unidad del pueblo contra la dos Unidos celebra su independencia, clasista sindicato UTIER que representa clase trabajadora de nuestro país. Es con JCF, contra el coloniaje, contra la fumi- simultáneamente establecen proyectos a las/os trabajadores de la AEE, tuvieron ese principio que defendemos con fuerzas gación de naled, y en defensa de las pla- para esclavizar y encarcelar a sus colo- un exitoso paro de 24 horas para prote- nuestro Plan Médico y Sistema de Retiro, yas, la escuela pública y el pueblo. nias. Es momento de que el pueblo puer- star y luchar contra la intención de la los cuales deberían ser garantizados para El viernes, los agentes federales torriqueño se una para decir en conjunto: AEE, ahora reorganizada bajo las pautas todos los ciudadanos. Pero lamentable- amenazaron con desahuciarlos aunque #NoALaJuntaDeControlFiscal; #NoA- de Lisa Donahue, de Alix Partner, que mente esa no es nuestra realidad como no dieron fecha. Sin embargo, desde LaDeuda; #SíALaDescolonización buscaba la privatización y reestructura- pueblo, lo que no debe impedir que luche- entonces el campamento ha ido crecien- Para seguir este movimiento por ción de la agencia estatal para beneficiar mos para lograrlo”. (UTIER.org, 1 de julio) do mientras más personas se suman. A Facebook y enviar mensajes de soli- a los bonistas. Entre las propuestas de Tan pronto se dio a conocer la apro- través de su página reciben mensajes de daridad, pueden ingresar a su página Donahue están la reducción de benefi- bación de la “Promesa” por el senado es- solidaridad de organizaciones y personas tinyurl.com/hzvvpj6 workers.org July 14, 2016 Page 11 The battle of the Somme, 1916 A century of wars since ‘the great slaughter’

By John Catalinotto troops. That’s a total of more than a of artillery and the fear of a sudden or, million casualties. The front had moved worse, a lingering death. Along with the Political leaders from France and Brit- all of seven miles. misery imposed on the masses of Eu- ain, along with observers from other While the bulk of the casualties rope, the intense suffering of the troops countries, met in France on July 1, the were English, German and continen- would swing open the door to revolutions centennial of the First Battle of the Som- tal French, the imperialist powers also such as hadn’t been seen before on the me River. One of the bloodiest battles of ordered troops from the colonies into Eurasian land mass. Playing a leading World War I, it was the epitome of the battle. Counted among the British casu- role in these revolutions would be the mass slaughter known as trench warfare, alties of World War I were soldiers from very soldiers and sailors who the ruling in which the major European powers Ireland, India, Nigeria and even sparsely classes had armed, taught to fight and sacrificed the lives of millions of young Northwestern France. A million casualties, and populated Newfoundland — Newfound- turned into warriors. men as they vied for control of the colo- the line moved seven miles. land was not then part of Canada; casu- By November 1918, when the war nial world. The war itself, which lasted alties among the French troops included ended, there had been major rebellions four years, was rightly called “the great would soften the German lines. It turned Vietnamese, Senegalese and Algerians; and mutinies in nearly all the imperi- slaughter.” out that their artillery barrage, begun the among those under German command alist armed forces. The ruling classes The horror of the war was so unbear- last week of June, had killed few German were Tanganyikans, Rwandans and Poles. of France and Britain and their general able that it led to a social revolution in troops, disarmed few machine guns and staff were able to crush their uprisings. Russia that terrified the ruling capital- destroyed few of the barbed-wire obsta- An imperialist war for colonies But rebellions led to the overthrow of ists. Today, with supranational entities cles. The parties ruling the European im- the ruling monarchies in Germany and like the European Union, the ruling Oblivious to this failure, on July 1, 1916, perialist democracies of France and Brit- Austria-Hungary, the defeated powers, classes may be attempting to prevent the British generals ordered the planned ain, as well as those in the monarchies in and sparked a world-changing social rev- new wars among the imperialists within offensive against the German army to Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia, olution in Russia. Europe. But this hasn’t prevented them proceed. Following their orders, British had entered the war in 1914 without hes- Now the European and U.S. ruling from ganging up together and using troops, laden with equipment, walked itation, even with enthusiasm. The rul- classes take steps to export war to the NATO, a