Make America White Again Billboard Rick Tyler a Joke
By STEVEN Fence
For Socialism and the Ability of the Multiracial Working Grade
[Photo: Campaign billboard Rick Tyler, Congressional candidate for Tennessee's 3rd commune. The campaign slogan "Make America white over again" is of course a more honest version of Trump's "Brand America bang-up over again".]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he United States has e'er been racist, from slavery and the slaughter of Native Americans to Jim Crow segregation, concentration camps for the Japanese and the Bracero program, to the nowadays day mass incarceration of the poor, racist law murder with impunity, and connected limited opportunities for people with brown and blackness skins. And today, the fact is, the mainstream candidates of the Democrat and Republican parties in this election cycle are not offer whatsoever relief.
While Trump is more than open near his racism than Hillary Clinton, Hillary offers no solutions. Worse than that, she is part of the racist establishment having backed Bill Clinton'south "end of welfare as nosotros know it" and Bill Clinton's offense bill that put 100,000 new cops on the street and quickly escalated the mass incarceration of poor, black, and chocolate-brown people in the United States. And then rabid was Hillary Clinton's support for her husband'southward repressive measures that she spread the corporate media's racist myth of young Black male person "super-predators". In addition, there is no indication that Hillary Clinton has broken from her hubby's other brutal racist acts including his failure to pardon political prisoners like Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal, his unprovoked raid and subsequent slaughter of the multiracial men, women, and children at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas, and his starvation occludent of Iraq that murdered well over half-a-million dehumanized brown people. In fact, Hillary Clinton's vote for Bush's invasion of Iraq is another indication that she holds the same racist condone for human life.
Obama'south assistants, which Hillary served in, also waged wars against brown peoples around the world including Libya and Syrian arab republic, cut SNAP (food stamp) programs, and escalated mass deportations to levels never seen before under whatever other president. Far from opposing any of this, she gloated over the rape and murder of Muammar Gaddafi saying, "nosotros came, we saw, and we killed" while at the same time advocating an escalation in the U.S. war against Syria's government in a manner that volition probable bring the genocidal and anti-adult female wahhabist forces of ISIS and its allies to ability, if successful.
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ike Trump and Clinton, Bernie Sanders always had many problems every bit well, including his vote to dorsum the racist frame-up of Assata Shakur, his vote in favor of Bill Clinton'due south racist criminal offence bill, and his consistent votes for arming racist apartheid Israel. At the same time, his proposals for free health intendance and gratis education would improve the life expectancy and opportunities for black, brownish, poor, and working class people in full general. It would have also cut into Wall Street profits, and this is why his campaign was defeated through numerous muddied tricks by the establishment in general too every bit the Democrat Party itself that used outright electoral fraud to defeat him. All the same, whatever lesser evil people may take idea Sanders to be, he is at present officially out of the race and has said he is voting for Hillary Clinton. The fight at the Autonomous National Convention, he has said, is for the platform of the Democrat Party. Withal, the Democrat Political party'southward platform is not-binding, meaningless, and non worth anyone'due south fourth dimension. This then all merely becomes a maneuver to attempt to corral more than of the left behind the racist, imperialist, and anti-working grade campaign of Hillary Clinton.
As opposed to participating in this swamp of racist conservative politics and attempting to select some lesser evil, the Revolutionary Tendency advocates no vote for the racist Democrat or Republican parties and gives critical back up to the presidential candidacy of Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly of the Workers Globe Party. The following is their 10 signal program to end the racist war on Blackness and Brown people, save the planet, establish a socialist society, and advance the situation of the multiracial working grade in general. While the Revolutionary Tendency has some differences with this plan, it is in its not bad majority good and has earned our critical support on its claim:
ane. End the state of war on Black people. Reparations at present. Stand with and defend the Blackness Lives Matter Motion.
We stand up in solidarity with and support the demands of the Black Lives Matter uprising, including jailing killer cops, abolishing the police and the historic necessity of reparations for Blackness people here and worldwide. Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples have the correct to fight racist oppression by any means necessary. The rebellions in Baltimore and Ferguson were righteous acts of indignation and should exist defended by the working-class movement.
