"All talk to the effect that
historical conditions have not yet
'ripened' for socialism is the product of
ignorance or conscious deception. The
objective prerequisites for proletarian
revolution have not only 'ripened,' they
have begun to get somewhat rotten.... The
historical crisis of mankind is reduced to
the crisis of the revolutionary
leadership."
Welcome!
The Internationalist Group, section of the
League for the Fourth International, fights
for international socialist revolution, the
conquest of power by the working class, led
by its Leninist party, championing the cause
of all the oppressed. After a decade and a
half in which the ruling class trumpeted the
supposed "death of communism," the
imperialists are bogged down in losing wars
of colonial occupation in the Near East
while a global economic crisis shakes the
foundations of the capitalist order. With
mass unemployment, poverty and hunger
ravaging the planet, once again there is
talk of socialism and revolution. But as in
the past, the key question is that of
forging a vanguard to lead the struggle of
the workers and the oppressed. Read
more...
Democrats Push Gun
Control, Tool of Racist Capitalist
Repression Gun
Bans Won’t Stop Racist Mass
Shootings For Worker/Black/Latino
Mobilization Against Cop Terror and
Racist Attacks
Another year, another spate of grisly
mass shootings in the not-so United
States of America. May 14, Buffalo, New
York – 10 people shot to death. May 24,
Uvalde, Texas – 21 people killed. July
4, Highland Park, Illinois – 7 people
gunned down. The now-routine spectacle
of mass murder followed by calls for
far-reaching gun control legislation has
become a fixture of American culture.
While professing concern for the deaths
of black people in inner-city
neighborhoods, liberals and reformist
leftists are actually pandering to
racist fears of white suburbanites and
demagogic appeals to militarize the
ghettos and barrios. This leaves the
population defenseless, while
trigger-happy cops, criminals and
fascists are all heavily armed. The
Second Amendment, upholding the “right
of the people to keep and bear arms,” is
a fundamental democratic right which we
strongly defend. It is doubly important
to working people and the oppressed, who
are beset by a well-armed ruling class
and its professional enforcers. The mass
shootings were neither random nor
inexplicable. In all three recent
instances – Buffalo, Uvalde, Highland
Park – racism fueled the homicides. Gun
Bans Won’t Stop Racist Mass Shootings
(15 August 2022)
Whatever Happened to “No
Contract, No Work”? ILWU: Prepare to
Strike for Shorter Workweek,
Union Control of Tech Fight for 6-Hour Shifts x
5 = 30 Hours, No Loss in Pay
As the contract between the West
Coast International Longshore and
Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the
Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)
was set to expire on July 1, the
stage was set for a major showdown
and the possibility of a big labor
victory. Instead, the ILWU tops
and marine bosses, under pressure
from President Biden, announced
that work would continue without a
contract. Longshore workers are
facing a major attack by capital,
which are thirsting to automate
the port unions out of existence.
The ILWU should join with rail and
port truckers, with solidarity
action from East Coast dock
workers, and backed by allies
including teachers and students,
to launch a strike for a shorter
workweek with no loss in pay, and
for union control of technology to
ensure no job losses. ILWU:
Prepare to Strike for Shorter
Workweek, Union Control of Tech
(8 August 2022)
Free Abortion on
Demand – Women’s
Liberation Through Socialist
Revolution Supreme Court
Cancels Right to Abortion:
Trigger for Ultra-Rightist
Mobilization
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court
overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973
decision which for almost 50 years was
the basis for women’s constitutional
right to abortion. In response there
was an outpouring of anger as tens of
thousands went into the streets to
protest around the country.
Establishment abortion rights groups
seek to channel the outrage into
support for the Democratic Party. But
voting for the Democrats will not
restore the right to abortion, and any
law they might pass would be struck
down by the reactionary Court. While
opportunist leftists sought to
pressure the Democrats,
Internationalist contingents
participated in the protests
denouncing the Democratic Party and
calling for a revolutionary workers
party. We emphasized that the
anti-abortion crusade is rooted in
racism. The fight over abortion rights
and gay and trans rights is already a
flashpoint for emboldened
ultra-rightists and fascists, who now
feel that the capitalist state has
their back. In the post-Roe U.S.,
abortion clinics are threatened by
vigilantes, bounty hunters, racists
and fascists. We call to mobilize
union power to defend the clinics and
disperse anti-abortion bigots.The
Bolshevik Revolution first legalized
abortion on demand, and it will take a
socialist revolution to achieve it
today. Supreme
Court Cancels Right to Abortion:
Trigger for Ulltra-Rightist
Mobilization (7 August 2022)
¡Todos
parejos! Equal for All! Cabricanecos:
Indigenous Immigrant Workers
Fight Deadly Conditions in NYC
By Trabajadores Internacionales
Clasistas
Facing flagrant management abuse and
a wave of retaliatory firings, a
courageous campaign by 40
demolition/construction workers –
mainly indigenous immigrants from
Guatemala and Mexico – shines a
spotlight on deadly dangerous
conditions on the job faced by many
thousands in the New York area and
beyond. “We are human beings,
but they use us up and then just
throw us away,” a worker who
suffered multiple injuries unloading
heavy materials for Best Super
Clean/ISK Group said, echoed by
fellow campaign activists. Organized
by the Laundry Workers Center (LWC),
the campaign, presently focused on
winning key improvements in job
conditions and wages, is called
“Cabricanecos,” because many of the
workers are originally from the town
of Cabricán in Guatemala. The
Cabricanecos campaign is a link in a
chain of struggles underlining both
the need and the great potential for
militant organizing among sectors of
immigrant workers who are key to
making the city run, at the same
time as they are denied basic rights
and treated as “undocumented”
pariahs while often risking their
lives due to intolerable working
conditions. Cabricanecos:
Indigenous Immigrant Workers Fight
Deadly Conditions in NYC (10
July 2022)
Ohio
Cops Fired 90 Bullets at Unarmed
Black Man Jayland
Walker, Executed by Akron
Police The
Racist Killer Cops Never
Stop Under Democrats or
Republicans the Police Murder
Machine Grinds On Only Revolution Can Bring
Justice!
On June 27, police in Akron, Ohio
were in hot pursuit of a car driven
by Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old
black man, supposedly for
unspecified equipment and traffic
violations. When Walker bolted,
running for his life, eight police
officers discharged a fusillade of
90+ shots mere seconds after exiting
their vehicles. When a crowd
gathered outside city hall and
police headquarters to protest after
bodycam video footage was released
on July 3, cops and state troopers
arrested scores. An execution for a
supposed traffic violation – such is
the “justice” meted out by the
racist police in capitalist America.
In the summer of 2020, millions took
to the streets to protest the racist
police murder of George Floyd in
Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in
Louisville, and countless others.
The killer cops keep on killing, but
with Democrat Joe (shoot ’em in the
leg) Biden in the White House and
Democrats controlling Congress,
protests this year and last against
the unending police murder have been
few in number and small in size. The
Internationalist Group calls for
worker action against racist police
terror, emphasizing that only
revolution can bring justice. Jayland
Walker, Executed by Akron Police –
The Racist Killer Cops Never Stop
(7 July 2022)
U.S. Opening the
Road to World War III
We
Meet Dr. Strangelove Again in
Washington
By Charles Brover
The U.S. is hurtling and stumbling
irrationally toward world war, possibly
nuclear war. Together with its NATO
imperialist allies, Washington is
sending increasingly heavy offensive
weaponry to the fascist-infested
Ukrainian military. The U.S. has set its
broader sights on Russian downfall as a
dramatic example of U.S./NATO military
prowess and an implied threat to China.
The U.S. vows to defeat Russia and
degrade its military so it will be
“weakened” for years to come as Pentagon
chief General Lloyd Austin has said. The
compliant and war-addled liberal press
functions as a 24-hour-a-day martial
band for Ukrainian fascist “freedom
fighters.” Can the war in Ukraine lead
to a nuclear world war? Will the
right-wing nuts and crazed liberal
warmongers who run this country really
do it? It is as if our current political
reality meets again the Cold War parody
prophesies of the 1964 movie, Dr.
Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Fiction? The U.S. was prepared to
annihilate millions in the anti-soviet
Cold War, while today, Pentagon think
tank “theorists” are again “thinking the
unthinkable,” this time toying with
threatening a first strike against
China. We
Meet Dr. Strangelove Again in
Washington (May 2022)
May 14 Is About
Pressuring the Democrats,
Who Will Do Nothing for Abortion
Rights, Again
To
Win Abortion Rights Fight,
Pro-Democrat Marches Are a Dead
End
Free Abortion
on Demand – Women’s Liberation
Through Socialist Revolution
Following the leaked Supreme Court
majority draft opinion that would
overturn the Roe v. Wade decision
granting women a right to abortion,
there have been large protests around
the country. Democratic elected
officials quickly grabbed the spotlight.
For them, the leak means that they have
six months to pound away at the theme
that a Republican victory in the
mid-term elections is a threat to every
woman’s rights. A nationwide series of
marches was held on Saturday, May 14 on
the slogan “Bans Off Our Bodies” calling
for “elected officials [to] take action
before the Court gets the chance to
overturn abortion.” Yet since the U.S.
Senate just blocked the Women’s Health
Protection Act, the actual aim of the
May 14 protests was to get out the vote
for Democrats. These capitalist
politicians are faux “friends” of women.
