Hosted by Workers World Party – Michigan
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, 5 – 8 P.M.
Detroit Workers World Party Maxism Class on Wage, Labor and Capital. This basic work on Marxist economics explains the mechanism of exploitation of the workers’ labor by the capitalists. We will be reading the text together. Dinner will be served. Here is a link to the text.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Wage_Labour_and_Capital.pdf
Hosted by Rockford Workers World Party
712 Lafayette Avenue, Rockford, IL, 5:30 – 7:30 P.M.
Workers World Party will be hosting a discussion about Syria on May 12 at the Rockford Public Library in downtown Rockford. Special guest, Joe Mshahwar, a Syrian communist from the Detroit branch of WWP will give a Marxist perspective of the character of the Syrian state, the forces which have shaped Syria through recent years, and the tasks of progressive people in the USA to halt the war drive against the Syrian people.
Pack the court to support justice for Jovan!
Monday, May 7, 2018 @11am
420 W State, Rockford IL room 314
Hosted by North Carolina Association of Educators
Advocacy Day: March for Students and Rally for Respect
700 S Salisbury Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 10 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.
#GetReady educators, parents, public school supporters & advocates! We will be marching for students the morning of May 16th from NCAE Headquarters to the General Assembly to greet lawmakers on opening day. We will meet no later than 10 a.m. at NCAE HQ, 700 S. Salisbury St. We will end the day at 3:30 p.m. with a Rally for Respect.
North Carolina is one of the worst in the country in the amount our elected leaders spend per student, more than $3,000 behind the national average. Imagine what $3,000 per student could mean for our children. However, we have the lowest corporate tax rate in the country for states that have one–and it’s set to go lower again.
North Carolina ranks 35th for teacher pay, about $9,000 behind the national average. When adjusting for inflation, educators are losing money(almost 12 percent)—the third worst rate in the country.
Our students deserve better. They deserve the resources to help make them successful. They deserve professionally paid educators. They deserve safe schools and schools that are not crumbling and in disrepair. We love our public schools and we demand better!
On May 16, we march for students, we rally for respect, and we advocate for public schools. As you know, we recognize #Red4Ed on Wednesdays. Let’s have a sea of #Red4Ed on Jones Street on May 16.
RSVP at this link:
http://www.ncae.org/rally-for-respect/
Advocacy Day: March for Students and Rally for Respect
Advocacy Day: March for Students and Rally for Respect
“…Capitalism and imperialism in the contemporary period can only drive down the standard living of the people. State repression and corporate greed are the twin sides of an economic system which has long outlived its effectiveness and usefulness.
Trump’s militaristic program against Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, the African Union member-states, Cuba, the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the entire region of the Caribbean and Latin America poses a profound challenge for those who understand the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The dreaded Pentagon budget is not letting up in its devouring of the social wealth of the working people.
The only way to provide relief and ultimate liberation of the workers and the oppressed is through the building of principled coalitions of opposition forces. Recent developments in the education, municipal, anti-racist and environmental movements are providing a template to advance the imperatives of the majority at the expense of the ruling minority.”
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Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
Detroit, May Day 2018
2 E Main Street, Madison State Capitol, 11 A.M. – 2 P.M.
For decades, the University of Wisconsin system has experienced devaluation and disinvestment at the hands of state legislators. With each budget cut, system schools are forced to cut programs and subsequently grow weaker, making it more and more difficult for students of all backgrounds to have access to a quality higher education.
What happens at one campus foreshadows what will eventually happen at all 26 UW system campuses. Where administrators have failed to do so, students and faculty are taking to the streets to address the problem at the root.
UW system students and faculty from all 26 campuses will gather in Madison on May 9 to demand our administrators and elected officials start making decisions that strengthen the system that was once one of the most successful higher education models in the nation.
Join us to stand up and fight back for what’s ours. There will be speakers, voter registration stations, information booths, and more.
Can’t join us? Check into the Wisconsin State Capitol on May 9 to show your support!
To sign up to volunteer for this event and/or arrange a carpool, use the following form:
https://goo.gl/forms/r5G3FNG7UITiFDa63
To donate to the cause, use the following link: https://www.gofundme.com/saveourmajors
For more information, questions, or comments, email us at reclaimtheuw@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/MTEAunion/
Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association
“This is a national fight for public education and our students,” she said. “The Milwaukee Teachers Education Association calls on every single worker in every single Milwaukee Public School to search their conscience and consider how far they are willing to go to guarantee a fair budget for our students and a future for our students.”
– Amy Mizialko, MTEA Vice President
#fightforfunding #fundourfuture
Thousands picket Milwaukee Public Schools April 24, 2018 to say NO to cuts to the classroom!
Hosted by Workers World Party – Baltimore
Asian Americans & the Struggle for Revolution
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), the Baltimore branch of Workers World Party presents What’s Marxism Got to do with Us?: Asian Americans and the Struggle for Revolution.
The Asian Diaspora is the fastest-growing nationally oppressed group in the US and increasingly a growing segment of the working class here. Anti-Asian racism is one of the more acceptable practices of racism, and yet there are significant challenges for Asian American solidarity with the rest of the working class.
Join us to hear from Asian American activists involved in revolutionary struggle today and answer questions like: How has the international struggle for socialism inspired Asian American struggle in the US? What is the character of the Asian diaspora and the Asian American struggle in the US? What’s Marxism got to do with any of this?
https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2018/ue-welcomes-korean-peace-declaration
UE welcomes the “Panmunjom Declaration” agreement between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), in which the two countries agreed to a goal of formally ending the Korean War with a peace treaty by the end of this year, immediately ending all hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, and complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
In the early 1950s, delegates to UE conventions called for negotiations to end the Korean War. In a similar vein, we urge the U.S. government, which along with China will be a party to formal talks to end the war, to pursue the path of peace and diplomacy, withdraw its nuclear preemptive strike policy, and discontinue military exercises in the region involving nuclear strategic assets. UE delegates have consistently supported this approach as part of our convention resolution, “For Jobs, Peace, and a Pro-Worker Foreign Policy.”
The current South Korean government has been instrumental in achieving this declaration. It was elected as a result of the vibrant but peaceful demonstrations against the previous corrupt president led largely by the the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). We salute the KCTU for their role in this triumph of diplomacy over warmongering.
In this moment of peace and reconciliation, we call on South Korean President Moon Jae-in to release KCTU President Han Sang-gyun from prison. Such an act will demonstrate the South Korean commitment to democratic freedoms, such as the freedom of assembly, for which President Han was jailed by the previous South Korean administration. Only with President Han’s release can a democratic trade union movement thrive as part of a peaceful Korean Peninsula.
The decades of military tensions in the Korean Peninsula have diverted resources away from meeting urgent human needs, not only in the Koreas but in the U.S. and Japan as well. We agree with the Japanese union federation Zenroren, with whom we have had a decades-long relationship of solidarity, that war is the biggest threat to the labor movement’s historic task of protecting decent work and living for all working people.
For peace, jobs, and justice for all!
Peter Knowlton
General President
Andrew Dinkelaker
Secretary-Treasurer
Gene Elk
Director of Organization
