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For A Mass Labor Party In The USA

For A Mass Labor Party In The USA

In our times of social collapse, a Labor Party founded and controlled by workers themselves is more necessary than ever. The two bosses' parties are conspiring to take away all we have. Forward for an independent workers' party to confront them!

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Last Night's Election From NYC AFT PSC CUNY Pres
Dear PSC Members,
Thank you to everyone who worked on behalf of the PSC’s endorsed candidates. There were a number of important successes in the legislature. When it comes to the race for President, however, the outcome is devastating and dangerous. Trump’s election is a threat to democracy. Republicans won a majority in the Senate and are threatening to win a majority in the House. Please check on your loved ones and take a deep breath. Show solidarity to the people in your life who are more at risk today than yesterday, and try to be present for your students and colleagues. Then prepare for the struggles ahead.
We should be clear: Trump’s election is a victory for fascism in the United States. His anti-worker, misogynist, racist, xenophobic agenda will make many lives more miserable and painful here and around the world if left unchecked. That is where we come in. The Trump movement has us in their crosshairs as educators and unionists. Educators need to redouble our efforts to build our power and reassert the role of knowledge and critical thinking to a functioning democracy. Unionists understand the power of solidarity and will need to exercise collective action. An autocrat like Trump can only have gained the support of so many Americans by playing to our fears and anxieties, because his policies and the Project 2025 blueprint cannot help us and will in fact harm us – some more than others.
It is hard to say what is most broken when a convicted felon, someone who announced in advance his intention to rule like a dictator, is elected U.S. President. But what’s troubled me the most is the right-wing assault on truth and the very idea of verifiability. That assault has been swift and effective. Those of us who work in higher education engage our students in the production of knowledge and the search for truth. Whatever our discipline or field, our work is about cultivating an informed citizenry. The movement that Trump leads is fundamentally about undermining that project. As we’ve seen in Florida, Texas and elsewhere, he and his acolytes aim not only to discredit and defund educational institutions but also to undermine the values and principles on which the public education system is built.
It is a wake-up call for organized labor that Trump’s movement has effectively harnessed such broad support of working people and the poor. The conservative elite in this country believed they could use Trump to move their agenda, cloaked in populist rhetoric. But Trump’s movement has also used them. We in the labor movement and in higher education must rise collectively to this moment to contain and defeat autocracy.
We can mourn what this election reveals about our country, and today we should take a moment to breathe, but then we must organize.
The PSC is part of a quickly forming coalition of grassroots organizations and labor unions mounting a “Protect our Futures” rally and march in Manhattan this Saturday November 9th at 12 noon. The event will begin with a rally at Columbus Circle. Fill out the PSC webform linked below to let us know you will come.
Click this link and complete the webform to tell us you will be at the Protect our Futures rally this Saturday, November 9th, 12:00 PM at Columbus Circle.
We'll take stock and talk about next steps at an online election debrief open to all PSC members on Monday, November 11th at 12PM. Here is the registration. I hope you will attend.
Click this link and complete the Zoom registration for a link to join the online PSC Election 2024 Debrief Monday, November 11 at 12:00 PM.
James Davis
PSC President
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November 8, 2024 International Day Of Action To Defend Workers Rights In Namibia
Rally At Namibian and Chinese Embassies & Consulates Around the World

In San Francisco
Friday November 8, 2024 5:00 PM
Chinese Consulate Laguna & Geary St.
San Francisco, California

Namibian workers are under attack. They are being injured and killed in the uranium, marble and lithium mines and their union leaders have been harassed, bullied and fired for standing up for their members.
At the Namibia Husab uranium mine which is the second largest in the world, firefighters and other mine workers have been contracted out by the owner China General Nuclear Power to Eagle Night Watch Security company. Workers do not have masks and PPE and are being poisoned and injured on the job as contract workers which is benefiting CGNP.
The Namibian Labour Commission as well has also been captured by CGNP and the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation that controls the Rossing nuclear mine. Unionists at both these mines have been fired and Chinese workers are being brought into do their work violation their union and labor rights under Namibian law.
On November 8, 2024 there will be an arbitration for Eagle Night Watch Security workers to demand that the company pay them a living wage and has proper health and safety protection. The Labor Commission has also stalled the arbitration of Husab union leader Marcia Kauatjitotje who was fired for defending her fellow workers.
Please join this international campaign and take action at the embassies and consulates of Namibia and Chinese on November 8.
Rehired All Fired Namibian Union Workers At The Husab and Rossing MinesPPE, Health and Safety Rights On The Job & Healthcare Benefits For All Husab & Rossing Mine Workers
No More Fake AA Reports On Conditions At The Husab Mine
Pay Workers Living Wages NOW & End Contract Labor

