"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...
Owners
Shutter Manhattan Laundry, Try to Move
Machines NYC Labor: Stop
Wash Supply Union-Busting!
In a move straight out of the
union-busters’ playbook, in retaliation for
immigrant women workers organizing a union,
the owners of the Wash Supply Laundromat on
Manhattan’s Upper West Side fired them all
on April 19, then abruptly closed the shop.
The next morning, as the workers were
protesting, the company tried to remove the
equipment. This came only weeks after the
company tried to intimidate the women by
firing one of them on the eve of a scheduled
unionization vote. The workers courageouosly
voted for the union anyway. To stop this
union-busting cold calls for a mobilization
of power on the streets by city labor,
including unions active in
industrial-laundry, restaurant/hotel,
service, transport and communications
sectors. NYC
Labor: Stop Wash Supply Union-Busting!
(20 February 2021)
Front-Line
Workers: Essential, Yes! Expendable, No!
Temporary Hazard Pay: Not Enough
Food
Chain Workers: $5/Hour
Permanent Raise and Vaccine
Now!
As Grocery
Chains Rake in Pandemic
Profits, Workers Face
Dangerous Conditions, More
Stress, Low Pay
On February 1, the giant grocery
conglomerate Kroger announced it was
closing two of its chain stores (a
Ralphs and a Food 4 Less) in Long
Beach, California. Why? Because of
an ordinance passed by the city
council last month requiring that
grocery store chains pay their
workers an extra $4 an hour “hero
pay” for the next four months. This
is shameless blackmail, to keep
grocery workers toiling in dangerous
conditions at rock-bottom wages
while owners rake in billions of
dollars in profits during the
COVID-19 pandemic. This fight is not
just about a particularly greedy
employer raking in obscene profits
while its employees risk their lives
toiling in dangerous conditions –
although Kroger is certainly that.
It is a class battle in which the
workers movement and all working
people must come to the defense of
the low-wage essential workers who
are called heroes in the media while
being treated as expendable by the
bosses. Food
Chain Workers: $5/Hour Permanent
Raise and Vaccine Now!
(February 2021)
A Fight for All
Workers
Hunts
Point Teamster Strike Shows
Potential for Labor Upsurge
The week-long strike
by 1,400 mainly Latino and black
workers at the Hunts Point Produce
Market in the Bronx was the first
major labor battle of 2021, and it
ended with gains for the strikers,
members of the Teamsters union.
The workers have been on the job
throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,
keeping New York City and
surrounding region supplied with
produce. At Hunts Point, the
popular strike won gains which,
although limited, could encourage
labor struggle around the country.
Around the U.S., many employers
have been itching to use the
pandemic as an excuse to bust
unions, while many workers are fed
up with being treated as
expendable, risking their health
for poverty pay, even as they are
hailed as essential. An example of
real class solidarity during the
strike was the stopping of the
freight train going into the
market on Wednesday, January 20.
The next night: no train. The
night after that: a settlement.
That’s the power of the bedrock
labor principle: picket lines mean
don’t cross! Hunts
Point Teamster Strike Shows
Potential for Labor Upsurge
(30 January 2021)
From Amazon Union
Drive to Hunts Point Teamster
Strike How
the “World Scab Web Site” Aids
the Bosses
There it is, in your
face, so stark that you can’t miss
it: as we have repeatedly warned,
the grotesquely misnamed World
Socialist Web Site serves
union-busting bosses against the
unions. The (latest) proof: on
January 15, an article posted on
the “World Scab Web Site” calls to
“Vote ‘No’ to the UFCW-backed
union at Alabama Amazon facility!”
So, acting in tandem with Amazon
boss Jeff Bezos, the richest man
in the world, the political
bandits of David North’s WSWS are
actively trying to prevent the
organization of a union at the
viciously anti-union e-commerce
monopoly’s Bessemer, Alabama,
warehouse. It’s far from the first
time: the WSWS has likewise
opposed unionization of auto parts
plants in the past. Revolutionary
socialists have a diametrically
counterposed position: we say
emphatically “yes” to unions,
while fighting to forge a
class-struggle leadership. How
the “World Scab Web Site” Aids
the Bosses (January 2021)
“Essential, Yes!
Expendable, No!” A Fight for All
Workers NYC Labor: All Out
to Support Hunts Point
Market Strikers!
On Sunday, January
17, the 1,400 union workers at
the Hunts Point Market in the
Bronx walked out. It is the
first strike since 1986 at the
wholesale meat, fish and produce
market, one of the largest in
the world. International
Brotherhood of Teamsters Local
202 is demanding a raise of $1
an hour in recognition of their
vital role as essential workers,
and another 60 cents an hour
increase for the health benefits
fund, simply to maintain current
levels. As the bosses hardline
it, the Hunts Point strikers
should be joined by hundreds of
supporters from other NYC
unions. An outpouring of support
from workers could build massive
picket lines that no one dares
cross, and make the Hunts Point
strike the kickoff for a drive
to unionize hundreds of
thousands of low-wage workers
(like at Amazon!) across the
city. NYC
Labor: All Out to Support
Hunts Point Market Strikers!
(18 January 2021)
On Trump’s
“Border Ruffians”
The mob on January
6 was led by paramilitaries in
camouflage fatigues, with body
armor and weapons. These white
racists are the recognizable
descendants of the “Border
Ruffians” that John Brown and
his comrades confronted in the
1850s in Kansas, defeating their
terror campaign to turn it into
a slave state. After the Civil
War, the mob rearmed as the Ku
Klux Klan and continued its
depredations right through the
defeat of Reconstruction in
1877, and beyond. Historical
experience shows that the
political regime and social
set-up in the U.S. under
capitalism recreates the racist
mob over and over again. In the
1960s and 1970s, the ultimate
leaders of the KKK wore suits
rather than white robes or blue
uniforms. These suited racists
were Joe Biden’s close friends
when he was a senator. Biden was
key to successfully leading the
racist fight to defeat
desegregation in the public
schools. On
Trump’s “Border Ruffians”
(8 January 2021)
Trump-Instigated,
Fascist-Led, Police-Aided
Racist Mob Assault on Congress Capitalist
“Democracy” Falling Apart
– Socialist
Revolution the Only
Solution For
Workers Defense Guards
Against Fascist Threats
and to Defend the Rights of
All the Oppressed
Yesterday’s
mob rampage at the U.S.
