While people at home suffer and our infrastructure crumbles, we spend trillions on wars with vague objectives and no exit strategy. While arguments about the deficit rage and our economy slides towards the abyss, our defense budget is nearly six times that of any other country in the world and twice as much as the next ten countries combined. (globalissues.org)
Why? Who profits? Not the soldiers, who put their lives on the line and whose healthcare, benefits and families go neglected. Not the rest of us, whose priorities and desperate needs get ignored.
“…we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “ — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We live in the world that President Eisenhower warned us about. And it’s time to take it back.
Rally meets at Troy Davis Park, today at 5 pm. In conjunction with Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition.
We will not stop. We will not be silenced. We are the 99%
The only way you will stop these wars is by beginning the process of organizing a revolution to overturn this murderous government of the capitalist class who profit immensely through these wars, both in terms of war based production and also theft and access to raw materials and slave labor.
That means organizing members of the most powerful social class in this society, the only revolutionary class, the working class, to demand that their union organizations establish a political party of the working class, a labor party.
Obviously that means a step forward from the demeaning posture of begging the parties, Democrats and Republicans, for the change that the murderer and war criminal, Obama the Bomber, whom many of you voted for, who will only give you more of what here and Oakland experienced in the last few hours.
Then you may find out along with the working class that the leaders of the union movement are wedded to the parties of big business because fighting them threatens the honey pot of the unions from which their wages are paid.
The only answer to that is the replacement of those leaders, if in fact they act as I predict, with new and revolutionary leaders.
That process will educate the working class to understand what European workers learned way back in the time of the Commune, that it is impossible any longer to make gains working with the bourgeoisie, no matter how liberal.
It is to be hoped that last nights experience begins to make clear that the violence of a socialist revolution will be called up by the violence of the cops and sooner or later the military.
Jack Jersawitz
404-892-1238
bigjackjj@yahoo.com