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<font face="Arial">1) 10/16 - The Capitalist Economic Crisis and the
Struggle for Socialism! <br>
2) Workers World Party National Conference <br>
3) Workers’ unity needed to counter ultra-right mobilizations</font></small></small></span><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial;">Workers
World Party Discussion:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"><o:p></o:p>The
Capitalist Economic Crisis and the Struggle for Socialism!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;">Friday,
Oct. 16 – 6:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><b><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Action</span></b></st1:PlaceName><b><span
style="font-family: Arial;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></span></b></st1:place><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">284 Amory St.</span></b></st1:address></st1:Street><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> (The Brewery), Jamaica
Plain</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">(two blocks
from the Stony Brook T stop on the Orange Line)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p>Refreshments
& childcare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In
September, 263,000 more jobs were lost. Official unemployment edged
closer to
10 percent, going from 9.7 to 9.8. This was larger than predicted by
capitalist
economists and is the result of 21 consecutive months of economic
downturn, the
longest streak in 70 years. <span style=""> </span>The official
unemployment rate would have been higher than 10 percent—except that
571,000
workers dropped out of the work force and therefore were not counted
among the
unemployed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><b>Join
members of Workers World Party for an important discussion on the
growing
capitalist economic crisis and the significance that it has for the
struggle
for a socialist future.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Topics
for discussion will include:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Workers – unemployed and
employed – need a real JOBS program<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">How to organize and
fightback against attempts by the ultra-right to use racism to divide
workers<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Why youth need education
and jobs not war and prison</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<h1><small><small><b><font face="Arial">2)</font></b></small></small></h1>
<h1><font color="#990000"><small><font face="Arial">Nov. 14-15 - New
York City</font></small></font><br>
</h1>
<h1><b><small><font face="Arial">Workers World Party National Conference</font></small></b></h1>
<b><small><font face="Arial"><font color="#990000"><i><big><big>1959-2009
- 50 Years of Struggle<br>
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</big></big></i><font color="#000000"><big><big><big>Preparing &
Organizing for the Future</big><br>
for more information - <a href="http://www.workersworld.net/">www.workersworld.net</a><br>
</big></big></font></font><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><b><font face="Arial">3)<br>
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</font></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.workers.org/2009/us/htlp_0924/">Capitalist impasse
and socialist future</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<h1><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.workers.org/2009/us/jobs_1015/">Longest economic
downturn in 70 years: JOBS PROGRAM NEEDED NOW</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1>Workers’ unity needed to counter ultra-right mobilizations<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><!---deck--><!---byline-->By Fred Goldstein <o:p></o:p><br>
Published Sep 23, 2009 7:43 PM <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--begin page--><!--begin paragraph-->The recent mass mobilization
of
racists and right-wingers of all stripes in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place>,
and in cities around the country requires the attention of the working
class,
white workers especially. In the face of mounting racism and efforts to
divide
the workers during an economic crisis, the struggle for class unity is
more
pressing than ever.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->While these right-wing
demonstrations are numerically small, and may eventually die down, they
are
politically significant because they represent a de facto bloc between
important sections of big business and the racist ultra-right, based
upon an
immediate common objective: to push back the program of the Obama
administration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Whether this is just a
bloc
convenient for a particular conjuncture that will dissolve depends upon
the
fate of President Barack Obama’s program, the course of the economic
crisis and
the development of the class struggle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The social and political
soil for
further inflaming racism is fertile. There are short-term, specific
economic
interests that the health care industry and Big Oil (ExxonMobil,
Chevron, etc.)
have in fomenting anti-Obama sentiment, and there are long-term
strategic
interests that the ruling class as a whole has in stirring up racism.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->As far as the right and
the
ultra-right are concerned, as long as there is an African-American
president in
the White House and an increase in unemployment, bankruptcies and
economic
hardship, the basis for racist mobilization will continue to exist.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->At the same time, the
economic
crisis, which is striking relentlessly at the entire multinational
working
class, provides a profound and powerful basis for a united
working-class
fightback. Preparations must begin now to mount a strong, anti-racist,
pro-working-class counterattack against both the economic crisis and
racist
division.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Concerning ruling-class
politics,
it is important to trace the evolution of recent developments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Throughout August the
capitalist
media depicted the right-wing and racist intervention at the town hall
meetings
on health care as an expression of grassroots anger against the
prospect of
government intervention, excessive government spending, and fear of
losing
health care, among other things.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->It was clear to anyone
paying
attention that the outrageous attacks on Obama, the racist signs and
slogans,
including ugly pictures and drawings of all types, had nothing to do
with
health care or government spending. Actual mentions of health care were
a thin
veneer covering racist attacks on the first African-American president.
