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What Will It Take to Defeat the War?
On June 28-29, an “Open National Antiwar Conference” was held in Cleveland, called by a newly minted National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation. Over objections from the conference organizers, centrally Socialist Action, the assembly voted to change the name to include reference to the war on Afghanistan, and to emphasize the connection with U.S. backing for the Zionist occupation of Palestine. (The sponsors of the confab were so right-wing that they feared losing “unity” with Democratic Party supporters of Israel and the Afghanistan war!) What did not change at all was the popular-front character of the new outfit, tying it to the bourgeois parties despite the fig leaf of electoral “independence.” Making this utterly clear, it was decided not to call a national antiwar mobilization prior to the November elections explicitly in order to court those forces who wish to aid the Democrats (and therefore want to avoid making problems for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama). Here is the leaflet issued by the Internationalist Group at the conference.
What Will It Take to Defeat the War?
Not Another Popular-Front “Peace
Movement,”
Mobilize the Working Class to Fight for
Power!
Break with All the Capitalist Parties – For a Revolutionary
Workers Party!
For Workers Strikes Against the War
Defeat U.S. Imperialism – Defend the Iraqi and Afghan Peoples
The following leaflet was issued by the
Internationalist Group
at the antiwar conference called by the National Assembly to End the
2nd Annual 1877 General Strike Commemoration
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22886723581
Event Info
Host: Workers International League
Type: Party - Barbecue
Location: Sons of Rest Pavilion in Tower Grove Park
Street: 4256 Magnolia Avenue
City/Town: Saint Louis, MO
Contact Info
Phone: 13144352493
Email: jl@newyouth.com
Do you know the origins of Fair St. Louis? Everyone has heard of the fair,
but few remember that it was originally established as the "Veiled Prophet"
Parade, a celebration of the crushing of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877,
Date:
07/06/2008 - 12:00pm - 07/06/2008 - 5:00pmAdvice to the Unemployed
Counter-advice to the corporatist advice.
I've seen an increasing number of articles in major newspapers, as of late, about searching for jobs, the mistakes you can make in a job search, and advice about why you should not do anything that might hurt your ability to find a job, such as writing about your beliefs online or burning bridges. Looking at those lists, I can say that I've done quite a few things that they advise against and I do believe it has hurt me from time to time when job hunting. Nevertheless, I think the advice much of the advice is largely propaganda designed to assert the authority of the employer class.
Workers walk off MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter Site in Protest
Union leaders: We’ll picket until contractor meets demands for increased safety
Eleven construction workers have died in the last 18 months
at Strip construction sites including Six at the MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter
HOW MANY MORE
LAS VEGAS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
MUST DIE
BEFORE OSHA, MGM Mirage and Dubai World TAKE ACTION?
It's Time To Bring Awareness
to The Safety Issues at
MGM Dubai World
City Center Project
and all other Las Vegas Construction Sites!
In Solidarity the SPFPA has Now Joined
The Fight to Bring Awareness to The Safety Issues
Facing Unionized Construction Workers at Various Las Vegas Construction Sites.
Union Stages MGM Casino Protest at Foxwoods
The United Auto Workers gathered near the new MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard on Saturday to kick off the first of two days of protests against what the union calls an unfair tipping policy and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe's refusal to bargain.
Union members were doing a "visibility" protest, trying to make sure casino customers and others are aware of what they say are unfair labor practices.
"We're trying to let them know what's going on," protest organizer Peggy Shorey said. The object, she said, was to obtain recognition for the union and the issues its members are facing with MGM Grand.
Shorey said many dealers were joining the demonstration before and after their shifts.
It was hard at times Saturday to hear Bob Fandetti talk.
IF OBAMA WINS THE ELECTIONS CHAVEZ PENETRATES THE US
Look Out!!!
If Obama wins the elections Chavez will penetrate the US.
Warning to all Americans.
May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports
Historic ILWU Dock Workers’ Action Points the Way
May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports
On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn’t want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers’ Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an “illegal strike.” But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses’ mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers’ May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their “symbolic” action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party. May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports (3 May 2008)
All Out on May Day!
On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they’re about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it’s got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! Meanwhile, immigrants’ rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights “at home.” We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The “antiwar movement,” whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What’s needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy.
For Workers Strikes Against the War!
Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants!
All Out on May Day!
VERMONT AFL-CIO CALLS ON WORKERS TO SUPPORT WEST COAST STRIKE AGAINST WAR
The Executive Board of the Vermont AFL-CIO, representing thousands of workers in countless sectors across Vermont, have unanimously passed an historic resolution expressing their “unequivocal” support for the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq.
Montpelier, VT –The Executive Board of the Vermont AFL-CIO, representing thousands of workers in countless sectors across Vermont, have unanimously passed an historic resolution expressing their “unequivocal” support for the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq. The strike, being organized by the Longshore Caucus of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), will seek to shutdown all west coast ports for a period of 8 hours on the day of May 1st 2008.
Chicago; March May 1st- Marcha Primero de Mayo
For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers
MARCH MAY FIRST - MARCHA PRIMERO DE MAYO
For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers
We Demand:
May 1st, 2008
International Workers Day
Día Internacional de los Trabajadores
