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, its 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.
Weve seen white supremacist terror in Charlottesville, Va., that ended the life of Heather Heyer and hospitalized dozens of other anti-racist activists. Weve seen an escalation in raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have ripped apart the immigrant community. Weve 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 worlds most famous political prisoners, who may finally, after more than 36 years of persistent struggle, be up for a retrial.
Minorities hit the worst; they are afraid all Americans of African decent will be come Republicans!
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/black-unemployment-rate-falls-to-record-low.html
“Unemployment among black workers is at its lowest since at least the early 1970s, when the government began tracking the data.”
Say what???
Say that again:
“Unemployment among black workers is at its lowest since at least the early 1970s, when the government began tracking the data.”
I cant wait to hear the commie protestors work this number into a catchy protest jingle.
Might just get some practice in firing from inside your vehicle. Out both windows, moving or stopped.
Hostile mobs love to overturn & burn cars.
The Bolsheviks and their Kill Whitey campaign.
Hostile mobs are not in my neighborhood. Theyre cowards who pull their crap in crowded bastions of the left. Even in conservative states, they show up in leftist cities.
Their true goal is not to lift people up but to make us all equal by pulling people down.
The directions call for them all to assemble at their local Nothingburger, then mill about aimlessly until their cell phone batteries run down or their moms call them home for meatloaf.
The fascists are giving up their smartphones?
Translation:
we have no talents or skills and are totally non productive losers
> Paging Jeff Sessions. <
Please don’t bother Mr. Sessions. He’s busy preparing a federal indictment against two dangerous revolutionaries, Cheech and Chong.
Do these clowns ever realize that anyone who actually works for his living is a capitalist? Do any of those who live off government handouts ever realize that capitalism provides the tax money to be given to them?
They’re still yapping about Charlottesville?
THAT false flag?
Even Congressman Louie Gohmert said that antifa “protestors” and “white nationalist protestors” were seen getting off the same bus.
The head of the white “protestors” was a known Obama supporter and also a Hillary supporter.
IIRC, John & Ken only allow an Hour of Rage on their radio show. Now these guys are offering Days of Rage. Theyes a Rage Gap, gentlemen, and we cant afford to fall behind!
In other words, Shithole scum.
We should hold “Daze of Hilarity” and mock these
fools mercilessly. Show up at their rallies wearing
orange wigs and clown shoes.
Notice the reference to, “Trumpsters killed MLK”?
No bar so slow a socialist won’t slither under it.
It’s almost as if something important is coming out tomorrow and they want to distract from it.
“Days of Rage”. Sheesh. Besides their vacuous ignorance, they have such a paucity of originality that they can’t come up with anything new, and have to continually dip into and re-use leftist crap from the good old days of the Sixties. When they protest, they use the same “Hey, hey, Ho, ho....blah blah blah blah blah blah blah” crap. If they had an original idea about anything, they would implode.
Dinesh D’Souza has a great book “The Big Lie” in which he describes what fascism is, how it came to be, and it is pretty spot on that Nazism started out as, and remains today, a Leftist ideology.
In his book he asks three questions to illustrate part of the problem:
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?
Most people easily get that Marx is the originator of Marxism, most people don’t get that Adam Smith is the father of modern capitalism, but there is nearly universal ignorance of who is the “father” of Fascism?
It is interesting, because most people say “Hitler!” More astute people might say “Mussolini!” But the real answer is Giovanni Gentile, a name unknown to nearly everyone. And the left has done this deliberately over the years, because to perpetuate “The Big Lie”, they have to keep his name buried, because he was a leftist, and based Fascism on socialism and collectivist concepts. If his name were known outside academia, the Left would have some explaining to do which they cannot do. It would be the equivalent of setting their own house on fire.
I don’t agree with everything in Dinesh D’Souza’s book, but he presents a compelling case that will be ignored by nearly everyone everywhere, simply because the left has embedded the “Big Lie” so effectively.
99% of leftists have no idea they are fascists, because they have no idea what it is. It is nearly humorous to be called a fascist by them, which I have been.
Basically, Fascism is an ideology of the Left, and the Left are Fascists.
How many of the items she owns were made by ‘capitalist’ companies or owners???
These fools cannot grasp that IF we took away from them every single item made by a large company, they would naked & cold.
Fascism is just communism wearing a mask of
private ownership.
In other words a dictatorship of the few
over the many.
American individual capitalism was and is the answer,
unfortunately too many have been brainwashed to think
it’s a bad thing, and we have seen too many elected
“leaders” who were afraid or opposed to supporting it
around the world. America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal.
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