They
actually popped up in a forest of other slogans about Obama being like
Hitler
and attacks on socialism, abortion and undocumented workers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The so-called “tea party”
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place>,
on Sept. 12 has also been depicted as a manifestation of grassroots
protest
against upcoming legislation on health care reform and environmental
protection, including limits on industrial pollution. Tens of thousands
attended this event, many with right-wing and racist slogans directed
at Obama.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->These orchestrated events
have
been on the increase since the right wing first initiated them in
February
against the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout of the banks. When
directed
against the banks, they were quite small and not very widespread. Fox
News did
its best to make these pathetic showings of a handful of ultra-right
stragglers
look like a grassroots groundswell.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The Republican Party at
first made
a gesture toward the ultra-right and tried to strike a blow against
Obama by
voting against TARP. But Wall Street cracked the whip and forced a
re-vote, and
the TARP $750 billion bank bailout passed. One by one a majority of the
right-wing legislators took the floor to explain why they were changing
their votes.
None gave the real explanation. Their Wall Street masters gave them
unequivocal
orders.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Because the demonstrations
were
against the banks, they were small and scattered. They continued to be
small on
tax day, April 15, when the issue used to attack Obama was still the
bailout of
the banks and the stimulus package, both programs that the ruling class
as a
whole favored.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Health insurance
companies
and Big Oil move in</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->But once the health care
legislation came on the political agenda, the ultra-right, with their
racist
poison, took a step forward–especially in the so-called “town hall”
meetings.
In these meetings the ultra-right were joined by the health care
industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->UnitedHealthcare and
WellPoint,
two of the largest health insurance companies in the country, sent
memos to
their employees to take part in the town hall meetings and do lobbying.
They
also sent talking points along with the memos. They are both under
government
investigation in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>
for these activities. (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>
Times, Sept. 3)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->UnitedHealthcare and
WellPoint
were caught because their e-mails were leaked to the media. But other
such
companies undoubtedly participated in the so-called “grassroots”
upsurge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Around the time of the
right-wing
town hall offensive, Big Oil, which had been lobbying behind the scenes
to kill
Obama’s environmental legislation, decided to follow in the footsteps
of the
health care monopolies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The cap-and-trade program
to put
limits on allowable pollution by corporations and require them to
purchase
pollution permits was regarded as an unwarranted restriction on
profits.
Furthermore, in the fall, environmental legislation is coming before
Congress.
After that, the international follow-up to the Kyoto Accords is
scheduled for
negotiation in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:place></st1:City>.
The polluters want to tie Obama’s hands in Congress so that he cannot
even
negotiate on significant reductions of carbon gas emissions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->A memo leaked from the
American
Petroleum Institute, the central organization of Big Oil, and published
by
Greenpeace revealed the API plan to establish “Energy Citizens” rallies
across
the country. The memo called upon member oil companies to recruit
employees,
retirees and contractors to participate in anti-climate control rallies
in 22
cities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The coal industry,
railroads,
utilities, the National Association of Manufacturers, and other
big-business
polluters have joined Big Oil in its campaign to create an
anti-environmental
“grassroots” campaign. The oil companies planned to field over 200,000
so-called volunteers and provide buses, rally financing and other
support.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Big firms work
with
ultra-right</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Who did the health care
industry
and the polluters work with? The two principal organizations operating
both
campaigns are called Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Freedomworks is headed by
right-wing politician/ideologue/organizer Dick Armey, the former House
majority
leader from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State>.
