The margin of error on these poll figures should have been given. Why is Trump getting increased support from Black, Hispanic and low income voters? These are the oppressed masses Marxists are supposed to appeal to. All the Marxist groups are small sects is one of the problems as they can't get their message out to the masses (a major exception seems to be in Seattle). Neither monopoly capitalist party can solve the problems facing the masses-- job security, lack of funds for infrastructure, medical care, education, environmental protection, ending gun violence, slashing the military budget, police violence, voter suppression, institutional racism, homelessness, public health, child care, etc. Millions are turned off of the two party system and won't vote for either party or vote at all--14% of the voters. Liberals posing as leftists trying to build support for Biden and the Democrats only increase the Trump protest vote. The left should be calling out both imperialist parties and trying to build a real socialist alternative. This will at least begin to increase class consciousness in the masses -- especially in the labor movement dominated by the labor lieutenants of the capitalist class. At the present moment fighting 'fascism' by pushing the Democrats does't seem to be working. Only an independent radical left alternative can generate the energy to really defeat Trump in the long run-- a mass movement that pushes the Democrat's base to the left at the very least while laying the foundations for a real socialist movement, a nucleus may form around the Cornel West campaign. This should be aimed at the those stay at home masses who have lost faith in bourgeois politics -- the Democrats can fight their own battles.
Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
NATO's Proxy War
NATO's march to the Russian border is one of the main factors that instigated this war. It's nice to see the US and NATO doing all they can to prolong the war and ensure that many thousands more will be killed and more cities and factories destroyed to keep this ultra-right fascist invested nationalist government in control of Ukraine. The Germans must be happy to see their old eastern policy on the agenda again.
Monday, February 20, 2023
More New York Times Anti-China Propaganda
NYT disseminating more US propaganda under the guise of journalism. The US has stepped up its propaganda war against China ever since it shot down what was likely an errant weather balloon that strayed off course over the US (for all to see). For the MSM the US official position (''a spy balloon") is simply taken as gospel and so reported. But google the following website, https://www.aerosociety.com/.../chinas-spy-balloon-a.../, for an article by a top expert at the Royal Aeronautical Society in the UK. The fact that this organization is heavily funded by Boeing, part of the US controlled MIC, removes suspicion it is Chinese propaganda. All things considered the Chinese position (errant weather balloon) is more likely true than the US position. Earlier reports in the NYT indicated that the balloon could not have gotten any useful information the Chinese didn't already have from its satellites. So why is the US making a federal case out of this meaningless incident? It is to prepare the mass consciousness of the usually uninformed American people to accept stepped up cold war policies against China and present China as a threat to the US (which has over 700 foreign military bases, many as part of an encirclement program against China, versus China with 1 foreign military base -- in Djibouti to fight piracy around the Horn of Africa). Now the US is warning China not to give military supplies to Russia while it gives whatever it wants to Ukraine. But there are two sides to this war--Russian aggression against Ukraine versus Russian defensive counter-attack against US/NATO aggression against Russia and the Russian population in the Donbas. Which position you take on this issue reflects your views in favor of, or against, US imperialism. China so far has been neutral, only giving non lethal aid to Russia and calling for a negotiated peace so the US is just picking a fight by ''warning" China about what it can and cannot do. These imperial dictates are just what one expects from an Empire to subordinate states. But China is a major country in its own right and will not be dictated to by US imperialism. So the US is starting to play a potentially disastrous game with its saber-rattling with China. So,''Ho. Ho. Biden has got to go''-- the left has to see to it that the next president is a peace president and a pro-labor president not the faux-pro labor hypocrite now in the White House. The best way to defang the Republicans is to run real pro labor and peace candidates, so far as possible with Democrats until we are strong enough to field real socialist candidates.