Euro-military under U.S. lead- clumsily and slowly toward the German ers of each country believed their army former colonial world, just as they ex- ership, in attempts to reconquer their lost lines. They were mowed down on the way would win a quick victory. Their mouths port unemployment and hunger. If they empires from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan, by German machine gun fire. By the end watered at the thought of conquered ter- are solemn about the Somme, it is not or even from risking war with now-capi- of the first day, 58,000 British had been ritory and new colonies — as was shown because they abhor the suffering of the talist Russia. killed or wounded. The front had moved later when the successful workers’ revo- workers and farmers of Europe. It’s be- The British generals who in 1916 faced two kilometers, a little over a mile. lution in Russia revealed and published cause they fear that that suffering will German forces at the Somme fit the cari- The battle ground on for five months. treaties that the rulers had kept secret. lead to revolution that upends their rule. cature of the ruling-class twit, whose stu- By the time snow brought it to a halt in It was not heroic battles that the troops Adapted from a chapter in Catalinot- pidity is matched only by his arrogance. November 1916, the fighting had killed or experienced, but the overbearing damp, to’s forthcoming book, “Turn the Guns They thought they had a foolproof plan: wounded an estimated 420,000 British, cold, hunger and boredom of trench war- Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and a week of unbridled British artillery fire 200,000 French and 500,000 German fare, broken only by the occasional thud Revolutions.” Al-Quds rallies protest apartheid Israel By Michael Mchahwar also called for the return of Palestine to the Palestinian people and protested International Al-Quds Day is celebrat- a recent executive order by New York ed all over the world on the last Friday of Gov. Andrew Cuomo targeting the BDS the holy month of Ramadan. This year it movement. fell on July 1. Al-Quds day was created by The rally was sponsored by Samidoun, Iran in 1979 to inspire international op- the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Net- position to Zionism. (Quds is the Arabic work; Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to name for Jerusalem.) Return Committee; the International In Dearborn, Mich., the Al-Quds Action Center-NYC; and dozens of other Committee organized its annual rally groups. Later, an Al-Quds Iftar Dinner with the slogan, “Americans First, Not and Cultural Program, organized by Stu- Apartheid Israel.” The majority of pro- WW PHOTO: MICHAEL MCHAHWAR dents for Justice in Palestine, was held at testers were of Lebanese descent, together Al-Quds Dearborn WW PHOTO: G. DUNKEL the International Action Center. with Palestinians and other nationalities. Al-Quds New York City At the Boston Al-Quds rally in Copley The rally’s general message was oppo- crisis, where the city has received less also responsible for the water crisis in Square, Sister Nuzaiba Haider called for sition to the $3.7 billion given to Israel by than $100 million in aid to fix its crum- Gaza. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanc- opposition to imperialism and Zionism the U.S. Speakers included community bling infrastructure. tions movement is forcing Veolia’s busi- fomenting instability in the Middle East sheikhs as well as Alison Weir, from If Actions called for at the rally were to nesses out of occupied Palestine. and for solidarity with the “oppressed Americans Knew, an organization that “have conversations” and to be more The action we need to take is to contin- of the world.” Placards proclaimed “U.S. educates people about U.S. policy in the mindful and critical of whom one votes ue getting out in the streets and demand- dollars fund Israeli war crimes.” The ral- Middle East. Speakers brought up com- for. But voting isn’t the route to ending ing that human rights and needs have to ly was coordinated with worldwide ac- munities near Dearborn where pressing Israeli apartheid. be placed above profit. tions sponsored by the Muslim Congress. issues are more in need of the billions No matter who is in office, capitalist At the Al-Quds rally in New York Also participating was the Internation- sent to Israel. These include the collaps- forces will still be in control. Veolia, the City, hundreds of people gathered in al Action Center-Boston with a banner ing Detroit Public School system, yet to major company partially responsible for the rain in Times Square and demand- demanding “Self-determination for all be bailed out, as well as the Flint water the water crises in Detroit and Flint, is ed an end to all U.S. aid to Israel. They Arab nations, Victory to Palestine!”

