Have you ever thought of joining a working-class party that fights against capitalism? For over 40 years, Workers World has been that party.
Workers World has united Black, Latino, Native, Asian, Arab and white in the struggle against racism. It has brought together women and men, lesbian, gay, bi, trans and straight, youth and seniors, workers and the unemployed, native-born and immigrants to fight for better conditions for all. Members of WWP have worked hard and long to build many of the most important progressive actions of the last three decades.
But you can't just patch up this racist, sexist society. Capitalism rests on the exploitation of the many by the few. The monopoly of economic and political power by a small ruling class becomes more concentrated every day with mega-billion-dollar mergers and mass layoffs. That's why capitalist democracy produces nothing but hot air. The power of the workers and the oppressed is in the streets, not in Washington.
Workers World fights for a socialist society -- where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need.
That's also what workers around the world, from Cuba to China, have been struggling for. The U.S. rulers have spent trillions of our tax dollars trying to stop them in a global class struggle. WWP promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination(*As long as these nations "self-determine" themselves to be communists*), and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars.
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Now a brief history lesson--Ramsey Clark (the former U.S. Attorney General, thank you so much Johnson) was a member of Sam Marcy's Workers World Party, and founded the International Action Center in 1991 or 92. International ANSWER was formed by IAC members immediately, and I do mean immediately, after 9/11. Thus their planned September protest against the IMF in DC became an antiwar event without skipping a beat or changing the lineup of their speakers--they just had to print new signs. The WWP, IAC, and ANSWER are basically the SAME organization. They are headed by many of the SAME people. They support the SAME causes. And they are involved up to their necks in just about every anti-war protest in the country right now.
Still don't see them as communists? Well, they've got a zillion articles by Sam Marcy to read, that should do it for you.
This says it all. Wealth is "socially" (read government) owned and doled out to those who are determined by the people in power as needing it. Just as in the USSR and countless other areas, this means that the fat cats get a lot fatter and the poor get nothing.
Production being planned to satisfy need is nothing more than the gov't determining that you need a new pair of tennis shoes, size 7, no more than once a year. By central planning production, there is no catering to consumer wishes and their own determined needs. Therefore, there is reams of stuff produced unnecessarily and people can't get the stuff they want.
With all the bloody failures of the 20th century available to them, it must be only the quest for power and the willfullness of utopians to think that they can have a successful socialist society.
Capitalism isn't perfect, but it has given mankind the highest standard of living on earth along with the most streamlined productivity and the greatest amount of people who started out poor and made it good.
Thanks, but one like this pretty well proves them a front and is more than I can stomach for now. I did a search on communism and really didn't expect to find anything, LOL! Wonder if he's any relation to the late John?
'What prospects for communism in the 21st century?' WW Party Conference: Excerpts from a talk by Larry Holmes