Rockefellers’ Oily Hands In Haitian ‘Relief’

The private U.S. relief groups at work in Haiti are channeling sincere compassion towards imperialist goals. The U.S. arm of Doctors Without Borders, which the media keeps trumpeting as a worthy recipient of donations for Haitian aid, is headed by Richard Rockefeller, MD, another crown prince of U.S. imperialism. His father David, heir to the vast Standard Oil fortune (now Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and BP), ran both Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think-tank.

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Developing Communist Leadership in Heat of Oaxaca Class Struggle

OAXACA, MEXICO, January 13 — Last December, 37 comrades attended a communist school here. A broad discussion included an analysis, with examples, exposing the evils of capitalism, studying political economy, and stressed the urgency of continuing to build a base for communism. But, in a new dynamic, we formed work-groups to answer such questions as:

Why does poverty exist?

Why are there wars, and can they be avoided?

What is communism and how does it work?

Why do we need a party to build communism?

Why should we fight directly for communism, not for socialism?

Then each work-group reported on its understanding of these questio

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Seizing Opportunity to Build PLP in Fight vs. Budget Cuts

NEW YORK CITY, January 3 — The recent Obama Nobel Peace Prize award and widespread budget cuts have opened the door to build the Party at our school. Our goal as communists in PLP is to link the cuts to the bosses’ massive war budget for Afghanistan and Iraq, to expose the inter-imperialist wars and rivalries dominating the world and to expose the nature of the cuts as racist, an attack on the overwhelmingly black and Latino student population.

A PL teacher had already planned to teach a unit on Afghanistan as part of the World Literature curriculum. As soon as he heard that Obama was sending even more troops, he seized the opportunity to discuss it in the classroom.

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Algeria: Wildcat General Strike Paralyzes Ports, Auto, Steel Plants

ALGIERS, January 15 — A massive wildcat general strike of nearly 20,000 auto, steel, port and public health workers is in its twelth day and is spreading across Algeria, amid repeated pitched battles with thousands of cops and security forces. Workers are not only striking against their companies but also directly against the government, defying its ban on public rallies and demonstrations, stemming from a “state of emergency” declared in the early 1990s.

Strikers are demanding a wage hike, and in a political challe

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France: Undocumented Strikers March, Call for Greater Unity

PARIS, January 9 — About 6,000 people marched here today in the cold and snow demanding “across-the-board ‘legalization’ and the abolition of the ministry of shame,” that is, the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity. Simultaneously, there were calls for greater unity among the organizations defending undocumented workers, 6,000 of whom have been on strike since October 12.

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‘Avatar’: Mysticism Masquerades As Militancy

James Cameron’s new movie Avatar is on its way to becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time. In many ways, the content of the movie is secondary. In a capitalist society it is perfectly acceptable for someone to spend $500 million making a movie that will bring in many billions of dollars, while billions of workers suffer every day. The content of the movie is important, however. The movie clearly takes place in an advanced imperialist society. A precious natural resource called unobtanium has been discovered on Pandora where the Na’vi live and the U.S. Marines attack the Na’vi for the profit of a U.S. company. Replace the Na’vi with Iraqi and Afghan workers and unobtanium with oil and the movie would be about contemporary U.S. imperialism.

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Bosses Use Calif. ‘Master Plan’ for Education to Prepare for War

CALIFORNIA — The fight against racist budget cuts is heating up in schools and colleges.  Students are growing angrier and more committed to standing up to police attacks. They are open to see that its not just bad management. Capitalism and its inevitable imperialist wars are to blame. Many are questioning a system that cuts education, health care and jobs for wider imperialist war and bailing out banks.

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Don't Blame "Mother Nature"; Capitalism Kills Thousands of Haitians

 

Our class brothers and sisters in Haiti need our help. However possible, workers here must try to send money, rescue and medical people and relief supplies, and anything else we can.

There was nothing natural about this carnage. Like Katrina, the Tsunami and a hundred other “natural” disasters we’ve witnessed, it’s capitalism — especially U.S. capitalism — that set up Haiti’s working class for nearly all the death and destruction accompanying this earthquake.

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As Oil Wars Spread, Biggest Terrorists: U.S. Rulers

Since Inauguration Day, the Obama regime has ruthlessly enforced working-class “sacrifices” to protect embattled U.S. capitalists. Workers — suffering Depression-level job, wage and service cuts — bear the multi-trillion-dollar costs of Obama & Co.’s bank bailouts and ever-expanding Middle East energy wars. And on these killing fields, working-class soldiers and civilians unwillingly pay with their lives as Team Obama defends the profits of oil giants like Exxon Mobil, as well as U.S. rulers’ attempt to control energy supplies and pipeline routes to maintain their shaky global supremacy.

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