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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Oct. 9, 2008 VOl. 50, NO. 40 50¢ Handout to the rich ignites people’s anger Fight for a workers’ program to save jobs, homes!

By Fred Goldstein from below has for the moment overcome are only against government intervention Paulson, Bernanke and company. that might put restraints on the unbridled WHERE’S Sept. 30—The political and financial profit-seeking activity of big business. establishment of U.S. capitalism has been Capitalism’s faithful parties It is hard to tell whether these right- OUR BAILOUT? stunned by the failure of its initial attempt gripped by fear wingers voted “no” out of concerns of to get Congress to pass a $700-billion The growing economic crisis produced ideology or pragmatic protection of their handout to the banks. a political crisis in the two faithful par- seats in the House or both. Whatever their Protests Against a background of bank failures ties of capitalism. On the one hand, the motives, their political rhetoric against across in the U.S. and Europe and appeals from Democratic Party leadership was unable “big government,” which used to be the the White House and the Treasury sec- to force some 40 percent of its members applauded on Wall Street, has suddenly country retary, the House of Representatives on to sign on to this gigantic giveaway to been made obsolete by the present crisis. Sept. 29 defeated the bailout bill, 228 to billionaires this time around, especially The once high-and-mighty tycoons of 205. Following the vote, all three U.S. in the face of mounting foreclosures and Wall Street used to get their assistance qui- stock markets had historic drops, glob- layoffs. It was particularly noticeable that etly, behind the scenes, from the Federal al stock markets initially plunged, and a majority of the Congressional Black Reserve. In the present crisis they sud- credit markets tightened up as fear struck Caucus and Congressional Hispanic denly find themselves in desperate need 6-7 Wall Street. Caucus refused to sign on. of openly and directly getting their hands Sept. 28 protest on Wall St. The vote was a defeat for a triple alliance: On the other hand, the Republican on the entire U.S. Treasury. The bankers the bankers, represented by Secretary of right wing tried to pose as advocates for behind the present crisis now need to rid the Treasury Henry Paulson and Federal the people, spouting hypocritical dema- themselves of trillions of dollars in toxic Pentagon Budget Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke; the Bush gogy against “big government” and greedy debts that they acquired by swindling the Another huge handout administration; and the Democratic Party bankers. But in actuality, their proposals workers and then swindling the rest of the Editorial 10 leadership. They all had labored mightily were to further deregulate the banking world into buying these bad mortgages. to sell the bailout. industry to allow hedge fund gamblers The “no big government” right-wingers, It is highly likely that another round and private equity billionaires to enter the once praised by Wall Street, are com- of political pressure from above will lead bailout racket. pletely out of sync with the needs of their STOP STATE REPRESSION to the banks getting their way in the long Of course, the right-wing opposition masters in the present crisis. run. Already the new line coming from to “big government” does not extend Whatever the ultimate fate of the bail- • Police Holocaust 2 the corporate media is to threaten work- to the growth of the Pentagon and its out bill, two important things stand out. ers that there will be no paychecks unless trillion-dollar war in Iraq, the growth of First, the working class, the oppressed, • Jersey Four 3 some version of the bill is passed. But the repressive apparatus of Homeland everyone who is suffering foreclosure, job 5 with e-mails and phone calls to politicians Security to persecute immigrants and layoffs, lack of health care and other hard- • RNC Eight running against the bill by 100 and 200 undocumented workers, the growth of the ships, must formulate their own program • Harlem 5 5 to 1 before the vote, the political pressure FBI, the CIA and so on. These ideologues Continued on page 4

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Activists march through the streets of New York on Sept. 27 to protest the proposed $700 billion bailout of the banks by congress and also endless war. Street meetings were organized at times Square and Union Square by the Stop War on Iran campaign as part of a nationally coordinated day of actions.

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Workers World is reprinting archival articles during our 50th anniversary. The following article appeared H In the U.S. on the front page of the May 23, 1985, issue. Death-row Handout to the rich ignites people’s anger ...... 1 political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, a MOVE sup- porter, praised WW’s coverage of this heinous act. WW in 1985: Philadelphia police holocaust...... 2 To this day, not one Philadelphia official has been National campaign to raise bail for the Jersey 4. . . . . 3 legally accused of mass murder or indicted for the Tookie Williams: A martyr for the struggle ...... 3 criminal bombing of this Black community. On the picket line...... 4 By Monica Moorehead Cops attack Black activists at Harlem parade...... 5 'Terrorism' charges levied against RNC protesters . . . . 5 May 15–The smoke has now cleared within the devastated Black community of West Philadelphia, WW Boston eviction blockaders fight back ...... 6 terrorized by the police for the past two days. But in1985 Michigan emergency protests ...... 6 the shock and anger remain. Blaming Wall Street’s victims...... 6 Ten charred bodies, including at least two children, N .Y .C . Central Labor Council takes on Wall St ...... 7 have been discovered so far in the carnage and destruc- Bailout plans spark nationwide protests ...... 7 tion reminiscent of a war zone. people. Four out of 10 adults are functionally illiterate. ‘Ziggy’ Klein presente!...... 10 Clarence Mosley, the city’s Black assistant managing Philadelphia is becoming more and more a city of director, remarked while investigating the area in the homeless people, who number approximately 15,000 and Sept . 17 ‘special day of my life’...... 10 aftermath of the siege, “I’ve been to Korea and Viet Nam, are increasing every day. Hunger, poverty and gentrifica- Letter from a former Chrysler worker...... 10 and I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s devastating. tion are becoming more acute for the poor and working Students denounce war criminals...... 11 There’s nothing left.” class communities. More than 60 homes were leveled, leaving more than There is another side to Philadelphia. Since the days H Around the world 250 people homeless, with no place to go. The people of of ex-Mayor Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia has been and Ontario students support striking faculty ...... 4 Philadelphia, around the country, indeed around the world remains a police city. Wilson Goode may be the mayor Communist leader: ‘We will construct a New Nepal’. . . . 8 are asking: Why and how did such an atrocity happen? now, but Rizzo’s racist, repressive police force has not What possible reason could there have been for the changed in character. In fact, it was Police Commissioner Somalis resist U .S -backed. occupation ...... 9 bombing of a residential neighborhood? What justifica- Gregore J. Sambor, who is white, and not Mayor Goode, 10,000 in Germany protest Afghanistan war...... 11 tion is there for this brazen exposition of force and vio- who is Black, who made the decision to drop the explo- Iran’s 'crimes'? ...... 11 lence by the police? sive bomb in the Black community, although Goode has Much ado about the U .S . blockade of Cuba...... 11 defended the decision. No concern for community It was a former army general, Leo Brooks, now the H Editorials The racist bourgeois media play up that there were city’s managing director, who took responsibility for The Pentagon bailout...... 10 complaints in the neighborhood about the unsanitary dropping the bomb, which did an estimated $5 million lifestyles of the members of MOVE, the group occupying damage to property. H the house. If that was the problem, why weren’t health The police are the controlling element in any city Noticias En Español officials called in to deal with it instead of an army of and are given the green light by the ruling class. In La burbuja expansionista de la OTAN...... 12 police? Why couldn’t the house be quarantined instead Philadelphia, this is wealthy families like the Biddles, the of firebombed off the map? Pews, the Dicksons, Drexels and Dorrances, who live in When Union Carbide, a U.S.-owned multi-million- the exclusive suburbs on the Main Line outside the met- dollar chemical corporation, caused the deaths of 2,000 ropolitan area. innocent people in Bhopal, India, last year due to a toxic This is where the real power lies in Philadelphia. The Workers World gas leak, it was quarantined and the area sealed off. Why police are answerable to the wealthy ruling class, the 55 West 17 Street wasn’t the same consideration given to the people of West bankers, the real estate interests, not to the mayor or New York, N.Y. 10011 Philadelphia if MOVE members posed a health hazard to any other elected city official, and they will act indepen- Phone: (212) 627-2994 the community? dently of the city government, especially when it comes to Fax: (212) 675-7869 Is the neighborhood better off now that it has been repression against the Black community and suppressing E-mail: [email protected] burnt to the ground? rebellions against intolerable living conditions, like those Web: www.workers.org The All Peoples Congress was one of the first organiza- of the 1960s. Vol. 50, No. 40 • Oct. 9, 2008 tions to condemn the police assault. National coordinator This attack may seem to have been aimed against a Closing date: Sept. 30, 2008 Larry Holmes asked in a statement to the press: small group of people, but it should be remembered that “When is the last time the army or police dropped a just a few months ago, thousands of youth in Philadelphia, Editor: Deirdre Griswold bomb on any one of the hundreds of multi-million-dollar who suffer 60 percent unemployment, fought police in Technical Editor: Lal Roohk chemical, waste disposal and weapons manufacturing the streets. With the cutbacks in social services, and rac- Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, corporations that pollute rivers, lakes and the air above, ism and unemployment on the rise, the police have been Leslie Feinberg, Monica Moorehead, Gary Wilson creating a deadly health hazard for millions and profits developing all kinds of new tactics to keep down social for the bosses? The truth is that the police had no concern unrest, and they’ve been itching to try them out. West Coast Editor: John Parker for the health of the residents of that community or any The bombing of West Philadelphia exposes the vicious Contributing Editors: Abayomi Azikiwe, other Black or poor community. nature of the repressive capitalist state and the inability Greg Butterfield, G. Dunkel, Fred Goldstein, “No excuse can conceal the racism behind the police of the representatives of this profit system to solve the Teresa Gutierrez, Larry Hales, David Hoskins, violence in West Philadelphia. The police had a racist crisis of unemployment, homelessness, hunger and other Berta Joubert-Ceci, Cheryl LaBash, Milt Neidenberg, vendetta against MOVE ever since their last assault on social diseases except with extreme violence and terror. Bryan G. Pfeifer, Minnie Bruce Pratt the group’s home in 1978.” The only answer is for the millions of poor, oppressed Technical Staff: Sue Davis, Shelley Ettinger, and working people to organize themselves into a power- Bob McCubbin, Maggie Vascassenno Philadelphia is a police city ful, militant fightback movement. The survivors of West Mundo Obrero: Carl Glenn, Teresa Gutierrez, Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in the U.S. with Philadelphia not only deserve new homes and monetary Berta Joubert-Ceci, Donna Lazarus, Michael Martínez, close to 2 million people, including a very large Black and compensation for the horror and suffering brought upon Carlos Vargas Latin population. The unemployment rate is 13.5 percent them, but they and millions of others need jobs, justice generally, and twice that for Black and other oppressed and basic human rights–not police terror! n Copyright © 2008 Workers World. Verbatim copying and distribution of articles is permitted in any medium JOIN US. 