WORKERS ON THE GO!
The Future of
the US and Canadian working class is at stake
By Daniel
Paquet dpaquet1871@gmail.com
MONTREAL – “The CPC (i.e. Communist Party of Canada) leadership analyzes new political
situation (…) Given the outcome of the U.S. election, and the growing threat of
ultra-right and racist movements in many countries, this was a particularly
significant gathering for the CC (Central
Committee)… (that) began with a political report, presented by leader
Liz Rowley on behalf of the CPC’s
Central Executive Committee. The report
calls the election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in Congress ‘the
worst possible electoral outcome for the US working class, for the environment,
and for movement towards global disarmament and mutual security.”[1]
“Trump won because of his angry dismissal of almost
all the major politicians in the two main monopoly capitalist parties as tools
of the rich and in spite of his nasty attitude and language, revealing his open
hostility and disrespect toward women, immigrants, Muslims, Afro-Americans,
Latinos and other marginalized people. (…) The first forty days of the Trump
Regime has put flesh and bone on the reality that Trump is a fascist
politician. And Trump’s open fascism is
a worthy opponent for every decent force in U.S. society to oppose. The tremendous amount of street activism that
has greeted this regime is necessary and a welcome change for the paralysis
under the bloody and vicious Obama Democratic Party Regime.”[2]
Trump
has an electoral basis. For instance,
James Cassidy, an unemployed construction worker, in Newark, Ohio, says about
President Trump: “He’s ruffling every
feather in Washington that he can ruffle.
These guys are
[1] CPC leadership analyzes new political situation, People’s Voice, Toronto-Vancouver,
April 1-15, 2017, page 6
[2] Ray Light, Wall Street Remains in Firm
Control of the Democratic National Committee, Newsletter, Publication
of the Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA, Boston, March-April 2017,
Number 101, pages 2-3
scrambling. So:
yeah! I like it. I think it’s a good
thing. I want to see them jump around a
little bit.’”[1]
“Charles Sykes, the Trump critic and former
conservative talk radio host in Wisconsin, says there is an ‘alternative
reality bubble’ within the right, created in part by conservative media. Trump, he said, is both developing and
exploiting this ‘post-truth environment‘, elevating once-fringe conspiracy
theorists and propagandists who will then amplify his lies.”[2]
Far away living in a ‘dark’ regime, a young leader of
the Lenin Komsomol of Ukraine wrote us and said: “I talked with General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Australia, Bob Britton. (…) I explained him how and what is
happening here, especially since our party is in semi-legal conditions. We are very happy to be in spring; there is
almost no more snow in the streets. It
is warmer and therefore we pay less for the rent of our flats. This year was very costly to warm our homes,
and very expensive by Ukrainian standards.”[3]
Furthermore, like in Ukraine, “several fascist
movements are growing in Canada, including ‘La Meute’ in Québec, with a
military leadership and a claimed membership of 43,000; the so-called
‘Coalition of Concerned Canadian Citizens,’ which has called two country wide
days of action to promote hatred of Muslims; and the fascist ‘Your Ward News’
publication in Toronto, which glorifies Nazism and targets Communists, Jews,
immigrants, LGBTQ, women, and minorities.
These racist, xenophobic, misogynist and fascist forces, the report
says, are ‘the shock troops of the most violent and reactionary sections of
capital’. (…)
With the CLC (Congress of Labour of Canada) convention
taking place this May in Toronto, the Congress will ‘need to unite and mobilize
the 3.3 million workers it represents to take on the employers and their
governments in the streets, on the shop floor and in the workplace, in
bargaining and on the picket lines, in the Legislatures and on their front
steps, in the media, and in every way to stop them and to beat them back this vicious
and deadly assault.’
[1] Dale, Daniel, Donald Trump voters : We like the president’s lies,
Toronto Star, Toronto, March 26, 2017, page 1
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