Fascists were \u00a0driven from the streets and from all but private property in the industrial belts of the U.S. in the pre-World War II period. This truth has been suppressed by public education controlled by the Capitalists and by their mass media. The History Channel, for instance, \u00a0would have you believe that the Nazi German American Bund was defeated by Jewish mobsters! These mobsters have been notably absent in the confrontations with fascists in the Trump era. More to the point, the labor movement, the real victors over fascism in the 1930s-\u201940s streets and halls, has also been absent from the anti-fascist \u201cmobilizations\u201d of the present.<\/p>\n
Today the labor movement, following the leadership of the Democrats, is reaching \u2018across the aisle\u2019 to work with Trump, build his \u2018beautiful pipeline\u2019 and his \u2018beautiful wall\u2019 and totally ignores the fascist sector of his base, who are becoming more emboldened and \u00a0prominent and have taken their strategy of violence to the streets. \u00a0During the Obama term the outright fascist groups were isolated when they formed up in Philly, Kansas City and L.A. They were \u00a0unable to forge a united front with Oath Keepers and other right trending outfits. Isolated by their swastikas and jackboot appearance, small antifascist and left forces were able to stop them. \u00a0But since the Trump campaign rallies unleashed mob beatings against \u00a0protesters and elevated the \u2018alt-right\u2019 to the White House they have found the courage to climb out from under the slime. In an effort to \u2018smash communism\u2019 and make the streets safe for fascism they came to Berkeley, CA on April 15th, a day they called \u201cpatriots day.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0They knew they would provoke a response from the \u201cAntifa\u201d group and some of the various leftists who had shut down Milo Yiannopoulos at the February UC Berkeley action.<\/p>\n
But the left was unprepared. \u00a0The labor leadership feels no responsibility to protect the working class from the emergence of any fascist phalanx. \u00a0In San Francisco the Pelosi Democrats \u00a0gathered \u00a0anti-Trump forces for their \u2018show us your tax forms\u2019 rally, while in Berkeley the misnamed \u2018Labor Rising Against Trump\u2019 backed by leaders of the IWW and the TWSC (Transport Workers Solidarity Committee,) held a conference to defend public education just a few blocks away in safety at the U.C. Berkeley Campus. \u00a0The left, the labor movement and the Democrats thus abandoned a handful of anti-fascists to their own ultra-left substitutionist version of politics to stop the fascists and this \u00a0got their asses kicked.<\/p>\n
Likewise this was a defeat for those who promote free speech for fascists, although these middle class muddleheads are not likely to confess that this is true. We say \u201cNO Platform for Fascists!!<\/b>\u201d This is what the successful labor champions said in past. The logic was clear that fascists do not tolerate the speech of others and suppress the workers\u2019 organizations by force the moment they have sufficient power. They motivate MAWAs (\u201cMake America White Again\u201d) with tv appearances such as the 4\/12 MSNBC appearance of a leading white supremacist on Van Jones\u2019 \u201cThe Messy Truth\u201d program, where the fascist \u2018celebrity\u2019 said \u201cI want to bathe in white privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n
The threat of fascist revival in the form of street thuggery against labor, the oppressed peoples and \u00a0the left was the alt-right\u2019s intention from the first. \u00a0Picking Berkeley for their faux free speech rally was clearly a provocation. \u00a0The fact that the regularly scheduled farmers market \u00a0in the same place was closed is proof positive that the Berkeley City Council and the police colluded with and ultimately arranged for a street battle. The BART subway station closed!<\/p>\n
That the fascists were able to successfully mobilize in a major, multi-racial unionized urban center and get away with it is ominous. \u00a0What was needed was the mass mobilization of the labor movement, particularly the ILWU (Longshoremen), along with the black, brown and immigrant communities to sweep the fascists from the streets. \u00a0The fascists on April 15th should have been met with thousands of workers and youth, backed up by disciplined, militant and trained labor defense guards to defend the workers and youth from the fascists and their cop auxiliaries and cousins.<\/p>\n
For mass labor led mobilizations to stop Nazis\/KKK and other fascist groups.<\/b><\/p>\n
No reliance on the cops, authors of racist police brutality; no reliance on Democratic\/Republican politicians, they are no friends of labor or the oppressed!<\/b><\/p>\n
For a fighting workers\/labor party.<\/b><\/p>\n
Defend the black and brown communities and identity-victimized populations by organizing the Workers\/oppressed self-defense formations in our union halls.<\/b><\/p>\n
We call for a workers united front self-defense of our entire working class, no exclusions or exceptions.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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