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Following recent victories National campaign to raise bail for the Jersey 4 By Dustin Langley and Imani Henry from 3.5 to 11 years. Patreese Johnson, Hill was not allowed to attend her moth- sible, to obtain. Prison visits, packages New York who was deemed the “ringleader” by the er’s funeral. of food and toiletries, and collect phone judge, was also charged with first- and The fundraiser opened with rousing calls have now become a way of life for A fundraiser for the New Jersey 4, host- second-degree assault. music from the Voices of Liberation choir, family and friends.” ed by the Brecht Forum and co-sponsored Through the efforts and activism of which is from the Liberation in Truth The West Village has traditionally been by the Audre Lorde Project, FIERCE and their legal team, families and a national Unity Fellowship Church in Newark. one the historic homes and safe havens All7.org, was held here on Sept. 16. movement, the conviction of 21-year- The multinational list of speakers and for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender The Jersey 4 are young African-Ameri- old Terrain Dandridge was vacated on performers included renowned poet and people, especially young LGBT people. can lesbians from Newark, N.J., who June 19, with the indictment against her activist Amina Baraka; performers Nedra Yet millions of dollars are at stake in the were convicted of “gang assault” charges completely reversed. The conviction of Johnson and Gabriella Callender from ongoing gentrification of the West Village, in June 2007 after defending themselves 26-year-old Renata Hill, who was origi- the Mahina Movement; Nigerian poet and this lies at the root of the anti-youth, against a man who attacked them and nally sentenced to eight years, was also yvonne fly onakeme etaghene; and Zaum, racist and anti-LGBT oppression that sur- three of their friends in August 2006. vacated. Although currently free on bail, an Armenian activist and artist who coor- rounds the Jersey 4 case. The seven friends were walking in the Hill still faces the possibility of a new tri- dinated the event. New York University, the biggest land- West Village of New York City when they al, as the indictment against her was not Two of the Jersey 4, Hill and Dandridge, lord and employer in the West Village, has were sexually propositioned by a vendor, reversed. were present. Dandridge and her moth- been one of the forces that has imposed Wayne Buckle. When they said they were The other two, Venice Brown and John- er, Kimma Walker, read an emotional curfews and promoted increased police not interested because they were lesbians, son, are still in prison awaiting appeals account of the night the women were brutality in the area. In 2001 the New Buckle hurled anti-gay epithets, threat- scheduled for November. Brown received attacked and arrested. York Times reported, “Not counting its ened them with sexual assault, then pro- a five-year sentence, and Johnson was The money raised at the event will be medical and dental schools, N.Y.U. today ceeded to physically attack the women. sentenced to 11 years. Recently a national used to support the young women in a owns about 60 buildings with 9.3 million Two men rushed to help the women, and campaign has begun to raise $5,000 in variety of ways. Walker told Workers square feet, about 50 percent more than over the course of the altercation Buckle bail money for Brown as well as money World: “With the exception of my daugh- the 6.3 million square feet it owned in was stabbed in the abdomen. to cover legal fees for all four. ter, these beautiful young lesbians must 1970.” (Apr. 19, 2001) Buckle spent only days in the hospital, The Sept. 16 fundraiser was dedicated now endure living life with a felony To get updates, send donations or find and although no physical evidence con- to the memory of Mollie Brown, mother record. Life’s basic necessities, such as job other ways to support the New Jersey 4, nected the seven to his stab wounds, four of Renata Hill, who passed away while placement, housing and student loans, visit www.all7.org/ or www.fiercenyc.org. of them were given sentences ranging her daughter was in prison. Tragically, are going to be very hard, if not impos- n Tookie Williams a martyr for the struggle By Larry Hales California’s death workers world comes from the conditions imposed upon row. These mem- Book Review oppressed Black youth in South Central “My rage was nourished by the hate oirs of my evolution and of the inferiority complex pressed I saw and felt from mainstream society will, I hope, con- upon them because of the whitewashed and white people, a hate based on my nect the reader to view of history taught to U.S. society. black skin and my historical place at the a deeper awareness The rage, however, manifested in a nadir of America’s social caste. of a social epidemic death, because, though self-hatred: “Unlike those ashamed to I was filled with hate for injustice. Yet that is the unend- lethal injection is tout- admit their motivation or too blind to my reaction to the hate was violence ing nightmare of ed as being quick and recognize it, I forged through much of directed only toward blacks.” racial minorities painless, because of a my life locked into a hostile intimacy with in America and botched procedure dur- America’s wrongness. Conditioned and Stanley Tookie Williams’ “Blue Rage, abroad as well. ing his execution Tookie brainwashed to hate myself, and my own Black Redemption” is a story of the seeth- “Throughout my life I was hoodwinked languished, struggling for life, for 30 race, other black people became my prey ing rage within him and the heroic task he by South Central’s terminal conditions. minutes. In the epilogue, Barbara Becnel, and the Crips my sword. Though I cannot undertakes to understand that rage and … From the beginning I was spoon-fed Tookie’s friend, advocate and co-author, condone it, much of the violence I inflict- place it in a historical context. negative stereotypes that covertly posi- who witnessed the horrifying ordeal, ed on my gang rivals and other blacks was He begins this process while on death tioned black people as genetic criminals— describes: “The midsection of Stan’s body an unconscious display of my frustrations row, where his life has been given an inferior, illiterate, shiftless, promiscuous. did not stay still. It began to contort, with poverty, racism, police brutality, and end date. And though he conveys that he … Having bought into the myth, I was caving in to the point of distortion—his other systemic injustices routinely visited knows the system has every intention to shackled to the lowest socioeconomic stomach appeared to have been sucked upon residents of urban black colonies fulfill the barbaric sentence, while deep- rung where underprivileged citizens com- dry of all internal organs, as it sunk so such as South Central Los Angeles.” ening his political understanding and self- pete ruthlessly for morsels of the America low it nearly touched his spine. And his Seeking self-worth and the protection actualization he gives the impression of pie—a pie theoretically served proportion- convulsing continued for a while. At the of other street organizations of Black always looking forward, beyond the con- ately to all, based on their ambition, intel- sight of Stan’s monumental struggle to youth, Tookie, Raymond Washington ditions of prison, the hole and the death ligence, and perseverance.” die, I thought that I heard an audible and and their friends built the Crips and con- sentence hanging over him. Tookie begins the book at his birth collective gasp fill the room.” solidated many of the other gangs into the By writing his memoirs, he intends for on December 29, 1953, at New Orleans But the recollection of the difficult con- fold. He states that they were not aware of his life to be an example, a warning sign Charity Hospital, recounted for him by ditions of his birth also portend his life, the Black Panther Party or other militant for other oppressed youth to not diverge his mother, with the words, “I entered because it points to the toll racism takes and revolutionary organizations, but that down the same path that he took. the world kicking and screaming in a cae- on the Black soul—the real effects it has if they had been, that perhaps their ener- In the introduction, Tookie says: “The sarean ritual of blood and scalpels.” He on everyday life, the damage it does to the gies would have been directed towards the title of this book represents two extreme relates how his mother endured the ordeal Black psyche and the ramifications of a struggle and that he and his friends would phases of my life. ‘Blue Rage’ is a chron- without anesthetics, which were denied to colonized mind. have been ready and willing foot soldiers. icle of my passage down a spiraling path her because she was Black, and that to try In “Black Skin, White Masks,” Frantz Real material conditions bring about of Crip rage in South Central Los Angeles. and dull the pain in her mind she sang the Fanon, the Martinique-born Black revolu- phenomena. Tookie is a martyr for the ‘Black Redemption’ depicts the stages Christmas carol, “Silent Night,” over and tionary theorist, wrote: “A drama is played struggle for a better world. Not only was of my redemptive awakening during my over again. out every day in the colonized countries. he victimized by the conditions of exploi- more than 23 years of imprisonment on His birth foreshadowed his life and How can we explain, for example, that a tation, but, facing certain death, he trans- black guy who has passed his baccalaure- formed himself and sought redemption ate and arrives at the Sorbonne to study from the oppressed around the world by MarxisM, reparations & the Black Freedom struggle for his degree in philosophy is already on using his life as a guide, exposing both the An anthology of writings from Workers World newspaper. Edited by Monica Moorehead. Includes: his guard before there is the sign of any ugly and his many mistakes, the camara- Racism, national oppression and self-determination by Larry Holmes conflict?” Of course, the situation depict- derie of himself and his fellow inmates— Black labor from chattel slavery to wage slavery by Sam Marcy ed is different, but the meaning is that it is the inescapable beauty of life. causes of turmoil in Jamaica by Pat Chin with great reservation and tenseness that His memoirs, which also uncover the Black youth: repression & resistance by LeiLani Dowell an oppressed nationality steps out into frame-up that sent him to be executed— Black & Brown unity: A pillar of struggle for human rights & global justice! by Saladin Muhammad a state-sanctioned murder—belong in Are conditions ripe again today? 40th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion by John Parker the world, because of the history of wealth Racism and poverty in the Delta by Larry Hales built off the backs of those of darker skin the pantheon of other autobiographies of Domestic Workers United demand passage of a bill of rights by Imani Henry and the history of genocide, theft of land Black heroes like “The Autobiography of Black Reconstruction: the unfinished revolution by Minnie Bruce Pratt and slavery. Malcolm X.” order online at www.Leftbooks.com The rage of the first half of the book Stanley Tookie Williams, ¡Presente! n Page 4 Oct. 9, 2008 www.workers.org Ontario. On the Picket line Students support striking faculty by Sue Davis By Bryan G. Pfeifer Boeing machinists get strike pay For the first time in 26 years, the About 27,000 members of the Windsor University Faculty Association Machin­ists union who work at Boeing went on strike Sept. 17 at the University became eligible to collect $150 weekly of Windsor, a university of 16,000 under- strike pay on Sept. 27. They hit the bricks graduate and graduate students in south- on Sept. 6 over job security, pay and ern Ontario. benefits. What Boeing wants will under- “This is an all-out effort by our associa- mine and ultimately destroy the union: tion to send a message loud and clear to outsourcing work and using nonunion this administration that we want a collec- labor in certain jobs in the plants. Though tive agreement,” Brian Brown, president of Boeing is losing about $100 million a day, WUFA, told a crowd of over 1,000 support- it is standing by its demands and refuses ers Sept. 19 at the University of Windsor. to negotiate. The union’s counterdemand: “But we want it to be fair and equitable and rehire 5,000 to 6,000 workers who were just. And we don’t want to be at the bottom laid off after Sept. 11, 2001. To build of the scale of Ontario universities.” Photo: WUFA morale, the union is holding fundraising The contract expired June 30 and the Windsor University Faculty Association are fighting for union pay scales and working barbecues where members can learn how conditions that cover the part-time instructors who now make up to 45 percent of the 1,000 faculty, part-time faculty and librar- to file for unemployment. Fortunately, teaching staff. ians worked in good faith without a con- the Machinists have a $140 million strike tract despite the administration’s anti- The administration was invited but never ary figures are wholly untrue and it is the fund, which could last up to six months. union actions. On Sept. 4 a strike vote showed. administration’s mismanagement and (New York Times, Sept. 26) was taken, with 96 percent in support of The WUFA Executive Committee voted bloated salaries that should be fixed and striking. unanimously on Sept. 22 that all mem- cut, not the workers’. Members vote: The main issues are the administra- bers who could afford it should give $10 At a mass rally Sept. 26, the Canadian tion’s intention to gut the Windsor Salary from their weekly strike pay to a student Association of University Teachers SAG should fight on Standard, a province-wide system of pay hardship fund to be administered by the extended a $1 million dollar credit line Results of a mail-in poll of the Screen equity and seniority that is a fundamen- Students’ Alliance and the GSS. to WUFA. Supporters came from across Actors Guild membership show that tal quality-of-education issue; treatment On Sept. 25 WUFA set up picket lines Canada, including union members who slightly over 86 percent of the 10,298 who of union members in terms of respect and which were honored by union construc- flew in from Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. responded are in favor of continuing to working conditions, especially for part- tion workers at the brand new $15 mil- Representatives from the Union of Part- fight for two core principles. One is “that time instructors who are now 45 percent lion university medical center. WUFA is Time Faculty and the AAUP-AFT at no non-union work shall be authorized … of the teaching staff; administration take- also doing flying pickets and producing a Wayne State University in Detroit attend- under any SAG agreement; and that all back proposals such as reducing the qual- strike bulletin. ed as well. Canadian Auto Workers presi- work done under a SAG contract, regard- ity of teaching; curriculum and retirement On Sept. 28 a public information ses- dent Ken Lewenza has pledged his union’s less of budget level, shall receive fair options; and more. sion was sponsored by WUFA after the support. compensation when reused.” Another is Campus community support continues university administration decided to start To send solidarity messages, resolu- “to support the negotiating team to get to build for the striking WUFA members. bargaining in the corporate media. It tions and donations, e-mail wufa@uwind- the very best contract possible for our Students join the picket line daily and went so far as to print an ad in the daily sor.ca; write Faculty Association [WUFA], membership.” Almost 10 percent of SAG’s held a mass study session protest at a Windsor Star that detailed WUFA mem- 366 Sunset Ave., Windsor, Ontario, 103,639 members participated in the poll. recent Board of Governors meeting. The bers’ alleged salaries under the admin- Canada N9B 3P4; or call 519-253-3000 “I am encouraged to see that members- University of Windsor Student’s Alliance istration’s proposal. The ad angered (extension 3366). at-large agree with the strategy of the and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) many union supporters who saw this as Pfeifer is the staff organizer of the national board and their national negoti- have sponsored many events, including an attempt to pit the community against Union of Part-Time Faculty (UPTF) at ating committee,” said Alan Rosenberg, public forums attended by the union. WUFA members. WUFA says the ad’s sal- Wayne State University in Detroit. SAG president, in a Sept. 17 union press Handout to the rich ignites people’s anger Fight for a workers’ program to save jobs, homes!

