The cynical & unserious language lays bare both the political orientation of the #DSA and the conclusions that flow from it. #Burgis is not addressing workers and young people in opposition to imperialist war through mass struggle.
He speaks as an advocate of imperialist policies and planned wars.
The #SEIU #UTLA & #AALA betrayals in #LA follow a national pattern. Throughout the past year union bureaucracies have blocked or shut down struggles by #NYC & #KaiserPermanente nurses, San Francisco educators, Michigan #autoworkers each time promoting limited agreements while demobilizing workers.
#Freedom for #BaşaranAksu and all working-class prisoners in Türkiye!
The last-minute negotiations follow the announcement Sunday of tentative agreements by #UnitedTeachersLosAngeles (UTLA) and the #AssociatedAdministratorsofLosAngeles (AALA), moves that have already served to divide workers and weaken the prospect of unified strike action.
New York rally by Sanders, Mamdani and union officials covers up US war drive against Iran
The speeches were filled with empty demagogy and bluster, aimed at promoting the Democratic Party
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The #Times preserves the possibility of the bipartisan coalition of #Republicans and #Democrats it is working to construct a coalition that cannot be built if #Trump’s conduct has been characterized as criminal & must therefore be prosecuted rather than incorporated into a shared strategic framework
#OpposetheDraft
The #American ruling class is laying the foundations for the reimposition of the #draft.
The corporate oligarchy wants cannon fodder for its illegal and expanding wars of aggression.
While #Trump signed the measure into law, the drive to reimpose conscription is #bipartisan.
#GM has idled #FactoryZero in #Detroit again, laying off 1,300 workers — while spending $6 billion on stock buybacks. The #UAW bureaucracy hasn’t called a single meeting or protest. Workers must build rank-and-file committees to enforce a zero-layoff policy.
Read #WillLehmen 's full statement
#Marxism has always insisted that morality is not an eternal commandment hovering above society, equally binding upon all classes regardless of their material interests and social position. #Morality has a history. It has a class basis.
Read, Learn, get involved!
#Iranwar #WSWS #SEP
Trump says workers must pay for imperialist war with cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and daycare
Trump said plainly what American imperialism is after: resources, strategic domination and profit.
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"We will do everything that we can in the courts, but ultimately the fight against #dictatorship and #right-wing terror is not going to be led from within the #American state apparatus. It's going to come from the population of this country."- Eric Lee
Palestinian activist #NerdeenKiswani, who was targeted by a #Zionist in an attempted assassination plot, speaks after press conference Monday in #NewYork.
This plot occurs in the backdrop of an intimidation campaign & violent incitement against opponents of the US-Israeli #genocide in #Gaza
More than 8 million join mass anti-Trump “No Kings” protests
The presence of Democratic Party politicians and trade union bureaucrats at some of the largest rallies was aimed at subordinating opposition to capitalist politics. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Saturday in #Nürnberg, #Germany
#NoKings organizers said there was an "open mic" & told #DavidNorth he could speak. He identified himself as WSWS editor.
He was surrounded by #DemocraticParty goons.
Denying him to speak amd condemn the illegal war against #Iran, which the #Democrats support.
This lecture demonstrates that the war against #Iran is the culmination of nearly half a century of unrelenting economic, covert, and military aggression rooted in the material interests of #American #capitalism and inseparable from the broader drive toward world war against #Russia and #China.
More than 7,000 events are planned in all 50 states. These mobilizations express enormous social and political opposition to the Trump administration.
The question that must now be answered is: Toward what end and on what political basis must this opposition be developed?
#WSWS #NoKings #Protest
"What could be more appropriate? Having lost 90% of its value in relation to gold since 1971 and mounted atop a national debt of $38 trillion. #Trumps signature on each US dollar testifies to the essential worthlessness of the greenback" - #DavidNorth
#ShawnFain 's #standupstrike was a sell out with only an estimated 30% of the workforce participating.
#WillLehman #UAW
Hopeless is not a word to describe the present situation. We are in a period of revolution. We are in a period of counter-revolution. Only struggle will decide which prevails.
Serious times require Serious Politics.
Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum: A criminal threat of mass murder
On March 28,“No Kings,” demonstrations are being held following two major protests last year. At the very center of every protest must be the demand for an end to the war against Iran.
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“Where outside the ICFI/WSWS does one find anything resembling the traditions of Marxism and socialism as it passed through the historic work of Lenin and Trotsky? We are the only movement in the world that associates socialism with the working class taking power.”
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Why are Los Angeles teachers preparing to strike? "Almost all my students live in fear of their family members being deported."
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"Objective conditions impart to correct policies enormous power. But what is possible must be achieved through our efforts...We are in a revolutionary period; we are in a counter-revolutionary period. Which of these two tendencies will predominate? Struggle will decide."
3,800 meatpacking #workers are on strike against #JBS in #Greeley, #Colorado. It's the largest meatpacking strike since the 1950s. 80-90 percent of the workers at JBS in Greeley are immigrants, and over 50 languages are spoken there.
Jaden, who has worked at the plant for two years, confirmed that management sought to collect updated contact information from workers prior to the strike to undermine it.
“They are trying to stop people from participating in the strike and stop fighting for what we are asking for,” he said
#JBS
The strike is a direct rebuke to Donald Trump & to the union bureaucrats who have long sought to pit immigrant & “foreign” workers against “American” workers. In reality immigrant workers are an essential component of the US working class just as US workers are part of the global working class.
#JBS
The #UFCW bureaucracy plays the same role as the bureaucracy in the #UAW and other unions in undermining our collective power. Its already undermined the position of Greeley workers by keeping them separated from the national JBS contract. Workers must overcome this isolation by uniting from below.
On Monday, US President Donald Trump told reporters he was “not afraid” to send troops into #Iran, dismissing comparisons to #Vietnam. “I’m really not afraid of anything..."
Both the #NewYorkTimes and #WallStreetJournal have reported a ground operation is being actively considered.
Kudos the workers on strike.
Kudos to all the comrades covering the strike.
I am reminded that in 1847 two German political exiles in Britain wrote
"Workers of the World Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but your Chains".
It's the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution this year. When you talk to workers today, what you hear is "We need a revolution!" The colonists who lead the revolution against King George formed a network of independent committees to advance their struggle for power.