A little while ago their were bailouts of companies, mainly banks and auto companies so far. Such grotesque bailouts serve to do nothing other than to save the profits of the capitalist and save this venal, decrepid and putrid capitalist system. This all has come at the expense of the working class and the oppressed. The working class has to pay higher taxes to bailout these greedy and rapacious capitalist. More public services are being gutted. Also, taking place have been "restructuring". Basically companies that are being bailed out are require to slash wages, eradite pension and other union benefits.
Criminally the labour bureaucracy and it political arm of the NDP. Jack Layton criminally told workers to have the "courage" to take a cut. Its quite obvious the Proletariat (working class) needs to break with the NDP and he labour bureaucracy. The working class needs a new party, a revolutionary Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard party. Many smaller reformist groups such as Fightback, Socialist Action and the International Socialist continue to foster illusion in the NDP. In doing so they do a real diservice to the working class.
If capitalist companies go bankrupt than workers should seize those factories and run them themselves. If you've seen The Take by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis you'll know what I am talking about. Also, workers must demand that bosses requesting bailouts to open the books so all can see the profits that the capitalist gouge from the masses. However, workers musn't stop there. The working class must be mobilized to take state power by smashing the Bourgeois (capitalist) state. Whereas, a Bourgeois state would seek to overturn working class expropriations of capitalist companies, a worker's state would defend and extend such expropriation. Workers' Revolution in Canada isn't enought. It must take place internationally.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Anti-Olympic Protestors Who Riot: Stupid? Maybe. Criminal. No.
As most people know the Olypmics are currently taking place in Vancouver and Whistler in British Columbia. The games have done nothing but bleed public services in Canada dry. In response to this their have been plenty of protests against these games. There have been allegations by the Bourgeois (capitalist) Press of protestors being "violent". I'm a Marxist, not a Petty-Bourgeois (middle-class, white-collar) moralist and see no reason to be repugnant over "violence".
First of all what's worse, trigger-happy thugs in blue (i.e. cops), who have a monopoly on fire-arms and tasers, gunning down the mentally ill, disabled, natives and hispanics in the ghettos like Downtown Eastside, cops breaking strikes or assualting protestors with tasers, guns, pepper spray, tear gas etc. or a couple of people breaking a few windows?
The multi-racial, neurolocially diverse Proletariat (working-class) must show its uncompromising solidarity with Olympic protestors against cop terror and state repression. Such means as mass strikes, united front demos and labour defense guards should prove affective.
This being said I don't think one should be uncritical of the anti-olympics protestors. Breaking windows is NOT criminal from the standpoint of the revolutionary proletariat. However, such tactics as breaking windows are NOT affective and only give the Bourgeoisie (capitalist class) and excuse to bolster state power. And the Bourgeoisie WILL seize on the opportunity to do so.
Also, none of the groups on the groups, to my knowledge, have sought to mobilize the Proletariat. The Proletariat is not one more layer of oppressed people, but is the only class with the objective interests and means to abolished private property, class society and every last vestige of this decaying, rotting system know as Capitalism. Groups like the Anti-Poverty Committee thinks that cop terror can be eliminated with civilian review boards. But the cops can not be reformed to serve the oppressed. They must be smashed throught workers' revolution.
In order to mobilize the working class what is needed is a revolutionary, Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard party to lead the working class to power. This goes hand-in-hand with breaking the working class from the labour bureaucracy and their political arm the NDP. The labour bureaucracy even agreed to extend labour contracts till after the Olympics to ensure "labour peace" during the Olympics. Criminal indeed. After the Olympics, the province will be so in debt that the government and the bosses they represent will rip apart union contract front and centre.
First of all what's worse, trigger-happy thugs in blue (i.e. cops), who have a monopoly on fire-arms and tasers, gunning down the mentally ill, disabled, natives and hispanics in the ghettos like Downtown Eastside, cops breaking strikes or assualting protestors with tasers, guns, pepper spray, tear gas etc. or a couple of people breaking a few windows?
The multi-racial, neurolocially diverse Proletariat (working-class) must show its uncompromising solidarity with Olympic protestors against cop terror and state repression. Such means as mass strikes, united front demos and labour defense guards should prove affective.
This being said I don't think one should be uncritical of the anti-olympics protestors. Breaking windows is NOT criminal from the standpoint of the revolutionary proletariat. However, such tactics as breaking windows are NOT affective and only give the Bourgeoisie (capitalist class) and excuse to bolster state power. And the Bourgeoisie WILL seize on the opportunity to do so.
Also, none of the groups on the groups, to my knowledge, have sought to mobilize the Proletariat. The Proletariat is not one more layer of oppressed people, but is the only class with the objective interests and means to abolished private property, class society and every last vestige of this decaying, rotting system know as Capitalism. Groups like the Anti-Poverty Committee thinks that cop terror can be eliminated with civilian review boards. But the cops can not be reformed to serve the oppressed. They must be smashed throught workers' revolution.
In order to mobilize the working class what is needed is a revolutionary, Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard party to lead the working class to power. This goes hand-in-hand with breaking the working class from the labour bureaucracy and their political arm the NDP. The labour bureaucracy even agreed to extend labour contracts till after the Olympics to ensure "labour peace" during the Olympics. Criminal indeed. After the Olympics, the province will be so in debt that the government and the bosses they represent will rip apart union contract front and centre.
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