AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE Venezuela: Workers, farmers face effects of capitalist crisis — PAGE 6 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE Vol. 82/no. 32 August 27, 2018 SWP: Fight for 15,000 Uber Gov’t immigration raid independent drivers strike sparks Nebraska protests working-class over pay cuts political action in Australia BY EMMA JOHnsON BY LINDA HARRIS As historic changes are taking place SYDNEY — Uber drivers across in the world — in Korea, the Middle Australia stopped work Aug. 6 to East, Europe and elsewhere — mem- protest the decline in their take-home bers and supporters of the Socialist pay caused by two new programs the Workers Party are taking their class- company has imposed on them. The action was called by Ride Share SWP SPEAKS OUT FOR Drivers United, which reported that 15,000 drivers logged off the Uber EXPLOITED, OPPRESSED app and refused to pick up passengers between 7 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. in Mel- struggle program broadly to working bourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and people. They knock on workers’ doors Hobart. This is the fifth work stop- in cities, towns and rural areas to ex- page the group has held since Febru- plain where these changes come from, ary 2017. and why workers need to chart an in- The explosion of Uber, Lyft and dependent political course — from other app-based ride services around Courtesy Micheal Peterson the capitalist rulers, their parties and the world has put a spotlight on the Wrestling coach Bryan Corkle addresses rally in O’Neill, Nebraska, Aug. 8 protesting ar- rest, deportation of workers without papers during ICE raid at nearby factories and farms. their state — on the road to overturn exploitative wages and working con- their system and take political power. ditions imposed on drivers. The boss- Socialist Workers Party: ‘I was surprised, pleased Where bourgeois media and par- es of “traditional” taxi companies and ‘Amnesty for immigrants!’ at the size of the turnout’ ties beholden to this oppressive sys- their app-based competitors profit by tem confuse and obfuscate, the SWP pitting the drivers against each other. The following statement was released BY SETH GAlinSKY reaches out to discuss and contest the In face of growing competition Aug. 15 by Margaret Trowe, Socialist Some 80 people in O’Neill, a town Continued on page 3 Continued on page 5 Workers Party candidate for U.S. Sen- of 3,700 in northeastern Nebraska, ate from New York. Trowe lives in Al- protested immigration raids as they bany, where she works for Walmart. were taking place Aug. 8 at nearby tomato and potato processing plants Join fight against censorship and some other locations, as well as SWP STATEMENT in Minnesota and Nevada. Most of in Illinois, Florida prisons! the 133 arrested were from Nebraska. AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 There are 11 million immigrant “Illegal friends, neighbors, cowork- INSIDE Class-struggle road for workers workers without visas, work permits ers, classmates,” read one prominent to take political power Lessons from 1930s Teamster struggles — PAGE 7 or other papers recognized by the protest sign. A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 82/NO. 26 JULY 16, 2018 government living in the U.S. today. The raids had two separate targets. They are here firstly because the colo- The over 100 workers who Immigra- Build fight to Join July 12th protest New struggles Continued on page 9 Continued on page 9 win amnesty against pension cuts! today open for immigrants Join Mine Workers, Teamsters in Columbus door to build across the US labor unions Primaries expose ongoing crisis BY SETH GALINSKY Union officials, meritocratic heads of NEW YORK — Opposition by “progressive” nongovernmental organi- working people to recent factory raids zations and the liberal media are predict- by Immigration and Customs En- ing doom and gloom over a June 27 U.S. forcement shows that the fight to win Supreme Court ruling called the Janus wracking both capitalist parties amnesty for 11 million undocumented decision. On a 5-4 vote, the black-robed workers in the U.S. can gain broader arbiters of ruling-class “justice” held support than ever. It’s a demand we that government agencies can no longer BY TErrY EVAns presidential candidates of both major have won before, and we can win be required to pay dues or “agency fees” again! The primary contests under- capitalist parties evoked such political After ICE cops raided Fresh Mark’s meatpacking plants in Ohio June 19, EDITORIAL way to select candidates for the two distrust, disgust and aversion among both the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters union condemned it. “Seeking a bet- to the unions of public workers. ter life for yourself and your family is The court’s