November 28, 2024
Faced with the US elections…
El PTS- Left Voice, lamentan la derrota de Kamala Harris
ante el triunfo de la “derecha” de Trump
The US elections are over; as always, whoever wins, the victors are Wall Street, Black Rock and the financial super-oligarchy and their parties.
In 2020 when George Flyod was assassinated in the streets, the American working class with the Black movement as its vanguard responded with huge combats: they took over police stations, threw a Democratic governor out of their ranks, set up "autonomous zones" as in Seattle and the "Black House" in Washington. Committees and popular assemblies sprang up and even set fire to the local of the traitorous union bureaucracy of the AFL.CIO. They shook the citadel of power, even sending Trump to hide in the White House underground bunker, before the courageous onslaught of the masses. This great onslaught was diverted with the electoral trap and with the complicity of the reformist left and Castroism was led to support one of its executioners, the Democratic Party.
In 2020 Bernie Sanders, candidate of the reformist left, ended up supporting Biden to govern
The renegades of Trotskyism together with the Communist Party in those elections called to vote for Sanders, the "lesser evil", the "left wing" of the Democrats, whom they dressed up as a socialist and friend of the workers. Millions voted for Sanders' party (DSA), who ended up delivering those votes to Biden, making him president of the United States. Even a sector of this reformist left went so far as to dissolve within the DSA.
With the support of millions of exploited, Biden, an old Wall Street character, took office with "siren songs" and sweet phrases. And together with his vice-president K. Harris, they applied a brutal attack on the standard of living of the workers. They kept in real prisons, locked up together with their children, the immigrants who arrived at their doors looking for a better life. In times of pandemic he attacked the most exploited sectors, leaving them without medical assistance, millions of workers laid off and an inflation never seen before. While the murderous police continued to repress and murder black working class youth.
They tore the working class apart, disorganized it, divided its ranks and the struggles of the masses, separated it from the rest of the exploited, making it retreat from the unity it had conquered in the streets. They managed to get the revolted masses out of the streets and redoubled the plundering of the oppressed peoples, causing a real tragedy for the working class. This is the nefarious role of the class collaboration front.
We must settle accounts with these hucksters of the left! They must stop hiding end take responsibiliy for what they have done! The reformist left, by subjecting the working class to a front with "the progressive bourgeoisie," led them to put their trust in the Democrats when they had already broken with that party. The more he subordinated the working class to that anti-working class party, the more Trump's imperialist gang gained strength and won over broad sectors of the masses.
And now Wall Street and Black Rock are welcoming Trump to complete what Biden had done: to deepen the attack on the working class and the plunder against the peoples of the world
It was this front of class collaboration between the Democratic Party and the reformist left what opened the door to Trump's "right". Now this tycoon comes to complete Biden's work, to finish destroying the working class of the US, to deepen the extermination of the Palestinian masses, to keep the gas of a broken and torn Ukraine and to conclude his plan to plunder the colonies and semi-colonies in the world.
Unfortunately, this super-millionaire becomes president by winning as his social base the white working class, sectors of immigrants and even sectors that historically voted for the Democrats.
The workers do not have ahead of them to make the promised "American dream" come true. On the contrary, today Trump, counting on favorable conditions, relying on the conquered white working class enough basis to attack the workers as a whole, wants to turn them into slaves with Chinese working conditions and wages, along them to be exploited in true sweatshops. That is to say that this social base might accompany Trump in counterrevolutionary offensives against the entire workers' movement. Moreover, it will allow white supremacy to raise its head to discipline the masses. A real catastrophe.
The PTS-Left Voices election campaign advisers to the Democratic Party
Like almost the entire world left, the PTS-Left Voices expected a "blue tide of Democratic votes" against Trump's ultra-right. Today in light of the U.S. election results, they are crying in the corners analyzing what the Democratic Party and its candidate Kamala Harris did so wrong for the electorate to go so far to the "right" and what they failed to offer to win the election.
Let's see what they say: “We must understand this rightward shift as an expression of the economic crisis, the crisis of neoliberalism, and the crisis of the Democratic Party — which brought Harris onto the ticket in the last months of the election and has shown clearly that the Democratic Party has nothing to offer working class and oppressed people…”
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-democrats-couldnt-beat-trump-with-hot-air-and-coconut-trees-an-organized-working-class-can/
They speak lightly about the economic crisis as the cause of this turn to the right, taking all responsibility away from the Democrats who were the ones who applied during these years of government a brutal attack on the working people.
However, the PTS is angry because the Democratic Party should have offered more to the working class and thus beat Trump. Tell the truth! The candidate of this left was Harris, that's why they wanted her to win! She made the working class believe that this party represented their interests, that it is "progressive" and that she lost because she didn't offer enough. What a bunch of great campaign consultants Kamala Harris has in the PTS!
But we are talking about the Democratic Party and Biden who is the head of the armed forces and with his military commands in the world controls US colonies and semi-colonies, which US imperialism plunders, in a brutal offensive to reconquer the world market that it has lost.