Additional Media:

Namibia Husab Uranium Miners China & The Worker's Struggle Against Union Busting and Corruption
youtu.be/N-wXaNC9LME

The Union Busting War On Namibian Workers
youtu.be/twVLySyVcT8

Chinese State-owned Companies Now Control Entire Nambia Uranium Industry
economist.com.na/45690/headlines/chinese-state-owned-companies-now-control-entire-namibian-uraniu…

Safety concerns rock Swakop Uranium
neweralive.na/posts/safety-concerns-rock-swakop-uranium

Internatonal Labor Solidarity Committee For The Namibian Miners
ilscnamibia.wordpress.com
Contact info@ufclp.org
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Stop Privatization, School Closing & Union Busting In SFUSD & CCSF See MoreSee Less

Stop Privatization, School Closing & Union Busting In SFUSD & CCSF

Sign petition of solidarity with Şiar Rişvanoğlu and the DIP of Turkey!
mailchi.mp/redmed/petitition-siar-risvanoglu?e=f4c5811693&fbclid=IwY2xjawGG6_lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHGSd50Zis0&t=1s

Threat against workers, toilers, the oppressed, the Kurdish people, and friends of Palestine in the person of the revolutionary attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu!
Solidarity with Şiar Rişvanoğlu!

Sign The Petition

We the undersigned stand in solidarity with Şiar Rişvanoğlu, an attorney who has spent decades systematically defending the exploited and the oppressed and a member of the Revolutionary Workers Party of Turkey (DIP), against the explicit death menace he has received from the so-called “Turkish Vengeance Brigade”, a band of assassins that in the past has killed hundreds of leftists, which is simply an extension of the mainstream fascist movement of Turkey, sometimes identified as the “Grey Wolves”.
The death menace was directed to Şiar Rişvanoğlu as a reaction to the speech he made at the General Assembly of the Bar Association of Adana, an industrial hub where he works and lives and has run as a candidate in the past in municipal elections, welding the indignation of the workers and the determination of the oppressed Kurds and women. Rişvanoğlu simply defended fighting workers all over Turkey, in particular the meat factory workers of Polonez in the Istanbul region, who have been fighting for the last three months the brazen violation of their right to unionization, as well as the oppressed Kurdish people and women, and the Palestinian people against Zionism and imperialism.
We demand that the Turkish authorities make sure that the source of the threat is identified and the danger on his life is averted so that Rişvanoğlu continues his work of defending the exploited and the oppressed unharmed.
Sign petitionClick
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here to read the communiqué published by the DIP’s Central Committee immediately after this threat.📷Fascist threat against Şiar Rişvanoğlu protested in front of Adana judiciary.Şiar Rişvanoğlu, visiting the resistance area in front of the Polonez meat factory after the threat. The struggling workers welcomed him with the banner “Şiar Rişvanoğlu, the lawyer of the workers, the laborers, the oppressed, is not alone!”📷📷📷📷TwitterFacebookWebsiteEmailYouTubeInstagramSpotifyCopyright © 2024 RedMed, All rights reserved.
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Political Independence and Power for the Minnesota Nurses Association Resolution Introduced


WHEREAS: The strength of our union is based on an organized, united, and mobilized membership; and

WHEREAS: All effective movements historically have been based on building collective and independent power to compel change politically and in the workplace; and

WHEREAS: Over decades, organized labor drifted from these principles into attempts to negotiate influence through alliances and gifts to dominant politicians and political parties; and

WHEREAS: These strategies have not grown union membership, increased union power in the workplace, weakened corporate influence in health care, addressed racial disparities in any significant way, nor affected the long retreat union labor has endured for decades; and

WHEREAS: Corporations have dominant influence within two political parties while working class people currently have no political organization of our own.