The Democrats are a party of war and
mass incarceration that seeks women’s
votes, but buries legislation to defend
their rights. As Internationalist youth
emphasized at recent speak-outs in New
York and Los Angeles, what’s needed is
mass mobilization bringing out the power
of the multiracial working class,
fighting for the full and unrestricted
right to abortion. To
Win Abortion Rights Fight,
Pro-Democrat Marches Are a Dead End
(13 May 2022)
Oppose
Imperialist-Provoked
Russia-Ukraine War –
For Revolutionary Struggle
Against the Capitalist Rulers in
Moscow and Kiev!
Behind the War:
U.S./NATO War Drive Against
Russia, China
Defend Self-Rule in
Southeastern Ukraine! Smash
the Fascists – For Proletarian
Internationalism Against
Russian and Ukrainian
Nationalism!
On February 24, Russian president
Vladimir Putin launched a military
operation in Ukraine. The first
day consisted of dispatching
troops to bolster the breakaway
“people’s republics” of Donetsk
and Lugansk, accompanied by air
strikes against military targets
in many parts of Ukraine. This
quickly turned into an invasion by
Russian ground forces surrounding
and launching attacks on several
Ukrainian cities. After previously
talking of defending the embattled
regions of the Donbass, upon
launching his military attack
Putin declared its purpose to be
to “to demilitarize and denazify
Ukraine.” This is now a war
between the Russian capitalist
state, with its nationalist ruler
in Moscow, and that of Ukraine,
whose nationalist regime in Kiev
has acted as a cat’s paw of
Western imperialists and uses
fascist forces to besiege the
Russian-speaking population of
southeastern Ukraine. We
Trotskyists call for revolutionary
defeatism on both sides in this
reactionary nationalist war, for
internationalist proletarian
struggle against both capitalist
regimes and, above all, against
the U.S. and European rulers who
set off this conflagration. Behind
the War: U.S./NATO War Drive
Against Russia, China
(28 February 2022)
Ukrainian
Fascists and Nationalists
Hands Off Donbass! Defend Self-Rule in
Southeast Ukraine! Defeat
U.S./NATO War Drive and
Sanctions Against
Russia! Statement of the
League for the Fourth
International
On February
21, after weeks of
increasingly hysterical
imperialist war propaganda
and daily escalating attacks
by Ukrainian government and
fascist/nationalist forces
against the breakaway
Russian-speaking regions of
Donetsk and Lugansk in
eastern Ukraine, Russian
president Vladimir Putin
formally recognized the
independence of these
embattled self-styled
people’s republics and sent
in troops. The United
States, NATO (North Atlantic
Treaty Organization) and the
European Union immediately
condemned Russia for its
defensive action and
announced they would impose
severe economic sanctions.
Class-conscious workers and
all opponents of imperialism
should denounce the
U.S./NATO imperialist war
drive, which raises the
spectre of world war. The
imperialists seek to
isolate, provoke and
demonize Russia, which
despite Putin’s imperial
ambitions is an
intermediate, regional
capitalist power. Yet the
imperialists’ ultimate aim
is to spark
counterrevolution in China,
Cuba and North Korea. Facing
the escalating threats and
dangers, we call on the
world working class to
defend China and the other
bureaucratically deformed
workers states against
imperialism and
counterrevolution. Defeat
U.S./NATO War Drive and
Sanctions Against Russia!
(23 February 2022)
The
“Green Tide” in Latin America: A
Festival of Class Collaboration The Struggle for
Full Abortion Rights, From
Latin America to the U.S. Free Abortion on
Demand – For Women’s Liberation
Through Socialist Revolution
The battle over abortion is at a
critical point throughout the
Americas. As reactionary forces in
the United States wave the banner
of the “right to life” and “the
family” to eliminate rights won in
the past, elsewhere in the
hemisphere there has been an
upsurge in actions to eliminate
laws that have sent thousands of
women to jail for the “crime” of
ending an unwanted pregnancy – or
just having a miscarriage. In
Latin America much has been made
of an advancing “Green Tide,” as
feminist groups have labeled the
mass mobilizations in Argentina
that won a partial legalization of
abortion. Yet that movement was
led by bourgeois political
currents – bringing with it
obstacles and limitations to
winning crucial rights. In the
U.S., the issue is sharply posed
of how to fight against the
assault on women’s rights,
abortion rights, gay and
transgender rights. The new/old
dead-end
“strategy” of bourgeois feminists
is to vote for the Democrats, who
despite the hype are no friends of
women.Everywhere, the issue of
control of women’s bodies by the
state is poised point-blank, as
decaying capitalism endangers the
rights of all the oppressed. The
pending calamity in the U.S.,
where the constitutional right to
an abortion is on the verge of
being eliminated after being in
force for a half-century,
underlines the need for a
revolutionary class struggle for
the liberation of women. The
Struggle for Full Abortion
Rights, From Latin America to
the U.S. (March 2022)
For
Vaccine Mandates
and Free Testing “Vaccine
Passports” =
Police Control,
Not Public Health Fascistic
Forces Take
Lead of
Reactionary
Anti-Vaccine
Protests
Since last
summer, from
Europe to
Canada,
fascistic and
outright
Nazi/fascist
forces have
taken the lead
in organizing
protests over
mandatory
vaccination
against
COVID-19. A
dramatic case
of this
ominous
development
was the
storming of
the offices of
the main
Italian labor
federation in
October by
squads from an
anti-vaxxer
demo led by
leaders of the
fascist Forza
Nuova terror
squad. Later,
in the port of
Trieste, an
attempt was
made to
portray a
no-vax sit-in
as a workers
protest,
although only
a small
minority of
the dockers
participated.
Sensing a new
“movement”
budding, some
on the left
have
opportunistically
tailed after
ultra-rightist-led
anti-vaccine
mobilizations.
As a public
health measure
to protect the
population
from the
deadly virus,
the League for
the Fourth
International
supports
obligatory
anti-COVID
vaccination to
the extent
feasible. We
do not support
“vaccine
passports,”
which do
nothing for
public health,
and oppose
repression of
anti-vaxxers
by the forces
of capitalist
state
repression,
which would
much sooner go
after labor
and leftists.
Rather, from
the onset of
the pandemic,
the LFI and
fraternally
allied trade
unionists have
put forward a
program for
workers
control of
safety, and
actively
sought to
implement it
in workplaces.
Fascistic
Forces Take
Lead of
Reactionary
Anti-Vaccine
Protests
(April 2022)
Imperialist Press
Fawns Over Ukrainian
Ultra-Nationalist Militias Smash
U.S./NATO-Backed Nazi-Fascist
Mass Murderers! The Truth About
Ukraine’s Fascist
Infestation
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on
February 24 was announced by
Russian president Vladimir Putin
in a speech declaring a “special
military operation” to “de-nazify”
and “demilitarize” Ukraine. The
bourgeois press in the United
States and in the NATO (North
Atlantic Treaty Organization)
imperialist countries immediately
mocked the notion. The Ukrainian
state apparatus, particularly its
repressive forces, is in fact
riddled with fascistic
nationalists, outright fascists
and Nazis, would-be ethnic
cleansers, some of whom are openly
anti-Semitic and admirers of
Hitler. Fascist militias are a
large component of the military
forces that have relentlessly
besieged the Russian-speaking
population of the Donetsk and
Lugansk self-proclaimed “people’s
republics” that broke away from
Ukraine eight years ago. Moreover,
many of these fascist and pro-Nazi
squads have been financed, armed
and trained by the U.S. and NATO.
The ultra-nationalist fascists and
Nazis embedded in the Ukrainian
state and its repressive organs
must be rooted out, permanently
stopped and brought to justice,
and their program of “ethnic
cleansing” smashed. To have a
lasting effect this must be
accomplished by the working people
themselves, on an internationalist
basis. The
Truth About Ukraine’s Fascist
Infestation (4 April 2022)
Question Answered:
Who Was Behind the 2014
Maidan Massacre?
The 20 February 2014
massacre in Kiev’s Maidan
(Independence Square), in which
48 protesters and several
policemen were killed, was the
trigger that set off the coup
d’état, led by fascist and
Ukrainian ultra-nationalists,
that the very next day overthrew
the government of Viktor
Yanukovich. The coup plotters,
the imperialist press and U.S.
authorities in unison blamed the
riot police of the Yanukovich
government, which they
considered pro-Russian. But from
the outset there were numerous
questions about where the
fusillade came from. At the
time, we published an article
asking: “Who Were the Snipers
Who Killed Kiev Protesters and
Police on February 20?” Since
then, particularly due to the
painstaking work of Canadian
academic Ivan Katchanovski, the
answer to this question has
become crystal clear. The
massacre was a false flag
operation carried out by the
fascist action squads in the
Maidan and their oligarchic
Ukrainian nationalist backers. Question
Answered: Who Was Behind the
2014 Maidan Massacre? (10
April 2022)
Pseudo-Trotskyist
Imposters Line Up with
Imperialism NATO Socialists
in Italy
In the present Russia-Ukraine war,
instigated by the imperialist
powers of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO),
communists in the imperialist
centers, including Italy, are
duty-bound to fight for
working-class actions against the
war, to oppose imperialist
sanctions against Russia and to
mobilize to defeat the NATO war
drive through class struggle
against “their own” imperialist
bourgeoisie. The main enemy is at
home, especially in the
warmongering European Union,
Britain and United States. But in
Italy and elsewhere, a large part
of the left has lined up with
their own imperialist bourgeoisie
and sided with the NATO-backed
Ukrainian “resistance.” These NATO
socialists are actively supporting
the imperialist war drive. NATO
Socialists in Italy (April
2022)
Report from
Germany Imperialist
Racism and the
Russia-Ukraine War
Every weekend now, tens and
hundreds of thousands of
protesters pour into the
streets of German cities in
“peace” demonstrations
supposedly against war in
Ukraine. In reality, many if
not most of these are pro-war
demos in that they are
overwhelmingly for support to
Ukraine in the war with
Russia. Many speakers called
for arms deliveries to
Ukraine, i.e., by the NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty
Organization) imperialists who
provoked this fratricidal war
in their escalating war drive
against Russia and China.