Capitol was the culmination of
Donald Trump’s campaign of
frenzied claims that the
November 2020 presidential
election was “stolen.” The
assault on Congress was
instigated by Trump and his
top lieutenants, led by
outright fascists, spearheaded
by white supremacists
brandishing the Confederate
battle flag of the slavocracy,
and it was facilitated by the
police. In the media and
numerous politicians the
Capitol attack is described as
an “insurrection,” “coup
d’état” or failed “coup
attempt.” Yet this grotesque
rampage by a would-be lynch
mob was not an actual attempt
to seize power (for which they
obviously didn’t have the
forces), nor was it the
military trying to disperse
and shut down the U.S.’
highest legislative body. It
was a mob assault aimed at
intimidating Congress into not
confirming Democratic
president-elect Joe Biden, and
failing that, to galvanize
hard-core Trumpers into an
authoritarian movement for
future action. It was not a
last paroxysm of Trumpism, but
a harbinger of dangerous times
to come. The several hundred
fascists who turned out,
together with tens of
thousands of enraged racists
and reactionaries, are plenty
dangerous, but the most
powerful and central dangers
come from the organs of state
power of the capitalist ruling
class – police, military,
National Guard – which
brutally repress protests for
black rights and protect the
fascist terrorists. Democrat
Joe Biden is their new boss,
and he backs them to the hilt.
Capitalist
“Democracy” Falling Apart –
Socialist Revolution the
Only Solution (7 January
2021)
Immigrant
Laundromat Workers Fight
Intolerable Conditions “¡Union, fuerza,
solidaridad!”
On November 25, defenders of labor
and immigrant rights rallied to
support the workers of the Wash
Supply Laundromat on Manhattan’s
Upper West Side as they delivered
a letter of demands to management.
Wearing aprons reading “We Are the
Union,” this courageous group of
Mexican immigrant women gave voice
to the struggle against the
intolerable conditions, wage theft
and abuse faced by many thousands
in laundry sweatshops across the
city. The action, called by the
Laundry Workers Center (LWC),
highlighted the workers demands
for an end to wage theft and
discrimination, the right to a
break and paid sick leave, better
health and safety conditions –
including providing PPE needed
during the coronavirus pandemic –
as well as earning the city’s
minimum wage. They are also
demanding recognition of the union
they are in the process of
forming. The Internationalist
Group (IG) and Revolutionary
Internationalist Youth (RIY)
joined in the action, emphasizing
the need to mobilize the power of
NYC labor to defend immigrant
workers. Immigrant
Laundromat Workers Fight
Intolerable Conditions
(November 2020)
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)
Trump
Looks to Cops and
Fascists, Democrats
Appeal to Pentagon Brass
Repression
Elections 2020 You
Can’t Fight Trump with
Democrats
U.S. capitalism is in a
heap of trouble, and as
usual, the working class
and oppressed are paying
the price. It’s about to
get a lot worse. The
country is beset by a
deadly plague, the worst
in a century. The economy
is in a new depression,
the deepest since the
1930s. An explosion of
outrage over racist cop
brutality brought millions
into the streets daily in
the largest sustained
protest movement in U.S.
history. The ruling class
is sharply divided after a
failed impeachment
process, while U.S.
society is deeply
polarized over just about
everything. And now we are
on the eve of an election
which could easily – even
likely – set off weeks of
turbulent unrest and
perhaps a constitutional
crisis not seen since
1876. In answer to Trump’s
“law and order” campaign,
Democratic standard-bearer
Joe Biden calls to shoot
“rioters” in the leg while
his running mate, Kamala
Harris, brags she was
California’s former “top
cop.” Neither Republicans
nor Democrats will or can
do away with the terrible
scourges brought upon us
by the decaying capitalist
system of war, poverty and
racism which they
represent. We need a
workers party to fight all
the bosses’ parties on a
revolutionary program to
sweep away the entire
capitalist system. Repression
Elections 2020 (30
October 2020)
Brazil:
Workers Power
Candidacy Against
Capitalist Rule
Comrades Carlos Alexandre
Honorato (Cerezo) and
Geraldo Ribeiro of the
Liga
Quarta-Internacionalista
do Brasil are running on a
Workers Power Candidacy
Against Capitalist Rule
for mayor and deputy mayor
of Volta Redonda, site of
the largest steel plant in
Latin America. They are
presenting a
class-struggle program,
including demands for free
and rapid COVID-19 tests
for all, expansion of the
public health care system
under workers control,
teacher-student-parent-worker
control of the schools,
union control of hiring,
all police and military
out of the impoverished favelas,
and the formation of
workers councils as the
basis for a workers and
peasants government.
Cerezo is a former steel
worker who played a
leading role in the 1988
strike that won the
six-hour workshift in the
face of army occupation.
Geraldo led the historic
struggle to expel police
from the municipal workers
union. The bourgeois
courts have banned the
independent workers
campaign, which unlike all
the rest refuses to take
one real (the
Brazilian currency) from
the state or bosses, but
the class-struggle
campaign continues. Brazil:
Workers Power Candidacy
Against Capitalist Rule
(28 October 2020)
Close
the Camps – Full
Citizenship Rights for
All Immigrants!
Down with Racist
Fortress Europe!
