A Grim New Milestone: More than 10,000 Protesters Arrested Across the U.S.
James Dennis Hoff
June 5, 2020
The protests against police terror are being brutally repressed…by the police.
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The protests against police terror are being brutally repressed…by the police.
On Wednesday, the mayor of Minnesota announced that Derek Chauvin — the police officer that suffocated George Floyd — will be charged with second degree murder, and that the other three cops who were accomplices of Chauvin will finally be arrested. This is an important victory for the movement; but these protests are unlike anything we have seen before and there is plenty of potential for continued unrest and resistance.
Labor Unions across the country have issued statements condemning the killing of George Floyd, but statements are not enough. To defeat racist police violence, we need a fighting labor movement willing to strike for justice.
After several hundred adjuncts were laid off at John Jay College, CUNY faculty — rank and file members of the PSC — have organized a wildcat strike to withhold spring grades.
The City University of New York is threatening to lay off potentially thousands of faculty, but the rank and file are fighting back.
The coronavirus has spread around the world through the circuits of capital and value chains, dividing the working class and putting millions of frontline workers at risk. Reorganizing the forces of the proletariat to respond to this threat is the only way forward.
The ruling class wants you to go back to work but on whose terms?
Strongly-worded letters and lobbying campaigns only weaken the power of labor. To survive the interlocking economic, biological, and ecological crises already underway, working people will have to turn their unions into organizations for class struggle.
As unemployment soars, the working class is heading toward an economic disaster like none seen before. Such unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions.
As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Organizing to fight for an immediate ban on all layoffs has to be an essential part of any program to protect the working class and to make the capitalist’s pay for their crisis.
The protests against police terror are being brutally repressed…by the police.
On Wednesday, the mayor of Minnesota announced that Derek Chauvin — the police officer that suffocated George Floyd — will be charged with second degree murder, and that the other three cops who were accomplices of Chauvin will finally be arrested. This is an important victory for the movement; but these protests are unlike anything we have seen before and there is plenty of potential for continued unrest and resistance.
Labor Unions across the country have issued statements condemning the killing of George Floyd, but statements are not enough. To defeat racist police violence, we need a fighting labor movement willing to strike for justice.
After several hundred adjuncts were laid off at John Jay College, CUNY faculty — rank and file members of the PSC — have organized a wildcat strike to withhold spring grades.
The City University of New York is threatening to lay off potentially thousands of faculty, but the rank and file are fighting back.
The coronavirus has spread around the world through the circuits of capital and value chains, dividing the working class and putting millions of frontline workers at risk. Reorganizing the forces of the proletariat to respond to this threat is the only way forward.
The ruling class wants you to go back to work but on whose terms?
Strongly-worded letters and lobbying campaigns only weaken the power of labor. To survive the interlocking economic, biological, and ecological crises already underway, working people will have to turn their unions into organizations for class struggle.
As unemployment soars, the working class is heading toward an economic disaster like none seen before. Such unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions.
As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Organizing to fight for an immediate ban on all layoffs has to be an essential part of any program to protect the working class and to make the capitalist’s pay for their crisis.
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