Meanwhile, in stark
counterpoint to the chauvinist
backlash against refugees from
Middle Eastern wars, there has
been an unprecedented
outpouring of support for
Ukrainian refugees. This has
been whipped up with outright
racist media coverage
stressing that Ukraine is a
“relatively civilized,
relatively European” country,
with “people with blue eyes
and blond hair.” And it is
reflected in the sharply
contrasting treatment at the
border of white refugees
fleeing Ukraine and those
considered non-white. Today,
as almost 3 million Ukrainians
(so far) have fled the war we
call for for revolutionary
defeatism on both sides of the
reactionary nationalist
Russia-Ukraine war, for
revolutionary struggle against
the capitalist rulers in
Moscow and Kiev, and to defeat
the U.S./NATO war drive
pointing to World War III
against Russia and China. Imperialist
Racism and the
Russia-Ukraine War (19
March 2022)
Democrats,
NLRB No Friends of
Labor Amazon Labor Union Victory at JFK8 Unionize
All of Amazon
with Class
Struggle!
On Friday,
April 1, the
Amazon Labor
Union (ALU)
won a historic
vote to
unionize the
massive JFK8
warehouse on
Staten Island,
New York, by a
decisive
margin. This
is the first
union victory
in North
America
against the
giant
distribution
and e-commerce
monopoly,
which has 1.1
million
employees in
the U.S alone.
The vote,
which the
media are
calling “one
of the biggest
victories for
organized
labor in a
generation,”
came amid
growing
restiveness in
the working
class, and
followed large
strikes last
fall at
Midwest
industries. It
will be a
beacon for
millions of
workers at
Amazon and
throughout
country who
desperately
need
unionization
to fight
against the
low wages,
miserable
“benefits” and
deadly working
conditions
that are the
standard in
capitalist
America. It
will take
genuinely
revolutionary
political
struggle to
break the
stranglehold
of capitalist
Democrats and
pro-capitalist
labor
bureaucrats
that has been
driving the
unions to the
grave. Key to
winning the
major class
battle at
Amazon, as
well as to
organizing the
unorganized
and building a
fighting labor
movement
overall, will
be to forge a
solid core of
class-struggle
militants in
the
warehouses,
factories and
other
workplaces.
Amazon
Labor Union
Victory at
JFK8 (14
April 2022)
Interview
with ALU
Worker at
Staten Island
JFK8 Warehouse Unionizing
Amazon Will Be a
Huge Class
Battle The
Internationalist
interviewed
Will, a
supporter of
the
Internationalist
Group who
works at
Amazon’s big
warehouse in
Staten Island,
New York and
has been part
of the Amazon
Labor Union
effort almost
from the
start. Interview
with ALU
Worker-Activist
at JFK8
(14 April
2022)
Use
Union Power to
Keep Schools
Open Safely
By Class
Struggle
Education
Workers/UFT
The rapid
spread of the
highly
contagious
Omicron
variant of
COVID-19 has
caused much
justified
worry among
educators,
parents and
students. This
concern has
been seized on
by some in the
teachers
unions to push
to return to
“remote
education,”
possibly for
an extended
period of time
until the
current high
levels of
infection are
past. Calling
to close the
schools is a
huge mistake.
It does not
protect
teachers, it
will almost
certainly
increase
infections
among
students, and
it plays into
the hands of
enemies of
public
education.
This includes
not only Trump
Republicans
but also Biden
Democrats like
the mayors of
New York City
and Chicago,
Eric Adams and
Lori
Lightfoot.
These forces,
who back
charter
schools and
are out to
break the
power of the
teachers
unions, are
angling to
mobilize
parents
against
teachers on a
program of
keeping the
schools open.
Instead, Class
Struggle
Education
Workers calls
to use union
power to keep
schools open
safely. That
includes,
first and
foremost,
demanding a
drastic
reduction in
class sizes,
entailing
hiring
thousands of
new teachers,
custodians,
counselors and
nurses; and
requiring
frequent
testing of all
in the
schools. Use
Union Power to
Keep Schools
Open Safely
(12 January
2022)
For Workers
Safety Committees –
Democrats, NLRB No
Friends of Labor Unionize
Amazon with Class
Struggle!
The fight to unionize the
giant e-commerce monopoly
Amazon has heated up. In
June, the powerful
International Brotherhood
of Teamsters (IBT) union
resolved to carry out a
coast-to-coast campaign to
organize Amazon workers.
Then in November the
National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) threw out the
results of the union
recognition vote held last
spring in Bessemer,
Alabama because of
Amazon’s dirty tricks and
interference in the
election. And on December
22 in New York City, the
independent Amazon Labor
Union re-filed its
petition for a union
recognition vote at the
JFK8 warehouse in Staten
Island. Only days before,
tornadoes tore through an
Amazon warehouse in
Edwardsville, Illinois,
killing six workers inside
and injuring others. This
was industrial murder. The
tragedy in Edwardsville
underlines the urgent need
to unionize the entire
Amazon empire. While
demanding the most
rigorous safety standards
be adhered to, there
should be worker safety
committees empowered to
shut down production in
unsafe conditions. One
can’t rely on Amazon or
the NLRB, an agency of the
bosses’ government, or
look to the Democratic
Party, a capitalist party.
To defeat the hard-nosed
union-busters at Amazon it
will be necessary to
mobilize the power of the
workers movement in sharp
class struggle, including
strikes and walkouts,
flying pickets, plant
occupations – the kind of
class-struggle methods
that built the unions in
the 1930s. Unionize
Amazon with Class
Struggle! (28
December 2021)
U.S. Big
Lie Over Wuhan Is
War Propaganda Not Just a
Conspiracy Theory, an
Anti-Communist Battle
Cry
For the past two years,
all factions of the U.S.
ruling class, backed by
the bourgeois media and a
number of bellicose
scientists, have unleashed
a propaganda barrage
scapegoating China for the
pandemic of COVID-19
caused by the coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2. This is not
limited to the “Wuhan lab
leak” conspiracy theory,
which started out as a
far-right fixation, went
viral with Republican
Donald Trump’s rambling
campaign rants, was picked
up by unreconstructed Cold
Warriors in the new
Democratic administration
and the liberal media, and
then received the
presidential imprimatur of
Joe Biden. A soft-core
strain of the campaign is
to accuse Beijing of
grossly mishandling the
outbreak of the disease
and worse, covering up
their bungling with police
state repression. A
transparent aim of this
virulent China-bashing is
to shift responsibility
for the deadly outcome of
the disease. Rather than
(correctly) blaming the
capitalist world, whose
utterly calamitous actions
and inaction turned an
epidemic into a pandemic
in which well over 5
million people have died
from this modern plague,
they want to pin it on
China, which effectively
and spectacularly confined
the spread of the virus
with a toll of less than
5,000 dead. This, the
first of two articles, is
a detailed analysis of the
lab-leak “theory.” U.S.
Big Lie Over Wuhan Is
War Propaganda (27
December 2021)
Vigilante
Rittenhouse Is Guilty as
Hell –
So Are the Cops Who Shot
Jacob Blake
Kenosha
“Trial” Was Rigged –
Fascistic Murderer
Gets Off All Sides
Bought the
“Self-Defense” Ruse –
There’s No Justice in
the Capitalist Courts!
On November 19, the jury
in the Wisconsin trial of
teenage killer Kyle
Rittenhouse handed in a
verdict of not guilty on
all counts. Letting this
vile murderer of two
anti-racist protesters
walk is proof positive
that there is no justice
in the capitalist courts.
Rittenhouse was not a lone
killer. The gunman was
part of a swarm of white
supremacist vigilantes who
infested Kenosha that
night in August 2020,
working in tandem with the
police. This hideous
verdict will embolden
murderous fascist thugs
and killer cops
everywhere. This is the
trial of George Zimmerman,
the vigilante murderer of
Trayvon Martin, all over
again. All opponents of
racist terror should
protest this atrocity. The
Internationalist Group
immediately protested,
from Kenosha to New York,
calling for
worker/black/immigrant
action against racist
terror and to fight for
socialist revolution. Kenosha
“Trial” Was Rigged –
Fascistic Murderer Gets
Off (19
November 2021)
Against
Bosses’ Threats and
Maneuvers –
Solidarity from CUNY
Victory
to the
Columbia
Student
Workers
Strike!
On November 3, the
Student Workers of
Columbia (part of
United Auto Workers
Local 2110) went on
strike. It is the
fourth strike in
five years, as the
union is still
fighting to win a
first-ever contract.