Greece:
Moria Fire Ignites
More Racist
Repression
As flames engulfed the
Moria refugee camp on the
Greek island of Lesbos on
September 8, burning it to
the ground, Europe’s
“forgotten” crisis was
made visible once more. In
the midst of a global
pandemic that has claimed
over a million lives,
Greek authorities locked
down the open-air prison
with its nearly 13,000
migrant refugees. After
protests against the
lockdown, and pushed to
the edge by spending many
months and even years in
the squalid camp,
Europe’s largest, some
camp residents set it
ablaze. The desperate act
of rebellion was fueled by
years of humiliation and
dehumanization, carried
out under the racist
immigration policies of
the German-dominated
European Union (EU) and
its Greek border
guards.With a rightist
government and outright
fascists cooperating in
immigrant-bashing rhetoric
and actions, the League
for the Fourth
International calls to
close the concentration
camps, free all migrants
and allow them the same
freedom of travel as
everyone else while
demanding asylum for
refugees and full
citizenship rights for all
immigrants. We also call
for workers action against
racist attacks, and for
refugees fleeing the
devastation caused by
imperialism, we say: let
them in! Greece:
Moria Fire Ignites More
Racist Repression (28
October 2020)
In Wake
of Upsurge Against
Racist Cop Terror Democrats’
Pro-Cop Ticket Vies
with Trump Over “Law
and Order”
So this is what
“democracy” looks like,
USA-style, as election
season enters its final
stretch: a hellscape for
the oppressed, workers and
youth. Unending police
murder of black people,
hundreds of thousands dead
of coronavirus, millions
unemployed, fascistic
vigilantes gunning down
anti-racist protesters,
and now the West Coast up
in flames. It’s not an
apocalyptic Hollywood
movie – it’s the “death
agony of capitalism” 2020.
And after millions come
out in the streets
demanding an end to police
terror; after
“progressive” Democrats
(and their echo chamber on
the reformist left) work
overtime to channel
protest into calls for
“defunding” the cops;
after these same
“progressives” fall in
line behind the upcoming
nominee – the result is
the most ostentatiously
pro-cop Democratic ticket
in decades. While many
organizers of Black Lives
Matter protests this
summer urged people to
vote (Democratic) in
November, this is what
they get: Joe Biden, a
“shoot ’em in the legs”
segregationist for
president and Kamla
Harris, a “lock ’em up”
top cop for veep.
Revolutionary Marxists
call to break from and
defeat the capitalist
parties of racist cop
terror, poverty and war,
and to build a workers
party to fight for a
workers government. Democrats’
Pro-Cop Ticket Vies with
Trump Over “Law and
Order” (18 September
2020)
As
U.S. Convulsed Over
Racist Police Murder
SL
Silence =
Capitulation
to the
Democrats
U.S.
capitalism is
mired in deep
crisis, with
200,000 dead
from COVID-19,
50 million
having lost
their jobs, over
1,200 civilians
killed by police
so far in 2020,
and now a putrid
election
campaign in
which Democrats
and Republicans
vie over who can
best carry out
racist
repression.
While most of
the left has
gone along with
the Democrats’
“law and order”
ticket, who has
been fighting
against the Dems
and all
capitalist
parties? The
Internationalist
Group has done
so since Day One
of the wave of
anti-racist
protests, in our
press, polemics,
placards,
banners, chants
and speeches.
The Spartacist
League, in stark
contrast, has
not said one
word about the
continuing
pandemic of
racist police
murders, and has
been absent from
the mass
marches.
Politically,
their absence
from the
battlefield
destroys any
remaining
pretense of
providing
leadership, much
less
revolutionary
leadership.
These
ex-Trotskyists
turn their backs
on youth seeking
to fight racist
oppression. The
latter-day SL
provides no
opposition to
the Democratic
Party. On its
epitaph, we can
read: when the
U.S. blew up
over racist cop
murder, when
Democrats were
misleading
millions into a
dead-end, they
did nothing. SL
Silence =
Capitulation
to the
Democrats
(2 October 2020) Prepare a
Joint UFT/AFSCME/TWU
Strike Against
“Doomsday” Cuts NYC
Teachers: Use
Your Union
Power to Make
Schools Safe
to Reopen
New York City
mayor Bill de
Blasio’s plans to
reopen city
schools on
September 10
sparked widespread
unrest among
teachers and other
school employees.
The pressure from
the ranks was so
strong that, on
August 19, United
Federation of
Teachers (UFT)
leader Michael
Mulgrew held a
press conference
in which he said
the union would be
prepared to strike
if union demands
for a checklist of
safety conditions
are not met. As
the deadline
approached,
Mulgrew and de
Blasio announced a
deal to delay
reopening until
September 21, but
the union tops
abandoned their
demands for
testing of
everyone entering
NYC school
buildings. Class
Struggle Education
Workers calls on
the union and
teachers to ensure
that every
classroom in New
York City is made
safe, every school
building has to be
approved by a
committee of
educators and
families in that
school, thousands
of new teachers
and educators
should be hired,
and a joint strike
against layoffs
together with
transit workers
and all city
employees be
prepared that can
shred the
no-strike Taylor
Law. NYC
Teachers: Use
Your Union Power
to Make Schools
Safe to Reopen
(6 September 2020)
Defeat
the Bipartisan
Capitalist Attack on
Public Education
The Fight
Over Reopening Schools
Is a Class Battle
On July 7,
Donald Trump held a series
of White House events to
demand that schools be
reopened throughout the
U.S. for in-person
instruction in the fall,
after they had shut down
in March as a result of
the coronavirus pandemic.
The presidential diktat
was part of his reelection
drive. But while Trump’s
aim was transparently
political, where
transmission rates are
low, schools should be
reopened, safely, in view
of the damage to the
education, development and
well-being of children
resulting from keeping
them out of school.
“Remote learning” is an
oxymoron, and greatly
intensifies racial and
class gaps in education.
This article is a detailed
analysis of the issues and
class forces behind the
battle over opening
schools. Calls by various
liberals and reformists to
keep schools closed until
COVID-19 is no more are
deeply reactionary and
play into the hands of
enemies of public
education, both
conservative and liberal,
who want to replace public
schools (and teachers)
with remote instruction,
as part of their agenda to
privatize public
education. What’s needed
is to bring out the power
of labor together with all
the oppressed to push
through longstanding
demands for quality
education which are now
key to safely reopening
the schools. But that
requires a revolutionary
leadership that breaks
with all parties and
politicians of the ruling
class to wage a class
offensive. The
Fight Over Reopening
Schools Is a Class
Battle (6 September
2020)
Mobilize
Workers Action
Against Racist
State Terror!