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Por Berta Joubert-Ceci so informe - muchas veces exigido por han llevado a la pobreza y desesperación y otros profesionales. Pero es el reclu- acreedores y el congreso estadounidense del pueblo. tamiento a la policía lo que es aún más Cuando el presidente Barack Obama – sobre el estado financiero del gobierno Enumerando sólo algunas de las situ- preocupante. Con la excusa de que hay firmó el jueves 30 de junio, la Ley de para el año 2014. Según KPMG, el gobi- aciones que están impactando al pueblo más latinas/os en las ciudades de EUA, Fiscalización, Manejo y Estabilización erno ya tenía para ese entonces un déficit y que disminuyen la calidad de vida son: reclutan para enfrentar a boricuas contra Económica de PR - Promesa por sus acumulado de $50 mil millones y cues- aumento de la violencia y la criminal- el pueblo negro y latino. Esto es lo que siglas en inglés - desató una nueva fase tionaba la capacidad del gobierno para idad, incluyendo robos y “carjacking” hizo nada menos que la policía de Balti- de lucha en la isla/archipiélago. seguir operando. (elnuevodia.com, 1 de que se ha vuelto una ocurrencia diaria. more. La ciudad que vive la impunidad La Ley aprobada por el senado es- julio) Ejecuciones hipotecarias de viviendas de los asesinos de Freddie Gray. ¡Mil sei- tadounidense un día antes, y calificada Quien lee las declaraciones de García y autos. Deterioro de la salud por el alto scientas personas en PR se registraron en la mayoría de los medios corpora- Padilla sobre el impago y la necesidad costo de los servicios médicos y la falta de para tomar el examen! tivos como una “ayuda” a PR, tiene al de anteponer las necesidades del pueb- médicos y otros profesionales de la salud contrario, la intención de establecer una lo, pensaría que gobierna en beneficio que a diario emigran hacia EUA. Ham- ¡Comienza la lucha! agencia de cobro a través de una Junta del pueblo. Nada más lejano a la verdad. bre y pobreza que se ven agudizadas por Aunque aún no hay una unidad de ac- de Control Fiscal para el beneficio de los Tanto García Padilla como la y los gober- los despidos, la falta de servicios básicos ción, los diferentes sectores en PR se es- bonistas y a expensas del pueblo boricua. nantes anteriores, tanto populares del y el encarecimiento de la vida resultado tán movilizando. El apuro para su aprobación se debía a PPD como estadistas del PNP, en la may- de los múltiples impuestos con los que el Las/os maestros con sus acciones con- que el 1ro de julio vencía el pago de casi oría se han aprovechado de su posición, gobierno ha querido remediar la falta de sistentes y militantes lograron detener dos mil millones de dólares en intereses enriqueciéndose y llenando de corrup- liquidez. una medida, el “Plan Bhatia”, en la legis- y principal, de los más de 70 mil millones ción sus administraciones mientras A esto se añade una epidemia del virus latura de PR que entre otras provisiones, en deuda pública que la isla ha acumu- gobernaban sometiéndose a los intereses del Zika y la reducción de trabajadoras/es quería implantar la privatización de lado a través de los años. En la isla, ya del imperio estadounidense. entrenados y profesionales, por el reclu- muchas escuelas, el despido de miles de el gobernador Alejandro García Padilla Como resultado, si algo está ocurrien- tamiento de agencias de EUA, entre otras maestras/os, y la destrucción de la edu- había sometido a la Legislatura puertor- do en PR, es la enorme insatisfacción de situaciones. Sobre este último apartado cación pública. riqueña una ley para declarar una mora- la mayoría del pueblo por el gobierno y el es importante informar