British Columbia has seen a lot of opposition to the Olympics. From Natives, to the "disabled", to the "mentally ill", to ghetto poor, to immigrant groups to civil liberties groups. The Olympic games have led to the complete ravaging of public services from Healthcare to Education to Social Housing to Legal Aid. However, the force that ultimately must come to bear is the multiracial proletariat (working class). If the entire working class went on strike for the two weeks of the Olympics the came simply could not take place.
This would require a break with the current labour misleaders and for the forging of a Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard to lead the Proletariat. The current leadership even agreed to extend the contracts until after the Olympic games. All to ensure "labour peace". Such "labour peace" serves to benefit bosses, not workers.
Labour must unite "disabled", "mentally ill" and neurotypical. Natives, Asian, Hispanic, South Asian, White and Persian. Women, men, transgendered and intersexed. Gay, straight and bi. It must champion natives, immigrant, women, the ghetto masses, the "disabled", the "mentally ill" and all the the oppressed whether by the Olympics or otherwise. The working class must fight tooth and nail against the evisceration of civil liberties. It must fight against cuts to healthcare, welfare, education, parks, libraries, legal aid, vocational services, social housing as so forth. They must fight against regressive taxes like the carbon tax and the HST.
The fact is that such ravages are endemic to the capitalist system. Eliminating such ravages requires smashing apart this rotten capitalist system.
