AMERICA’S ROAD TO REVOLUTION
THE BANKSTER REGIME WILL BE
TOPPLED AND MEXICO PUSHED OUT OF
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS!
"The report was drafted in conjunction with a survey conducted among nearly 1,000 banking and business executives, government officials and academics, which found that 93 percent of them feared a worsening of confrontations between the major powers in 2018. Fully 79 percent foresaw a heightened threat of a major “state-on-state” military conflict."
"The report was drafted in conjunction with a survey conducted among nearly 1,000 banking and business executives, government officials and academics, which found that 93 percent of them feared a worsening of confrontations between the major powers in 2018. Fully 79 percent foresaw a heightened threat of a major “state-on-state” military conflict."
Spreading wave of working class unrest in
the US follows West Virginia teachers
strike
By Will Morrow
10 March 2018
In the wake of the
unions’ shutting down of a nine-day strike by 33,000 West Virginia public
school employees on March 6, there are growing calls for strikes and protests
by teachers and other sections of the working class throughout the United
States, which are threatening to break free from the control of the trade
unions.
The movement of
workers is placing them in direct conflict with the entire ruling class and the
Democratic and Republican Parties. The dependence of the capitalist system on
the continued suppression of wages was underscored on Friday, when a jobs
report showing low wage increases led to sharp rise in the stock markets.
Education workers in
Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky and New Jersey are demanding strike action. In
Kentucky, several hundred education workers protested inside the state capitol
building in Frankfort on Friday to oppose a planned Senate vote to cut the
annual cost-of-living adjustment for teachers’ pensions, already below
inflation at 1.5 percent, by a third. Republican Senators announced that they
were postponing a vote on the bill.
On Thursday, teachers
in at least 28 schools across Kentucky organized “walk-ins,” protesting outside
school buildings before class and walking in together against the pension cut.
Stephanie Winkler,
the Kentucky Education Association president, warned that the union may be
forced to call a strike to maintain control over the workers. “We hope it
doesn't have to come to that,” she said.
On Tuesday night, the
Oklahoma Education Association posted a notice on Facebook announcing a
state-wide strike on April 23. Within hours, facing a backlash from teachers
demanding much more aggressive action, the union was forced to take the post
down. It announced that the strike date had been brought forward to April 2,
while still opposing a full walkout.
A Facebook page set
up by an Oklahoma teacher, “Oklahoma Teachers Walkout—The Time is Now,” grew to
more than 60,000 members within a week. Teachers in Oklahoma are the lowest or
second-lowest paid in the country, below West Virginia.
In Arizona, a
Facebook page set up by a teacher this weekend, Arizona Educators United, has
grown to over 26,000 members. Workers on the page are discussing holding
strikes and sickouts, while the Arizona Education Association union has opposed
calling any strike before 2019.
Late last month, more
than 4,000 teachers in New Jersey voted for strike action.
The struggles of
teachers are inspiring other sections of the working class. More than 1,400
Frontier workers in West Virginia and parts of Virginia are completing the
first week of their strike against efforts by the telecommunications giant to
slash full-time jobs and cut healthcare and other benefits.
Workers on the picket
line spoke to WSWS reporters on Tuesday expressed a growing sentiment for a
united movement of the entire working class. Chris, a Frontier worker with nine
years, said, “If all the teachers band together, and the same for us, if all
the communication workers band together, there’s no fight we can’t win.”
The growth of the
class struggle is international in scope. Among the many strikes and protests
that have developed over the past several weeks are:
·
A strike by 300 workers at Windsor, Ontario’s ZF-TRW auto parts
facility, which began yesterday after workers rejected an agreement backed by
the unions. The walkout has already forced the idling of the nearby Fiat
Chrysler plant in Windsor.
·
An ongoing 14-day strike by more than 40,000 lecturers at 57
universities across the UK against pension cuts.
·
A strike by lecturers at public universities across Kenya over low
pay and unpaid back pay that began on March 1.
·
The closure of public schools across Argentina on Monday and
Tuesday this week in a strike by tens of thousands of teachers against cuts to
public education and declining real wages.
·
An ongoing eight-day strike by more than 15,000 non-academic
workers at Sri Lankan universities, who are demanding a 20 percent wage
increase.
