REDWAVE
Urban Jungle Dweller
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- Aug 26, 2001
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As bad as 2002 was, all indications are that 2003 is going to be much worse. The global economy remains mired in recession, and Bush's plan for more tax cuts for the rich will do nothing to stimulate the economy. He and the GOP now have a hammerlock on all three branches of the federal government, and are set to proceed with their program of further assaults on workers' rights, women's rights, and of course more goodies for the rich and big business. The creeping police state will continue to grow, as recent mass roundups of immigrants in southern California have shown. The state budget crisis and health care crisis are just now beginning to hit, and will soon cause enormous woe and suffering among the populace. Completing the picture is rabid union busting, intent upon crushing the last vestiges of workers' power in this country, and establishing the total domination of the rich over all the rest of us. Meanwhile, the corporate media shamelessly acts as a propaganda arm of government, while the Democrats offer only the most timid and spineless opposition to Bush's disastrous policies.
Compounding all the other problems is the looming threat of war. It now seems clear an attack on Iraq will be launched in late January or early February. That this will be a war of imperialist aggression is crystal clear. The U.N. inspectors haven't found even the slightest hint of those mythical "weapons of mass destruction," yet the preparations for war by the U.S. military go on at a feverish pitch.
Numerous protests and demonstrations will be held against the war, the police state drive, and the class warfare being waged by the rich against the working class and the poor. It is altogether right that such protests should take place. But demonstrations alone will never stop the war, or topple the usurper, tyrant and warmonger Bush from power. And Bush's stealing of the White House after losing the 2000 election conclusively proves the futility, and even the idiocy, of electoral politics. Only mobilizing the power of the working class, at the point of production, can do that. The only way to truly fight back against the hideous future of war, poverty, and repression being prepared for us by the ruling class is to strike against the war. Workers in key sectors, especially manufacturing and transportation, can halt war production and stop the U.S. war machine dead in its tracks. For political strikes against the war! The sell-out, corrupt union bureaucrats, who are all in bed with management, cannot be counted upon to launch such militant strike actions. The workers must go over their heads, and walk out on their own in wildcat strikes.
Down with fascist pigs! All power to the working class! Long live the worldwide socialist revolution!
Compounding all the other problems is the looming threat of war. It now seems clear an attack on Iraq will be launched in late January or early February. That this will be a war of imperialist aggression is crystal clear. The U.N. inspectors haven't found even the slightest hint of those mythical "weapons of mass destruction," yet the preparations for war by the U.S. military go on at a feverish pitch.
Numerous protests and demonstrations will be held against the war, the police state drive, and the class warfare being waged by the rich against the working class and the poor. It is altogether right that such protests should take place. But demonstrations alone will never stop the war, or topple the usurper, tyrant and warmonger Bush from power. And Bush's stealing of the White House after losing the 2000 election conclusively proves the futility, and even the idiocy, of electoral politics. Only mobilizing the power of the working class, at the point of production, can do that. The only way to truly fight back against the hideous future of war, poverty, and repression being prepared for us by the ruling class is to strike against the war. Workers in key sectors, especially manufacturing and transportation, can halt war production and stop the U.S. war machine dead in its tracks. For political strikes against the war! The sell-out, corrupt union bureaucrats, who are all in bed with management, cannot be counted upon to launch such militant strike actions. The workers must go over their heads, and walk out on their own in wildcat strikes.
Down with fascist pigs! All power to the working class! Long live the worldwide socialist revolution!
