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Congressional Black Caucus at WCAR
yeah, white anarchists dont like blah blah blah. but the congressional black caucus is doing critical work that anarchopeople just cannot do right now. solidarity
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Cynthia McKinney is a U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia's 4th District. Cynthia Ann McKinney became Georgia’s first African American Congresswoman after being elected in November, 1992, and is currently the only woman serving in the state’s congressional delegation. Rep. McKinney has emerged as an internationally renowned advocate for voting rights, human rights and the strengthening of business ties between Africa and the United States. Rep. McKinney’s increasing influence on Capitol Hill was acknowledged with her appointment to the powerful and prestigious National Security Committee. During the 106th Congress, she was also a key member of the International Relations Committee, serving on its International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee. Rep. McKinney has held several Democratic leadership positions including serving as a regional Whip in 1993 and being elected secretary of her freshman class in the 103rd Congress. Before being elected to Congress, Rep. McKinney served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1988 to 1992. She earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and is currently working to complete her dissertation in international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
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Another good Democrat who is black is Willie Brown, the current illegal "mayor" of San Francisco, who sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud and now has only 20% support, because of his vicious attacks on the workingclass, in particular tenants, as well as his many other evil, anti-workingclass deeds. That election fraud was committed in exactly the same manner as Brown's 49er Stadium Swindle "election" of June 3, 1997 which is described at the website that mandates THOROUGH reading:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium (If you have trouble getting it at this point in the article, simply copy this URL and put it in place of what is there to get it.)
It is not a matter of black or white, it is a matter of workingclass class versus the capitalist class, both of which are international. The Democratic Party is a capitalist party, just like the Republican Party, and thus anti-workingclass and viciously racist.
Vote socialist or if there are no socialist candidates for a given position, skip that position. Stop voting for your oppressor, which is what any capitalist candidate is.
The question remains: Does McKinney support capitalism or socialism? Since she defines herself as a Democrat, that means she supports capitalism and opposes the workingclass, who can only achieve a better life with socialism. It is the profit motive that is literally killing us.
As a Democrat, McKinney has joined an organization that is irrelevant to all progress. The anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, with its ringing indictment of apartheid Israel, which does not exist for one second without $4 billion a year and more from the US taxpayers to defend US oil profits, marks the beginning of the end of the Zionist state of Israel and of US imperialism. With this major event that marks the beginning of revolutionary struggle in the 21st Century, it is time all American workers learn the words of the workingclass anthem, well-known to the rest of the workers of the world, "The Internationale":
Arise ye prisoners of starvation,
Arise ye wretched of the earth,
For justice thunders condemnation,
A better world's in birth.
No more tradition's chains shall bind us,
Arise ye slaves, no more inthrall,
The earth shall rise on new foundation,
We have been naught; we shall be all.
'Tis the final conflict, let each stand in one's place,
The international workingclass shall be the human race.
Being a Democrat doesn't mean you're taking corporate cash. No corporation would be stupid enough to give money to Cynthia McKinney or Barbara Lee.
In light of the peculiar structure of the American political system (the absence of proportional representation; the absence of coalition governments because of an executive rather than parliamentary system; open party membership and open primaries; single district, winner-take-all electoral districts), most progressive forces, when doing electoral work, pragmatically choose to work in the left of the Democratic Party. Hence, electoral class conflict runs through the Democratic Party, not around it.
Given the structure of the US government, any third party in the United States rapidly has to become a second or first party to survive. The critical question facing socialists in the United States today is not whether to form a third party. Rather, it is how best to build those progressive constituencies which alone can push politicians (whatever their party affiliation) to the left. Forming a party is pointless if the masses will not join it. If and when the mass constituencies of the American democratic left decide to leave the Democratic Party, only then is talk of a national third party seriously on the political agenda.
Of course, this line is probably dominated by anarchists, and anarchists oppose electoral politics in toto, so my comments are probably beside the point.
- Jason