Other right-wing racists helped form its leadership, including
billionaire
Steve Forbes, the late Jack Kemp, and C. Boyden Grey. Freedomworks
collaborates
with Newt Gingrich, among others.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Because of all the recent
publicity, Armey recently resigned from his position with DLA Piper, a
high-powered global lobbying firm. DLA Piper’s clients include the
DuPont
Corp., BP America, Edison Electric and Alliant Energy, among other
energy-related polluters.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The firm also represents
military
contractor Raytheon, pharmaceuticals Sanovi-Aventis and Medicines Co.,
Qualcomm, the Royal Bank of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and various other giant companies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Armey and Freedomworks
constitute
a convenient nexus between big business and the ultra-right. Up until
the Obama
administration took office, Freedomworks was mainly a networking
organization
that carried out occasional, limited campaigns. These included a
campaign to
privatize Social Security in 2006, a campaign against Obama’s program
of aid to
people facing foreclosure, and several right-wing electoral campaigns.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Another nexus is Americans
for
Prosperity. According to Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace,
this
group “is doing both attacks on cap-and-trade and attacks on health
care,
funded by Koch Industries ... a big oil company. So this is a
coordinated
attack. And as you know, it’s ... bigger than these issues. It is an
attack on
Obama’s power base.” (Democracy Now, Aug. 21)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Since the health care
industry,
Big Oil and other big-business industries began artificially
manufacturing
“grassroots” political opposition to the Obama program, Freedomworks
and
Americans for Prosperity have been catapulted into the national
spotlight. They
have gone from behind-the-scenes networking and sporadic public
activities to
mobilizing demonstrations on a national scale.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Such organizations can
easily be
dissolved or supplanted by others, and are not a threat in and of
themselves.
But they are a transmission belt of funds and resources, both from the
big
bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie, that are used to create an arena
for
organizing by right-wing groups.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Right-wing
strength
exaggerated</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The right wing appears
much
stronger than its actual representation in the population. Millions of
white
workers voted for Obama. It is doubtful at this point that they are
being swept
into a racist backlash.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The strength of the right
is
exaggerated both because the ruling class, including their media, want
it that
way and because the working class has not yet moved onto the arena of
struggle
to challenge the economic crisis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Obama’s candidacy was
predicated
on getting the troops out of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and achieving a domestic program of reforming the health care system,
reversing
the destruction of the environment, and reviving the educational
system, among
other things. The reforms proposed were mild at best.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->But big business has been
on the
gravy train since the end of the Jimmy Carter administration in the
late 1970s,
when deregulation began in many areas of capitalism. Then, under
Reagan, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:City>
and the Bushes,
the corporations have had a veritable free hand to expand their profits
and
exploitation–facilitated by the destruction of anti-trust laws, NAFTA
and the
repeal of depression-era banking restrictions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The bosses want nothing to
interfere with this system. They are determined to push back any
reforms that
diminish their profits–including even the mildest health care reform or
restrictions on pollution. Hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate
wealth
are ultimately at stake. There is nothing that the oil and coal
companies, the
health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and all the rest of the
profiteers won’t do to get their way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->That is their immediate
cause for
fanning the flames of racism and getting behind right-wing propaganda
about
“big government” and “socialism.” The right-wing ideologues and the
corporations have a common interest in promoting such poison.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->But all this seems far
weightier
than it actually is regarding the general population. And that is
because the
working class has not yet entered the arena of struggle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The situation is still at
the
point where it takes former President Carter to acknowledge the
hostility to
Obama is racism. As New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote: “Did we
really
need Jimmy Carter to tell us that racism is one of the driving forces
behind
the relentless and often scurrilous attacks on President Obama? We
didn’t know
that? As John McEnroe might say, ‘You can’t be serious.’” (Sept. 19)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->While it was progressive
for
Carter to call out the racism behind the anti-Obama campaign of the
Republicans
and the ultra-right, the African-American population and the working
class
should not have to rely on a representative of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
imperialism to fight their
battles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->After all, as Herbert
pointed out,
Carter once defended neighborhood “ethnic purity” during his
presidential
campaign. In addition, Carter turned his back on millions of poor
women,
disproportionately Black and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latina</st1:place></st1:City>,
when he refused to override legislation banning the use of federal
funds for
abortion. At the time Carter was asked at a press conference if this
was fair.