de un peligroso El Frente Unido en Contra de la Fu- toria al pago de la deuda, anunciando que indefinido estatus colonial. desarrollo ocurrido hace pocos días. migación Aérea, compuesto por varias el gobierno no tenía la suficiente liquidez El hecho de que en PR hay una fuer- organizaciones ambientalistas, de salud, para hacer los pagos de la deuda y a la vez Convergencia de situaciones adversas za laboral empobrecida pero con bue- agricultura, justicia social y otras, han proveer los servicios básicos y esenciales Para entender mejor esta nueva fase de na preparación, son bilingües y además convocado diversas acciones, incluyendo para el pueblo. la lucha en PR, sería conveniente ver el tienen la ciudadanía EUA, atrae agencias manifestaciones en contra de la fumi- De hecho, el viernes 1ro de julio se pro- contexto en que acontece. estadounidenses que ofrecen mejores gación aérea del tóxico Naled propuesto dujo el tan discutido impago, sumándose La situación de crisis fiscal ha tenido sueldos que en la isla, donde no solo ga- por la CDC para “erradicar” el mosquito al impago de más de 400 millones el pas- graves consecuencias en muchos ren- nan menos, sino que sus trabajos están que lleva el virus del Zika. En PR hay una ado mes de mayo. glones del país. Las medidas que el go- en riesgo de perderse, en caso de quienes gran oposición a su uso por no solo ser El mismo día, pero horas antes, como bierno ha implantado - con asesorías de afortunadamente tengan empleos. perjudicial a las personas, sino también preludio al anuncio del impago, la firma firmas estadounidenses, incluyendo las Ya han ido a PR desde EUA para reclu- por el daño a las abejas, lo que a su vez auditora KPMG publicó su volumino- contenidas en el Plan Krueger de 2015 - tar enfermeras/os, maestras/os, médicos Continúa a página 10 Cumbre OTAN en Varsovia amenaza guerra a Rusia

Por John Catalinotto tadounidense. En 1949, Washington en 1991, que utilizaría la OTAN para la primera vez que tanques alemanes se fundó la OTAN para evitar las revolu- mantener la misma hegemonía en Euro- han movido hacia el este a través de Polo- La ubicación de la próxima cumbre de ciones obreras en Europa Occidental - pa como lo haría en todo el mundo. nia desde el ataque de la Alemania nazi a la OTAN es en sí misma una provocación devastada por la guerra - y para enfren- Incluso los aliados imperialistas de la Unión Soviética en julio de 1941. contra Rusia. Los líderes de la OTAN se tarse a la Unión Soviética y sus aliados en Washington como Bretaña, Francia y No sólo las grandes potencias de la reunirán el 8 y 9 de julio en Varsovia-Po- Europa del Este. Es sólo más tarde que la Alemania estarían impedidos de ante- OTAN participaron en Anaconda 16. Lo lonia, a menos de 200 millas de la pro- URSS establece el pacto de Varsovia con poner sus propios intereses frente a los mismo hicieron Suecia - no es oficial- vincia rusa de Kaliningrado. sus aliados. del imperialismo EUA. Los EUA volvió la mente parte de la OTAN - y Finlandia. La reunión ocurre tras maniobras En 1990, durante negociaciones entre OTAN en una especie de fuerza policial Antes de 1989, Finlandia fue siempre un militares de la OTAN bajo el mando de los líderes de EUA y la URSS, Washing- para la intervención militar imperialista estado neutro entre la URSS y Occidente. EUA que amenazan a Rusia. El 5 de ju- ton se comprometió a no mover la OTAN - y no sólo en Europa. Bajo el mando de Este nuevo paso añade otro país fronter- nio, un ejercicio de mar llamado Baltops hacia el este. Un artículo publicado en EUA, la OTAN se ha convertido en una izo contra Rusia. 