Los
Angeles:
Outrage
Against Murder
of Dijon
Kizzee On August 31,
29-year-old
Dijon Kizzee
was gunned
down in a hail
of bullets to
the back by
Los Angeles
County
Sheriff’s
Department
deputies for
supposedly
riding his
bike in an
“illegal
manner.” The
day before the
murder of
Dijon Kizzee,
a
whistleblower’s
testimony
surfaced,
shedding light
on a murderous
gang within
the LASD’s
Compton
station called
the
“Executioners,”
which recruits
members based
on their
“success” in
committing
racist murders
in the
streets. The
Internationalist
Group calls
for
labor/black/Latino/immigrant
mobilization
against police
terror. In
contrast, many
liberals and
pretend-socialists
seek instead
to divert
struggles
against cop
terror into
the dead end
of trying to
reform the
unreformable
police. The is
reflected in
calls to
“defund” and
for “community
control” of
the
police/sheriff’s
department.
The idea that
the ruling
class – the
capitalists
and their
politicians –
would let
those whom the
police are
intended to
repress
control the
repressors
shows a
fundamental
(and in the
case of
would-be
socialists,
willful)
misconception
of the nature
of the
capitalist
state. Los
Angeles:
Outrage
Against Murder
of Dijon
Kizzee (6
September
2020)
Cops
Shoot Jacob
Blake in the
Back, Shackle
Him to
Hospital Bed,
Anti-Racist
Protesters
Murdered by
Fascistic
Gunman Cops,
Feds and
Fascists
Unleash Racist
Terror in
Kenosha,
Wisconsin
For
Mass
Worker/Black/Immigrant
Action!Jacob
Blake lies
paralyzed in
his hospital
bed, shackled
by hand and
foot, after
being shot
with seven
bullets to his
back by police
in the streets
of Kenosha,
Wisconsin on
August 23. Two
days later,
anti-racist
protesters
Anthony Huber
and Joseph
Rosenbaum were
murdered by a
rifle-toting
17-year-old
white
supremacist
vigilante from
Illinois, Kyle
Rittenhouse.
Racist
Republican
president
Donald Trump
has dispatched
hundreds of
militarized
forces to lock
down Kenosha,
while
pro-Trump
fascistic
militias
descended on
Kenosha. But
it was the
Democratic
mayor and
Democratic
governor who
unleashed the
racist police
on
demonstrators,
imposed a
curfew and
brought in the
Wisconsin
National Guard
to suppress
the protests.
Cops,
Feds and
Fascists
Unleash Racist
Terror in
Kenosha,
Wisconsin
(28 August
2020)
Trump
and Democrats
Assault
Protesters
Police
State
Portland: Cops and Feds Get Out!
Following
Donald Trump’s
attempt to impose
martial law in
Washington, D.C.
in the first days
of June to put
down protests over
the racist police
murder of George
Floyd, the racist
pyromaniac in the
White House is at
it again. Now he’s
seeking to provoke
explosions of
unrest as an
election tactic,
in order to pose
as the
“law-and-order
candidate.” The
police-state
tactics of federal
agents dispatched
to Portland,
Oregon, intended
to terrorize, have
instead escalated
the massive Black
Lives Matter
protests. Trump’s
use of his Gestapo
of secret police
forces, assaulting
protesters to sow
terror, is an
ominous threat to
the democratic
rights of all. It
is a major step
toward the
imposition of
direct
military/police
rule. But while
Democrats pose as
heroes of the
“resistance,” the
reality is that
the vast majority
of the thousands
of arrests and
innumerable brutal
beatings of
protesters in the
last few weeks
have been carried
out by police
forces under the
command of
Democratic mayors
and governors. The
Democrats threaten
lawsuits and
legislation, but
that won’t stop
Trump and his
stormtroopers. The
Internationalist
Group calls for
workers strikes
and mobilizations
together with all
the oppressed,
against racist
repression and
martial law
threats. In the
present sharp
crisis, the IG and
Class Struggle
Workers – Portland
raise the call:
“Cops and feds get
out!” Police
State Portland:
Cops and Feds
Get Out! (21
July 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)
Revolution Publication
of the
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth and of
students from
the
Internationalist
Clubs at the
City
University of
New York (click
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Revolution
No. 17 (August
2020) click
or on image
for full list
of articles
The
Racist Police
Murder of
George Floyd Only Revolution Can Bring Justice!
By
Gordon Barnes
Amidst the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, the United
States has
been wracked
by nationwide
protests
against racist
police
brutality and
murder.
Nightly we
hear the
helicopters
overhead;
daily come new
images of
police
violence,
repression,
curfews,
arrests, and
the threat of
martial law.
Why is it
that, despite
the waves of
protest and
cyclical
pledges of
“reform,” the
police keep
murdering
black people?
The list of
their names is
endless. As
marchers chant
them, some of
us add “It
never stops.”
Born as a
professionalized
force from the
slave patrols
in the U.S.
South, the
police serve
the ruling
elite and
protect their
property and
social order.
That is the
fundamental
role of the
cops under
capitalism.
What is in
danger of
occurring
again during
the current
cycle of
fervent
protest, is
the funneling
of dissent
into the
Democratic
Party.
Democratic
mayors largely
control the
urban centers
in this
country, and
their police
forces. It is
these
Democratic
mayors who
have
instituted the
various
curfews and
police
crackdowns,
and a series
of Democratic
Party
governors
have, along
with their
Republican
confreres,
deployed the
National
Guard. To
overcome the
racial
oppression
which is, and
always has
been, part of
the bedrock of
American
capitalism,
the power of
the
multiracial
working class
must be
mobilized. When
Will It End?
The Racist
Police
Lynching of
George Floyd
(3 June 2020)
Protests
Denounce
Murders of
Transgender
People in
Racist,
Capitalist
U.S.A.
Since
Minneapolis
cops murdered
George Floyd
on May 25,
mass
demonstrations
against police
terror have
swept the U.S.