Continued from page 1 the point man for the biggest bankers. go into debt under low-wage capitalism, Affordable, quality health care, housing of demands to solve their problems. And This bill would give him the sole authority wind up with nothing. and education should be a right. second, the people must wage an indepen- to deal not only with mortgage debt, but The bill was originally three pages long It is the workers and oppressed, the dent struggle to fight for these demands. also with “any other financial instrument and gave total authority to Paulson. After youth and the elderly who need the tril- that the Secretary, after consultation with days of negotiation it grew to 100 pages lion dollars that the government wants What the bailout bill says the Chairman of the Board of Governors long and still gave authority to Paulson to hand over to the bankers. The Federal One look at the wording of the bailout of the Federal Reserve System, deter- and his oversight committee of powerful Deposit Insurance Corp., which is sup- bill tells why. The Democratic Party lead- mines the purchase of which is necessary financial officials. posed to insure individual deposits up ership tried to wrap the bill in appeal- to promote financial market stability.” In to $100,000, just took on $40 billion in Workers need their own ing language about aid to homeowners, other words, Paulson can buy worthless debt from Wachovia Bank. This $40 bil- demands accountability, oversight, etc. But this is credit card debt, student loan debt, auto lion was the price the government paid to mainly deception to provide a political loan debt, or any other type of debt from Thus it is vital for the workers to have have Citigroup take over Wachovia and cover to shield the politicians in the event any financial institution that he pleases. a clear and unambiguous program of keep it from falling into bankruptcy. of an outright rebellion. But the Treasury will be under no obli- demands that meet their own needs and That $40 billion, plus a good part of the In the matter of stopping foreclo- gation whatsoever to give debt assistance put the burden on the bankers and the $700 billion that the government wants sures, the bill calls on the secretary of the to anyone but the banks. rich to pay. There is a growing movement to dole out to the banks, could be used to Treasury “to encourage the servicers of the As for oversight, not one elected official across the country to demand a morato- help homeowners facing foreclosure. underlying mortgages ... to take advan- would be involved. The oversight board rium on home foreclosures and evictions. From a strictly capitalist point of view, tage” of various programs to “minimize would consist of the chair of the Board of Foreclosures are at present paramount. aid to homeowners would transform bad foreclosures.” In other words, foreclosure Governors; Paulson himself as secretary However, even with 10,000 people a day debts into debts that are payable. It would protection is completely voluntary and of the Treasury; the director of the Federal facing the loss of their homes, the crisis of actually ease the financial crisis of the sys- depends entirely on the will of the mort- Home Finance Agency, created last July the people goes much wider. tem. Furthermore, by keeping people in gage holder. by Paulson; the chair of the Securities and As the unemployment rate rises, it is their homes, it would keep their homes As for the authority of Paulson to Exchange Commission; and the secretary urgent to demand a freeze on all workplace off the market and ease the glut of unsold run the show, the bill states that “The of Housing and Urban Development. closings and job layoffs and an extension properties. Secretary is authorized to ... purchase, and This is equivalent to asking the robbers of unemployment benefits. There must be But the bankers would rather get hand- to make and fund commitments to pur- to guard the vault. a freeze on utility cutoffs and a rollback outs from the government and proceed chase, troubled assets from any financial The important point about this is that in gas, food and utility prices. Workers’ with foreclosures. They don’t want to set a institution, on such terms and conditions the Democratic Party leadership was pensions and savings must be protected. precedent of granting relief to homeown- as are deemed necessary by the Secretary, touting this as the new, improved ver- Working and poor people need a general ers, because that could lead to an ava- and in accordance with ... the policies and sion of the bailout bill. But homeowners, cancellation of their debts and an end to lanche of popular demands for all kinds procedures developed and published by indebted workers, students overburdened repossessions and wage garnisheeing. of relief. the Secretary.” by loans, families laboring under debt As the crisis of the states and cities It is futile to rely upon the capitalist Paulson was the former CEO at incurred because of illness, job loss, or grows, there must be a moratorium to stop government or the big business parties to Goldman Sachs investment bank. He is any of a hundred reasons for workers to cuts in the budgets of social programs. voluntarily give assistance to the multina- www.workers.org Oct. 9, 2008 Page 5 On the Picket line by Sue Davis Cops attack Black activists release. “This membership poll provides clear insight and direction concern- ing how actors feel about their futures. at Harlem parade Clearly they expect Screen Actors Guild The Harlem Day parade, held annually The five members have become known incident as “a reckless and outrageous to protect them from exploitation in new in the predominately African-American as the Harlem Five. Two of them were expression of police abuse.” This inci- media, and to preserve longstanding community in New York City, was once scheduled to appear in a Manhattan court dent, captured on Youtube, clearly shows principles and contract provisions.” again the scene of an unprovoked attack by on Sept. 26. A community meeting about a police riot. (www.tinyurl.com/4eyd9x) the police. The victims this Sept. 21 were the case was held at the National Black The Harlem Day parade has a tradition Future of Delta & Northwest members of the New Black Panther Party Theater in Harlem on Sept. 28. Their of bringing out thousands in the Black flight attendants? who were marching in a contingent in their supporters have asked any spectators community and their supporters, along What will happen to flight attendants name when the attack happened. Five who were eyewitnesses to the attack to with an overwhelming, disproportionate- when Delta and Northwest Airlines merge NBPP members were physically assaulted, call 917-420-8662 to help assist with the ly large number of police, whose presence in 2009? The House of Representatives’ arrested and charged with disorderly con- legal defense of the NBPP members. reflects an occupying, intimidating force. Committee on Transportation and Infra­ duct and assaulting a police officer. A NBPP press release characterized the —Monica Moorehead struc­ture concluded, after examining the anti-worker policies of the National Medi­ ation Board, that “the deck is stacked against unionization.” (Communication Workers press release, Sept. 25) The ‘Terrorism’ charges levied pro­blem is that NMB rules require that a majority of eligible voters must cast ballots in a union election for the results against RNC protesters to be valid. That’s one reason why Delta flight attendants were not able to join By Tyneisha Bowens were held; and the use of gas, concussion CWA’s Association of Fight Attendants in bombs, pepper spray, rubber bullets and May—only 41 percent of members voted. For four days in September the top- marker ammunition on protesters. justice by equating activism to terrorism. Another was that the NMB failed to take ranking members of the Republican Of the 800 arrested, eight—Monica This can be seen in the arrests and charges action against Delta for waging a blatant Party staged their national convention Bicking, Robert Czernik, Garrett of the eight as well as the new presence anti-union campaign. Under the current in St. Paul, Minn., to officially announce Fitzgerald, Luce Guillen-Givins, Erik of an active military unit, fresh from Iraq, rules, unless 50 percent of the combined the presidential and vice presidential Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Max Spector which has been placed within U.S. bor- 21,000 flight attendants vote to be repre­ candidacies of John McCain and Sarah and Eryn Timmer—are being charged ders to put down acts of “civil unrest” and sented by AFA-CWA, the vote will be Palin. While corporate interests and with “conspiracy to commit riot in fur- subdue groups and individuals. void­ed and Northwest flight attendants corrupt local politicians welcomed the therance of terrorism.” This is the first use Organizers across the country are will lose more than 60 years of bargaining Republicans with open arms, the citizens of this charge, under the USA Patriot Act. mobilizing support for the RNC 8 through rights. of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. The charge is a second-degree felony that fundraising for legal expenses, letters of Paul organized mass protests and pockets could result in several years in prison for support, building awareness locally and New protections of resistance all over the city. these eight brave organizers. nationally as well as putting pressure on for disabled workers In preparation for the protests and plans The eight are members of the Welcoming Minnesota elected officials to drop the to shut down the Republican National Committee, an anarchist/anti-authoritar- charges and free the eight. Their trials Congress passed a bill Sept. 17 that Convention, the city of St. Paul was given ian group that organized activities to shut are underway at the Ramsey County Law will expand protections for workers with $50 million for security, which it used to down the RNC. Their arrests took place on Enforcement Center in St. Paul. such conditions as epilepsy, diabetes, terrorize protesters and residents of the Aug. 30 and Sept 1, six of them in raids of This is the time to stand together against cancer, multiple sclerosis and other ill- Twin Cities before and during the RNC. homes and public meeting spaces. the repression of our right to call out and nesses. These workers had been denied Harassment included preemptive raids on It is clear that the RNC 8 are politi- act against injustice, our right to stand up protection because the conditions could private homes and public meeting spaces cal targets being used to set a repressive against oppression, war and poverty. It is be controlled by medications, hearing with no warrants or legal reasoning; the precedent against organizers and activists time for us to call for justice for the RNC 8 aids and artificial limbs. An update of the arrests of 800 protesters, journalists and across the country. The U.S government and all political prisoners. 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the locals; brutality and torture in the jails is setting the stage for mass repression For more information on the RNC 8 bill rejects the strict standards set by sev- and detention centers where protesters of movements for social and economic and their trial dates visit rnc8.org. n eral Supreme Court decisions and makes it easier to prove discrimination. Bush is expected to sign the bill after pressure from the disabled movement. (NY Times, overproduction that is overtaking capital- ernment. With each escalation of their gages and then sold these mortgages off Sept. 18) ism today. It underlies the financial panic crisis, they pile more debt upon the work- to other capitalists, gaining fees and high Study shows Latin@ workers that is roiling not only the U.S. but Europe, ing class and the middle class. profits along the way, were doing what Asia and the rest of the world. What the ruling class does all the time, at every benefit from unionization Paulson and Bernanke have in mind is to Bailout of capitalism opportunity. In honor of National Hispanic Heritage slow down and manage the crisis. They In truth, the bailout of the banks is The starting point of capitalist exploi- Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), the Center for want to avoid a sudden collapse, a social really a bailout of capitalism. The banks tation and profit is money. Without Economic Policy Research issued a report shock that would not only cause a sharp are the heart and soul of capitalism. They money, no capitalist can hire workers or Sept. 16 documenting that unionized drop in the profits of the corporations and have engaged in an orgy of speculation buy raw materials or inventory to set the Latin@ workers have 17.6 percent higher banks but could set off an upsurge of the for a decade. They inflated values in the process of exploitation and profit making wages and are more likely to have health mass struggle. The goal of Washington stock market and flooded the world mar- into motion. insurance benefits and pension plans than and Wall Street is to engineer a so-called kets with worthless mortgage-backed The bankers are in control of all the their nonorganized brothers and sisters. “soft landing.” securities. They created a mountain of money in society. They sit on the boards (www.cepr.net) According to the report, But whether the economic crisis devel- fictitious capital that far outstripped the of the corporations. They advise them titled “Unions and Upward Mobility for ops gradually or suddenly accelerates, underlying real value, all of which must and finance their loans. They sell- cor Latino Workers,” unionization raises the the ruling class will try to shift all the suf- be created by workers working. Now that porate stocks and bonds on the market. pay of Latin@ workers by about $2.60 an fering onto the workers. The greater the false value is beginning to collapse. The owners of productive capital and the hour and raises the possibility of benefits crisis of the ruling class and the rich, the This is not capitalism “gone wrong.” parasitic financiers are completely inter- by about 26 percent. Based on analysis of more they will try to push it onto the peo- It is the fullest expression of what twined with one another. Census Bureau statistics, the report also ple. The series of government bailouts is a capitalism really is. Panics and crashes Human need is not part of their calcu- shows that even among Latin@ workers prime example. have happened throughout the history lation. The fact that people need hous- in the 15 lowest-paying jobs, union mem- They began with $29 billion for of capitalism, but now, in the age of glo- ing, food, jobs, education and health care bers earn 16.6 percent more and are 41 JPMorgan Chase to acquire the bankrupt balization and high technology, they have means nothing to them if they cannot percent more likely to have health insur- Bear Stearns investment bank. reached new heights. profit from it. ance than their nonunion counterparts. Then came $200 billion more for the This system is based on profit. Profit is The bankers who are throwing people The fastest-growing sector of the U.S. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgage the be-all and end-all of capitalism. The out of their homes are interlinked with working class at 14 percent, Latin@ work- banks. engine of the entire system is production the corporations that are laying workers ers comprise 12 percent of union workers. Then came $85 billion for AIG, the for profit. Getting the most profits is the off. They are tied to the utilities that are insurance giant. aim of every capitalist, from the sweat- shutting people’s heat off in the winter, to tional working class on a scale that would With the crisis spreading, the bosses shop owner to the largest transnational the supermarket chains and agribusiness make a genuine difference in the lives of now want a giveaway of $700 billion to all corporation. corporations that are raising food prices, the millions suffering foreclosures, layoffs the banks. And that may not be enough. Speculation and gambling for instant and to the oil companies behind the inva- and other hardships. The only way that They admit to at least $4 trillion in bad profits grows naturally out of the system. sion of Iraq and the high cost of gasoline. real, profound change takes place is as a mortgage debts—and there’s probably It is not an aberration or an abnormality. Behind the problem of bankers’ bail- result of struggle. more, because the bankers hide every- The bankers who swindled the work- outs, foreclosures and layoffs is the capi- No bailout is going to stop the crisis of thing from each other and from the gov- ers with subprime, deceptive, lying mort- talist profit system itself. n Page 6 Oct. 9, 2008 www.workers.org