Representing more
than 3,000 Columbia
University graduate
and undergraduate
academic employees
(including
instructors,
teaching assistants,
graders, researchers
and others), the
SWC’s demands
include a living
wage , better health
care and measures
against
discrimination and
harassment. Now in
its ninth week, the
strike is at a
critical juncture.
Activists from the
CUNY
Internationalist
Clubs and Class
Struggle Education
Workers have
participated
intensively on the
picket lines and in
helping build
support. We have
emphasized that it’s
essential to put
into practice the
principle that
“Picket lines mean
don’t cross.” On
December 8, the SWC
called a day of
action to shut
Columbia down.
Hundreds joined in
the picketing. Victory
to the
Columbia
Student
Workers
Strike!
(28 December
2021)
Called for
November 15
Anti-Cuba
Provocation Made
in U.S.A. For
Workers Mobilization
to Block
Counterrevolutionary
Action
A
“Civic March for
Change” has been
announced by
U.S.-backed
forces in Cuba
for November 15.
The march was
called by a
recently founded
outfit calling
itself the
Archipiélago
platform, in
cooperation with
the
long-standing
reactionary and
far-right Cuban
exile milieu. As
we have written,
while the Cuba
protests last
July 11 were
fueled by
discontent over
shortages,
blackouts and
the pandemic,
those marches
were instigated,
manipulated and
exploited by
forces seeking
to overthrow the
Cuban
Revolution. Now
these and other
pro-capitalist
forces, grouped
together in an
umbrella
formation, the
Council for a
Democratic
Transition in
Cuba, are
staging an
anti-communist
provocation
clearly aimed at
“regime change.”
While some
leftists join
the U.S. State
Department in
denouncing the
Cuban
government's
prohibition of
this blatant
counterrevolutionary
action,
revolutionary
Trotskyists are
for workers
mobilization to
block the
provocation. Anti-Cuba
Provocation
Made in U.S.A.
(11 November
2021)
Social-Democratic
Counterrevolutionaries
and Camp Followers
Cuba Protests: Litmus Test for the Left
As Facebook videos and tweets started
coming in from
the July 11
protests in
Cuba –
instigated,
propagated and
exploited by
counterrevolutionaries
– the media
machine of
U.S.
imperialism
kicked into
high gear.
When police in
Havana
responded to
protesters
throwing rocks
by making some
arrests, there
followed a
chorus of
denunciations
of
“repression.”
The reality is
that the Cuban
police stood
by and did not
make arrests
until the July
11 protests
turned
violent, while
Communist
Party
supporters
mobilized to
stop
provocations.
Bringing up
the rear of
the bipartisan
imperialist
hue and cry
over
repression by
the Cuban
regime were
assorted
voices on the
left, ranging
from liberal
intellectuals
to avowed
socialists.
Among the most
egregious are
some would-be
“Trotskyists”
who are at
bottom social
democrats of
the sort that
Trotsky and
his Fourth
International
fought against
tooth and
nail. The
League for the
Fourth
International,
in contrast,
has called to
actively
combat
capitalist
counterrevolution,
to break the
U.S.
imperialist
blockade,
mobilize
workers
councils to
defend the
gains of the
Cuban
Revolution and
to extend them
through
international
socialist
revolution. Cuba
Protests:
Litmus Test
for the Left
(October 2021)
The
“Voice of the
Voiceless”
Held 40 Years
in
Pennsylvania’s
Racist
Dungeons
Mobilize
Labor/Black
Power to Free
Mumia
Abu-Jamal
On December
11, a
demonstration
in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
marked the
40th
anniversary of
the
imprisonment
of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, the
U.S.’ most
prominent
class-war
prisoner. A
contingent of
supporters of
the
Internationalist
Group/Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth
participated
prominently in
the protest
with signs
calling for
workers action
to free Mumia
and all
class-war
prisoners,
notably former
Black Panthers
who have been
behind bars
for more than
half a
century. The
latest
development in
Mumia’s
endless battle
in the racist
judicial
system was an
October 26
ruling by the
Pennsylvania
Superior Court
quashing
Mumia’s fifth
appeal in 40
years. This
shows once
again that
through
decades of
prosecution
and
persecution,
for former
Black Panther
Abu-Jamal, as
for so many
others, there
is no justice
in the
capitalist
courts. Mobilize
Labor/Black
Power to Free
Mumia
Abu-Jamal
(29 December
2021)
After
Court Orders
Partial
Legalization Mexican
Trotskyists
Call for Free
Abortion On
Demand Women’s
Liberation Through Socialist
Revolution!
Last September
7, the Mexican
Supreme Court
of Justice
declared
“absolute
criminalization”
of abortion
unconstitutional
throughout the
country.
Invalidating
several
sections of
the penal code
of the state
of Coahuila,
the court
legalized
abortion for
the first 12
weeks of
gestation.
This is an
important step
that will
bring relief
to many women
seeking to
terminate an
unwanted
pregnancy. And
by eliminating
“conscientious
objection,” it
removed a very
real barrier
to carrying
out abortions.
However, these
are limited
measures, and
after the
first
trimester,
abortion is
still
considered a
crime. The
Grupo
Internacionalista
fights for the
unrestricted
right to free
abortion,
based
exclusively on
the decision
of the woman
or other
pregnant
person, at any
time during
pregnancy and
with access to
medical and
health care of
the highest
quality. Mexican
Trotskyists
Call for Free
Abortion On
Demand
(December
2021)
UCLA
Internationalist Club Statement of
Class-Struggle Solidarity
Victory
to the UC-AFT Strike – All Out to
Win!
The Internationalist Club at the
University of California at Los Angeles
is helping mobilize students and workers
in support of the November 17-18
University of California system-wide
strike called by the UC-AFT. In addition
to the unfair labor practices cited as
the legal grounds for the walkout, the
strike motivation flows from the
desperate situation of lecturers and
other campus workers who are essential
to making the university run, but
receive only poverty pay and lack job
security. All sectors of the campus
workforce need to unite in genuine
solidarity. It's a basic principle: One
out, all out. Picket lines mean don’t
cross! And it is necessary to take on
the Democratic Party, which is the boss
that the UC-AFT is striking against. We
say: On
strike means shut it down. All
classes should be stopped, and
students brought out en masse to
the pickets and rallies. Victory
to the UC-AFT Strike – All Out
to Win! (16 November 2021)
Cinematographer
Killed on New Mexico Set After Union
Camera Operators Walked Out Over
Unsafe Conditions
IATSE Members
Voted to Strike: Let’s
Do It
Vote No to
Sweetheart Deal with Motion
Pictures Bosses and Prepare to
Walk Out
Sixty thousand film and
television workers affiliated
with the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees (IATSE) were on the
verge of a national strike,
the first in the union’s
128-year history. In a
membership vote, over 98%
voted to authorize a strike.
But the day before the
strike deadline, the union
tops struck a deal with the
film studio bosses. The
Tentative Agreement resolves
none of the issues at
stake – continuing to
allow 14-hour work days, short
weekends, and with a wage
“hike” that amounts to a pay
cut due to inflation. Then on
October 21, Halyna Hutchins, a
Local 600 director of
photography, was accidentally
shot and killed during the New
Mexico filming of the film Rust.
This deadly incident
underscored the safety
concerns that have been at the
heart of motion picture
backlot workers’ enthusiastic
support for a strike. The
IATSE ranks should
resoundingly vote down this
rotten deal and prepare to
carry out the strike they
voted enthusiastically and
overwhelmingly to authorize. IATSE
Members Voted to Strike:
Let’s Do It (26 October
2021)
For
Labor
Solidarity
Action to Win
the UAW John
Deere Strike!
On October 14,
more than
10,000 John
Deere workers
walked off the
job at the
world’s
largest
agricultural
equipment
manufacturing
company. A
total of 14
plants
represented by
the United
Auto Workers
were struck,
centered on
Iowa and
Illinois. As
labor strikes
are spreading
in the U.S.,
the walkout at
Deere is the
biggest this
year, and the
largest
nationwide
since the
six-week UAW
strike at
General Motors
in 2019. The
strikers are
in a strong
position.
Sales are
booming, the
company is
making record
profits,
there’s a
labor
shortage, and
workers are
fighting mad
after laboring
right through
the pandemic
as “essential
workers,”
risking their
lives, while
the bosses are
raking it in.
The Deere
strikers can
win, and win
big, so long
as they don’t
play by the
bosses’ rules.
It’s necessary
to completely
shut down
production,
with militant
mass picket
lines that no
one dares
cross. Workers
must look to
exercise their
own power –
through labor
solidarity and
alliance with
all those
oppressed –
understanding
that both the
Democratic and
Republicans
parties defend
the interests
of capital. For
Labor
Solidarity
Action to Win
the UAW John
Deere Strike!
(19 October
2021)
Revolution Publication
of the
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth and of
students from
the
Internationalist
Clubs at the
City University
of New York
(click
on masthead to
go to Revolution
index)
Revolution
No. 18 (September
2021) click
or on image
for full list of
articles
What
We’re Hearing: “The
Last Year Really
Opened My Eyes” Why
We Need a Socialist
Revolution As
students are
finally
returning to
campus, many are
saying that the
experience of
the last year
really opened
their eyes. A
healthcare
system that
wasn’t able to
handle COVID,
racist police
terror that led
millions to take
to the streets.
But while
Democrats talked
of “reforming”
the police to
gain votes, now
that they are
back in the
White House, the
cops keep
killing. It’s
“endemic to the
system,” many
have realized.