2. Stop racism. Back up self-decision for Blackness, Latino/a, Indigenous, Asian and Arab peoples.
The U.Southward. has a long history of violating the rights of the oppressed. The southwest office of this land was stolen from Mexico, creating an internal colony of Mexican/Chicano people. Genocide and robbery of the lands of Native people are part and package of the brutal history of the U.S. Japanese Americans experienced criminal internment camps, and Filipinos in the U.South. suffer tremendous exploitation here and in their homeland. Chinese people were made indentured servants to build this country's railroads. And Puerto Rico and Hawaii were overthrown and lost their sovereignty.
three. Cancel capitalism – fight for a socialist revolution.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. Nosotros need revolutionary socialism – a system of people'southward power, where the worker and oppressed peoples, not the banks and corporations, ain and control everything, where the needs of the 99% are filled, not profit for the 1%. Although progressive changes should exist supported, they do non go far enough; the whole rotten system must be overturned. With the turn a profit drive eliminated and the power in the hands of the masses of people who create society'due south wealth, bang-up advances are possible. Everyone can accept a task at a living wage or guaranteed income for those who tin't piece of work. Anybody tin can take free, quality health care, free, quality education through higher, affordable housing, and the infrastructure can be repaired. All the ills created by capitalism can finally begin to exist dismantled in one case human being needs, not corporate greed, are social club'south central organizing principle.
4. End the deportations and raids. Full rights for all migrants. Cease Islamophobia. Open the borders for people; close the borders for profiteers and warmongers.
No worker is illegal, whether they are from Mexico, Honduras, Syria, Republic of haiti or anywhere. What must exist illegal is the role of U.Southward. corporations and the military machine in provoking instability and imposing misery, causing people from those countries to seek refuge. No racist attacks on immigrants and Muslims. Every migrant should be accorded full civil and human rights. Shut down U.Southward. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Instead of edifice walls on the U.S./Mexican border, open up the borders for free and prophylactic travel. Stop the so-called drug state of war that creates horrific conditions of incarceration and violence and fills the bankers' coffers.
5. Food, water, housing, clothing, health intendance, teaching and childcare for all. Solidarity with homeless people. Moratorium NOW! to stop all foreclosures, evictions, utility close-offs. Justice for the people of Flintstone, Mich. Free education for all, full funding for public schools. Chore training with a stipend. Abolish student debt. Defend the right of educatee athletes to strike for a living wage.
No 1 in the world'due south wealthiest land should exist hungry. Restore and expand all food programs. Free, make clean water is a human right. Backer housing creates wealthy landlords and gentrification, a new form of colonialism. We want permanent, quality, affordable housing for all. Abolish health-intendance-for-profit and replace information technology with a publicly endemic wellness care system with free medical and dental care. Jail the pharmaceutical profiteers. Quality public education is being systematically eliminated via forced testing, Common Core and charter schools. Immature people, specially youth of color, are denied instruction and sent to prison in ever increasing numbers. College should be free. Pupil debt, the trillions of dollars the federal regime and banks are robbing from millions of workers, should exist immediately cancelled.
six. Women need full liberation in all facets of society. Equal pay for comparable work. Reproductive justice, including the right to abortion. Restore all welfare programs. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer liberation at present. Finish the murders of trans women. Full rights for all queer people.
We demand equal pay for equivalent piece of work. Women's command of their own bodies requires total reproductive rights: gratuitous, legal, accessible abortion, nascency control, no forced sterilization and full support needed to raise healthy children. Abuse, rape, incest and violence must end. Fully funded condom houses are needed. Stop the objectification and commodification of women. Federal police force banning anti-LGBTQ discrimination is urgent. Stop the murders of transgender women of color; support the calls for LGBTQ people to leave the armed forces and for LGBTQ communities fighting displacement and gentrification. Demand access to employment and health care that is sensitive to LGBTQ people; resources devoted to eliminating LGBTQ youth homelessness; and the right of all LGBTQ people to define their families. We back up LGBTQ people in the fight for self-determination, trans and gender liberation, and against co-optation of LGBTQ bug such every bit "pinkwashing" past State of israel.