16 comenzó en el Mar Báltico con 6.100 la revista alemana Der Spiegel el 26 de fuerza de intervención en todo el mundo Incluso muchos funcionarios de Euro- soldados, 45 barcos y 60 aviones de com- noviembre de 2009, dejó en claro que al servicio de los monopolios transnacio- pa Occidental reconocen los peligros de bate de 17 países, mientras bombarderos durante estas negociaciones “no había nales que explotan el trabajo y los recur- un ejercicio tan provocador de guerra. El volaban hacia las fronteras de Rusia. Un duda de que Occidente hizo todo lo sos del mundo. ministro de Asuntos Exteriores alemán, ejercicio militar del 7-16 de junio llamado posible para dar a los soviéticos la im- La primera agresión real EUA-OTAN Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticó los ejer- Anaconda 16 trasladó 31.000 soldados y presión de que la membresía a la OTAN destruyó Yugoslavia. Intervenciones cicios, que califica de “ruido de sables”, y miles de vehículos, incluyendo tanques, estaba fuera de cuestión para países militares de la OTAN lideradas por EUA habló de una mayor cooperación con Ru- de 19 miembros de la OTAN y otros seis como Polonia, Hungría o Checoslova- siguieron: Afganistán en Asia Central, sia. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18 de junio) estados, a través de territorio polaco. quia”. (tinyurl.com/nvm476v) Irak en el oeste de Asia después de la in- El Consejo Mundial de la Paz y otros Se espera que la cumbre de Varsovia Ahora estos antiguos miembros del vasión EUA-Bretaña de 2003, y Libia en grupos han convocado manifesta- acuerde la colocación de miles de tropas Pacto de Varsovia y otros que habían el norte de África. ciones en todo el mundo el 9 de julio en y equipo pesado en Polonia y los estados formado parte de la Unión Soviética no La OTAN no sólo defiende los intere- oposición a los planes de guerra de la bálticos - Estonia, Letonia y Lituania - en sólo son estados capitalistas, sino que ses imperialistas. Durante los últimos 25 cumbre OTAN. Manifestaciones y una o cerca de las fronteras rusas. han sido envueltos en una alianza militar años ha intentado reconquistar las zonas cumbre contra la guerra se planifican en Esto acontece cuando 51 funcio- contra Rusia. del mundo que habían ganado algo de in- la misma Varsovia. narios del Departamento de Estado dependencia del imperialismo durante la En EUA, la Coalición Nacional Contra pidieron al gobierno EUA emprender Nuevo papel de la OTAN: policía mundial existencia de la Unión Soviética. Ahora la Guerra, que envía un representante a acción militar contra Siria - lo que sig- La desintegración inminente de la Rusia, el único país con suficientes ar- la protesta de Varsovia, así como el Con- nifica atacar su aliado, Rusia. Toma- URSS en 1991 y la disolución del Pacto de mas nucleares para hacer frente a EUA, sejo de Paz EUA, Veteranos por la Paz, el dos estos puntos en conjunto, apuntan Varsovia terminó el propósito declarado es el blanco de provocaciones de guerra Centro de Acción Internacional y otras al aumento de la agresión militar EUA de la OTAN. EUA-OTAN. organizaciones han convocado una con- y peligro de guerra. Pero desde 1991, lejos de disolver la centración en la ciudad de Nueva York el OTAN, Washington amplió el pacto mil- Cumbre despierta oposición 9 de julio a las 2 pm en el Centro de Re- Estrategia de EUA/OTAN: 1949-1989 itar, siempre bajo su mando. Los EUA Los ejercicios de Anaconda 16 clutamiento del ejército en Times Square. La OTAN siempre ha sido una her- anunció en un documento de estrategia trasladaron efectivos de la OTAN cerca (Para obtener más información, consulte ramienta de la política imperialista es- militar publicado por el New York Times de la provincia rusa de Kaliningrado. Fue unacpeace.org.)