Poverty and
skyrocketing
inequality;
imperialist war
abroad and
growing
repression “at
home”; racial,
ethnic and
gender
oppression and
all the ways
capitalism is
devastating the
world we live in
– these are
rooted in the
system of
production for
profit, not
human needs, and
the ruling class
that lives off
it. Capitalism
can’t be
reformed; it
must be
overthrown. We
Marxists are
fighting for a
socialist
revolution,
unlike the raft
of
fake-socialists
who help tie the
oppressed to the
Democratic
Party. We call
to break with
the Democrats
and all bosses’
parties and to
forge a
revolutionary
workers party. Why
We Need a
Socialist
Revolution
(September 2021)
Bernie
Sanders and
AOC Peddle
Biden’s Bitter
Brew
In 2016 and 2020,
Bernie Sanders ran
in the Democratic
presidential
primaries promoting
a politics of the
“99%” against the
“billionaire class.”
Yet his “political
revolution” was just
a means to rope
disaffected youth
and workers into
voting for the
Democratic
politicians. His
“insurgent” campaign
over, his voters
duly delivered to
Biden, Sanders was
made head of the
Senate Budget
Committee. For her
part, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez,
together with the
rest of “the Squad,”
is accused of being
“communist,”
“unpatriotic,” etc.,
by misogynistic and
racist rightists. In
reality, they are
liberal Democrats
who have pledged
allegiance to the
red, white and blue,
in words and deeds,
over and over. As
they seek to rebrand
the Democratic
Party, various
reformist groups on
the left promote
them. The duty of
revolutionaries is
to tell the truth
about bourgeois
politicians, not
opportunistically
tag along whenever
they “talk left.” Bernie
Sanders and AOC
Peddle Biden’s
Bitter Brew
(September 2021)
“From
Black
Nationalism to
Maoism to
Trotskyism” In
Memory of Joe
Johnson
(1948-2021)
Joseph “Lil Joe”
Johnson, whose
youthful activism
during the rise of
the Black Panther
Party in Los Angeles
was an opening
chapter in his
life-long dedication
to socialism, black
freedom and Marxist
education, died on
June 5 at the age of
73. Born in
Louisiana in 1948,
he came of age in
Los Angeles, where
his self-education
in the ideas of
Marx, Lenin and
Trotsky led him to
become a mentor to
generations of young
radicals seeking a
road to socialist
revolution. In
August 2020, comrade
Johnson gave this
talk, titled “From
Black Nationalism to
Maoism to
Trotskyism,” to the
Internationalist
Group/Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth New York study
group. In
Memory of Joe
Johnson (June
2021)
A
Review of Trotsky
in New York 1917
“Bronx
Man Leads
Russian
Revolution”
“Bronx Man Leads
Russian Revolution,”
read the headline of
the Bronx Home
News. It was
referring to Leon
Trotsky, who having
been exiled from
Europe, spent
several months in
New York City in
early 1917. During
his brief stay,
Trotsky, who
together with V.I.
Lenin went on to
lead the Bolshevik
October Revolution,
threw himself into
the struggle to
mobilize the New
York working class
against World War I.
Kenneth D.
Ackerman’s
cinematically
written Trotsky
In New York 1917:
A Radical On the
Eve of Revolution
(2016) gives a
definitive account
of the Russian
revolutionary’s New
York exile, and
uncovers the history
of his little-known
intervention into
the politics of the
U.S. Socialist
Party. In his
clashes with the
reformist Morris
Hillquit, Trotsky’s
collaborators –
including Louis
Fraina, Ludwig Lore
and others – went on
to become founders
of the communist
movement in the
United States. “Bronx
Man Leads Russian
Revolution”
(September
2021)
How
Cuba’s Heroic “Wasp
Network” Stung
U.S.-Backed
Counterrevolutionaries
After protests in
Cuba this past July
that were
instigated,
manipulated and
exploited by
counterrevolutionary
forces, the
mainstream media
(echoed by much of
the left) unleashed
a torrent of
anti-Cuban smears
trying to paint a
picture of a
revolution on its
last legs. In this
atmosphere of
rampant
anti-communism, we
bring to our
readers’ attention
an exciting film
called Wasp
Network
(2019). The film
tells the story of
the five Cuban spies
who in the 1990s
risked their lives
to thwart terrorist
attacks against
Cuba. Although the
French director is
no communist, the
film vividly
portrays the basic
fact that a
Miami-based gusano
mob has long served
as shock troops for
U.S.-sponsored
counterrevolution in
Cuba. Wasp
Network
achieves something
important: breaking
through the
imperialist
propaganda machine,
it tells the truth
about
counterrevolutionary
provocations against
Cuba and the Red
Avispa’s
heroic efforts to
thwart them. How
Cuba’s Heroic
“Wasp Network”
Stung U.S.-Backed
Counterrevolutionaries (September 2021)
Celebrating
International
Women’s Day
Forum
on “Women,
Class Struggle
and
Revolution”
Wash Supply
Worker: “We Face
Mistreatment and
Discrimination”
On March 10, the
CUNY
Internationalist
Clubs held an online
forum titled “Women,
Class Struggle and
Revolution” in honor
of International
Women’s Day. The
forum highlighted
the oppression of
black, Latina and
immigrant workers
thrown into sharp
relief by U.S.
capitalism’s triple
pandemic of
COVID-19, economic
crisis and racist
police murder. A
featured speaker was
one of immigrant
women workers of the
Wash Supply in
Manhattan, who had
just been fired two
weeks earlier for
forming a union.
That same day, the
courageous workers
attended a
demonstration in
solidarity with
unionization efforts
at the Amazon
warehouse in
Alabama. Other
speakers spoke on
the triple
oppression of black
women and on the
struggles of women
workers from
Bangladesh to Mexico
to New York City. Forum
on “Women, Class
Struggle and
Revolution”
(September 2021)
On
Rejecting Anarchism
and Joining RIY
Radicalized
By George
Floyd Protests
Last summer’s
protests against the
racist police murder
of George Floyd drew
millions into the
streets, many of
them young people
getting involved in
politics for the
first time. A letter
of application to
the Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth recounts the
comrade’s
radicalization,
followed by
disillusionment as
the protests were
being channeled into
votes for the
Democratic Party.
The experience of
organizing her own
no-leaders,
no-hierarchy protest
brought home that
“anarchists are
extremely liberal in
their beliefs and
reliance on identity
politics, despite
their hatred of
capitalism.
Graffitiing banks
will never bring an
end to capitalism.
Only the
international
organized
revolutionary
working class can.”
Radicalized
By George Floyd
Protests
(September 2021)
Response
to “Left Voice”
Supporters
Real
Reds Don’t Bow
to
Anti-Communist
Bans
Anti-communist bans
and restrictions on
free speech rights
have been attempted
by City University
of New York (CUNY)
authorities many
times, from the
1930s to today. All
the more alarming
when attempts to
censor communists
are carried out or
backed by students
or faculty
themselves. We
reprint here the
response of an
activist of Class
Struggle Education
Workers in an
exchange with two
reporters for Left
Voice, part of a
media network of the
current calling
itself the
Trotskyist Fraction.
The April 2021
letter details the
shameful role of LV
in helping to ram
through a ban on
leftist literature
at a “7K or Strike”
conference slated to
discuss strategy and
perspectives in the
fight against
poverty wages for
adjuncts at CUNY
(reported in Revolution
No. 16). Also
appended is a letter
from immigrant
workers of
Trabajadores
Internacionales
Clasistas protesting
the ban. Real
Reds Don’t Bow to
Anti-Communist
Bans
(September 2021)
Capitalist
Profit System Kills
“Africa
Starved of
Vaccines”: An
Imperialist
Crime
The COVID-19
pandemic has been a
crash course in the
dysfunction and
chaos of capitalist
society. At the
start of the
pandemic, with
hospital ICUs
overflowing with
patients, those who
tested positive (if
they could get a
test at all) were
sent home to infect
their families. When
vaccines were
developed and
available for
widespread
distribution, this
was a big advance.
But, predictably,
rich countries
gobbled up the
lion’s share of
supply. This is not
some random
“inequity,” as
liberals would have
it. It is the
workings of
imperialism. Case in
point: Africa, where
only about 4.6% of
the population has
been even partially
vaccinated, while
the world’s richest
countries hoard 1.9
billion surplus
doses – enough to
vaccinate the entire
adult population of
the African
continent. An
internationally
planned economy
would put technology
and resources to
work to provide
vaccines for all and
eliminate world
hunger. The ills of
the capitalist order
cannot be fixed with
reformist band-aids,
they must be
uprooted through
world socialist
revolution. “Africa
Starved of
Vaccines”: An
Imperialist Crime
(September 2021)
Defend
Combative Immigrant Workers
Against Repression Italy:
Draghi Government of
Repression, Impoverishment
and Death Mobilize the Entire
Working Class to Defeat
All-Sided Attack! No
to Dead End of Reformism –
Forge a Revolutionary
Workers Party!
In the ongoing emergency of this
second year of the coronavirus
pandemic, the Italian bourgeoisie
decided to dump the weak and
unstable coalition government of
the Democratic Party and Cinque
Stelle (Five Stars) movement,
replacing it with Mario Draghi,
the former head of the European
Central Bank. The first shots of
the Draghi government have been to
increase repression against the
workers movement, in particular
against the S.I. Cobas
“rank-and-file” union of mainly
immigrant workers. Some of the
most deeply exploited sectors of
the working class have undertaken
trade-union and solidarity
actions, centered on logistics.
