Free Bradley Manning. He is also a victim of US capitalism's offensive against working class people world wide and its effort to dominate all areas of the world.
There is a new book out called "Winner take all politics: How Washington made the rich richer - and turned its back on the middle class." The authors are Jacob Hacker of Yale University and Paul Pierson of the University of California, Berkeley. This book confirms what we have been saying on this blog for years. That is that we are living in a period of a vicious capitalist offensive against the working class.
The authors state that the attacks on the working class were: "the result of increasingly sophisticated, well financed and well organized efforts by the corporate and financial sectors to tilt government policies in their favor, and thus in favor of the very wealthy." In other words a conscious planned offensive against the working class. The authors note that investors and executives last year earned a stunning $140 billion - a record. This at a time of the greatest recession since the 1930's and when the working class was being savaged.
The authors state that the attacks on the working class were: "the result of increasingly sophisticated, well financed and well organized efforts by the corporate and financial sectors to tilt government policies in their favor, and thus in favor of the very wealthy." In other words a conscious planned offensive against the working class. The authors note that investors and executives last year earned a stunning $140 billion - a record. This at a time of the greatest recession since the 1930's and when the working class was being savaged.
The book says that politics are a form of "warfare. between those who are organized" and those who are not. The weakness of the book is that it talks about organized labor as if it was helpless in this warfare. The authors write that organized labor was caught in a "devastating spiral of decline." and politically it talks about "voters being at a disadvantage when there are not reliable groups to represent them."
What the authors of this book leave out is that the leaders of organized labor have it in their power to do something about the offensive of capitalism against the working class. The reason this offensive has been successful is because the working class was not organized to resist it. And this is the fault of the union leaders. These union leaders would not confront and take on this offensive in the workplaces through strikes and occupations and mass street direct action. Nor would they pull the resources they give to the capitalist Democratic Party, the estimate is they gave $200 million in the last election, and use this instead to launch a mass working peoples party and link this with the battle to organize the unorganized and to build an alternative to the capitalist political monopoly of the Republicans and the Democrats in the shape of a working peoples party.
What the authors of this book leave out is that the leaders of organized labor have it in their power to do something about the offensive of capitalism against the working class. The reason this offensive has been successful is because the working class was not organized to resist it. And this is the fault of the union leaders. These union leaders would not confront and take on this offensive in the workplaces through strikes and occupations and mass street direct action. Nor would they pull the resources they give to the capitalist Democratic Party, the estimate is they gave $200 million in the last election, and use this instead to launch a mass working peoples party and link this with the battle to organize the unorganized and to build an alternative to the capitalist political monopoly of the Republicans and the Democrats in the shape of a working peoples party.
The offensive of capitalism continues and will do so until they face an aroused and enraged working class on the streets and workplaces and the political arena which will threaten their control. We on this blog stand for a return to the methods of the 1930's and the 1960's.
And not to end without a further mention of the need to keep up the campaign to free Bradley Manning. Bradley's case also is part of the capitalist offensive. When the Stalinist regimes collapsed US capitalism said their aim was "full spectrum domination." That is total rule over all the areas of the world. They lied to start the war in Iraq and then drove up into Afghanistan. Their aim is to control all of central Asia and put a ring around China and Russia. To do so they are forcing young American troops into the most frightful situations where they are ordered to kill and murder the local people.
This is what Bradley Manning was ordered to do. He objected. He spoke out against this murderous aspect of the capitalist offensive. He was told to shut up and get on with it. He refused and he is now accused of taking action to expose the torture of US capitalism and its global offensive. For this heroic act, if he did it, Bradley Manning is a hero of the fight back against the US capitalist offensive. For this, if he did it, he is in solitary confinement in a US military prison. We must not let him be held there. We must mobilize to get him out. Get organized to set up the Free Bradley Manning and Defend Wikileaks Committees. We must play our part in the struggle against the capitalist offensive and the campaign to defend Bradley Manning is part of this.
This is what Bradley Manning was ordered to do. He objected. He spoke out against this murderous aspect of the capitalist offensive. He was told to shut up and get on with it. He refused and he is now accused of taking action to expose the torture of US capitalism and its global offensive. For this heroic act, if he did it, Bradley Manning is a hero of the fight back against the US capitalist offensive. For this, if he did it, he is in solitary confinement in a US military prison. We must not let him be held there. We must mobilize to get him out. Get organized to set up the Free Bradley Manning and Defend Wikileaks Committees. We must play our part in the struggle against the capitalist offensive and the campaign to defend Bradley Manning is part of this.
Sean.
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