Eviction blockaders fight back By Gerry Scoppettuolo Boston

Foreclosure fighters took on Deutsche Boston. Bank Sept 25 in Boston, in the latest evic- tion blockade organized by the City Life Tenant Organizing Program and its sup- porters. Four protesters were arrested, including this writer, while trying to prevent the Boston police and a consta- ble from evicting the Esquival family in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. While eviction blockaders were detained by the police here once before, this was the first time activists were arrested, booked and arraigned by the District Attorney. The family proudly maintained its digni- WW photos: Stevan Kirschbaum fied stance while supporters stood around them on the street. Three television sta- force banks to negotiate foreclosures. their lending terms (Wall Street Journal, or at Madison Park High School, in the tions and the Boston Globe recorded the As the government’s Wall Street bail- Sept. 29). oppressed community of Roxbury. Those obscene actions of the police, the banks out neared passage, it became clear that Three days after the eviction, Boston’s coming for assistance against skyrocket- and Mayor Thomas Menino, who allowed soon the new owners of the Esquivals’ International Action Center and the ing food and fuel prices eagerly signed the the police to occupy the Esquivals’ prop- mortgage would likely be the federal gov- Women’s Fightback Network pushed petition, agreeing the government should erty before the arrival of the constable— ernment, as it restores credit to wealthy ahead with its State of Emergency Petition bail out the people rather than the banks. a first in 10 eviction blockades this year. banks like Deutsche Bank while fami- Campaign, demanding that Gov. Deval The action was coordinated with actions At the time, the Esquivals were still the lies like the Esquivals get thrown out. Patrick issue an emergency order halting in many cities legal tenants and the family was in Boston Stockholders in these bailed-out banks further evictions and foreclosures and roll- For more information on the WFN Housing Court seeking a restraining stand to see the value of their holdings ing back and freezing food and fuel prices. and IAC Economic State of Emergency order against the eviction. This escalation increase. Recent reports about the gov- Activists handed out flyers and gathered Campaign, go to www.iacboston.org, or of tactics by the city of Boston signals a ernment bailout disclose that there will signatures on the campaign at a “Food contact [email protected] or frank- hardening of bourgeois opposition in the be no real help for foreclosed homeown- and Fuel Summit” sponsored by the may- [email protected]. n face of City Life’s mostly successful strat- ers, just letters from the Federal Reserve egy of using militant eviction blockades to to banks “encouraging” them to loosen Emergency protest builds for organizers’ conference Joyce Chediac, By Kris Hamel Larry Holmes, Detroit Michigan. NYC, Sept. 27. WW photos: G. Dunkel Activists with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and nel 7. On Sept. 26 the Free Press Evictions called an emergency reported that many Congressional demonstration in downtown representatives from Michigan Blaming Wall Street’s victims Detroit on Sept. 25 to protest have been flooded with calls and the trillion-dollar bailout of emails against the bank bailout. By Stephen Millies the financial industry and Coalition organizers Vanessa demand an immediate mora- Fluker and Abayomi Azikiwe spoke People are furious at the trillion-dollar torium on home foreclosures at a rally of the Gray Panthers dur- handout being given to Wall Street by nationwide. ing their national conference in Bush and Congress. So what are the capi- Some 50 protesters gath- Detroit on Sept. 27. talist media mouthpieces doing? ered at the Coleman A. At a coalition meeting Sept. 27, They’re targeting the victims who are Young Municipal Center and plans were made to continue the being swindled out of their homes. These marched through the finan- struggle in Michigan, including a professional liars are accusing Latin@ and cial district with banners statewide organizers’ conference Black people of fibbing on their mortgage applications. and signs declaring, “Bailout Detroit, Sept. 25. after the November elections. the people, not the banks!” Coalition activists plan to meet “They gave your mortgage to a less qual- Protesters stopped and rallied outside Protesters chanted, “The people need with Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. ified minority” was the headline of a piece Comerica, National City and Charter One jobs and relief—not one more penny for to request that he declare a state of emer- by columnist Ann Coulter, who once called banks, all of which participated in the Wall Street!” and “Stop foreclosures and gency in the city and formally apply to for bombing mosques and forcibly con- subprime mortgage fiasco perpetrated on evictions—moratorium now!” During the Gov. Jennifer Granholm for a foreclosure verting Muslims. This title mimics a noto- workers and the poor in Michigan and protest, motorists honked their horns moratorium. rious 1990 TV ad for the late Senator Jesse throughout the U.S. continually and raised their fists in sup- The next meeting of the Moratorium Helms that claimed African Americans Detroit City Councilperson JoAnn port of the demand to bailout the victims NOW! Coalition will be on Oct. 11 at the were being unfairly promoted. Watson told the demonstrators: “The of the financial crisis, not the bankers who Central United Methodist Church, 23 E. The Wall Street Journal claims the banks are getting bailed out. The auto caused it. Adams, 4th floor, Detroit, MI 48226. For Community Reinvestment Act helped companies want a $50 billion federal loan The demonstration was covered widely more information or to send a donation, detonate the crisis. “This 1977 law com- to help them regain market share. What on local media, including CBS-affiliate call 313-887-4344, email moratorium@ pels banks to make loans to poor borrow- about us? What we need is a bailout for WWJ news radio, the Detroit Free Press, moratorium-mi.org, or visit www.mora- ers who often cannot repay them,” it wrote in a Sept. 22 editorial. “Banks that failed Detroit, for the people!” Fox affiliate TV2 and ABC affiliate chan- torium-mi.org. n

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NYC Central Labor Council takes on Wall St.

By Mary Owen and G. Dunkel out like the CEOs.” This was met with loud “Yes, they should solve the problem—but Some of the hand-made signs were New York cheers from the crowd. not on our backs!” The CUNY higher edu- sharper than the speeches. An ironwork- Department Store Local 338 President cation system is facing deep budget cuts, er’s sign read, “No golden parachutes— Responding to the rising anger of its John Durso went on similarly: “What which will mean layoffs and speed-ups. lead boots.” “No blank check for Wall members, the New York City Central Labor about pensions, schools, health care and Association of Community Organi­ Street” was popular. Council held an emergency demonstration infrastructure? Where’s the money for zations for Reform Now speaker Bertha One sign summed up the mood: “Let Sept. 25 near the Wall St. stock exchange that? These guys run companies down, Lewis got one of the loudest responses me get this straight: $700 billion for Wall to protest the anti-worker bailout bill that then get golden parachutes. What about when she said, “If they don’t give us a bail St.; $700 billion for Iraq War; No money appeared to be sailing through Congress. your mortgage? There has to be oversight out for Main Street, they will be shocked for health care, schools, housing, CUNY, With scarcely two days’ notice, more and the union movement must stand up when we shut this country down!” The subways.” n than 1,500 people showed up for the for working people. Look to your left, look crowd roared its approval. lunch-hour rally, which drew both nation- to your right. … That’s who will be stand- While the leaders who spoke did not al and international attention in the midst ing up for you, not the guys down the make a point of calling for support for of hundreds of anti-bailout protests. For block or in Washington.” presidential candidate Barack Obama, the the U.S. labor movement to act quickly on Barbara Bowen, president of PSC- rally ended with a call to do so, which also a political issue is very unusual. CUNY, American Federation of Teachers got very loud cheers. A number of Wall St. workers lis- Local 2334, drew tened from the sidewalk. A sizable num- parallels between ber of construction workers from lower the administra- Manhattan projects extended their lunch tion’s rush to break in order to attend. demand author- “We can’t afford any more mistakes from ity over $700 this administration,” AFL-CIO President billion and their John Sweeney told the crowd. “We must rush, five years put working families first in line.” ago, for authority Most of the speakers were leaders of to invade Iraq. the major unions that attended: United Federation of Teachers; District Council 37 of the State, County and Municipal Employees; building trades; airline machinists; Professional Staff Congress- Wall St., New City University of New York; and transit York, Sept. 29 workers. The crowd responded to those WW photos: G Dunkel who were the most militant against the bankers. A Machinists union vice-president spoke from his members’ experience: “Congress negotiates like shit. … They negotiated Bailout plans spark nationwide protests with the airlines and gave them buyouts. And you know what was in it for the work- By Betsey Piette to shut down the Franklin School homeless war spending. FIST members Tyneisha ers? Zero. They cut our pensions and sala- In the week since Bush announced plans shelter—the kind of program that will get Bowens and Miya X led chants and talked ries. Well, we’ve heard enough, and we’ve to use $700 billion in public funds to res- the ax if the bailout goes through. Speakers about what the bailout will cost in terms paid enough, and we can’t take it anymore. cue Wall Street banks, nearly 200 demon- made the connection between the city’s of program cuts, jobs lost and the heavy There’s no money for health care, but tril- strations have been organized throughout plan to close a facility that now houses impact on women and people of color. lions for a bailout? With Congress nego- the U.S. to oppose the bailout and express people who lost homes through mortgage SDS members Alex Grosskurgh and Jeff tiating? If they can’t do it, we’ll kick them the righteous anger of workers and poor. foreclosures, and the twisted priorities of Rousset called on the government to bail Many were organized by grassroots groups a system that volunteers taxpayers’ money out youth unable to pay off student loans. taking advantage of the Internet to get the to Wall Street millionaires. Protest signs included cardboard word out. Chanting “Main Street first” and car- $700,000,000,000 checks depicting the Blaming Wall Street’s victims In addition, tens of thousands of protest rying signs and colorful umbrellas, a few money Bush wants workers to give over to hundred protesters also marched in front rich bankers. Among those who stopped to make enough of these loans were often e-mail messages have been sent to Con­ of the White House in the rain to demand to sign a petition to stop the bankers’ bail- held hostage by activists when they next gress members, many demanding that any the rejection of Treasury Secretary Paul­ out were a woman who faced foreclosure sought some regulatory approval.” taxpayer funds go instead to assist hom- son’s Wall Street bailout plan. on her home of 17 years and a homeless Is this wealthy rag suggesting that peo- eowners facing foreclosures or to provide About 20 people gathered on a busy Vietnam veteran. Several bus drivers ple have to hold billionaire bankers hos- assistance to the millions unemployed. intersection in Tucson, Ariz., holding honked their horns in support and opened tage in order to get results? Opinion polls reported opposition to the signs demanding “Foreclose the war—not their doors to get fliers. Two busloads of Michelle Malkin actually blames undoc- bailout running at more than 85 percent. our homes!” and “No to endless war and teenagers passing by all gave the fist and umented workers for the wave of mortgage Some protests involved anti-war activ- banker bailouts!” The protesters were met thumbs-up signs to the demonstration. foreclosure in a Sept. 24 New York Post ists who characterized the current eco- with enthusiastic responses of raised fists, In Detroit, City Council President column. Malkin wrote a book that defend- nomic crisis as a war against the work- victory signs and horn honks of approval. Monica Conyers and Councilmember ed throwing Japanese Americans into con- ers at home and linked it to the $2 tril- Drivers rolled down their windows to take JoAnn Watson held a joint press confer- centration camps during World War II. lion already spent on the wars in Iraq leaflets. The linking of the war drive with ence under the theme, “No bailout for Behind these smears is the bigoted and Afghanistan and threats of new war the attacks on workers seemed to resonate banks and CEOs without bailout assis- assumption that people of color can’t save against Iran. with everyone. tance for homeowners.” Earlier in the or budget their money. This lie ignores the The mood was angry and militant in NAU Peace and Justice in Flagstaff, week, the Detroit City Council passed a fact that in the 1970s the majority of Black Baltimore, Md., where more than 200 Ariz., held a march and rally of about 110 resolution demanding Congress bail out families in Baltimore and Detroit owned people came out on a day’s notice for a people to address the imminent war with victims of the housing and mortgage cri- their own homes. rally at the Federal Reserve Bank orga- Iran and to express opposition to the occu- sis by enacting a two-year moratorium on Despite unbelievable odds, hundreds of nized by the American Federation of State, pation of Iraq and Afghanistan. home foreclosures. thousands of African Americans bought County and Municipal Employees and the Outside the federal building in In Seattle, several dozen people pro- farms following the Civil War. Much of this AFL-CIO Central Labor Council. Philadelphia, several youth from tested at the federal building while oth- land was then stolen from them through As congressional leaders negotiated with Students for a Democratic Society and ers gathered at the headquarters of fraud, often aided by the U.S. Department the Bush administration in Washington, Fight Imperialism, Stand Together joined Washington Mutual, the savings and loan of Agriculture. D.C., 150 homeless advocates and com- Continued on page 8 munity activists protested the city’s effort other anti-war and union activists to seized late last week by the government voice opposition to the bailout and the and sold off to JP Morgan Chase. n

