Wonder why the GOP is so afraid of the words, “Class Warfare”? Could it be because the class in “working class” out number the rich class and this explains why the rich has always done its best to split the working class into two groups, one being those who vote against their own best interests and those who see through the efforts.
This practice started in the 1600s when the rich used First Nations and African hostages against the white settlers to build this country. As new people came from around the world immigrated to this country, such as people from Poland, Ireland, Italy, Asia, and so on, the rich tried to get them to fight amongst each other.
The smart workers, like the International Workers of the World (IWW), saw through this ploy and how well it was working for the rich. The answer to this practice was a single word, “Solidarity,” which became the battle cry of the IWW and other unions. Soon, the very rich started to devise plans to split the unions and get them fighting among themselves. The answer to this attack was to return to the call of “Solidarity.”
The fight today is for the rich GOP to divide the 99 percent’s solidarity, and this is the battle line. If workers can come together and fight a class war, we will win because we have many more people and could even hold a general strike nationwide. But only if we have solidarity. This holds true for the working class all over the world. People in other countries have taken to the streets, France, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Sudan, Istanbul, Indonesia, Egypt, some parts of the U.S. like the GM workers and other countries who are willing to fight for what’s right. People left with nothing, have nothing left to lose.
We shouldn’t have to beg for good jobs, healthcare, pensions, protecting the earth and climate, and together, we won’t have to, we believe in one world, “Solidarity.”
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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