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OCTOBER 2 SPECIAL EDITION the leading bodies of UNAC.
Workers and their allies today understand that the 150,000 U.S. troops and mercenaries (paid contract killers) in Afghanistan are not there to capture the 81 or so al-Qaida members that the CIA has identified. More to the point, the recent New York Times revelation that Afghanistan is the source of $1 trillion in natural resources—including the world’s second largest reserve of lithium, a metal vital for the production of batteries for computers and cell phones—sounds eminently more reasonable as an explanation for the U.S. war against that nation, today run by the U.S.-imposed corrupt and universally hated Hamid Karzai dictatorship. Two opposed perspectives But what the working masses and their allies among the oppressed are rallying for on Oct. 2 and what their bureaucratic misleaders (“labor fakers” or “labor lieutenants of capitalism” is what they, accurately, used to be called) are pushing are two entirely different and opposed realities.
Oct. 2 was initiated by the 300,000-400,000 member SEIU local 1199 and the NAACP, and later endorsed by the AFL-CIO. One Nation Working Together is the name of the coalition they formed to organize the march. The name itself is a fraud. There is no “one nation working together” in the U.S. There is a capitalist elite that runs the country and exploits workers in every industry without exception, and there is a working class that produces all the wealth and yet is denied the benefits of its labor. The two have nothing in common, just as the slave
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Julius Arscott / Socialist Action mum profits at all costs contributes to the racist oppression of Blacks, Latinos, and other groups, based on discrimination in employment and other areas of life.
The main basis of women’s oppression in capitalist society is the segregation of women in lower paying jobs in the labor market and the relegation of women to unequally shared child care and housework in the family. These unequal labor relations between men and women sustain the sexist ideology that justifies different and unequal gender roles. The oppression of gays, lesbithe economy. Instead of being run on the basis of what will maximize profit for a super-rich minority, the economy should be planned to meet the needs of the people.
The working class has the power to overturn capitalism because of its strategic location at the point of production and its corresponding ability to shut down production by simply withdrawing its labor. A mass socialist movement can only grow out of a revitalized and radicalized labor movement, based on the trade unions and other organizations of the working class.
Socialist Action counterposes mass
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out the banks while destroying union contracts ...