The response of much of the
ostensibly socialist left has been
to form an Action Pact with
political supporters of S.I.
Cobas, a political coalition of
heterogeneous forces based on a
reformist 15-point political
program. This program consists
overwhelmingly of appeals for the
capitalist government to take
action, rather than for workers
themselves to enforce their
demands. What genuine communists
must say to the masses in the
harrowing coronavirus crisis is
that the working class must
establish its revolutionary class
rule, seizing and collectivizing
the means of production and
organizing production to satisfy
human need, not the profits of the
few. This fight requires above all
the forging of a revolutionary
workers party. Italy:
Draghi Government of Repression,
Impoverishment and Death (26
April 2021)
Voces
del Epicentro Un
folleto de
Trabajadores
Internacionales
Clasistas
(click
on image to download
pdf)
As the
coronavirus pandemic
erupted in the United
States, the first
epicenter was in the
neighborhoods of New
York City with the
highest number of
immigrants, where
Trabajadores
Internacionales
Clasistas (Class
Struggle Immigrant
Workers) has been
active. Read the reports
from TIC activists and
teachers in Class
Struggle Education
Workers on the impact of
this capitalist
disaster, and the
lessons to be drawn from
it. Also reports from
the strike of
packinghouse workers in
Yakima Valley,
Washington. (In Spanish)
For
Black Liberation
Through Socialist
Revolution!
Slavery
and the
Constitution:
Origins of
U.S.
Capitalist
“Democracy”
Long ago and
far away in
the B.C.
(Before
Coronavirus)
era, bourgeois
politics in
the United
States fixated
briefly on
impeachment.
The Democrats
leading the
lower house of
Congress did
not, of
course,
impeach Donald
Trump for his
crimes against
the oppressed,
for example
his vicious
persecution of
immigrants in
the U.S. After
all, the
record
deportations
under the
Democratic
administration
of
“deporter-in-chief”
Barack Obama
paved the way
for Trump.
Trump was
“brought up on
charges by the
wrong class
for the wrong
crimes,” we
noted at the
time. One
generation
after another
is brought up
with the
mythology of
the
Constitution
as an
embodiment of
“democracy” in
general, to be
worshiped
alongside the
“Founding
Fathers.” Yet
the authors of
the
Constitution
understood
very well that
they
represented
not “the
people” in
general but
the ruling
class of
planters and
merchants, and
wrote it to
safeguard
their
interests, in
particular to
bolster and
uphold the
power of the
slaveowners in
the newly
established
American
republic. The
U.S.
Constitution
established a
series of
institutions
that are
strikingly
anti-democratic.
They remained
so even after
slavery’s
abolition
through the
Civil War.
Revolutionaries
explain the
need for a
revolutionary
workers party
to lead a
socialist
revolution to
overthrow the
entire
capitalist
system. Slavery
and the
Constitution:
Origins of
U.S.
Capitalist
“Democracy”
(August 2020)
PSL
Targeted for
Marches Against
Cop Murder of
Elijah McClain Defend
Denver
Anti-Racist
Protest
Leaders!
On Thursday,
September 17,
police raids
were carried
out in Denver,
Colorado
against the
organizers of
protests
denouncing the
racist murder
of Elijah
McClain, a
young black
man, by police
in suburban
Aurora in
August 2019.
Six of the
protest
leaders were
arrested,
including four
members of the
Party for
Socialism and
Liberation
(PSL), which
has played a
leading role
in the
protests. They
have
outrageously
been charged
with multiple
serious
felonies,
including the
absurd charge
of
“kidnapping.”
Following
Trump’s failed
attempt at
imposing
martial law in
Washington,
D.C. and the
subsedquent
the dispatch
of federal
agents to
Portland,
Oregon, and
Kenosha,
Wisconsin, the
Denver arrests
mark a new
escalation of
police-state
measures that
are a threat
to the civil
liberties of
all. The
Internationalist
Group
and
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth denounce
this ominous
attack on the
right to
protest. We
demand that
the arrested
activists be
immediately
released and
that all
charges
against them
be dropped. Defend
Denver
Anti-Racist
Protest
Leaders!
(18 September
2020)
“We’re All in
This
Together.” You
Think?
Top
Ten Lies in
the Time of
Coronavirus
and Mass
Protests
By Charles
Brover
U.S.
capitalism is
in the midst
of a triple
whammy crisis
– economic,
social, and
public health.
Inspiring
massive
protests
against racism
and cop terror
not seen in
their size and
scope since
the 1960s have
set this
nation’s
cities aflame
day after day,
and have
spread
internationally.
The historic
protests are
occurring
against the
backdrop of
unconscionable
government
delay,
deception,
ignorant happy
talk, and
anti-scientific
incompetence.
Official
public health
malpractice
has driven the
confirmed
death toll
from COVID-19
to over
160,000. This
plague is
disproportionately
ravaging
black, Latino,
and immigrant
working class
communities.
For Marxist
revolutionaries
the racist
system that is
at the root of
the oppression
of black
people in the
U.S. (and
elsewhere) is
class-based
capitalism.
While the
cities are in
paroxysms of
rage, grief
and plague;
while millions
are fighting
to save their
livelihoods
and their
lives, the
capitalist
rulers, their
politicians,
and tamed
pundits
promote lies,
damn lies, and
even more
murderous
lies. Here are
our top ten
picks. Top
Ten Lies in
the Time of
Coronavirus
and Mass
Protests
(8 August
2020) Millions of
Undocumented
Immigrants and
Their Families
Facing the
Abyss
New
York: We
Demand Equal
Treatment and
Emergency
Support for
Excluded
Workers!
Declaration of
Class Struggle
International
Workers (TIC)
In the sixth
month of the
health crisis
unleashed by
the COVID-19
pademic,
infections are
spiking in
much of the
country while
mass
unemployment
continues to
grow and
marches
against racist
police
brutality
continue. New
storms of
crisis are
coming for the
working class,
and for
immigrants in
particular,
beginning with
a threatened
wave of
evictions.
Nationally,
undocumented
immigrants are
denied
“stimulus”
aid,
unemployment
benefits or
any official
support. In
New York some
200,000
undocumented
workers have
lost their
jobs or cannot
find work,
while over a
million
workers
considered
“essential,” a
majority of
them
immigrants,
receive
poverty wages
while running
great risk of
contracting
the virus.
Class Struggle
International
Workers
demands that
the state of
New York
include all
workers,
particularly
the
undocumented
and those in
the “gig
economy,”
among those
eligible for
unemployment
benefits; that
state and city
governments
make up for
the exclusion
of immigrants
from federal
support; and
that rent be
canceled and
all
residential
evictions be
prohibited
during the
pandemic. New
York: We
Demand Equal
Treatment and
Emergency
Support for
Excluded
Workers!
(11 August
2020)
Urgent:
Protest Arrest
of Leftists in
Bolivia
The
rightist de
facto
government of
Bolivia that
seized power
in last
month’s
“civic-police-military”
coup has
carried out a
new act of
repression,
arresting
Carlos
Cornejo,
correspondent
of leftist
Internet
publication La
Izquierda
Diario,
and the artist
Leonel Jurado,
charging them
with
“sedition.” They were seized yesterday afternoon in
the city of El
Alto, where
they were
helping
prepare an
event in
solidarity
with families
of the at
least ten
people killed
in the police
massacre
against a
protest at the
Senkata gas
plant there on
November 19.
The
Internationalist
Group and
League for the
Fourth
International
demand the
immediate
liberation and
dropping of
all charges
against Carlos
Cornejo,
Leonel Jurado
and all
victims of
rightist
repression in
Bolivia! Urgent:
Protest Arrest
of Leftists in
Bolivia
(17 December
2019)
Left
Reformists
in Existential
Crisis An Internationalist Group Pamphlet
(click
on image to download
pdf)
With
the Bernie
Sanders
candidacy and
the dramatic
growth of the
Democratic
(Party)
Socialists of
America, the
left
reformists
have been
thrown into
crisis.
This 84-page
pamphlet
features
documents from
oppositionists
who fought
inside left
groups to
uphold the
revolutionary
politics of
Lenin and
Trotsky.
Socialist
Action’s
“Solidarity
with
Solidarity”
How
Fake
Trotskyists
Carried the
Bags for
Imperialism
While the
reformist left
in the United
States is in
profound
crisis,
tripping over
each other as
they chase
after the
Democratic
(Party)
Socialists of
America,
Socialist
Action has
remained
relatively
stationary and
appears more
red in
comparison
with those
social
democrats who
are now being
devoured by
their own
opportunism.
In reality,
SA’s program
is pink social
democracy. At
every key
juncture where
defense of the
degenerated/deformed
workers states
has been posed
point-blank,
Socialist
Action has
lined up with
imperialism,
from Poland in
1981 to the
USSR in 1991
and continuing
today. Poland
was a key
episode in the
imperialist
drive against
the Soviet
bloc, which
led to
capitalist
restoration
whose
devastating
consequences
continue to be
felt around
the world.
Today SA
denounces
China as
imperialist
and North
Korea as
capitalist
while genuine
Trotskyists
defend them
against
imperialist
threats and
attack. And
it’s not just
words. When
the chips were
down, these
fake-Trotskyists
hailed their
comrades’
direct and
concrete role
in delivering
vital
CIA-financed
equipment to
counterrevolutionary
Polish
Solidarność.
