Posted on 01/14/2018 6:09:04 AM PST by rickmichaels
Despite a brutal year of attacks on the working class, especially on the most oppressed, the spirit of rebellion cannot be crushed. One year after the inauguration of Donald Trump, militants will hit the streets to show the ruling class that we refuse to bow down to racism and fascist terror.
Taking its cue from our comrades in Palestine, #J20Resist, a coalition of forces formed in the months leading up to the 2017 inauguration, is calling on activists across the U.S. to participate Jan. 15-20 in “Days of Rage against Trump and Capitalism” preceding the one-year anniversary.
The coalition calls on all U.S. militants, wherever they are in the belly of the imperialist beast, to raise in their community the banner of a better world. Now more than ever, it’s important that we do so. Not only to strike fear in the hearts of the ruling class, but to show members of our class that they are not alone, that we are not defeated, and that, despite exhaustion, pain and sorrow, revolutionary optimism lives on.
Despite virulent attacks, the last year has not been without its heroic moments from which we draw energy and inspiration.
We saw hundreds of fellow activists arrested at the inauguration, made to stand in the cold for hours while they were kettled, assaulted by the Washington, D.C., cops and others, and then dragged through a year-long prosecution process while the state attempted to outlaw dissent.
We’ve seen white supremacist terror in Charlottesville, Va., that ended the life of Heather Heyer and hospitalized dozens of other anti-racist activists. We’ve seen an escalation in raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have ripped apart the immigrant community. We’ve seen police brutality continue unfettered, while the U.S. rattles its saber louder and louder at the oppressed of the world.
And how does our class respond? After announcing a ban on immigration from seven countries, many with a majority Muslim population and all of them under attack by U.S. imperialism, thousands of people occupied airports around the country.
Two days after the attack in Charlottesville, activists in Durham, N.C., took matters into their own hands and tore down a racist Confederate statue, sending waves of hope to all who had been demoralized in the wake of white supremacist terror. After a year of solidarity inside and outside the courts, the first six #J20 defendants were found not guilty of all charges.
The struggle continues!
These are just three notable moments. The vast, multinational working class continues to show, on a daily and weekly basis, that it will not back down to racism and repression. Activists are chaining themselves to ICE vans, taking the streets against police brutality and war, and breaking the silence on sexual assault.
From Jan. 15-20, let us show the world that we are still here, united, fighting for justice. That we cannot be stopped. That we believe we will win.
Appropriately, the Days of Rage will begin on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, where we will rally in true remembrance of a leader of the Black freedom struggle who stood in solidarity with striking workers, spoke out against the U.S. war in Vietnam and had his life cut short by the Trumpists of yesteryear.
Many different issues will be raised during the Days of Rage, including union busting, racism, police terror, sexual assault, violence against trans people, U.S. imperialism and its unending war drive, and state repression of activists like the #J20 defendants.
The week also corresponds with a court hearing Jan. 17 in Philadelphia for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther and one of the world’s most famous political prisoners, who may finally, after more than 36 years of persistent struggle, be up for a retrial.
Their true goal is not to lift people up but to make us all equal by pulling people down.”””
Obama campaigned over & over again on:
We will lvel the playing field”.
Blacks heard: I will get a new car—free gas—free phones—I already get damn near free rent & free food, but I will get more of everything & some rich WHITE person will pay for it”.....
I heard: Obama will turn this country in Zimbabwe.
That was Obama’s version of “leveling the playing field”.
To the left, objecting to men using the girls bathroom is violence against trans. But when they club someone in the head with a bicycle lock, that’s just their right to free speech.
NO- They do NOT.
These are the same people that think Milk comes from Safeway....and that burgers come from McDonald’s.
They are clueless about where their food/clothes/energy/fuel/consumer goods come from.
I wonder if they will smash their iPhones and iPads in protest of “capitalism”.
I wonder if the author is somehow related to Margarete Steffin, the mistress of the author and Marxist phony Bertolt Brecht? If so, just another red diaper baby to add to the list.
True enough. During the 1992 LA riots, a rapperette named Sister Souljah exhorted the bruddahs to stop burning down their ‘hoods, and invade & burn down white neighborhoods.
With armed Korean shopkeepers ready to fire on them from rooftops, the bruddahs said no thanks. Looting & burning should not carry with them the risk of getting shot; it’s racist and unfair./s
The prior riots were Soros funded. Maybe Obama’s trips to banking institutions have taken up the slack or something but I believe these riots are intended to distract from revelations due re Uranium One this week.
They are all inbred, so likely related...:)
Bingo!!!
[Refuse Communism],
or refugee communism if you prefer.
[Despite a brutal year of attacks on the working class, especially on the most oppressed, the spirit of rebellion cannot be crushed. One year after the inauguration of Donald Trump, militants will hit the streets to show the ruling class that we refuse to bow down to racism and fascist terror.]
I suspect this was written by the FBI or other agents that are spying on their assigned organization.
[1. Do you know who the father of Marxism is?
2.). Do you know who the father of Capitalism is?
3.) Do you know who the father of Fascism is?]
How many of them know who their own fathers are?
They aren’t hte working class. The working stiffs (like me and Hubs and probably you guys) are actually going to work. Because we are responsible and want to provide better lives for our families.
If these clowns want to protest something ... whatever. But don’t try to say you are doing it on my behalf. Don’t talk down to me and tell me that The Man is keeping me down.
I can speak and act for myself.
That is true enough, sadly.
True enough.
Fascists calling others fascists. It’s how the Nazi took Germany.
These murderous garbage want to have at it again.
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