Amid this
upsurge,
protesters
have called
attention to
the fate of
African
American and
Latino trans
people killed
at the hands
of police,
prison guards
and
reactionary
bigots. The
capitalist
dystopia
called the
United States
is a living
hell for the
oppressed,
triply so for
black and
Latino trans
people. At a
Hunter College
protest in
September
2015, after
the lynch-law
death of
Sandra Bland
in a Texas
jail, the
Internationalist
Club held a
speakout
against racist
terror, with
posters with
the names and
faces of
transgender
people who had
been murdered
that year. But
in this
racist,
capitalist
country, the
killing never
stops. Some of
the names we
remember today
are Dominique
Rem’mie Fells,
Jayne
Thompson,
Layleen
Polanco. The
working class
and all
defenders of
democratic
rights must
actively
oppose
discrimination
and attacks on
transgender
people.
Ultimately, to
put an end to
this terror
requires
putting an end
to the
capitalist
system itself.
Protests
Denounce
Murders of
Transgender
People in
Racist,
Capitalist
U.S.A.
(August 2020)
No
Segregation at
Anti-Racist
Protests!
At a number of
demonstrations
that the
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth has
attended in
the past
period,
liberal
organizers
have literally
tried to
segregate
protesters in
line with
their notions
of hierarchies
of oppression.
Starkly
counterposed
to real
struggle
against
oppression,
such
“privilege
theory”-inspired
antics are no
joke. In the
face of the
cops,
Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement
(I.C.E.) and
other
repressive
forces, this
expression of
guilt-tripping
identity
politics
liberalism can
quickly
endanger the
safety of
protesters.
This year, at
a June 28
protest called
in downtown
Manhattan by
the Reclaim
Pride
Coalition, a
lead organizer
announced that
the march,
which
highlighted
the issue of
police
brutality,
would be
separated into
groups –
according to
tiers of
oppression.
Fortunately,
the crowd of
thousands was
already
integrated and
it stayed that
way.
Fortunately,
the crowd of
thousands was
already
integrated and
it stayed that
way. No
Segregation at
Anti-Racist
Protests!
(August 2020)
Herding
Votes for
Biden, Pushing
More Cash for
Cops
Like
We Said:
Bernie
Sanders’
“Political
Revolution”
Was a Scam
With
populistic
bluster about
a “political
revolution
against the
billionaire
class,” Bernie
Sanders, the
senator from
Vermont who
calls himself
a democratic
socialist,
drew wide
support from
youth
disenchanted
by
capitalism’s
escalating
crises. His
foot soldiers
revved them
up, registered
them as
Democrats and
lined them up
for the
November 2020
vote. In
April, Sanders
dropped out of
the primaries,
throwing his
weight behind
the embodiment
of the
“Democratic
establishment”
his followers
had reviled:
Joe Biden. Now
Bernie Sanders
proclaims that
Joe Biden
could be the
“most
progressive
president”
since Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Like his ally
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez,
who snagged a
prized post as
co-chair of
Biden’s
climate
taskforce,
Sanders holds
up Democratic
imperialist
icon FDR and
his New Deal
as a model and
inspiration.
Like we said
from the
beginning:
Sanders’
so-called
political
revolution was
and always has
been a
political
scam, in the
service of the
Democrats. Like
We Said:
Bernie
Sanders’
“Political
Revolution”
Was a Scam
(August 2020)
Defend International Students! Defeat
Attacks
Against
Immigrants! Statement
of the
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth
On
Monday, July
6, Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement
(I.C.E.)
launched a
vicious attack
against
international
students, who
now “may not
take a full
online course
load and
remain in the
United
States.” If
they cannot
find in-person
classes, they
must leave the
country or
face
deportation.
This
xenophobic
action by the
U.S.
immigration
Gestapo
targets over
one million of
our fellow
students and
classmates,
including over
350,000
students from
China. This
sadistic
bigotry comes
after the U.S.
has summarily
deported over
2,000 children
in the middle
of the
pandemic. The
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth call for
labor/black/immigrant
action against
racist police
and
anti-immigrant
terror, and to
stop this vile
attack on
international
students. Defend
International
Students!
Defeat Attacks
Against
Immigrants!
(7 July 2020)
For
Labor/Black
Mobilization
Against Racist
Police
Attacks!
Cops
Off the Trains
and Out of the
Stations! Upwards
of a thousand
people have
protested in
recent weeks
against a wave
of racist
police
brutality in
the New York
City subways.
Cellphone
videos taken
by bystanders
have shown
cops storming
subway cars
and brutally
beating black
youths. In
response,
first in
downtown
Brooklyn on
November 1 and
then in Harlem
three weeks
later,
protesters
marched
through the
streets
chanting
“being broke
is not a
crime” and
“What’s our
mission?
Abolition.”
The police
assault has
been defended
by liberal
Democratic
mayor Bill de
Blasio, while
Democratic
governor
Andrew Cuomo
has ordered
500 more
police to
flood the
subways,
trains and
buses. The
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Youth joined
in the
protests,
calling for
cops out of
the subways,
and to rip out
the turnstiles
– for free
mass transit,
run by the
transit
workers rather
than the real
estate
speculators
and Democratic
Party pols who
control the
system today.
TWU Local 100
representing
transit
workers is the
stronghold of
NYC labor, and
if they were
to intersect
with the fight
against cop
terror in the
subways it
would produce
a social
explosion that
would rock the
city. But such
a struggle
must be waged
politically
and requires a
fighting
leadership
prepared to
take on the
capitalist
parties
responsible
for running
the transit
system into
the ground. Cops
Off the Trains
and Out of the
Stations!
(November
2019)
“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)
Millions
Take the Streets
in Upheaval
Against Cop
Murder Machine
To
Uproot Racist
Oppression: Socialist Revolution
The
murder of
George Floyd
by a
Minneapolis
cop set off a
wave of
outrage that
swept across
the United
States and has
continued for
weeks.
Millions of
people took to
the streets to
denounce the
racist police
murder of
black people.
As protests
spread cops
geared up for
battle
attacked
demonstrators.