Read the
details here.
How
Fake
Trotskyists
Carried the
Bags for
Imperialism
(April 2019)
“American Apartheid” by Design
A
Review of
Richard
Rothstein, The
Color of Law:
A
Forgotten
History of How
Our Government
Segregated
America By
Charles
Brover, Class
Struggle
Education
Workers After
more than a
decade of hard
struggle and
the passage of
laws in the
mid-1960s
against
official Jim
Crow
segregation,
the civil
rights
movement
suddenly
stopped. What
was termed de
facto segregation
was deemed
off-limits, or
at least had
to be left for
another day.
Rothstein’s
book
conclusively
proves that
rigid
residential
segregation
and
discrimination
against
African
American,
Latino and
Asian
minorities was
always de
jure,
officially
sanctioned.
This has had a
devastating
effect on
everything
from school
integration to
murderous
police
repression.
But while
laying out key
elements of
the structural
foundation of
black
oppression in
the U.S., The
Color of Law
fails to go to
their root in
the system of
racist
American
capitalism. In
the United
States in 2016
there were 2.3
million
evictions:
6,300 a day,
four every
minute. And
with over 3.5
million
homeless
people in the
country, there
are 19 million
unoccupied
dwellings.
This powerful
essay from
Class Struggle
Education
Workers
demonstrates
that it will
take nothing
short of a
socialist
revolution to
solve the
housing
question. “American
Apartheid” by
Design (21
November
2018)
While
“Democratic
Socialist”
Ocasio-Cortez
Chimes In
Bipartisan
War Criminals
Celebrate War
Hawk John
McCain
U.S.
imperialism
lost one of
its most vocal
and active
warmongers on
August 25 –
Arizona
Republican
senator John
McCain.
Universally
praised by
ruling-class
politicians as
a “war hero”
and
“maverick,”
McCain’s
funeral at the
National
Cathedral was
attended by
some of the
most infamous
mass murderers
of this and
the last
century, from
Henry
Kissinger to
former U.S.
presidents
Bill Clinton,
George W. Bush
and Barack
Obama. Far
from being a
“war hero,” a
“man of honor”
or paragon of
“human
decency,”
Senator John
McCain was a
war criminal
who bombed
civilians. He
was shot down
over North
Vietnam on a
bombing run
against a
civilian
factory. But
McCain’s most
valuable
service to
U.S.
imperialism
was as an
inveterate war
hawk in
Congress. From
Afghanistan to
Iraq to
Ukraine, Libya
and Syria, he
beat the drums
for murderous
imperialist
intervention.
What’s
striking about
McCain’s war
crimes and
endless
warmongering
is that in
virtually all
cases, he was
joined or
supported by
Democratic
politicians.
And, notably,
among those
praising
McCain was
Democratic
Socialists of
America (DSA)
superstar
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.
Her eulogy was
consciously
paying the
price of
admission to
the bipartisan
imperialist
club of the
U.S. Congress.
Bipartisan
War Criminals
Celebrate War
Hawk John
McCain
(September
2018)
As
The Boss,
Mayor Rahm
Emanuel,
Blames Black
Community for
Violence
Chicago:
Democrat-Led
Cops Continue
Racist Killing
Spree For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution
On July 14,
Chicago police
gunned down
yet another
black person,
Harith
Augustus, a
barber.
“Snoop”
Augustus,
known as a
peaceful man,
was stopped on
the pretext of
exhibiting the
“characteristics
of an armed
person,” and
was shot dead
even though he
had a valid
gun license.
For the police
in this
rigidly
segregated
city, and
throughout
this country
founded on the
bedrock of
slavery, it is
always open
season on
black people.
And on
Latinos,
immigrants,
Native
Americans …
the list goes
on. Moreover,
in Chicago and
almost every
other big
city,
Democrats are
the bosses of
the racist
killer cops.
This is all
coming to a
head in the
upcoming trial
of killer cop
Jason Van Dyke
for the murder
of Laquan
McDonald in
October 2014.
And Democratic
mayor Rahm
Emanuel,
running for a
third term, is
stoking racist
reaction by
blaming lax
“morals” in
the black
community for
the violence
engendered by
rampant
poverty,
unemployment
and brutal
police
occupation.
Yet some of
the same
themes are
echoed in
protests,
where instead
of denouncing
racist police
repression the
focus is on
opposition to
“gun violence”
in general.
Talk of
“reforming”
the police or
controlling
guns only
serves to
divert protest
away from a
revolutionary
perspective
and to
strengthen the
repressive
agencies of
the capitalist
state, while
leading
protesters
into the
dead-end of
bourgeois
pressure
politics. The
stark fact is
that there is
no solution to
war, poverty
and racist
repression
under
capitalism. Chicago:
Democrat-Led
Cops Continue
Racist Killing
Spree
(August
2018)
DSA: Fronting for the
Democrats An Internationalist Group Pamphlet
(click
on image to
download pdf)
A 70-page
pamphlet
analyzing the
organizational
and political
history of the
Democratic
(Party)
Socialists of
America. Includes
articles on:
Bourgeois
Populism and
Social-Democratic
Reformism: A
Dead End Italy: Anti-Immigrant Election Hysteria
The
campaign for
the March 4
Italian
elections has
been dominated
by vile
xenophobic
anti-immigrant
chauvinism.
All the
competing
bourgeois
parties and
coalitions
attack the
bogeyman of
“illegal
immigration.”
The racist
Lega
(ex-Nord)
rails about
the “invasion
of aliens,
drug pushers,
delinquents
and illegals,”
raising
slogans such
as “Italians
first! Now or
never! Stop
the invasion!”
With the
populist
Cinque Stelle
(Five Star)
movement
running first
in the opinion
polls, its
historic
leader, Beppe
Grillo,
recently
called for
immediately
deporting all
“illegals.”
The strategy
of the
Democratic
Party
government has
been to put
itself at the
head of the
anti-immigrant
hysteria by
aggressively
extending the
sway of
Italian
imperialism in
the
Mediterranean,
Libya and to
the south.
This
imperialist
drive to the
south is
accompanied by
a campaign of
all-sided
racist
repression
against
immigrants and
refugee
seekers in
Italy. What
the
domesticated
left is
counterposing
to the three
main bourgeois
coalitions of
Forza
Italia/Lega,
Cinque Stelle
and the PD
with its
various
appendages of
homeless
bourgeois
politicians,
is a mixture
of bourgeois
populism and
social-democratic
reformism. in
the present
climate of
anti-immigrant
hysteria and
fascist
attacks, what
is needed are
mass
mobilizations
bringing out
the power of
the working
class to stop
the fascists.
Above all, we
must forge a
genuinely
Leninist-Trotskyist
vanguard.
Italy:
Anti-Immigrant
Election
Hysteria
(24 February
2018)
Boston:
Let Siham Byah
Come Home! No
Deportations! By
Class Struggle
Education
League
On January 27,
hundreds of
defenders of
immigrant
rights from
many leftist
organizations,
labor unions,
churches and
sanctuary
networks
rallied in
Boston to
protest the
deportation of
Siham Byah. A
prominent
Occupy Boston
activist and
single mother,
Byah was
grabbed by the
Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement
(I.C.E.)
police last
November 7,
torn from her
son, beaten in
a local jail,
driven to
Virginia and
then deported
to Morocco.
The Class
Struggle
Education
League, based
in Lowell,
Mass. and New
Hampshire
participated
in the
protest,
emphasizing
the importance
of mobilizing
the power of
workers action
to stop the
I.C.E.
deportation
machine. It
also noted the
parallel to
the struggle
against
slave-catchers
under the 1850
Fugitive Slave
Act, a battle
which came to
a head in
Boston and set
the stage for
the U.S. Civil
War. The CSEL
is undertaking
joint work
with the
Internationalist
Group. Boston:
Let Siham Byah
Come Home! No
Deportations!
(4 February
2018)
Guess Who’s
Bernie
Sanders’
Foreign Policy
Go-To Guy, and
What Power
Bishop Is His
Vatican Fixer
But, of
course, one
and the same
Jeffrey Sachs
who designed
the
post-counterrevolution
“shock
treatment” in
Poland. Also
in Bolivia
where it led
to tens of
thousands of
workers fired
and brutal
anti-union
repression. In
preparation
for the
no-photo-op
pope-meet-and-greet,
Bernie and
Jeffrey dined
with Cardinal
Óscar Andrés
Rodríguez
Maradiaga of
Honduras, “the
pope’s
right-hand man
and one of the
Vatican’s top
power
players.” This
is the same
cardinal who
helped
engineer
(together with
Hillary
Clinton) the
2009 Honduran
coup, and
before that
covered up for
bloody
massacres and
“disappearances”
in the 1980s.
But then, Pope
Francis
himself is a
veteran of
Argentina’s
1970s dirty
war. Guess
Who's Bernie
Sanders’
Foreign Policy
Go-To Guy, and
His Power
Bishop Vatican
Fixer (17
April 2016)
A
Question of
Whose Class
Interests
Prevail Flint
Water Crisis:
Capitalism Is
Poisoning Us
The residents
of Flint,
Michigan have
been living a
nightmare ever
since in early
2014 the
city’s
state-appointed
“emergency
manager” and
the governor’s
office decided
to switch the
water supply
from Lake
Huron to the
Flint River.
