Woman Confronts Flake on Kavanaugh Support.

 Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired

To the moralist, prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. Emma Goldman

What we see here is just the beginning, the spark of what will become a powerful movement against the capitalist offensive. They will be confronted in a major way in the period ahead.  The passivity and class betrayal of the heads of organized labor has contributed to this arrogance and overconfidence that exists among a large section of the US capitalist class.

The US ruling class has overplayed its hand and will pay for this.  The Predator in Chief and the clique of right wing, racists and misogynists in the Republican Party are closing off all the safety valves, all the acceptable avenues of expression in a so-called bourgeois democracy that will force the movement on to the streets in an explosive way at some point.  Women will not go backwards in the face of this assault by an old degenerate clique of white male bourgeois.

Capitalism's Labor Agents Meet With the Predator in Chief

Where is the potentially powerful voice of organized labor?  Let us not forget the cowardly abettors of Trumpism,  nationalism and fascism, the labor leaders who met with him at the White House to kiss his ass for a few crumbs from the masters table. They are the worst but along with them are the other heads of major unions, SEIU Afscme and other public sector unions who cry a few crocodile tears or make a few mild statements of rebuke but who too refuse to bring the power of organized labor and the working class as a whole to the table.

And last but not least, shame on those who claim the mantle of opposition, who correctly point to the capitalist offensive and its horrors but leave out any criticism or condemnation of the role played by the clique that sits atop organized labor.  Shame on them for their refusal to conduct an open and militant struggle for the consciousness of the working class dragging it from the clutches of the US elite, their mass media and propaganda machine and their ideological partners in academia and the trade union movement.