7. Change the organization, not the climate. Make the Pentagon and oil corporations pay for the destruction of the planet. Reparations for climate victims of Hurricane Katrina and elsewhere. Firsthand back up for climate refugees. Free the country!
Global warming and its destruction fueled by profit-driven corporations is non a futurity problem; it's here at present. Millions of people are affected by loss of homes and livelihoods. And poor communities – already exposed to racial and grade exploitation – are the most affected in the U.S. and worldwide. The banks, multinational corporations and the Pentagon– the globe'southward worst polluter – must be held accountable. But we tin can't wait for them to terminate climate alter. We need socialism. Merely a socialist arrangement can handle the worldwide crisis of rising sea levels, droughts, extreme weather condition, lack of food and water, etc. The number ane sustainable country in the globe is a socialist 1: Cuba. All of humanity, including not-human species, is at take chances, and only extreme measures can salvage u.s. and other species. Socialism is the only system capable of taking those measures.
8. Defeat imperialism. Shut downwardly the Pentagon. U.S. hands off Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the Middle E. Build international solidarity!
U.Due south. imperialism has ane,000 armed forces bases and the largest armed forces budget in history- all to impose backer domination globally. We oppose all U.Southward. wars, invasions, occupations and drone attacks, regardless of the media lies and justifications. We oppose sanctions, economic destabilizations and all U.S. "costless trade" agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which breaks unions, wrecks the environment and violates national sovereignty. We demand independence, reparations for countries like Haiti and canceling the debt from Puerto Rico to Africa to Hellenic republic. We oppose NATO, the war on Syria and the encirclement of Russia and Red china, threats against People's Korea and the revolutionary motion in Venezuela. We need justice for the Ayotzinapa 43 and an end to the drug war in Mexico and everywhere. We support the Palestinian people's total national liberation, sovereignty and correct to render. We call for an finish to all U.South. aid to Israel and all reactionary governments worldwide.
ix. Total employment and decent jobs or income for all regardless of race, faith, age, gender, disability or arrest history. End all forms of austerity worldwide. Support the movement for $15 and a wedlock. Abolish "right to work" (for less) laws. Repeal Taft Hartley. Stop killing disabled people, especially those with emotional disabilities.
Wall Street owes the people for the destruction the 1% has acquired. End privatization and defend pensions. A trillion dollar plan is needed to rebuild cities like Detroit and Baltimore that accept been destroyed past criminal predatory lending and capitalist restructuring that eliminated millions of union jobs. Workers produce all of society's wealth, yet only become back a modest fraction in wages. A fighting wedlock for every worker. All workers have the right to strike. Equal opportunity in transportation, housing, education and employment for people with disabilities, and accessible wheelchair ramps, elevators and buses to provide equal access. Minimum wage laws must include disabled people, who sometimes earn only 22 cents an 60 minutes. Cops who impale with dispensation disabled people of colour and disabled LGBTQ people, especially the emotionally and psychologically disabled, must be brought to justice. We demand a arrangement where all contribute according to their abilities and receive according to their needs.
10. End the prison-industrial circuitous and mass incarcerations of Black and Latino youth. Abolish solitary confinement and the decease penalty. Gratuitous Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ana Belen Montes, Leonard Peltier, Oscar López Rivera, Rev. Edward Pinkney, Aafia Siddiqui, Rasmea Odeh and all political prisoners. Stop FBI harassment of activists.
Prisons are internment camps for working-form people, especially Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples. Tear down the prison house walls! People who are incarcerated need housing, job training, health care, and social services, none of which are offered in prison camps or the probation system. The GEO Group, Corrections Corporation of America and detention centers for immigrants should be shut down. Dismantle Water ice and release all immigrant detainees. Meanwhile, prisoner demands for decent nutrient, an end to lonely solitude, minimum wage for labor, etc., must be met. The U.Due south. government has systematically attacked freedom fighters who organize and fight for a more than only society. Free them all! Terminate FBI harassment of activists. Cease NSA spying programs, regime surveillance and demolition of political movements.
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