Tucson, Ariz.. Raleigh, N.C.. Flagstaff, Ariz.. PHOTO: PAUL TEITELBAUM ww PHOTO: Peter Gilbert PHOTO: NAU PEACE AND JUSTICE Page 8 Oct. 9, 2008 www.workers.org Communist leader: ‘We will construct a New Nepal’ By Greg Butterfield the one espoused by the U.N. One of his New York first tasks upon returning from the U.N. General Assembly will be the formation of Prachanda, the new prime minister of a special cabinet-level committee to over- Nepal and chairperson of the Communist see this process. Party of Nepal (Maoist), spoke to a meet- Comrade Shahid of the Pakistan-USA ing of progressives here on Sept. 25. He Freedom Forum asked about the role of was visiting New York for the United youth in Nepal. Prachanda explained Nations General Assembly opening. that Nepal has a very high percentage of Comrade Prachanda (born Pushpa youth compared to most countries so this Kamal Dahal) led the 10-year people’s has great significance. He said youth are war that ousted Nepal’s monarchy and being mobilized under the popular slogan old parliamentary system. The CPN(M) to “Construct a New Nepal.” came in first in Constituent Assembly Ardeshir Ommani of the American- elections held earlier this year with 37 Iranian Friendship Committee asked about percent of the vote. the role of the united front. Prachanda said Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey that previously there was a united front of Clark and the International Action Center ww Photo: John Catalinotto From left to right, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Nepali Prime Minister seven anti-royalist parties. Since the big hosted the by-invitation event, which was Prachanda, Sara Flounders of the International Action Center and LeiLani Dowell of developments that took place between attended by a broad representation of Fight Imperialism, Stand Together. 2006 and 2008, the front has changed progressive forces in New York. The pro- ous mistakes in his understanding of and is now represented by the current gram was co-chaired by Sara Flounders audience. philosophy and dialectical materialism,” governing coalition, which includes of the IAC and LeiLani Dowell of Fight Comrade Prachanda explained that according to Prachanda. the Communist Party of Nepal (United Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST). the CPN(M) has tried to understand the Following this internal discussion, the Marxist-Leninist) and others. He predict- In her opening remarks, Flounders lessons of the international communist CPN(M) initiated negotiations with the ed that the front will go through even more emphasized the importance of the peo- movement, of the revolutions and counter- Nepali government. However, the talks changes with the drafting of a new constitu- ple’s war in opening up avenues for real revolutions of the 20th century. He briefly failed because the government rejected tion. Prachanda added, “We want to have a democratic and social change in Nepal by reviewed the history of the people’s war, the minimum condition of a constituent front even with the Nepali Congress Party” going outside the corrupt structure of the which began in 1996 after the monarchy’s assembly. against foreign intervention, although it is parliament and refusing to accommodate violent repression of mass demonstra- The democratic revolution must be outside the government. the monarchy. This has helped not only to tions in both the capital city, Katmandu, completed to carry through the socialist An audience member asked about displace the royalty, but to lay the basis and in rural areas where the CPN(M) revolution, Prachanda said. He explained Nepal’s economic future, given the coun- for a Constituent Assembly to create new was strong. Prachanda said that his party that through its stupidity and intransi- try’s past reliance on tourism. Prachanda democratic structures and rewrite Nepal’s worked to explain to the people that it was gence, the monarchy played a very impor- stated that the 21st century has been called constitution. Flounders said this was a not opposed to peaceful change, but that tant part in how the revolution developed. the “century of water resources” and Nepal powerful example of how the struggle of all avenues had been closed and armed The result was an understanding between has huge water resources. His goal is to poor and working people, coming from struggle was necessary. those carrying out people’s war and other develop hydro projects at small, medium the grassroots, was the fundamental con- After five years of civil war, the CPN(M) parties involved in the mass struggle. and large levels. “Through these water dition for social change. embarked on a serious internal discussion Bourgeois democratic and people’s resources we will have an economic revo- Ramsey Clark introduced Prime of the lessons of previous revolutions, movements fought side by side, including lution.” He said there could also be a quali- Minister Prachanda, whose name trans- including the 1917 socialist revolution in armed struggle in the countryside. This tative development in the tourism indus- lates as “the fierce one.” Prachanda’s Russia. At this time the party adopted the culminated in 19 days of mass actions that try, as his country is very beautiful and is ferocity, said Clark, is for social, political idea that a multiparty system and politi- brought about the beginning of the end for “the roof of the world” with Mt. Everest. and economic justice for his people. cal competition should exist even under socialism. the monarchy in 2006. Monica Moorehead of Workers World Standing ovation greets They determined that this is what Lenin Prachanda commented on the “confu- Party asked about the role of women in Prachanda would have done had he lived another five sion of some people” when the Maoists the revolutionary process. Prachanda Prime Minister Prachanda was greeted or 10 years, in the process of trying to build became the leading party in Nepal. He explained that the Maoists have always with a standing ovation and raised fists. the basis for a socialist economic system said the CPN(M)-led government’s man- given the highest priority to integration He spoke to the gathering in English and in Russia. Lenin would not have followed date consists of three tasks: 1) drafting of women at all levels of the struggle. He afterwards answered questions from the the same path as Stalin, who made “seri- a new constitution; 2) carrying through said he was proud to point out that 33 per- the peace process, termed the “rehabilita- cent of the elected representatives of the tion and integration” of the Nepali armed Constituent Assembly are women, a high- forces; and 3) initiating new economic er percentage than in most “democratic” development. countries. Other parties have been forced Blaming Wall Street’s victims When he visited China for the closing of to give opportunities to women because of the Olympic Games, Prachanda explained, the CPN(M)’s example. Continued from page 7 If “the mortgage market was humming he tried to convey that “we are making a Deirdre Griswold of Workers World Now millions are facing foreclosure and along just fine,” then why did the savings big experiment—not only for Nepal, not Party and newspaper asked whether the eviction. and loan banks implode 20 years ago? only for South Asia, but for the people of Maoists’ experiences with land reform Bias in lending is just as vicious as racist This current blame-the-victim cam- the world. We communists are more flex- carried out in liberated areas of the coun- hiring policies or housing discrimination. paign will boomerang. Subprime mort- ible and dynamic. We try to develop our tryside during the people’s war could now A generation ago banks routinely denied gages are no bargains to borrowers who ideology according to new conditions. We be applied on a nationwide level. mortgages and other loans to people in have to pay higher and higher interest understand the dynamic of change.” Comrade Prachanda termed this a “deli- Black and Latin@ communities in a prac- rates. Though Black and Latin@ home- Just three years ago, Prachanda said, he cate question.” During the civil war there tice known as “redlining.” This term came owners were proportionally more likely to was labeled a terrorist by the U.S. and had were liberated base areas in much of the from the maps hanging in lending offices get these usurious mortgages, white bor- a price on his head of 55 million rupees country. Now, however, he said, “We had to with red lines drawn around neighborhoods rowers received 55 percent of them. (Wall (about $1.2 million). The CPN(M) is still make some compromises with other politi- to be boycotted. The banks would suck Street Journal, July 23) on the U.S. “terrorism watch list,” even cal parties” and this is the basis of the “sci- up money from the checking and saving The subprime mess is reminiscent of though he is now representing Nepal at entific land reform” process. He compared accounts of Latin@ and African-American utility shutoffs. Millions of families every the General Assembly. Prachanda joked this to China’s struggle against Japanese families but refuse to lend to them. year have their lights and heating cut off about the leaders of the U.S. being the imperialism, when Mao had to make com- Community organizations across the because they can’t pay skyrocketing utility ones who are truly “sectarian and dogmat- promises with Chiang Kai-shek in the country took aim at these racist banks bills. Seven children and two adults died ic,” not the communists. He thanked the interests of the anti-colonial struggle. and forced Congress to outlaw redlining. in a February 1994 Baltimore fire caused audience for the opportunity to address Prime Minister Prachanda concluded Besides the Community Reinvestment Act, by candles. Their electricity had been shut the “socialists of the USA.” by noting the he would address the U.N. Congress was compelled to pass the Equal off three months before. Prime Minister Prachanda briefly General Assembly on Sept. 26, “where Credit Opportunity Act in 1974 and the While a higher percentage of families of answered questions from the audience. we will put forward Nepal’s struggle as Home Mortgage Disclosure Act in 1975. color are disconnected, poor whites also Bernadette Ellorin of BAYAN USA asked an example for the world.” Smiling, he How can these laws, passed more than get shut off. Campaigns against utility rate about the future of the peasantry and land predicted that would “generate some 30 years ago, be held responsible for Wall hikes and cutoffs, like those waged by the reform in Nepal. Prachanda responded controversy.” Street’s current meltdown? Baltimore All Peoples Congress, were able that this was a key question facing the Besides those mentioned above, Stanley Leibowitz, University of Texas to unite Black and white workers against coalition government, which is undertak- repre­sentatives of the Malcolm X at Dallas economics professor, wrote: “The the super-rich utility monopolies. ing the study of “a scientific land reform.” Grassroots Movement, Nodutdol, the mortgage market was humming along just The same thing is happening in the A Venezuelan representative asked Bolivarian Circle, Desis Rising Up and fine when, in the late 1980s, progressives struggle to save people’s homes, as ten about the role of the Nepali army and the Moving (DRUM), May 1st Coalition for decided it needed to be ‘fixed.’... The shift thousand families a day are being fore- dangers they might present to the revolu- Immigrant Rights, New York Free Mumia began in 1989, when Congress amended closed. White farmers joined workers of tionary process. Prachanda replied to this Coalition, Palestinian and Puerto Rican the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act to force color from Detroit in the Sept. 17 Lansing, “very serious question” that Nepal was organizations, and others attended. The banks to collect racial data on mortgage Mich., demonstration to demand a mora- developing “our own model for rehabili- Venezuelan and Algerian U.N. delegations applicants.” (New York Post, Sept. 24) torium on foreclosures. n tation and reintegration” different from also sent representatives. n www.workers.org Oct. 9, 2008 Page 9