As a result,
the population
has been
subjected to
lead
poisoning,
particularly
affecting the
very young and
elderly. The
levels of
contamination
are
astronomical.
For almost two
years
Republican
state
authorities
and Democratic
federal
officials
refused to do
anything about
complaints.
Now an
emergency has
been
proclaimed,
but the water
is still
undrinkable.
Meanwhile, the
same
“emergency
manager” has
been
overseeing
Detroit
schools as
they descend
further into
the abyss. The
emergency has
been created
by decaying
capitalism:
industrial
pollution,
closing
factories and
a bipartisan
attack on
teachers and
public
education. The
dictatorial
managers must
be kicked out,
but changing
parties will
change
nothing. The
bottom-line
issue is which
class is in
power.
Capitalism is
literally
poisoning our
futures. Flint
Water Crisis:
Capitalism Is
Poisoning Us
(3 March 2016)
The
State of
Pennsylvania
Seeks to Bar
His Lawyer
The
Frame-Up of
Corey Walker By
Charles Brover
Corey Walker
was arrested
in July 1996
on a bogus
murder charge
from
Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
He has been
behind bars
ever since.
Evidence of
his innocence
was withheld.
He is the
victim of
prosecutorial
misconduct and
incompetent
legal
representation.
Lorenzo
Johnson, who
was arrested
in the same
case, also
remains in
prison even
though a
federal
appeals court
recognized the
insufficiency
of the
evidence
against him,
but was
overruled by
the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Now the state
is trying to
deny Walker
the attorney
of his choice,
Rachel
Wolkenstein,
who has
defended Mumia
Abu-Jamal.
Pennsylvania
authorities
will stop at
nothing to
cover up lying
and
manufacture of
evidence,
coercion of
witnesses and
suppression of
evidence of
innocence by
police and
prosecutors.
This requires
silencing
Corey Walker
and
short-circuiting
his legal
appeal. In
seeking to
disqualify
Wolkenstein
from
representing
him, the state
attorney
general's
office cites
her political
views that the
judicial
system is an
organ of
racist
oppression
that must be
overthrown by
socialist
revolution.
This
witch-hunting
attack and the
continued
incarceration
of Walker and
Johnson go to
the heart of
Jim Crow
“justice
system.” Free
Corey Walker
and Lorenzo
Johnson! The
Frame-Up of
Corey Walker
(4 February
2016)
Occupation
of Hundreds of
Schools Blocks
Threatened
Closures
Student
Revolt Shakes
São Paulo,
Brazil
By Class
Struggle
Workers/UFT
For the last
three weeks,
the city of
São Paulo,
Brazil has
been convulsed
by a combative
upheaval of
high school
students
protesting the
state
government’s
plan to close
92 schools and
order hundreds
of thousands
of students to
change
schools. When
the state
governor tried
to ram through
this plan
without
consultation,
students
responded by
occupying
almost 200
schools. Then,
when military
police began
clearing out
occupied
schools this
week, students
took chairs
and tables and
set up class
in busy
intersections
and highways.
The students,
backed by
teachers, also
refused to
take
high-stakes
test. After
several days,
the governor
backed down.
This is
a dramatic
example of how
the
international
capitalist
offensive
against public
education
should be
fought – by
mass action in
the streets,
bringing out
students,
teachers,
parents and
mobilizing the
power of the
working class.
Student
Revolt Shakes
São Paulo,
Brazil (4
December 2015)
The
Haitian
Revolution and
U.S.
Imperialism
July 28 marks
the 100th
anniversary of
the first U.S.
invasion of
Haiti in 1915,
under
Democratic
president
Woodrow
Wilson. This
led to an
occupation of
19 years, as
well as
occupations of
the Dominican
Republic next
door, of
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Honduras and
Veracruz,
Mexico, and
followed the
1898 U.S.
invasion and
occupation of
Cuba, Puerto
Rico and
Philippines.
But the
occupations
didn't stop
there. In
1994, Democrat
Bill Clinton
invaded Haiti
a second time,
and in 2004
Republican
George Bush II
invaded a
third time.
Haiti today
continues
under
imperialist
occupation,
this time
outsourced to
a United
Nations
“peacekeeping”
force. As
proletarian
internationalist
opponents of
imperialism,
on this
centenary we
republish
articles from
Workers
Vanguard
when it was
the voice of
revolutionary
Trotskyism on
the 1915-34
U.S.
occupation,
and a two-part
series on
Toussaint
Louverture and
the Haitian
Revolution
that led to
the first
black republic
in history, as
well as
sparking slave
revolts
throughout the
Caribbean and
in the United
States. (30
July 2015)
Protest
the Police
Lynching of
Sandra Bland
On July 10,
Sandra Bland,
a 28-year-old
African
American
activist and
education
worker, was
driving from
Illinois to
her new job at
the
historically
black Prairie
View A&M
University in
Texas, her
alma mater.
Sandra was
pulled over by
a Texas
Ranger,
supposedly for
changing lanes
without
signalling.
The trooper
abusively
demanded she
get out of the
car,
theatening to
use a Taser
electric shock
on her. After
having her
head slammed
on the ground,
Sandra was
arrested for
supposed
“assault on a
public
servant,” for
insisting on
her rights.
Three days
later, she was
found dead in
her cell in
Waller
County, Texas.
The
authorities
claim she
committed
suicide. We
say the police
are guilty.
Sandra was
lynched by the
cops. On July
22, hundreds
gathered in
New York
City's Union
Square to
protest the
police murder
of Sandra
Bland. Class
Struggle
Education
Workers, CUNY
Internationalist
Clubs and the
Internationalist
Group joined
in. Protest
the Police
Lynching of
Sandra Bland
(22 July 2015) (video)
NYC May Day 2015 The
Internationalist
Group, CUNY
Internationalist
Clubs and
Class Struggle
Education
workers had a
spirited
contingent in
the May Day
march in New
York City.
Leading the
contingent was
a group with
red flags with
the hammer,
sickle and 4
of the Fourth
International.
Then came a
banner made by
the Hunter
Internationalist
Club,
proclaiming:“Ayotzinapa-Ferguson-NYC,
Smash the
Racist
Capitalist
State, Workers
to Power.
Signs
emphasized the
call to Defend
Black
Baltimore
following the
occupation of
the city by
the National
Guard to
squelch the
upheaval over
the police
murder of
Freddie Gray,
and to free
Mumia
Abu-Jamal, who
faces
execution in
prison by
deliberate
medical
neglect. Also
highlighted
was the call
for workers
action against
police terror,
noting the
historic
action by ILWU
Local 10 that
shut down the
port of
Oakland on May
Day and
marched on
City Hall
calling to
stop police
terror.
Sunset
Park Fights
Back Against
Police Attack
It’s
been only two
months since
Eric Garner
was
chokeholded to
death in
Staten Island
by the racist
cops, and
barely a month
and a half
since the
police murder
of 17-year-old
Michael Brown
in Ferguson,
Missouri. But
despite the
national
outcry and a
thousands-strong
march in New
York in late
August, two
incidents in
the Sunset
Park
neighborhood
of Brooklyn
show once
again the face
of racist
police
violence under
liberal
Democratic NYC
mayor Bill de
Blasio. The
first involved
a heavy‑duty
arrest of a
vendor after a
festival in
the park; in
the second, a
cop slammed a
pregnant woman
on the
pavement on
her abdomen
and her son
and husband
were arrested.
The residents
of this
heavily
immigrant
neighborhood
feel singled
out for
aggressive
enforcement
under NYPD
chief William
Bratton’s
“broken
windows”
strategy of
massive
arrests for
minor
infractions.
On Saturday,
September 27,
some 300
people came
out to protest
against the
brutal police
siege. While
many called
for Bratton’s
resignation,
racist cop
terror is
endemic in
capitalist
America. To
put a stop to
it will
require
nothing less
than workers
revolution. Sunset
Park Fights
Back Against
Police Attack
(28 September
2014)
Defend North Korea and China
Against
Imperialism
and
Counterrevolution
U.S.
War
Provocations
Push Korea to
the Brink For the Revolutionary Reunification of Korea, North
and South!
Over the last
month and a
half, the
United States
and South
Korea have
engaged in an
escalating
series of
military
provocations
against North
Korea.
Simultaneous
“war games”
have simulated
a nuclear
aerial bombing
of the North,
a ground
invasion from
the South,
annihilation
of the
leadership and
the
“insertion” of
tens of
thousands of
U.S. troops
searching for
nukes. While
the
imperialist
media are, as
usual,
strenuously
demonizing the
North Korean
leader Kim
Jong Un and
playing up
blustering
statements
coming out of
the North
Korean capital
of Pyongyang,
the Pentagon
has been
laying the
basis for a
military
strike against
the North. The
whole
operation is
part of
detailed plan
elaborated by
the Obama
administration,
dubbed “the
playbook,” for
U.S. shows of
force. But
this is no
football game.
The
Internationalist
Group and
League for the
Fourth
International
defend North
Korea, a
bureaucratically
deformed
workers state,
against the
war
provocations,
economic
blockade and
any attack by
U.S.
imperialism
and its South
Korean junior
partners, no
matter how it
starts. We
also defend
North Korea’s
development of
nuclear
weapons, its
main deterrent
against a war
by the power
which laid
waste to the
North in the
Korean War. U.S.
War
Provocations
Push Korea to
the Brink (13
April 2013)
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