·
A strike by more than 4,000 Iranian steel workers over non-payment
of two months' wages and bonus arrears, now entering its third week.
The unions are highly
conscious of their role in controlling social opposition, subordinating it to
the Democratic Party and preventing demands for walkouts from developing in the
direction of a general strike.
It was precisely the
signs that the West Virginia teachers were winning the support of other
sections of workers that made the teachers unions determined to shut it down.
The American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia and the West Virginia
Education Association cut a deal with the billionaire governor Jim Justice and
state legislators which does nothing to address teachers’ main demand for an
end to rising health care costs. It provides a paltry five percent raise, which
will be funded through cuts to social spending, including Medicaid, the
healthcare program for the poor.
Underscoring the
rotten character of the agreement, the state superintendent Steven Paine
announced on Thursday that teachers will be forced to make up the nine days
missed from the walkout. He advised local school boards to force teachers to
work over the spring break.
In a series of
worried articles and statements, the Democratic Party-aligned media and trade
unions are warning about the implications of the loosening of the unions’ straitjacket
over workers. In the wake of the West Virginia teachers’ rebellion, they warn
that the Janus vs AFSCME case currently before the US Supreme Court—which would
allow workers to opt out of paying union dues without having to pay “agency
fees”—may further weaken the unions’ ability to suppress the class struggle.
An article published in the New York Times on
Thursday notes, “The West Virginia teachers found ways to organize and act
outside the usual parameters of traditional unionism… The lesson, experts said,
is that undermining public sector unions, as the Janus case seeks to do, will
not guarantee labor peace.”
On March 1, the Washington Post published
an article by former AFT organizing director Shaun Richman, warning that
“employers will not like the chaos” caused by weakening the unions, saying
workers would “engage in wildcat strikes” and “look to more left-wing and
militant organizations.”
The political lessons
of the West Virginia teachers’ struggle must be drawn by teachers and other
workers in West Virginia, across the US and internationally. The incipient
rebellion against the corporatized, anti-working class trade unions must be
made conscious through the formation of rank-and-file factory and workplace
committees, elected by and from among the workers, to turn out to and unify the
struggle with other sections of the working class.
Workers must oppose
the attempts by the unions to subordinate their struggles to appeals to the
Democratic Party, which no less than the Republicans represents the interests
of the major corporations and the military/intelligence agencies. The
development of a powerful movement of the working class must be connected to a
political struggle against both big business parties, escalating social
inequality, war, and the capitalist system.
THE
LA RAZA INVASION:
The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic
growth via mass-immigration floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions. NEIL
MUNRO
(JOBS)
PARTNER WITH MEXICO, the LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY and the
PRO-BUSINESS GOP to keep wages for LEGALS depressed (today they are depressed
to 1973 levels).
But you will still get the tax bills for the Mex welfare state and
crime tidal wave!
*
“Illegal
aliens are not supposed to work, and knowingly providing shelter for illegal
aliens can be construed as harboring and shielding, elements of a felony under
federal law, Title 8 U.S. Code §
1324.”
“Where aliens
and jobs are concerned, even many categories of nonimmigrant aliens (temporary
visitors) including aliens who lawfully enter under the Visa Waiver Program or
with tourist visas may not work in the United States and immediately become
subject to removal (deportation) if they seek gainful employment.”
----MICHAEL CUTLER – FRONTPAGE mag
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks:
E-Verify Ignored in DACA
Negotiations Because ‘Members of Congress Know It Will Work’
Members of Congress broadly oppose a
legislative nationwide E-Verify mandate for employers because “they know it
will work,” said NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks, explaining why E-Verify is not
being pushed in congressional negotiations for an amnesty deal for recipients
of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Jenks further noted that both parties are beholden to special interests
supportive of “mass migration.”
AMERICAN POVERTY and the LA RAZA MEXICAN
WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S BACKS.
"Congress must prioritize four repairs for the
immigration system before contemplating any DACA-style amnesty negotiation,
said Brat: 1. Ending chain migration and the visa lottery; 2. Mandating
employer use of E-Verify; 3. Construction of a
southern border wall; and 4. Interior enforcement of immigration law."
REP. DAVE BRAT
MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY FACTORIES FOR WELFARE
IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
ROBERT RECTOR:
THE STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION,
OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE
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