As warships move into area Somalis resist U.S.-backed occupation By Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor as T-72 tanks. The U.S. military, which Pan-African News Wire The escalation of fighting in Somalia, both on land and in is very active in this region, has sent the USS Howard destroyer and other boats During the last week of September, the waterways surrounding this Horn of Africa nation, must of the Gulf-based Fifth Fleet to the area, unprecedented fighting took place in sev- be blamed on the foreign policy role of the U.S. Under the supposedly to confront the hijacked eral areas of the east African nation of Ukrainian ship. Somalia. This rising tide of armed conflict guise of "fighting Islamic terrorism," the U.S. has heightened “There are now several Fifth Fleet ships is directly related to the resistance efforts in the vicinity,” said the fleet’s deputy of the Somali people against the occupa- instability in Somalia and throughout the region. spokesman Lt. Nathan Christensen. “Our tion of their country by the military forces goal is to maintain a vigilant and visual of neighboring Ethiopia. The Ethiopian many families could be seen on the roads, “The main stumbling block is the with- watch over the ship while negotiations invasion in December 2006 was fully moving rapidly out of the area. drawal of Ethiopian forces.” take place.” supported, financially and militarily, by Journalists confirmed the severity The activist told IRIN on Sept. 23 that One of the main Islamic leaders in the U.S. of the situation. “The area is emptying. the TFG “seemed to be trying to find a way Somalia, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, An important dimension to the recent Those who had not left before are on the for a less hurried withdrawal, while the told Reuters on Sept. 29 that his orga- fighting is the role of African Union (AU) move now. It is not going to be a very Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia nization—which was associated with the “peacekeeping” units. They consist large- happy Eid [festivities after the month was demanding that the Ethiopian mili- Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), the front ly of Ugandan troops who have operated of Ramadan] for many.” (Integrated tary withdraw from the country within 30 that was consolidating its power in 2006 in a fashion that has drawn increasing Regional Information Network [IRIN], days.” when the U.S.-backed invasion occurred— attacks from the resistance movement in Sept. 29) was not involved in the ship seizures. the capital, Mogadishu. The resistance is One of the important resistance organi- Humanitarian situation worsens “Piracy is not our hobby and we are fighting against the Transitional Federal zations, the Alliance for the Re-liberation As a result of the intense fighting, the sorry for being linked to everything that Government (TFG), which has been kept of Somalia, led by Sheikh Sharif Sheih main hospital in the capital of Mogadishu is bad,” said Aweys. He noted that during in power by Ethiopian troops working in Ahmed, is currently engaged in discus- has been overwhelmed by people caught the rule of the UIC piracy was substan- collaboration with the Pentagon. sions with the TFG. It said that the actions up in the clashes. “We are receiving more tially curtailed, but “no one congratulated In the early hours of Sept. 29, Islamic of the Ethiopian and Ugandan troops injured people than we can reasonably us” for these efforts. resistance fighters fired on Ugandan, and their local counterparts are totally handle; we are completely swamped,” Ethiopian and TFG troops in Mogadishu, unacceptable. Abdi Mohamed Hangul, a doctor at U.S. role must be condemned the capital of Somalia, resulting in the The alliance condemned the Ugandan Medina Hospital, told IRIN on Sept. 24. The escalation of fighting in Somalia, reported deaths of at least four people. troops, accusing them of brutality and Hangul said that the numbers of injured both on land and in the waterways sur- Eyewitness Hamad Ali Ahmed said indiscriminate use of excessive force in people were increasing daily. “Last night rounding this Horn of Africa nation, must three people, including a Somali govern- areas occupied by civilians not involved alone [Sept. 23] we had 30 people within be blamed on the foreign policy role of the ment soldier, were killed in a series of in the fighting. an hour. I worked as a doctor throughout U.S. Under the guise of “fighting Islamic gun battles “near Villa Baidoa when two In a statement on Sept. 29, the alli- the civil war and I have to say this is one terrorism,” the U.S. has heightened mortar shells struck buildings.” (Agence ance stated that “AMISOM (the African of the worst times for the population. It is instability in Somalia and throughout the France Press, Sept. 29) Union Mission in Somalia) used unneces- a disaster.” region. During the same time period, in the sary force and targeted heavily populated Hospital beds were completely filled It was the Bush administration that Holwadag district of the city, another per- quarters and markets far away from the and people were being treated for vari- engineered the invasion of Somalia by son was killed in a crossfire and at least fighting areas, which can only be taken as ous injuries in the corridors and outside Ethiopia in late 2006, after the Union seven were wounded. a deliberate mass killing.” the facility under trees. “We have more of Islamic Courts had made significant Islamic resistance members confirmed In response to the statement by the people outside than inside,” the physician progress in organizing the population and that the attacks on the military bases of Alliance, AMISOM spokesman Barigye said. Making the situation worse is the establishing community development the pro-U.S. forces are the result of a new Ba-Hoku told IRIN that the accusation of fact that some staff members are unable projects. Since the UIC efforts were taking offensive aimed at driving the Ethiopians, indiscriminate targeting of civilians “was to come to work at the hospital due to the place independently of U.S. foreign policy Ugandans and their Somali allies in the nonsense.” Ba-Hoku said that the AU intense fighting. imperatives, the imperialists set out to surrogate government out of the capi- forces did not initiate these attacks. “We Despite the shortage of workers at the occupy the country, utilizing a military tal. According to Commander Mohamed only defend our positions when attacked,” two main hospitals, Medina and Keysaney, surrogate under the leadership of Prime Mohamud Dulyadeyn of the resistance, he said. International Committee of the Red Cross Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. “We attacked the bases of Ugandan forces, However, the United Nations refugee (ICRC) spokesperson Pedram Yazdi said, Since this time Ugandan troops, oper- Ethiopians and Somali stooges. Five of our agency UNHCR claims that Somali refu- “For the time being, the capital hospitals ating ostensibly on behalf of the African men were wounded, but they sustained gees are flooding the Dadaab camp in have enough medical supplies to cope Union, have been sent into the capital to heavy casualties.” (AFP, Sept. 29) northeastern Kenya. “This year alone we with the influx of wounded, and we will back up the Ethiopian occupation. At the same time, a roadside bomb have registered more than 45,000 new asy- re-supply them if more is needed.” (IRIN, The increasing attacks on vessels struck Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu. lum-seekers at Dadaab,” the agency said Sept. 24) in the Gulf of Aden are now providing The device exploded while the soldiers in a statement. On average about 5,000 another rationale for U.S. naval opera- were leaving an area near the presiden- Somalis reach the camp every month. U.S. Navy off northern Somalia tions. However, these efforts are doomed tial palace. In the aftermath of the blast, In other attacks, the Al-Shabab organi- While the fighting was growing in to failure. Somali surrogate troops arrived at the zation, which is a spinoff from the Union Somalia, a Ukrainian ship carrying a Anti-war and anti-imperialist forc- scene and randomly opened fire on com- of Islamic Courts, has carried out opera- large-scale arsenal was seized on Sept. 26 es inside the U.S. must condemn the muters who were gathering in the area. No tions against four International Medical by so-called pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Washington-organized intervention in casualties were reported in the incident. Corps (IMC) offices in the Bakool and The vessel and its crew are reportedly Somalia as a further manifestation of the The escalation of fighting between Sept. Bay regions of Somalia. In a Sept. 26 being held for a $20-million ransom. bogus “global war on terrorism.” 20 and 29 has sparked another large-scale statement, the IMC said that the group The Gulf of Aden, located between Judging from the current situation in exodus from Mogadishu. “From Sept. “is deeply concerned about the impact Yemen and northern Somalia, is a major Somalia, the first steps toward normal- 20, our figures show that 18,500 people of these attacks on the health of already artery utilized by approximately 20,000 ization and stability in the Horn of Africa have fled their homes due to the fight- suffering Somali people, especially vessels every year traveling to and from will be the immediate withdrawal of U.S. ing and shelling,” said Ali Sheikh Yassin, children.” the Suez Canal. Somalis have reportedly and surrogate forces so that real nego- acting chair of the Elman Human Rights Ongoing talks in neighboring Djibouti seized 30 ships there since the beginning tiations can resume among the various Organization in Mogadishu. between the opposition forces and the of the year. political forces inside the country and the “Heavy fighting and shelling went on in TFG have failed to reach agreement on According to Reuters press agency, region. n Hodan and Holwadag districts in south ending the fighting. According to a civil- the Ukrainian ship was transporting gre- Mogadishu,” Yassin said, adding that ian activist close to the talks in Djibouti, nade launchers and ammunition as well

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WHY CAPITALISM MUST GO! The 39th annual ay of ourning D M Topics will include An assessment of the elections, no matter who wins will be held on “Thanksgiving” Thursday, Nov. 27 The deepening economic crisis—What is it & how can we fight back? CONFERENCE at 12 noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Mass. Supporting the right to self-determination against imperialism A dinner/social will follow a march and rally. in the Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia & inside the U.S. SAT•SUN • NOV 15•16 The event is being sponsored by Pushing forward the class struggle=UNITY against racism, (place to be announced) NEW YORK CITY United American Indians of New England. For more updates, go to www.uaine.org. national oppression, immigrant bashing, women’s oppression and LGBT oppression • Plenaries • Discussion groups Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) on organizing youth & students • Strategy sessions • Music/spoken word For New York transportation, call the n Why capitalism is the problem and Socialism is the solution Call 212-627-2994 www.workersworld.net International Action Center at 212-633-6646. Page 10 Oct. 9, 2008 www.workers.org

‘Ziggy’ Klein The Pentagon bailout With a song,

he giveaway to the Wall Street is rooted in capitalism. The crisis comes he stuck to bankers wasn’t the only shell game from capitalist overproduction. Tbeing played out in Congress these The term “bubble” is often used as a his ‘battle past weeks. Wall Street got all the atten- way to describe it in the media, without tion, but there was another huge give- revealing that the bubble is the result of station’ away that Congress approved with little the destructive tendencies of capitalism. discussion. Capitalism is based on a competitive The Associated Press reported on drive for profits and those profits must Sept. 24, “The legislation came together keep expanding or there is a collapse. By Rosemary Neidenberg New York in a remarkably secret process that con- It has nothing to do with production of ww Photo: G. Dunkel centrated decision-making power in the what is needed by society. is father was a rabbi and his mother hands of a few lawmakers.” In the middle The gargantuan sums pumped into the He had a very nice singing voice. When was a communist. She named him of the unfolding financial crisis, on Sept. military-industrial complex have been H the staffer’s desk was slow, he would sing Ziegfreed, not Siegfried. Ziggy said his 27, the Senate approved the $634 billion the government’s response to capital- out with a worker’s song or maybe just name meant “much freedom.” spending bill, which gives $488 billion to ist crises since the Great Depression of “an oldie but goodie.” Drawing from his The place was Times Square, the decade, the Pentagon and $25 billion to the giant the 1930s. Over the last eight years, the encyclopedic memory, he might belt out a the 1960s. The event was a rally against the auto companies. It also gives Big Oil off- government has launched countless wars commercial jingle from old radio days. Vietnam War called by Youth Against War shore drilling rights. Now it’s on Bush’s and invasions and poured trillions of If you stopped to chat with him at his and Fascism, the youth group of Workers desk, waiting for his signature. dollars into military spending. This has desk, you would probably be greeted with World Party. As Ziegfreed Klein observed But that’s still not the whole story. delayed the capitalist crisis, but cannot a political comment or a question—he the action from across Broadway, he saw According to MilitaryBudget.info, which prevent it. was intensely moved by the Palestinian YAWF being attacked by a gang of right- uses government figures, the total esti- Military spending has been like a struggle—but also with “Did I tell you wingers. “When I saw how the YAWF mated military spending, when all items drug pumped into the economy to dull this one about a rabbi, a priest and a people fought them off, I knew that was are included—Pentagon, “atomic energy the pain of a capitalist catastrophe. But minister?” the organization for me.” defense activities,” Homeland Security like a drug, more and more is needed to Back in the 1960s, YAWF put on sev- He joined Workers World Party and and “other military and defense-related keep away the pain. The drug of mili- eral humorous political skits. Fifty years soon after took up his “battle station,” operations”—will be $783 billion this tary spending cannot cure the disease. later, Ziggy could remember all the lines as he called it, at the staffer’s desk in the year and $858 billion next year. And Eventually, no matter how much drug is and songs, and would regale people in the headquarters—answering the phones, that estimate was made before the recent applied, the full sickness does break out. office with them. making sure people got their messages, increases passed by Congress, nor does The Pentagon spending bill just passed Over the past several months, his handling the mail. He worked the after- it cover expected demands for additional by Congress is like throwing more dol- health failed to the point where it was noon shift for 30 years or more, volun- monies for the occupation of Iraq and lars to the drug dealers. That won’t heal impossible for him to reach the HQ and teering to come in after his low-paid office Afghanistan. the crisis and at this point can only make his “battle station.” But his comrades job. After a while, he quit a second job—a The military-industrial complex is a it worse, since it just inflates the gov- made sure he was kept in touch with. He needed income supplement—so he could cancerous growth that comes out of the ernment’s already huge debt. The only died in his sleep early on the morning of fill another staffing slot on Saturdays. inherent tendencies in capitalist produc- government spending that would really Sept. 20. The evening before, he had lis- In his earlier years, he walked from his tion. The only defense involved is defend- matter right now is spending that would tened over the phone to the weekly meet- one-room home in Brooklyn to his job in ing the super-profits of the big capitalists. cushion the people from the capitalist ing of his beloved Workers World. midtown Manhattan. As he grew older, Capitalism is in crisis. The crisis is not crisis. Spending that protects homes, jobs Ziggy wasn’t “cool” or “with it.” He was walking became harder. But he worked caused just by the greed of the Wall Street and health care. To get that, however, one