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Join Workers World Party in Durham, North Carolina for a fightback conference on the resistance against racism and capitalism, and the struggle for socialism where we’ll discuss
> Ending the police war on Black & Brown people & defending the Black Lives Matter movement
> Stoping the raids & deportations & disarming ICE & the police
> Smashing HB2, defending queer and trans people, fighting for LGBTQ liberation now
> Fighting imperialism, for a free Palestine, and building international solidarity
> Abolishing capitalism and fighting for revolutionary socialism
The Black Lives Matter movement continues to heroically take it to the streets, occupying highways and police precincts across the country, demanding an end to police violence and mass incarceration. From Ferguson to Baltimore, we cannot allow the police and politicians to push back this movement as more rebellions are bound to break out as the racist police war on Black and Brown people continues.
The struggle to stop the raids and deportations of migrant workers and their families continues to grow. Many have been detained and deported by ICE at record numbers under the Democrats and the Obama administration.
The fightback is also intensifying against the attacks by racist billionaire Donald Trump and an emboldened right wing movement against immigrants and Muslims. Queer and trans people are fighting back in the face of a rising tide of reaction and a renewed assaults on their lives, including the murders around the country of trans people, and particularly trans women of color, in addition to a rash of backwards legislation.
The crisis of capitalism at a dead end, austerity, low wages, and cutbacks is devastating communities in the South, the U.S., and elsewhere around the world. Workers are building broad support for the fight for $15/hr campaign — which must continue towards the end of supporting the self-organization of workers into unions and the defeat of Jim Crow right-to-work (for less) laws, on the road to build a world run by the working class, in our interests, not of those of the bankers and the bosses!
U.S. imperialism continues to bomb, sanction, and threaten oppressed peoples – particularly in Syria, Libya, and Iraq — as the capitalist establishment fans the flames of Islamophobia at home. Solidarity and unity, between working class and oppressed people in the U.S. and across the globe, is urgently needed.
As the most unpopular election in U.S. history plays out, and we are faced with a choice between neo-fascist demagogue Trump or the racist liberalism of warmongerer Hillary Clinton, many are looking beyond the two capitalist parties of Wall Street, war, and racism. The rise of the movement around Bernie Sanders activated millions of mostly young people around his progressive, albeit limited, program. In the wake of Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton and full circle fold back into the Democratic Party, many of his supporters are asking — what now? Many more have questions about socialism, that Sanders’ campaign helped to popularize.
In the midst of all of this, Workers World Party is running two Black revolutionary socialists for president — Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly. We’re running not because we entertain any illusions about winning, but to help build the struggle in the streets around our 10 point revolutionary program. We don’t fight for a softer, kinder form of capitalism — we say: the whole damn system is guilty! We want to abolish capitalism, racist police terror and ICE, the attacks on LGBTQ people and women, U.S. imperialism. We want to fight for a revolutionary socialist future.
We need a revolution — a transformation of the economy, the political system, and all of society, where workers and communities control their future.
Racist police repression, raids and deportations, and the attacks on working class and oppressed people cannot be ended, once and for all, until the decaying capitalist system, which is becoming more and more desperately dependent on state repression, is ended. Capitalism must be replaced with a system that is based on meeting human needs, not exploitation to make profits: socialism.
These and other pressing struggles of the day — along with the experiences, observations, and questions of those in attendance — will be the basis of the conference. We hope you are able to join us.
durham@workers.org | 919-322-9970
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