ruling aims “to destroy main capitalist parties contending in working people, youth and broad lay- not a crime,” said AFL-CIO spokes- public-sector unions,” wrote the New person Chip Shannon June 29. “The Florida prison Yorkcensored Times editors. “‘Preparingissue forof the the the November elections have been ers of the lower middle class.” attacks on these workers call to ques- worst’: unions brace for loss of mem- MilitantUnited Mine for Workers this article reporting on tion the freedom of all working peo- Mine Workers union rally Oct. 14, 2015, Brookwood, Alabama, protests attacks on pensions, health care. bers,” headlined the Washington Post. marked by the political crisis wrack- Continued on page 4 ple.” victory in overturningThe fact of the matterprior is unions censor have - “An attack on any one worker is an BY EMMA JOHNSON The unions are urging a big turnout been losing ground for decades, and it’s ing both the Democrats and Repub- attack on our shared goal of lifting On July 12 thousands of union coal for the protest.ship The fight attempts. for union- not Paper because of anti-unionis fighting laws or court fed - up all workers in our country,” said miners, teamsters, bakery workers, scale retirement benefits for all work- rulings. It’s because top union officials licans, a crisis that accelerated with Teamsters President James Hoffa. musicians and other workers from ers guaranteederal by the prison government ban have on tied all our issuesunions to getting in Illinois. out the But the organizers of protests that across the Midwest and beyond will needs to be the cause of the entire la- vote for mostly Democratic Party politi- drew tens of thousands across the rally in Columbus, Ohio, demanding bor movement. cians, instead of organizing the unorga- Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential country June 30 did not raise the the government take steps to main- “We have buses coming from cit- nized, building a fighting union move- Inside BYdemand Bri forA amnesty.N wil Instead, lithey AMtain pensionsS of tens of thousands of iescurity across the Midwest matter.” and from Ala- ment, part of a broad social movement victory. Continued on page 3 retired and working members. bama,” Phil Smith, communications that speaks out for and inspires all work- The Militant urges readers to join in director“Banning with the United Mine theWork- Militanters, the unemployed andbecause the oppressed. it This crisis is a product of the search Protests hit Quebec festival Continued on page 5 Continued on page 10 winningProtests support win forsupport the newspaper’s in fight to covers the views and activities of the by growing numbers of workers for move to shut musical revue 2 fightjail to cop overturn who killeda ban imposed Antwon on Rose the SWPSocialist conference: Workers Workers Party respondand its tocan - ways to stand up to the bosses’ assaults paper to a subscriber at the Federal shiftsdidates shaking is an world unconstitutional capitalist ‘order’ attack on wages and working conditions, the Argentine supporters of right BY TERRY EVANS Active Workers Conference, held Bureau of Prisons’ medium security ANDon JO HNpolitical STUDER rightsJune 14-16and in Oberlin, freedom Ohio, and post- of debilitating impact on workers of the to abortion say ‘we will win’ 4 This is the second of two articles conference meeting of the party’s Na- facility in Greenville, Illinois. onthe discussions press,” and decisions said at the Militanttional Committee. editor John rulers’ ongoing wars abroad, and the Socialist Workers Party-sponsored Last week’s article described how teachers’ strikes and fights in West Warden Tom Werlich justified the Studer. “It can setVirginia a dangerous and other states this prec year - rulers’ grinding attacks on our social, TSA ‘Quiet Skies’ spy US rulers, Moscow announced a new stage in the class ban in his July 12 rejection of the edent for broaderstruggle, prison inspiring censorshipworkers across the cultural and political rights. program targets passengers 5 set summit meet to U.S. “Build the Labor Movement” Militant, saying the paper “is a news- of the Militant andwill other be the axis publicationsof work of the party’s Describing the circumstances that weekly journal associated with the discusswith points decreasing of view any Continuedwarden on page dis 8 - led to Trump’s election in 2016, So- Support grows for fight to jail Mideast tensions Socialist Workers Party and encour- BYagrees TERRY EV ANSwith throughoutInside the entire cialist Workers Party leader Steve cop who killed Antwon Rose 6 President Donald Trump and Rus- ages change by protesting and strik- sianprison President Vladimir system.” Putin have Doug Ford election in Ontario Clark wrote in the introduction to The set a July 16 summit in Helsinki, Fin- reflects working-class unrest 2 ing.