November 2015 in New York City

Workers World Party fights for a socialist society—where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need. That’s also what workers around the world, from Cuba to China, have been struggling for. The U.S. rulers have spent trillions of our tax dollars trying to stop them in a global class struggle. WWP promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars.

“The Black Lives Matter uprising is fundamentally a reincarnation of the Black liberation struggle. The capitalist class understands that its continued existence is dependent upon keeping such a liberation struggle as separate and isolated from the working-class movement and progressive movement as possible. Conversely, the more that the entire movement takes up the liberation struggle, the more difficult it becomes for the capitalist state to carry out massive repression.

“Keeping the oppressed isolated is key for the ruling class. The best circumstances for the system to succeed with its plan to crush this uprising of the oppressed is to keep such a struggle geographically, or at least politically, to a greater rather than a lesser extent, isolated from the working-class and progressive movement.

“The participation of young white activists in support of the Black Lives Matter uprising has been impressive, even unprecedented. Still, taken as a whole, the Left, specifically the white Left, has largely been missing in action thus far. This is dangerous and it must be rectified.

“No doubt, if the capitalist state can get away with isolating and then smashing the Black Lives Matter uprising, then it will feel in an even stronger position to use the same repression against the whole working class. There’s a great deal at stake here, because the crisis of capitalism makes bigger confrontations between capitalism and the working class inevitable if not imminent.”

Larry Holmes, “What is the Left going to do about the government’s plan to crush the Black Lives Matter uprising?”
http://www.workers.org/wwp/what-is-the-left-going-to-do-about-the-governments-plan-to-crush-the-black-lives-matter-uprising/

http://www.workers.org/

From Greece to Puerto Rico to Spain and Across the US workers are fighting back against the austerity being imposed the banks and financial institutions.

Thousands of households face foreclosure and eviction in neighborhoods already devastated by years of predatory mortgage lending by the banks. Some 25,000 families are facing water shutoffs while the banks got paid $537 million on interest rate swindles. Schools are shuttered while property taxes are diverted to pay off debt service to the banks. Youth face joblessness and the school to prison pipeline. If they have a job it does not pay enough to live on.

THE BANKS OWE US FOR DESTROYING OUR COMMUNITIES!

* Stop police killings and brutality – jail killer cops; Black, Brown, Native, LGBTQ lives matter!

* Stop the school to prison pipeline—no to the New Jim Crow

* $15 minimum wage

* Health care for all—single payer now

* Stop tax and mortgage foreclosures – Demand Hardest Hit Homeowners funds be released to keep people in their homes

* Stop mass water shutoffs and theft of Detroit’s water department

* Stop destruction of public schools and Emergency Manager dictatorship

* Protest pension cuts, wage/benefit cuts and union busting

* Protest lack of public lighting

* Demand world class public mass transportation and paratransit services, for people with disabilities!

* Shut down Enbridge’s oil Line 5 under the Great Lakes, no tar sands oil, ban fracking, stop Marathon’s environmental racism—System change not climate change!

* Protest jailing of Benton Harbor’s Rev. Edward Pinkney, victim of a racist frame-up!

* Full employment now. Make the banks pay for a $2 billion program to put our youth to work rebuilding the city!

Partial list of endorsers: Moratorium NOW Coalition (Moratorium-Mi.org); Detroit Active & Retired Employees Association-DAREA; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together-FIST; Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI.org); Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement, Workers World Party (workers.org); Stand Up Now!.