of the countless people who find it it out. He took the subway to an uptown bankers. That greed may exacerbate the will probably require kicking the capital- hard to fit into this isolating society. But stop where there was an elevator and he was made less lonely by having com- crisis, but it doesn’t create it. The crisis ists out of Washington. n then took a cab back downtown to the rades who deeply cared about him and party office. by having an important area of responsi- letters to the editor  letters to the editor He welcomed retirement because it bility, from which he contributed to the meant he could come in earlier. struggle for nearly 45 of his 79 years. Ziggy had a powerful, tireless voice for His favorite poet was Don West, who chanting. As long as he was physically wrote: Sept. 17 ‘special day able, there were few demonstrations or He who clambers through the stars marches he missed. He recounted with And plants his toes on highland peak Our elected officials do work for us, and a proud smile a picket line on Staten Shall not again be satisfied of my life’ I do not understand why they seem to Island, N.Y., of striking graveyard work- think that they own us. Lets join together To tramp the level waters seek. Dear Detroit Workers.org, ers. “I was taking a break from chanting,” in Unity as we fight the many social- he recalled, “and one of the workers came For he who tastes life deep and hard Thanks for speaking out for the economic struggles that lie ahead. to me and said, ‘Please, please, you have Shall not trip lightly on its rim, Communities of this nation that’s experi- — Peace & Love, such a loud voice. Don’t stop now. The TV But surging strong against its barbs encing foreclosures and illegal evictions. Brother William X Akbar cameras are here.’” There’ll be no quiet peace for him. September 17th was one of the most special days of my life. Because I was able to attend and also be a part of the March on our State Capitol demanding the pas- sage of SB-1306 for a two-year moratori- From a former Chrysler closures. There are no guarantees of jobs. um to stop all foreclosures and evictions It amounts to champagne for the financial in Michigan. Lynch Road assembly worker wizards of Wall Street and cutbacks and This march was just the beginning austerity for the workers and oppressed. here on the state level, and there is On Sept. 28 Rep. Barney Frank with just 21.1 percent of the total African In his pamphlet, “Chrysler and the plans to take this matter all the way to defended the Wall Street bailout package Americans. And there were just 33,051 UAW,” Workers World Chairperson Sam Washington, D.C. on C-SPAN by saying that the Chrysler workers employed in and around Detroit, Marcy wrote: “Under workers’ control The march on Lansing was a great Loan Guarantee Act of 1979, a bailout of 52 percent of the total. Detroit remains of production for use instead of profit, master plan, and I am honored to have $1.2 billion, gave the federal government devastated to this day. it [the auto industry] could thrive and been a part of the rally. It was an honor “a little money.” Frank is leading the When Chrysler closed its Lynch Road develop and at the same time renovate to share the platform with Hon. Sen. charge to have the capitalist government assembly plant in 1980, it gave a three- itself in an orderly fashion without invok- Hanson Clarke from Detroit who cre- now give Wall Street a whopping $700 hour notice to the workers over the radio ing any cataclysmic collapse (as though ated this bill. Also being side by side with billion, saying that just like with Chrysler, stations. Plant guards and Detroit police the earth were collapsing from under the one of the most honorable ladies that I the federal government may make money were stationed around the plant gates industrial plants and equipment of the have known since childhood, and now in the end. to ensure that the workers didn’t “break auto industry).” she’s my area state senator, Martha G. That money will come from the workers. into” the plant to start work. As those words applied to the auto Scott, the co-creator of SB-1306. And it But what are the real lessons of the On top of that, remaining Chrysler industry almost 30 years ago, they ring was great to see the many organizations, Chrysler loan guarantees for the workers union workers were forced to undergo true today for the whole country. The only groups, along with the many individuals and the oppressed communities, such as severe wage concessions because of way to end this financial tumult that Wall that attended from all around the state. in Detroit? In 1977, Chrysler employed the act. Ford and General Motors were Street has enmeshed us in is for the work- As Chairperson of the Community 145,953 workers, 26.5 percent of whom enabled to lay off thousands of their ers and oppressed communities to control Movement of Highland Park and a mem- were African American. In the Detroit workers and squeeze concessions from production for “use instead of profit!” ber of Michigan Welfare Rights, I can metro area, 83,656 Chrysler workers the UAW right up to today. —Chris Fry assure you that [these] two groups are were employed: 57.5 percent of the total. It is clear that today’s Wall Street bail- Delmar, NY fully supporting SB-1306. By the end of 1982, after the loan out amounts to the same Chrysler model, Fry was a labor activist in Detroit We are the government. We are the guarantees were in place for three years, with a vast increase in scale. There are no during the period of the 1979 Chrysler People, for the People, and by the People. Chrysler employed just 63,574 workers, promises of a moratorium on home fore- Loan Guarantee Act. www.workers.org Oct. 9, 2008 Page 11 10,000 in Germany protest Afghanistan war More than 10,000 protesters took to Afghanistan, even if their governments the streets of Germany’s capital Berlin refused to join the occupation of Iraq and the southern metropolis Stuttgart or have withdrawn from Iraq. In these on Sept. 17 to demand the withdrawal of countries the anti-war movement focuses German troops from Afghanistan. on demands that the troops be with- All surveys and opinion polls show drawn from Afghanistan. that a majority of people living in Beside this protest in Germany, there Germany oppose the country’s massive is another set for Canada, whose troops participation in the illegal occupation of have taken relatively heavy casual- Afghanistan, although only a minority in ties. The Canadian Peace Alliance and the Bundestag (Parliament) reflect this Collectif Échec à la Guerre are calling for position. Here, the demonstrators from a pan-Canadian day of action on Oct. 18 the Left Party carry a banner that reads: to end the war in Afghanistan and bring “Federal Army out of Afghanistan.” Canadian troops home. Many of the NATO countries are —John Catalinotto participating in the occupation of PHOTO: GABRIELE SENFT letters to the editor  letters to the editor Students denounce war criminals Iran’s ‘crimes’? a gracious host, Bollinger displayed rude- ness, disrespect and insults. In 2002, George W. Bush named Iran Both Democratic and Republican pres- as part of an “axis of evil,” warning about idential nominees, Obama and McCain, Iran’s “nuclear ambitions.” Although have stated the U.S. needs to impose International Atomic Energy Agency heavier sanctions on Iran, mobilize inspectors have found no evidence of Iran the world community to go after Iran’s developing a nuclear weapons program, nuclear program, and act more forcefully Bush continues to state that Iran is a to contain Iran’s nuclear capabilities, all “threat” to world peace. to protect the Zionist state of Israel. The This Sept. 28, Iran’s president, candidates won’t state whether Israel has Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressed “a green light” or not to use its nuclear the annual session of the U.N. General weapons. McCain even joked about Assembly. Quite noticeable was the bombing Iran. absence of both U.S. and Israeli delega- The war drums seem to be banging. tions during his speech. The U.S. bour- And we’re still waiting for the U.S. gov- A huge noisy crowd, mostly students, Iraq. Clark, who directed the U.S.-NATO geois media, as usual, opted to attack and ernment and the media to explain why held the largest anti-war demonstration bombing of Yugoslavia, admits responsi- vilify him, seeming incapable of reporting Ahmadinejad is considered “one of the in years at the State University of New bility for choosing civilian targets. in a balanced and objective manner. most hostile and controversial heads of York at Buffalo. They gathered to protest People were outraged that these crimi- The corporate media characterized state” and Iran is so dangerous. What’s the so-called “debate” between war crimi- nals were being paid for their two-hour Ahmadinejad’s speech as “rant and rail- the rhetoric really all about? nals Karl Rove and Gen. Wesley Clark. performance more than twice what most ing.” They referred to him as “madman,” War on Iran and its people would be Rove, former Bush chief advisor, is families have to live on for a year, espe- “despot,” “kook,” “foe,” “belligerent” and another preemptive war for oil. There one of the chief neocon architects of the cially when so many face foreclosures, “lousy.” One TV commentator announced are no weapons of mass destruction! current wars at home and abroad that evictions and job losses. The demonstra- that Ahmadinejad was about to be However, both the U.S. and Israel do serve the interests of corporate greed. tion was organized by PJAW, a broad “grilled” by reporters. A local newspaper possess nuclear weapons. Several other He was never made to pay for his part in coalition of local anti-war, peace and jus- called his speech “a snoozer of a sermon.” countries also have nuclear power or the Enron Corporation’s crimes, or the tice groups. They even stated that the suit he wore weapons. The threat to the security and killing and displacement of millions in —Report and photo by Ellie Dorritie looked like the same as last year’s. stability of the Middle East region comes This past August, Ahmadinejad from Washington, not from Iran. With all granted a TV interview in Tehran with a the U.S. threats and years of an embargo prominent U.S. journalist, Charlie Rose, against Iran, we’re still left wondering: Much ado about the who prefaced his introduction by stating, what exactly are Iran’s crimes? “No leader in the world is more contro- The long arm of U.S. “national inter- versial, mainly due to his rhetoric regard- ests” is extensive and expanding. The U.S. blockade of Cuba ing the holocaust and the state of Israel, U.S. is not interested in peace in the than Pres. Ahmadinejad.” The interview region. Instead, it prefers to display force By Cheryl LaBash could result in fines or jail time. itself contained sarcasm, snide remarks and military power to get its way. It has New York The judge ruled secretly edited tran- and accusations by Rose. historically been involved in creating and The Rev. Lucius Walker, founder of scripts could not be used, raising the pos- Last year, President Ahmadinejad fueling hostilities in the region. And the Pastors for Peace and the Interreligious sibility that the contempt motions might spoke at Columbia University in New capitalist media participates in the pro- Foundation for Community Organization, also be withdrawn. The next hearing date York City at the invitation of the student paganda, resorting to deception, name sat in New York State Supreme Court was not set. body. The university president’s, Lee C. calling, and prejudice again and again. Justice Judith Gische’s courtroom on Underlying all this is the ongoing U.S. Bollinger, so-called “introduction” of There is no shame in anyone’s game. Sept. 23. With him, a rainbow of support- government’s vicious war against socialist Ahmadinejad became a lengthy personal —Dolores Cox ers filled every seat. Cuba and, by extension, those who dare to attack, revealing his contempt. Not being New York City activist The hearing continued the attempts exercise their constitutional right to travel by Richard Condon, the Special Commis­ ­ there. Cuba is the only country in the world MUNDO OBRERO sioner of Investigation for the New York to which the U.S. government attempts City School District, to compel informa- to ban travel. Condon cited “an ongoing tion about an April 2007 educational trip investigation” as the reason for not provid- to Cuba by Beacon High School students. ing the transcript to the court or defense ¿Explotará la burbuja The issue in the hearing was whether or attorneys. This assertion may indicate that not the SCI could edit and keep secret SCI is being used by federal government parts of the interrogation transcripts, agencies for information gathering. expansionista de la OTAN? then use the redacted version as evidence Afterward, during a brief meeting with against the Rev. Walker in two contempt supporters in the courtroom, American Continua de pagina 12 Lockheed-Martin, McDonnell Douglas y of court motions. These serious charges Civil Liberties Union attorney Linda dos, Demócrata y Republicano para dar GE — con miles de contratistas y subcon- Backiel, who along with Palyn Hung rep- asistencia a Georgia, además del continuo tratistas. La guerra en el Cáucaso fue “una excepto militarismo, guerra, y amenazas resented Walker and IFCO, pointed out apoyo para la expansión de la OTAN, las campanada para las acciones de defensa.” de más guerra. Esto hace que el sistema that the hearing was over a technical point tropas en Irak y Afganistán, y las bases (Wall Street Journal, 16 de agosto) capitalista entero sea más peligroso y esté and in some ways like the Shakespeare estadounidenses alrededor del mundo. Los pretextos para nuevas guerras y nue- más desesperado. comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.” But Aunque Estados Unidos está experi- vos cargamentos de armas son aliciente Es necesario que el movimiento de its real importance was demonstrated by mentando contratiempos políticos, para estos mercaderes de la muerte. la clase trabajadora y l@s activistas so many people coming to court to show económicos y militares, la contradicción El presupuesto militar de los Estados progresistas y en contra de la guerra their concern and support. que resulta invariablemente en una ame- Unidos es ya más grande que el del resto se opongan no solamente a las guer- The Rev. Walker thanked supporters naza de guerra acrecentada es que el mili- del mundo combinado, y sigue crecien- ras individuales del imperialismo esta- and announced a special hurricane recon- tarismo es una subvención infinita para las do. El imperialismo estadounidense hoy dounidense. Oponerse a todas las guerras struction caravan to include volunteer corporaciones estadounidenses dominant- en día no tiene soluciones para las crisis estadounidenses y exigir la abolición de la carpenters, plumbers and electricians who es — las corporaciones militares de Boeing, que están emergiendo por todo el mundo OTAN están ahora en la agenda. n would help rebuild Pinar Del Rio, Cuba. n Mhndo Obrero ¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los países, uníos! ¿Explotará la burbuja expansionista de la OTAN?

