US capitalism in crisis and confusion as revolutions ouster their dictators abroad and workers fightback in Wisconsin

Watching this video I had to chuckle to myself.  The comments from the US representatives regarding the developments in the Middle East drift around like a spider going down a drain.  This is what happens when the working class enters the scene, when the class struggle breaks out in to the open.  The mouthpieces of US capitalism are floundering around saying one thing here another there.  Actually, what's happening is that they are being forced to show their hand and don't like it.

Obama condemns the violence in Iran then wavers on the issue of Bahrain where the police of the absolute monarchy that has ruled the place for 200 years fired tear gas and bullets in to a peaceful crowd of men, women and children protesting the lack of democratic rights and, for many of them, discrimination based on their religion. The fact that US capitalism cannot put forward a uniform response to these events reflects the very serious nature of this crisis as they are being forced to expose the hypocrisy of their claims that their motives for doing what they do are just and about freedom and democratic rights.

As we pointed out earlier, this tiny Island is a playground for many of the thugs and their kin that rule various states in the region as well as a banking hub, no doubt for managing and divvying up the billions of dollars that they and their western backers pocket through the looting of the natural resources of the area. The US fifth fleet is headquartered here to help ensure this arrangement is not threatened.

Washington says it will not dictate events in the region which no worker outside of the US believes.  People are not stupid.  And Americans might believe it not because we are stupid but because we have the most censored mass media of all the advanced capitalist countries and many of the former colonial ones. However, it is our responsibility to wake from our stupor and pay more attention to what our government is doing around the world. 

Workers around the world are not blind and see the ambiguity in the comments the US representatives make in the video above.  This is where a lot of the hostility to the US comes from, the hypocrisy and lies that emanate from the mouths of the US politicians that represent the very same corporations that are attacking US workers at home.  It's a joke, a representative of US capitalism like Hilary Clinton or Barak Obama talking about no violence.  What about Vietnam and its 3 or 4 million dead?  What about Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Mobutu, the Shah, Marcos, Pinochet.  Many Americans may not be aware of their government's role in the violence of the world but others are. And it's not to say the US ruling class is the only rotten ruling class, there are others.  But the consequences of decisions made by the thugs in Washington are far greater and more destructive than those made by some dicctator of a former colonial and now imperialised nation in the Middle East.

Fighting back in Madison Wisconsin

This is why is so important for us,  and for all workers, to see nationalism for what is it, a con game.  The Wall Street politicians in Washington will tell us that we have to support these thugs and 7th century monarchs because "our" interest are paramount.  But our interests as workers are not the same as Warren Buffets, so what if we're both called Americans.

Our allies are those fighting the regimes in the Arab world and the heroic Iranians who risk their lives simply to dare express themselves publicly. But I am not going to pretend that those in Washington abhor violence; Henry Kissinger the mass murder walks free here for one. And we should all welcome the developments in Wisconsin, Americans at our best.