To survive capitalism’s death agony: Build a Fighting Workers/Labor Party Now!
To survive capitalism’s death agony: Build a Fighting Workers/Labor Party Now!
For working class political independence and class struggle!
Electoral politics cannot solve the multi headed crisis of capitalist rule!
The working class and the oppressed, facing economic crisis, COVID, racist cop terror, unemployment and evictions cannot wait for yet another election that will solve nothing in our favor no matter who wins. It is long past time to form our own fighting Workers/Labor Party. A National Convention is needed of the trade unions, the many thousand organizations of the oppressed and the various Marxist organizations to form a united front to build such a party and to fight within the unions, and to fight within the protest movements and the broader wage labor society for this party. It is already time to see that the DSA is standing deadwood, its basis for an organizational existence destroyed by the Democrat Convention,replaced by the popular front of Sanders, Biden, Trumpka and Meg Whitman.
We need to do this NOW, as the capitalist duopoly partnership is NOT DEALING WITH the multi crises: disease/pandemic, starvation/survival, eviction/homelessness, war danger, the lost rate of profit as megabanks stagger and the Democrats have nothing but the election to offer.
The election was all they really ever wanted: the proof is their failure to mobilize the working class to remove Trump, substituting their cynical “impeachment” that was designed to fail. If they are elected we’ll get austerity in the neck and continuing attacks on Social Security. We DON’T WANT the reformist labor party foreseen as inevitable by Shachtman, and we don’t want the Green Party for whom social revolution is excluded and we don’t want the micro program of pragmatism, which we will ceaselessly critique as a plan for inadequacy.
We would take part in any true mass labor party regardless, but only fight for our program and only take responsibility for it. In all cases we insist on a program that can remove the dictatorship of the capitalist class and replace it with the dictatorship of mass organs of the workers and the oppressed. We see parliamentarism as the soapbox where we argue for socialism as the only survival road to a planet with a future. All the bourgeoisie has to offer is death and division, whether by sectoral/intersectional means with oblivious lack of concern for the masses as a whole, or the secret legal and judicial agenda of the Koch fossil fuel empire; the secret lifetime Trump Bonapartist Presidency plan, where a Trump dynasty was even floated, as testified to by the no-platform RNC focus on the family…Trump family that is.
The Labor Party we want, fights vote suppression and wants the working class to vote on every important question at work, in schools and the community, making every day election day, with far less “representative” substitution and an end to ruling capitalist class secret back room government, as we will go on to expose that racket at every turn.
The Republican “Convention”
The Republican Convention was held during the backdrop of the Jacob Blake post-shooting demonstrations and was used to expand Trump’s call to the armed right wing to come out and form up the white citizens councils of old. They came out in Kenosha, armed and ready to kill and they did, egged on by the local racist police and sheriff and in large part by the McCloskey’s ‘special moment’ of hero worship for pointing guns at #BLM protesters walking by their house. This was seen widely as an invitation to come armed into the streets to confront the protesters whom Pence and Trump consistently call rioters and looters, egged on by the Fox network, as the Hannitys and Ingrahams compete for Trump’s attention with the Sputniks at One America News.
The prognosis on the elections is changing back in favor of Trump as we write. He is driving towards Bonapartism as he whips his fascistic base into a frenzy. Trump is closing the gap in the swing states and that may crush the Biden majority vote just like Clinton’s in 2016. … In any event, the Democrats are not able to defeat Trumpism and its causes which are about to graduate from their first season of the Reality TV ‘Apprentice’ to the first season of multi-generational TV drama ‘Dynasty’, with Donald playing Juan Peron and Ivanka playing Evita. Capitalist crises can only be solved through socialist revolution.
Picking up where Kyle Rittenhouse left off, 600 MAGA maggots drove into downtown Portland August 29th in a caravan against the BLM protesters. This implicitly threatens to weaponize their vehicles as has been done numerous times coast to coast, mimicking the Charlottesville murder of Heather Hyer. Some of the MAGAs were openly carrying firearms as well. So this is not just a paintball duel, but a foreshadow of gun battles should Trump lose; in fact, we can foresee, and have heard of plans by Trumpsters to suppress the anti-Trump vote on Nov. 3rd with arms. This was how the Jim Crow vote suppression was carried out before 1965.
We note the emergence of groups like the NFAC (Not F-ing Around Coalition.) And the shooting of the Patriot Prayer thug on August 28th is an indication that the Ghandians are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the protesters. This development is only positive IF individualism also loses and disciplined, trained Labor-Black-Brown Community Defense Guards are formed. More and more the left is learning that passive acceptance of the violence of the right and the police only leads to deaths on our side. We need to make the jump from disorganized individual self armament to organized self defense guards that are built in every union hall and in community centers and churches, mosques and synagogues of the oppressed.
Revolutionary workers need to exploit the contradictions of the nationalists, the theocrats and the identity politicos of all stripes to show that only working class unity can defeat the forces of repression and reaction and the causes of the crisis of capitalism. We need our own party to accomplish these tasks. To advance on this course, please read:
Let’s resolve racist capitalism’s crisis in favor of our class!
How to Build a Labor Party (by our predecessors of HWRS)