Por Sara Flounders tamente en documentos publicados en la momento después de que se reuniera proporcionar ni siquiera los servicios más década de los años noventa, que trans- con Cheney y rechazara absolutamente básicos de agua potable y electricidad a Primera parte: El viaje de Dick formaría la OTAN—una alianza militar el suministro de gas para el gasoducto una población que ha rehusado abruma- Cheney expone la debilidad de comandada por EEUU—para prevenir que Nabucco. “Entonces, un disgustado Sr. doramente la ocupación. Estados Unidos la propiedad y la planificación socialista Cheney aparentemente no se presentó a En medio de todo esto, las amenazas Cada esfuerzo de los Estados Unidos emergiera de nuevo y para asegurarse de un banquete oficial”. estadounidenses y la información sobre por imponerse y restituir su decadente que no se estableciera una potencia capi- Entonces el 16 de septiembre, los dos un probable ataque militar contra Irán dominación global confirma el debilita- talista rival en Rusia o un bloque militar partidos aliados a EEUU en el régimen de han continuado casi sin cesar. La mitad de miento de su posición. rival en Europa. La meta de EEUU era Ucrania se dividieron y forzaron la caída la marina estadounidense está a poca dis- Esta débil posición de Estados Unidos lograr la dominación militar y corporativa del gobierno a pesar de los esfuerzos por tancia de Irán, capaz de lanzar un ataque. nunca fue más obvia que durante la visita de toda la región. parte de Washington de mantenerlos uni- Al mismo tiempo, Estados Unidos ha del Vicepresidente Dick Cheney a Georgia, El bombardeo, el desmembramiento y dos en contra de Moscú. seguido adelante con una intensificación Ucrania y Azerbaiyán a comienzos de la ocupación por la OTAN de Yugoslavia Este es un revés importante después de desenfrenada: el plan para establecer en septiembre. Y se confirmó cuando los desde 1994 hasta hoy, sentó un prec- casi dos décadas de creciente dominación Polonia misiles anti balísticos y radares en miembros de la OTAN pusieron a un lado edente para la rápida expansión de la por los EEUU sobre la región entera. Estos la República Checa a pesar de la enorme las demandas de los Estados Unidos de OTAN como una alianza militar domi- reveses no eliminan el riesgo de una nueva oposición popular allí. imponer sanciones contra Rusia después nada por Estados Unidos. guerra provocada por los EEUU. Estar en de la invasión por Georgia a Osetia del La nueva clase capitalista rusa vio oposición a todas las guerras de los EEUU Colapso de un títere estadounidense Sur el 7 de agosto con el consiguiente con- cómo todos los países de Europa Oriental y demandar la abolición de la OTAN están La peligrosa intensificación de la flota traataque ruso. Los miembros imperialis- y muchas de las ex repúblicas de la URSS ahora en la agenda del movimiento anti- de la OTAN en el Mar Negro, la expansión tas de la OTAN, Alemania, Francia e Italia se convertían en peones del imperialismo guerra de los EEUU. continua en la cantidad de miembros de cortésmente pospusieron las exigencias norteamericano y se usaban como bases la OTAN, el intento de hacer que otros de Estados Unidos de incluir a Georgia y militares contra Rusia. Ahora el Primer Segunda Parte: EEUU depende miembros imperialistas occidentales Ucrania en la alianza de la OTAN liderada Ministro ruso Putin está ya muy tardía- más de soluciones militares de la OTAN impongan sanciones con- por Estados Unidos. mente, tratando de afirmar la soberanía Washington cada vez más considera las tra Rusia, la visita imperiosa de Cheney Los imperialistas europeos necesitan del en un país de gran extensión territorial, amenazas de sanciones y/o los ataques y el aumento dramático de asistencia a petróleo y la gasolina rusa para alimentar rodeado y tremendamente debilitado militares como solución para resolver Georgia, son todos esfuerzos desespera- sus industrias. Ellos también quieren pro- desde los días del Sóviet. todos sus problemas y desafíos. Pero para dos de los Estados Unidos para fortalecer teger sus inversiones corporativas en Rusia cada nueva agresión, la administración de su posición. Pero estas medidas no pueden más de lo que quieren respaldar la posición Rechazadas las políticas de EEUU Bush encuentra más y más dificultades poner marcha atrás al enorme contratiem- decadente de los Estados Unidos. Poco sorprende que Putin denunciara en movilizar a sus aliados. Hasta algunos po sufrido por los Estados Unidos en su Cheney visitó Georgia, Ucrania y el papel jugado por las naves militares estados títeres intentan ahora alejarse de estado cliente de Georgia. Azerbaiyán en un esfuerzo por aumen- de EEUU en el Mar Negro supuesta- las iniciativas estadounidenses. El ejército de Georgia ha recibido entre- tar las amenazas militares contra Rusia y mente haciendo entrega de “ayuda Cada país capitalista grande que com- namiento militar estadounidense e israelí mostrar la determinación de los Estados humanitaria” a Georgia. Pero incluso el pite con los Estados Unidos busca primero por cinco años y millones de dólares de Unidos por controlar esta estratégica Ministro del Exterior de Francia Bernard satisfacer sus propios intereses económi- aprovisionamiento tecnológicamente región en la frontera con Rusia. Mientras Kouchner—quien llamó el bombardeo cos. Sus cálculos son que EEUU ha perdi- avanzado. Además del apoyo y el estímulo Cheney visitaba estos países, 18 barcos de contra Yugoslavia en 1999 una “guerra do su ventaja económica competitiva; sus de los EEUU para su ingreso en la OTAN. guerra de la OTAN, equipados con armas humanitaria”—cuestionó las tácticas actu- instituciones financieras están en crisis Miles de organizaciones no gubernamen- estratégicas, incluyendo misiles teledirigi- ales de los Estados Unidos y dijo firme- debilitando al sistema capitalista entero. tales financiadas por corporaciones esta- dos, aparecieron en el Mar Negro cerca de mente que “el uso de naves de guerra para La máquina de guerra estadounidense, dounidenses dirigían la mayor parte del las costas de Georgia y de Rusia. El barco entregar ayuda humanitaria arriesgaría con compromisos más allá de su capaci- aparato estatal, manteniendo a Georgia USS Mount Whitney, líder de la Sexta inflamar las tensiones con Rusia.” dad, está empantanada en ocupaciones firmemente en la órbita estadounidense. Flota Naval de Estados Unidos, ancló en La declaración de Kouchner demuestra militares desastrosas, enfrentando movi- Entonces, el presidente de Georgia el puerto Poti de Georgia en el Mar Negro todas las tensiones, fisuras y debilidades mientos de resistencia a largo plazo. inició un ataque devastador contra la el 6 de septiembre, a sólo 6 millas de una de esta alianza que pueden deshacerla. Mientras Dick Cheney visitaba Georgia, pequeña región autónoma de Osetia de base militar rusa. Koucher dijo que la crisis “sólo se puede Azerbaiyán y Ucrania a principios de sep- Sur el 7 de agosto, bombardeando su Las crecientes amenazas militares de resolver políticamente y no con buques de tiembre, el presidente George W. Bush capital, Tskhinvali, y la zona circundante, los Estados Unidos preocupan no sólo a guerra”. Él también dudó del valor político anunció una ayuda para Georgia de $1 matando a much@s osetian@s sureñ@s. los intereses comerciales de sus aliados del viaje de Cheney a Georgia, Ucrania, y mil millones, describiéndola como un Luego de un día de contraataque ruso, el imperialistas en Europa Occidental. Estas Azerbaiyán. (Bloomberg News, 6 de sept.) compromiso por muchos años. El Fondo ejército georgiano colapsó en un caos total. amenazas también han llevado a agudos La visita de Cheney a Azerbaiyán, un Monetario Internacional, controlado Comandantes abandonaron sus puestos, enfrentamientos con la clase capitalista país rico en recursos petroleros en el Mar por los EEUU, va a abrir acceso a otros secuestraron ambulancias y huyeron a la emergente en Rusia. Caspio que fuera antes una república de la $750 millones en ayuda inmediata para capital de Tbilisi. Las unidades no podían Este grupo anteriormente actuó como Unión Soviética, fue un gran revés. EEUU Georgia. Miles de millones más en ayuda comunicarse unas con otras. Los soldados que iban a permanecer socios de los financió la construcción del oleoducto de militar están proyectados. rasos entonces tiraron toneladas de nue- Estados Unidos en la eventual explotación mil millas, con capacidad de un millón de Simultáneamente con la postura agresi- vas armas estadounidenses en los caminos de las industrias que anteriormente eran barriles por día a un costo de $4 mil mil- va de la OTAN en la región del Mar Negro, y también huyeron. propiedad social de la Unión Soviética. lones desde Bakú, la capital de Azerbaiyán, está la expansión de las redadas militares y Un artículo del New York Times del Estuvieron totalmente de acuerdo con el a través de Georgia a su capital Tiblisi, bombardeos de los EEUU y de la OTAN en 3 de septiembre echó toda la culpa a la desmembramiento de la URSS. Después hasta Ceyhán, un puerto en Turquía. Pakistán, un país aliado de los EEUU. Esta tecnología: “Los problemas militares de se encontraron con que los piratas imperi- Este proyecto de construcción, vasto afrenta a la soberanía de Pakistán ya ha Georgia eran graves y demasiado difíciles alistas no cumplieron con sus acuerdos. y costoso –denominado la línea Bakú- inflamado los sentimientos en contra de los de cambiar simplemente mejorando el Muchos estudios históricos aseveran Tiblisi-Ceyhán o la línea BTC, fue un EEUU y de la OTAN. En una declaración equipo.” Sin embargo, el artículo también que en 1990, el líder soviético Mikhail esfuerzo iniciado por la administración el 16 de septiembre, el primer ministro de dijo que “el entrenamiento y equipamiento Gorbachev aceptó que una Alemania de Clinton. El propósito principal era Pakistán, Yousuf Raza Gilani llamó por un de nuevas brigadas, re-aprovisionamiento capitalista unida pudiera ser parte de la desviar el petróleo hacia los mercados del alto inmediato a las incursiones militares de la fuerzas existentes y la instalación de OTAN después de que el Secretario de Oeste, fuera de su ruta por Rusia. Por la de los EEUU, agregando que “la soberanía una red moderna de defensa aérea podrían Estado Baker asegurara que la OTAN no misma razón, miles de millones de dólares y la integridad territorial del país serían costar de $8 a $9 mil millones,” y que esto extendería su jurisdicción hacia el Este. también fueron gastados en el gasoducto salvaguardadas a cualquier precio”. estaba siendo debatido. El Ministro del Exterior alemán Hans Nabucco desde Baku transitando vía El bombardeo de la OTAN de un pueblo Dietrich Genscher, Francois Mitterrand Georgia hacia Turquía. en Afganistán que mató a más de 90 per- La única solución de los Estados de Francia y John Major de Bretaña hici- Según un artículo del Times de Londres sonas, mayormente niñ@s y civiles afgan- Unidos es más guerra eron promesas similares. del 8 de septiembre con el título: “Cómo el is, ha forzado hasta al régimen títere de La clase corporativa dominante de los El imperialismo estadounidense no Oeste está perdiendo la guerra fría ener- Afganistán a denunciar el ataque. Estados Unidos está contando más y más tiene lugar para socios capitalistas que gética”, el presidente de Azerbaiyán Ilham Las fuerzas de ocupación de los EEUU con la guerra para salvar su posición. Esto al final lleguen a ser rivales capitalistas. Aliyev públicamente desairó a Cheney, en Irak todavía no han podido, después de se ve reflejado en el apoyo de ambos parti- La política de Washington dicta explíci- llamó al presidente ruso Medvedev el más de cinco años, asegurar sus bases o Continua a pagina 11