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Labor's Gotta Play Hardball to Win!
Showdown on West Coast Docks: The Battle of Longview
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Fast Food Workers Need a Whopping Raise,
and a Fighting Union!
Class Struggle Against Poverty Wages
Pressuring Democrats Is a Dead-End
Above: Boistrous demonstration for $15/hour wage outside restaurant on Fulton Street, Brooklyn, December 5. (Internationalist photos)
Build a Revolutionary Workers Party!
DECEMBER 5 – Over the last year and a half there have been a number of well-publicized protests at fast-food restaurants like McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s, and at stores of the vast Walmart chain, the largest private employer in the world. Although they have been billed as “strikes,” the number of workers who have actually walked off the job is very small – for obvious reasons, since they face immediate dismissal by their viciously anti-union employers at the least sign of labor militancy. Mostly these have been media events organized by a few unions and foundation-funded NGOs (“non-governmental organizations”). But they have gotten attention and the conditions faced by low-wage workers are so terrible that they could eventually spark something.
(Photo: NPR)
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The sorry state of trade unions in the U.S. is not due so much to anti-labor laws as to the unwillingness of union leaders to defy the bosses’ legality. The policy of the labor fakers is class collaboration as opposed to class struggle. ...
The only road to actually breaking the cycle of poverty, racism and endless war that is inherent in capitalism is for those organizing low-wage workers to put forward a program of militant class struggle, breaking with the Democrats to form a revolutionary workers party.
Such a program must not limit itself to wages but must take up all the forms of oppression we face. Women are a majority of low-wage and part-time workers, and a large number are single moms. A real fight to defend them must include demands for free, 24-hour daycare. Also, most employees of fast food restaurants are African American, Latino and Asian workers who also face racist repression, like the notorious “stop and frisk” practices of the NYPD. Instead of talking of “reforming” this racist profiling, as mayor-elect de Blasio does, class-struggle militants call for workers mobilization to put an end to “stop and frisk” once and for all.
For the large number of undocumented workers trapped in low-wage jobs, a key demand is for full citizenship rights for all immigrants: everyone should have the same rights. And as U.S. imperialism under commander in chief Obama continues its wars around the world, working-class internationalists fight to defeat the war on working people, “at home” and abroad, through international socialist revolution. A tall order, but it’s the only road. ■
http://www.internationalist.org/classstruggleagainstpovertywages1312.html
see the whole article at THE INTERNATIONALIST GROUP Home Page
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"People have only as much liberty
as they have the intelligence to want
and the courage to take.”
Emma Goldman
The officers involved were not punished for this crime. Chief Potter essentially blamed the victim. (the mentally ill) The officers who kicked, punched, and beat James to death (in front of 12 witnesses) were neither disciplined nor prosecuted. There was zero accountability for this crime. And the killings continue. tmf
http://www.theportlandalliance.org/alienboy
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BREAKING NEWS AT THE ALLIANCE:
SYSTEM GRAVELY BROKEN:
RESPONSES TO CHASSE DISCIPLINE REVERSAL
The two officers who had been disciplined in
the brutal beating death of James Chasse, Jr. were ordered to have their records expunged and back payments made for the 80 hours each was suspended.
As long as we continue to have little police accountability in Portland,
avoidable killings of innocent people will continue.
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/policeaccountability
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