Democratic
mayors and
media screamed
about
“looting” to
justify
“law-and-order”
crackdowns,
while the
incendiary
racist Trump
called to
shoot looters
and brought in
thousands of
troops to the
capital. These
have been the
largest
sustained
protests in
U.S. history.
Seeing the
shift in
public
opinion,
Democratic
mayors, who
are “the
bosses of the
racist killer
cops,” tried
to coopt
protests by
pretending to
shift some
funds from the
police to
social
programs. Yet
none of the
many plans to
“reform” the
police have
ever succeeded
because racist
and
anti-working-class
repression is
the essential
function of
the police.
The only way
to put an end
to the cop
murder machine
is through
socialist
revolution.
The
combustible
material that
can fuel a
revolution is
everywhere.
What’s
urgently
needed is
revolutionary
leadership. To
Uproot Racist
Oppression:
Socialist
Revolution
(10 July 2020)
Opportunist
Word Games to
Justify Tailing
Democrats “Abolish the Police” Under Capitalism?
As
activists call to
“defund” the
police while
Democratic leaders
call for more
funds to the cops,
in a presidential
election pitting
“shoot the
looters” Trump vs.
“shoot ’em in the
legs” Biden, the
Democratic Party
is worried about
energizing young
voters. The need a
little help from
the opportunist
left, to get out a
“Dump Trump” vote
in November. The
Democratic (Party)
Socialists of
America were glad
to oblige,
Opportunist
leftists present
“abolish the
police” as if that
is the true
meaning of
protests calling
to “defund the
police.” But the
actual role of the
“abolish” demand
is to tie
BLM protests to
budget
machinations by
Democratic
politicians. The
Internationalist
Group calls
instead to snash
the racist
capitalist state
with workers
revolution. “Abolish
the Police”
Under
Capitalism?
(10 July 2020)
Cops
Out of the
Unions – Now!
By Class
Struggle
Workers –
Portland
The racist
police murders
of George
Floyd, Breonna
Taylor and
many others
have
highlighted
why police of
all kinds have
no place in
the labor
movement. The
demand “Police
Out of the
Unions” is a
crucial aspect
of bringing
the power of
the working
class into the
fight against
racist
oppression
today. The
labor
bureaucracy
has brought
the class
enemy‘s thugs
into our labor
movement
through many
doors. Major
unions
including the
SEIU,
Teamsters and
AFGE include
thousands of
police in
their cop
affiliates.
Moreover,
policing is
not solely
relegated to
police
departments.
It is also
carried out by
prison guard
and security
guards. Class
Struggle
Workers –
Portland
demands that
ALL police
“unions” and
locals or
affiliates of
other unions
be removed
from the labor
movement. In
addition,
defenders of
labor and the
oppressed must
demand that
prison guards
and security
guards should
also be
removed from
the unions. Cops
Out of the
Unions – Now!
(7 July 2020)
No
to
Military/Police
Rule: Mobilize
Workers Power! Trump
and Democrats
Stage Ominous
Trial Run for
Martial Law
In the days
following the
May 25 murder
of George
Floyd by a
Minneapolis
cop, furious
protests
spread from
coast to
coast,
including
right in front
of the White
House in
Washington,
D.C. After
being rushed
to an
underground
bunker, racist
president
Donald Trump
let loose a
barrage of
tweets,
threatening to
shoot
protesters. On
June 1, he
berated
governors,
called for
“total
domination” of
the streets
and threatened
to send in
active duty
troops to
suppress
demonstrations.
In Washington,
D.C., he did
just that,
bringing in
thousands of
National
Guardsmen and
the 82nd
Airborne. This
was a dry run
at imposing
martial law.
Trump was
thwarted not
by
non-existent
“resistance”
by Democratic
governors, who
had already
mobilized the
National
Guard, but by
the military
brass, worried
that troops
might not
follow orders
to attack
demonstrators.
The
Internationalist
Group called
for workers
strikes now
against racist
terror and
martial law
threats.
Trump
and Democrats
Stage Ominous
Trial Run for
Martial Law
(27 June 2020)
For
Labor/Black/Immigrant
Action to
Fight Racist
Terror Fury Over Minneapolis Police Murder of
George Floyd
“I can’t
breathe,”
George Floyd
kept saying as
a Minneapolis
police officer
dug a knee
into his neck.
For millions
across the
country and
the world, it
hauntingly,
unbearably
recalls the
last words of
Eric Garner,
the Staten
Island, New
York man that
a cop killed
by chokehold
in 2014. The
racist cop
murder of
George Floyd
set off
furious
protests in
Minneapolis
that soon
spread to
other cities.
This latest
racist outrage
occurs in the
midst of the
COVID-19
pandemic,
which is
killing
African
Americans and
Latinos at
staggeringly
high rates.
The African
American,
Latin
American,
Native
American, poor
and oppressed
communities in
the Twin
Cities,
including a
sizeable
Somali
population,
have long been
targeted by
the police.
The names
Jamar Clark,
Philando
Castile,
Thurman
Blevins,
Chiasher Fong
Vue are
testimony that
the police
lynchings
never stop. We
call for mass
workers action
joining with
the black
population and
all the
oppressed to
shut the Twin
Cities down.
The
inescapable
fact is that
justice for
George Floyd
and all those
killed by this
racist system
can only be
achieved by
socialist
revolution. Fury
Over
Minneapolis
Police Murder
of George
Floyd (28
May 2020)
Silent
Amidst Mass
Upsurge
Against Racist
Oppression
Spartacist
League
Declares
Bankruptcy
In the almost
four weeks
since
Minneapolis
cops murdered
George Floyd,
the ongoing
upheaval
against racist
police terror
is by far the
largest
sustained wave
of protest
this country
has seen in
many decades.
“Progressive”
bourgeois
politicians
and their
auxiliaries
and surrogates
on the
reformist left
are now
working
overtime to
channel
protests into
updated
versions of
the same old
fakery about
“reforming”
the police.
