OWS. Courageous movement defies coordinated crackdown.

The mayor of Oakland, a former Maoist, was caught saying to BBC that she had been on the telephone with 18 other mayors of US cities to coordinate crushing the OWS movement. The result of this was seen yesterday when the state went into New York and Oakland. But full credit has to be given to the OWS movement and particular the youth. They moved right back into their occupied zones again. It looks like far from crushing the movement this crackdown will strengthen it. As Marx said sometimes the revolution is driven forward by the whip of the counter revolution.

As we see this repression we have to keep in mind the staggering political crisis and arrogance and stupidity of the US capitalist political class. They continue as if nothing is happening and that a few cracks of the cops batons can solve everything. This when a fundamental shift is taking place in US working class and middle class consciousness. This is shown in the fact that the 1%/ 9% idea is now part of mass culture. But the US ruling class steam on regardless. Look at one fact. Thousands of the OWS movement have been arrested and jailed, their camps broken up and property seized. These mainly young people are not responsible in any way for the catastrophic crisis of the US economy and US society. But what about the people who are - the 1% and their political stooges. They are not arrested. Their property is not seized. No they carry on regardless with their tens of millions of dollars in bonuses and billions, in some case trillions in wealth.

This will not last. Just over 50% of the US population in polls now say they support the OWS movement. Imagine what will happen when the next shoe drops and the economy hits the new 2008 type crisis. And it is certain that it will. It will be a lot more difficult to bail out the capitalists then. People know how they were bailed out with working peoples taxes the last time and how the capitalists took the money and pocketed it. A major political crisis will develop. This can take a number of forms. Obama or some other capitalist politician under the threat of a complete breakdown of society and a mass movement can go towards FDR type policies. Or efforts can be made to send their state apparatus onto the streets in their tens and tens of thousands. But of course many of these are tied up in foreign wars. But we have to draw conclusions from what we see on our TV screens - the ranks of armed cops covered from head to toe in sinister black armor. US capitalism has been preparing. Having said this beneath the armor and the soldiers uniforms are people with mortgages they cannot pay and costs they cannot bare. The soldiers who marched in New York with OWS are a sign of things to come, cracks in the US capitalist state apparatus.

US capitalism is hurtling towards the edge of a cliff with its eyes closed.

Sean.