His infamous and callous response was: “Life is not fair.” (National
Black
Network, July 18, 1977)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Obama and Carter</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The media have pitted
Carter
against Obama on the question of race. Obama has denied that race has
motivated
the hostility to him and attributed it to fear of government. It is
easy for
Carter to come off smelling like a rose because now that he has no
authority,
he can say what he likes. When he was president and had the authority
to act on
behalf of the poor and the oppressed, he declined to do so.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Obama, on the other hand,
is
caught in a vise-like dilemma. As president, he is supposed to
represent the
overall interests of the ruling class. Were he to open up a struggle
against
racism, he would be abandoning his role as representative of the
collective
interests of the ruling class and would become an advocate for the
oppressed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Precisely because he is
African
American and is president, even the slightest tilt in an openly
anti-racist
direction could be a great stimulus to the anti-racist struggle and
lead to
destabilizing the racist status quo. The ruling class, however, would
regard
such a development as a gross violation of his office. Jimmy Carter, on
the
other hand, is not endangering the status quo.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->This became evident during
the
Professor Henry Louis Gates affair when Obama said the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:place></st1:City> cops
“acted stupidly” and was then
forced to take it back. The fact that the establishment allowed a local
cop and
a local police department to defy the president of the U.S. and to
refuse to
apologize for an egregious case of racial profiling shows how sensitive
the
ruling class is to Obama’s tilting even slightly toward criticizing
racism or
the racist police.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->In the Gates case, Obama
could not
even defend one of the most prestigious members of academia against the
police
thug who illegally arrested him. Now, in the case of the so-called
anti-health
care reform demonstrations, Obama cannot even defend himself against
racism. He
is in the utterly contradictory position of being the first African
American to
head the capitalist state—which is, among other things, a racist state,
the
same racist state that Carter loyally served when he was president.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->In any case, the arguments
put
forward by both Obama and Carter obscure the class truth of the present
situation. It is the racist ruling class that is ultimately behind the
town
halls, the “tea parties,” and the arch-racists like Rep. Joe Wilson.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->It is the working class
that must
lead the real struggle on the ground to beat back the racist attack.
The unions
and the community organizations should take over the town hall meetings
and the
streets with demands for jobs, health care, housing and an end to
racism.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Out of the population of
300
million people in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, 100 million
are now people of color.
That proportion is rising. The working class is becoming more and more
multinational, and the long-term strategy of the ruling class is to
keep the
workers from uniting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Racism has been a prop for
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
capitalism
since the days of slavery. It has been used economically to extract
super-profits from the African-American, Latino/a, Indigenous and Asian
populations. And it has been used to politically poison white workers
and keep
them from uniting against the class enemy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->But the needs of the class
struggle can turn this around. It should be remembered that the Ku Klux
Klan
reached its height during the 1920s. In 1924 tens of thousands of KKK
members
held a march in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place> The Klan spread its
influence far beyond the South. It included governors, mayors, state
legislators and judges.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->But then came the upsurge
of the
working class in the 1930s. The Klan showed its anti-union colors as
workers
all over gravitated toward the Congress of Industrial Organizations and
industrial unionism. Union organizers promoted Black-white unity, a
necessity in
the struggle to organize. The Klan, always an instrument of capital and
the big
plantation owners in the South, turned its fire against the unions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The KKK opposed the
Unemployed
Councils; it opposed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, the
Steel Workers
Organizing Committee, the sit-down strike movement, and the class
struggle in
general. It carried out floggings and murders of labor organizers. But
in the
long run, it lost out to the industrial union movement. While it
retained
strength in the South, it was pushed back for decades by the rise of
the class
struggle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->The road to beating back
the
racists today is the same as the road to beating back the effects of
the
capitalist crisis–the united class struggle and mass mobilization of a
labor-community alliance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->White workers must
recognize that
racism is the tool of the class enemy. As Karl Marx wrote 150 years ago
in the
first volume of “Capital”: “In the United States of North America,
every
independent movement of the workers was paralyzed so long as slavery
disfigured
a part of the Republic. Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white
skin where
in the Black it is branded.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->An injury to one is an
injury to
all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><!--end paragraph--><!--begin paragraph-->Fred Goldstein is the
author
of the recently published book “Low-Wage Capitalism.”</em><o:p></o:p></p>
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