For Marxist
revolutionaries,
this is a
crucial time
to intervene
in the ongoing
struggle with
the communist
program. That
is what the
Internationalist
Group and
League for the
Fourth
International
have been
doing. Yet
amid the most
massive
protest
movement in
the U.S. in
decades, the
formerly
Trotskyist
Spartacist
League has not
published a
paper, put out
a leaflet or
posted a
single
statement on
its website on
the killing of
George Floyd
or the mass
protests
against racist
police terror.
The sepulchral silence of the SL speaks
volumes: its
abject
abdication is
a declaration
of political
bankruptcy. Spartacist
League
Declares
Bankruptcy
(21 June 2020)
Mobilize
Labor/Black/Immigrant
Power Against
Cop Terror! ILWU
Shutdown of
West Coast
Ports Points
the Way
Forward
The
International
Longshore and
Warehouse
Union (ILWU)
has announced
that it will
shut down all
29 ports on
the U.S. West
Coast on June
19, in honor
of George
Floyd and to
protest
“police
brutality and
systematic
racism.” This
is a big step
forward, as
daily and
nightly mass
protests of
thousands
continue
across the
United States
weeks after
Floyd was
brutally
murdered by a
Minneapolis
cop. From the
outset of the
protests, the
Internationalist
Group has
called to
mobilize
labor/black/immigrant
action against
racist police
terror. In
addition to
the outrage
over the
police murder
of Floyd, the
initiators of
the ILWU port
shutdown were
impelled to
take action by
President
Donald Trump’s
threats of
gunfire
against
protesters,
and Democratic
and Republican
governors
calling in the
National Guard
to suppress
demonstrations.
The ILWU
action has
been called
for
Juneteenth,
which
celebrates the
day – 19 June
1865 – that
slavery was
formally
abolished in
Texas, the
last of the
Confederate
slave states
to be occupied
by the Union
Army, bringing
the Civil War,
the second
American
Revolution, to
a close. The
only way to
break the
death grip of
the killer
cops today is
to smash the
whole racist
police/prison/judicial
apparatus of
the capitalist
state through
socialist
revolution. ILWU
to Shut All
West Coast
Ports Against
Racist Police
Brutality
(16 June 2020)
Shipbuilding
Workers in
Maine Fight
General
Dynamics
Union-Busting
Victory
to the Bath
Iron Works
Strike!
On Monday, June 22, some 4,300
members of
Industrial
Union of
Marine and
Shipbuilding
Workers of
America/IAM
Local S6 went
on strike at
the Bath Iron
Works (BIW)
shipyard in
Maine. BIW,
which produces
destroyers for
the U.S. Navy,
is owned by
General
Dynamics, one
of the largest
military
contractors in
the world.
Amid record
unemployment,
a global
pandemic and
mounting
pressure from
the military
as BIW’s order
backlog grows
longer, the
shipyard
workers have
shown they are
ready and
willing to
fight. In
mid-March,
3,000 called
out sick
demanding the
company
sanitize the
site. What
they are up
against now is
“flat-out
union-busting,”
said the
international
president of
the IAM, as
the company
“is exploiting
the current
pandemic to
attempt to
outsource
work.” The BIW
workers’
strike must be
taken up by
the entire
labor movement
– a victory
here could set
the stage for
a wave of
labor
struggles
nationwide. Victory
to the Bath
Iron Works
Strike!
(29 June 2020)
Fruit
Packinghouse
Workers Stand
Up for Their
Rights
Yakima
Strikes: The
Battle Has
Just Begun
After 22 days
on strike,
workers at the
Allan Bros.
packinghouse
in Naches,
Washington,
celebrated an
agreement with
the company
and returned
to work on
Monday, June
1. By Friday,
June 5, the
other
companies
settled,
leaving
Columbia Reach
in Yakima as
the last
ongoing
strike. But as
many strikers
commented, the
struggle has
only just
begun. Over
the course of
the strike
movement that
broke out at
Allan Brothers
on May 7 and
spread to
eight area
packinghouses,
many people
commented that
nothing like
this had been
seen in the
Yakima Valley
for decades.
As the year
began, could
the arrogant
bosses who own
the valley
have imagined
that “their”
workers would
dare to defy
them by
walking out –
in the middle
of a pandemic!
– and force
them to the
negotiating
table? For the
strikers, who
started with
zero, the fact
that their
struggle made
some gains can
be a first
step on the
road to
winning a
union. Now
come
negotiations
over demands
for a pay
raise. The
courageous
Yakima
strikers,
mostly women,
must not stand
alone. Action
by the entire
labor movement
is key to
achieving a
solid victory
in Yakima. Yakima
Strikes: The
Battle Has
Just Begun
(5 June 2020)
Minneapolis
Public Schools
Give Cops the
Boot
In an historic
move,
Minneapolis
Public Schools
voted
unanimously
yesterday to
cut ties with
the
Minneapolis
Police
Department.
Horrified by
the
cold-blooded
killing of
George Floyd
by an MPD cop,
educators in
the Twin
Cities and
throughout the
country
denounced this
racist murder.
Students at
local high
schools and
community have
been
organizing for
years to get
the misnamed
“school
resource
officers”
(SROs) out of
the schools.
On June 2, the
Minneapolis
Federation of
Teachers held
a rally
outside
Minneapolis
Public Schools
Davis Center
in North
Minneapolis
demanding “No
More Police in
Our Schools!”
At the demo,
teachers and
parents shared
stories about
how their
African
American and
Latino kids do
not feel safe
with MPD
officers
roaming their
hallways.
While the
number of
police in
Minneapolis
schools is
small, the
unanimous vote
of the school
board to
remove them
has national
importance. Minneapolis
Public Schools
Give Cops the
Boot (3
June 2020)
To
Meet Urgent
Demand,
Workers Power
Is Key
How Capitalism
Sabotaged
Ventilator
Production
As the coronavirus pandemic
ravages the
country, with
New York City
as the
epicenter,
hospitals and
government at
all levels
have been
caught wholly
unprepared. A
cut-throat
ventilator
bidding war is
going on, in
which state
governments
compete
against each
other and
federal
agencies to
get their
hands on these
desperately-needed
life-saving
devices. There
should be a
crash program
to produce
tens of
thousands of
new
ventilators –
yesterday! So
why hasn’t
that happened?
