“Class Struggle Knows No Borders!”
Labor in the United States is also speaking out against the FTAA. The Longshore and Warehouse Union, well known for its progressive history and militant stands, has denounced the FTAA and is supporting the protests.
The AFL-CIO Executive Council passed a resolution at a recent meeting in Los Angeles that in part called “on our members to make their voices heard in Quebec City as part of the international actions, and join in partnership with Jobs With Justice and other allies in communities across the country.” Teamsters, steelworkers and other labor unionists have also passed resolutions and are planning to join the protests.
Truly, a new phase of the global class struggle is unfolding.
workers world party - a socialist party
www.workers.org
The Workers World Party (WWP) is a Marxist-Leninist sect that was founded in 1959 by Sam Marcy. Marcy and his followers were members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) until 1958, when they split from SWP because, unlike that organization, they supported the presidential bid of the Progressive Party’s Henry A. Wallace in 1948, the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, and the regime of Mao Zedong in China. WWP describes itself as a party that has, since its founding, “supported the struggles of all oppressed peoples [and] has recognized the right of nations to self-determination, including the nationally oppressed peoples inside the United States.” Viewing America as a nation infested with “racism” and “bigotry,” WWP further “supports affirmative action as absolutely necessary in the fight for equality.”
“We’re independent Marxists who respect the struggles for self-determination and progress of oppressed nations,” says WWP. “We try to understand their problems in a world dominated by Western imperialism. … Our goal is solidarity of all the workers and oppressed against this criminal imperialist system. … [W]e know that nothing is secure — not our jobs, our homes, our health care, our pensions, our civil rights and liberties — as long as capitalism exists. So our goal is a society run by the workers, not just as pawns in a capitalist political game but as collective owners of the social wealth.” To disseminate its message to the public, WWP publishes the online newsletter Workers World.
It is the driving force behind Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center and International ANSWER; WWP activists run both organizations. Several key ANSWER officials — including Brian Becker, Larry Holmes, Teresa Gutierrez, Sarah Sloan, and Sara Flounders — are WWP members.
...anti-American trade agreements with communist nations, that is.