WHEREAS: The relationship of organized labor to the two dominant political parties has divided our membership, enforced a misplaced perspective that change will come from above, weakened our identification as nurses and workers, and prohibited the formation of a genuine worker’s party; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Minnesota Nurses Association commits to building independent political power and strengthening membership unity, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: As of January 1, 2021, MNA will no longer donate funds to political candidates, political action committees, nor any other funding vehicle associated with the Republican and Democratic Parties.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: As of of January 1, 2021, MN will not endorse or donate labor or other in-kind services to political candidates, political action committees, or any other funding vehicle associated with the Republican and Democratic Parties or their candidates.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: MNA will promote political independence through the Minnesota AFL-CIO and join with workers and community members across the State who are engaged in the same.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: MNA will build our influence in political arenas through organizing, demonstrating, building our own independent candidates, strikes, and crafting laws that build power for union members and the larger working class in health care across Minnesota and the United States.
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UFCLP Response To FSP Slander Of Argentina Workers Party & Crossing The Class Line
10/1/24

The growing fascist attacks on the working class and left are part and parcel of the global class struggle. As the crisis of capitalism grows, the need to crush any working class revolutionary alternative is critical for the capitalist class and the fascists. The Argentina Milei government today in Latin America is leading the attacks on the workers and labor movement by mass privatization, growing repression and criminal charges against the Workers Party PO and the leaders of the Piqueteros movement with charges of “corruption”.

The Workers Party was the first organization to march and rally against the Milei government’s orders that there could be no more political rallies and they have also supported the Piqueteros movement that helped organize and fight for the rights of unemployed and forced the government to provide food for the hungry which the Piqueteros organizations distributed. This movement is hated by the capitalists and the Milei government and is the real reason the Milei government fabricated charges against the Workers Party and the leaders of the Piqueteros.

On September 23, 2024 the day before an hearing on these witch hunts and fraudulent charges would be heard in an Argentina court, an international day of action took place around the world at Argentinian consulates, embassies and in the United States at the Federal Building in Oakland, California to demand the dropping of these charges. The demonstration also opposed the US government’s support of the Milei government through the IMF and growing US military and CIA operations in Argentina.
youtu.be/i8Vtkyl9BO4

The united front rally in Oakland, California had five or six organizations as well as trade unions and community activists.

Days before the meeting, a panel was held by Workers Voice and the Freedom Socialist Party on the issue of a labor party in the United States.
At this meeting a representative of the United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP that had initiated the united front campaign in the US asked whether they would endorse and support the global day of action to demand the dropping of the MIlie government’s criminal charges.
The representative from the FSP Bob Price, when pressed at the meeting said that his organization could not support the united front campaign and join the rally because they believed that the Workers Party had improperly used funds from the government that should have been used for the working class.
soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/fsp-price-bob-on-defense-of
Earlier Price said that the PO was a corrupt party according to reports from his sympathizers in Argentina.

This is a despicable lie and an attack on the PO that crosses the class line by the FSP and their supporters in Argentina and actually helps the campaign of the fascist Milie government in their slander and repression campaign in Argentina. For an organization that calls itself socialist and Trotskyist and says that it is for democratic rights and against US imperialism, this refusal to join a united front for the defense of working class organizations in Argentina under attack by the Milie government is inexcusable.
This is particularly the case since the rise of fascism not only in Argentina but the United States is a clear threat to the unions and working class organizations. In this period of the rise of fascism, for a left organization to actually join with a fascist government in agreeing with their anti-communist slanderous charges is reprehensible. Attacks on left and Black organizations in the US have a long history including the recent attacks on the Uhuru party and their leadership for being agents of Russia. These attacks will continue and grow both under the Democrats and a Trump government.
Members of the FSP must reject this slander and make this leadership accountable for their actions. This is also a warning to the left and the working class of the kind of pressure that this crisis can put on an organization leading it to cross the class lines.

Now more than ever, we need to rely on our working class principles , that is always defending the working class and its organizations against the lies and slander of the ruling class. The world is facing a catastrophic crisis, we cannot afford to falter now
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