Ventilator
manufacturers
are loath to
ramp up
production on
the massive
scale needed
because it
would
virtually
eliminate
their profits.
The ventilator
shortage has
been known for
years. Medical
professionals
and even some
government
officials had
been ringing
the alarm
bells, warning
that a
pandemic would
leave U.S.
hospitals in
the lurch. But
when a federal
program was
begun in 2008
to purchase up
to 40,000 new
ventilators,
the company
was bought out
by a larger
competitor in
order to stop
production of
the lower-cost
machine.
Workers at
General
Electric have
called on the
company to
rehire
laid-off
workers and
retool plants
to produce the
vital
machines.
Faced with the
refusal of the
bosses to do
so, GE workers
should take
control to
gear up
ventilator
production, on
the road to
socialist
revolution. How
Capitalism
Sabotaged
Ventilator
Production
(14 April
2020)
Why
Cops and Their
“Unions” Have No
Place in the Labor
Movement By
Becca Lewis
Amidst nationwide
protests ignited by the
racist police murder of
George Floyd, union
members everywhere are
asking: how can labor
throw its weight into
the fight to uproot
racist repression? We
have the power to shut
down factories and
docks, farms and urban
transport, food plants
and phone service. And
now is the time to use
it. But it’s also high
time the labor movement
cleans its own house. In
fact, it’s long overdue.
As mass anger at police
killings shines the
spotlight on police
forces’ role as
enforcers of racist
repression, the time is
now to carry through the
demand long raised by
class-struggle
unionists: “Cops out of
the unions.” Despite
recent efforts by the
Writers Guild of
America, East and others
to rightly call for the
expulsion of the
International Union of
Police Associations from
the AFL-CIO, the push
has been met with
resistance from the the
AFL-CIO. When labor
officialdom tries to
stop or divert this
vital fight, they are
wielding the very
outlook and policies
that have drastically
undercut and weakened
our movement for years.
Why
Cops and Their
“Unions” Have No Place
in the Labor Movement
(June 2020)
For
Labor/Black/Immigrant
Action to
Fight Racist
Terror Fury Over Minneapolis Police Murder of
George Floyd Only Revolution Can Bring Justice!
Internationalist
Special
Supplement
(click on
image to
download pdf)
“I can’t breathe,” George Floyd kept saying as a
Minneapolis
police officer
dug a knee
into his neck.
For millions
across the
country and
the world, it
hauntingly,
unbearably
recalls the
last words of
Eric Garner,
the Staten
Island, New
York man that
a cop killed
by chokehold
in 2014. The
racist cop
murder of
George Floyd
set off
furious
protests in
Minneapolis
that soon
spread to
other cities.
This latest
racist outrage
occurs in the
midst of the
COVID-19
pandemic,
which is
killing
African
Americans and
Latinos at
staggeringly
high rates.
The African
American,
Latin
American,
Native
American, poor
and oppressed
communities in
the Twin
Cities,
including a
sizeable
Somali
population,
have long been
targeted by
the police.
The names
Jamar Clark,
Philando
Castile,
Thurman
Blevins,
Chiasher Fong
Vue are
testimony that
the police
lynchings
never stop. We
call for mass
workers action
joining with
the black
population and
all the
oppressed to
shut the Twin
Cities down.
The
inescapable
fact is that
justice for
George Floyd
and all those
killed by this
racist system
can only be
achieved by
socialist
revolution. Fury
Over
Minneapolis
Police Murder
of George
Floyd (28
May 2020)
Workers
Courageously
Fighting in
Coronavirus Hot Spot
Victory
to Yakima
Packinghouse
Strikers!
Amid
the deadly
coronavirus
pandemic, hundreds
of workers in
Yakima Valley,
Washington, are
courageously
fighting for their
livelihoods, and
their lives. On
Thursday, May 7,
dozens of workers
at a packinghouse
in Naches walked
out. The workers,
mostly Latina
women, are
demanding cleaning
and disinfectant,
“social
distancing” safety
measures, personal
protective
equipment , a
minimum of 40
hours work weekly
and a “hazard pay”
bonus to their
poverty wages.
Within days,
workers at a half
dozen other
packinghouses
joined the strike
movement. By
Monday the
management at one
packer conceded a
$100 per week
bonus. But other
employers are
resisting even
such a concession,
evidently playing
for time to wear
down the strikers,
hoping that
economic
desperation will
force them back to
work. Meanwhile,
the bosses are no
doubt conferring
with their
union-busting
lawyers on the
swiftest and most
economical way to
return to “normal”
conditions of
profitable
exploitation. This
will be a hard
fight. Victory
to Yakima
Packinghouse
Strikers!
(17 May 2020)
MTA Bosses’ Coronavirus Disaster For
Workers
Control of NYC
Transit!
Right
up at the top of
the list of unsung
heroes of the
pandemic are New
York City transit
workers, at least
120 of whom have
died of COVID-19.
Transit workers
are
disproportionately
falling victim to
the disease
because many are
in close contact
with large numbers
of people, and
because of
perilous work
conditions
fostering lung
disease, but also
because of
criminal actions
of the employer.
The Metropolitan
Transit Authority
refused to hand
out personal
protective
equipment which
had been
stockpiled for a
pandemic, even as
workers were being
infected. MTA
managers, and
their bosses in
the State House
and City Hall,
have amply proven
that they are
incapable of
producing a safe,
efficient, clean
and comfortable
mass transit
system – and
certainly not one
that would be in
the interests of
the workers who
run it and the
poor and working
people who use it.
From the “deferred
maintenance” of
the 1970s to the
subway crashes and
ever-worsening
performance of the
2010s, the subway
bosses focused on
paying off Wall
Street. The only
way to clean up
the subway mess is
for the workers to
take charge. MTA
Bosses’
Coronavirus
Disaster: For
Workers Control
of NYC Transit!
(13 May 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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