The Democratic Party is the representative of the imperialist bourgeoisie, it is the one that safeguards the transnationals, the banks, Wall Street and the vulture funds. And these reformists place it in the "progressive" bourgeois camp to once again subject the working class to its executioners. The Dems are party that came out of the sewer of US imperialism, that besides brutally attacking its own working class has to its credit most of the wars and genocides the oppressed of the world have historically suffered. As it has been exposed today with the genocide carried out by Netanyahu. Thousands of Palestinians are massacred by Zionism and the "good-natured" Biden!
The Democratic Party, is it really "the natural home of the working class"?
So brutal is the submission to the Democratic Party on the part of Left Voice - PTS, that they lament the failure of these anti-worker murderers of the imperialist bourgeoisie to establish relations with the working class, as they put it: "The Democrats have not been able to re-establish their relations with the working class and social movements - although Biden tried hard through his appeals to workers - who, worn out by decades of neoliberal anti-working class policies and empty representation policies for the oppressed, no longer see the Democratic Party as their natural home"
This left disappointed by the outcome of the elections, is astonished and cries before the tycoon Trump’s win. And they lament that the working class does not find in the bosom -of the Democrats! "their natural home". Really? This left hand-maid of imperialism tells the US exploited that their natural home is the Democratic Party! The genocidal party of the masses of the world?!!
The natural home of the exploited class is in the alliance of the American working class with the working class of the colonies and semicolonies that US imperialism plunders. And by fighting against its own bourgeoisie it will be able to defeat that regime of the oppressors, because in that struggle the workers will find the way out to resolve all their demands. We must reaffirm the war cry: the enemy is at home! We must break with the parties of the bourgeoisie! Neither Biden nor Trump! They are all genocidal! As expressed in the streets by the rebellious youth of WOL (Whithin Our Lifetime),
this reformist left did not offer the working class an independent alternative to the parties of the bourgeoisie, so who did they expect them to vote for? The social imperialist leaderships, which always place themselves at the feet of the "progressive" bourgeoisie, proud practitiomers of "lesser evilism”, make the working class believe that, by pressuring the capitalists, without hard fights, without expropriating the transnationals, without shaking the power of the imperialist bourgeoisie, they will win a better quality of life. They are lying! The only thing that the capitalists give to them is greater exploitation, hunger, misery and repression.
‘No votes for genocide’ is the shout of the young rebels for the Palestinian cause on the streets.
Meanwhile, PTS cries because K. Harris hasn’t capitalized this movement.
“The dynamic movement for Palestine showed aspects of this. Because the Democrat Party has fully embraced Zionism, it has denied even the smallest concessions to the pro Palestine movement, refusing to give they a supporting orator in the Democrat National Committee and throwing away Arab-American people from their meetings” …”The democrats were not able to take this movement to the polls as they did with BLM in 2020.”
Did they fully embrace Zionism? But it is Biden and Harris, US president and vice president who are leading together with Netanyahu, the massacres and extermination of the Palestinian people! This is of course a question that Left Voice carefully leaves unmentioned. In their opinion, for the Democrat Party to win votes, they would have needed to contain and capitalize the pro Palestine youth movement, just like in 2020 they had done with the Black movement and the working class that was taking on the streets. The pro Palestine movement is a sector breaking away from the US imperialist bourgeois parties by claiming ‘NO VOTES FOR GENOCIDE’, flooding the streets while correctly identifying the class enemies, denouncing that ‘both Harris and Trump are Zionsit genocides.’ On the contrary, this social-imperialist left draws the conclusion that the democrats have turned right and together with Harris have walked along with the republicans and gave their back to the pro Palestine youth, so they lost their votes. Though, this is a highly disingenuous conclusion.
Myriam Bregman (Argentine PTS) reaffirms this noyion on X, “(…) in spite of the calls from Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and even artists like Beyoncé, presenting Kamala Harris as the lesser evil has not generated enthusiasm among the youth that is leading these fights.” Even they acknowledged where it was the real problem
If neither Biden-Harris nor Sanders could coopt this movement was precisely because they have one policy for the Palestinian and the Arab peoples in general: bombing and massacring Gaza, Wesr Bank, Lebanon just like they did years before in Syria.
According to PTS, Kamala Harris failed to calling and leading a pro Abortion ‘Green wave’ in the US
PTS cannot believe Harris has lost the election and tries some reasoning: “they did not make use of their pro-abortion support in order to win… they did not get to create a strong national movement to defend abortion, they could not position themselves as a key element to guarantee these rights… it doesn’t help that Democrats have done very little to actually protect this right. It was lacking an important class struggle that Democrats were not willing to organize.”
Unbelievably, these people leave the abortion fight in the jands of the Patry of the butchers’ of the world masses, when the abortion struggle has been a demand of the feminist movement for decades. They advise the Democrat Party and thus, they deceit workers with the idea that should the Democrats take this struggle seriously, they would have gotten more votes. But why would they defend the abortion righta when they are they party that has removed all right from the working class children, kill the exploited youth with their murderous police and massacre Palestinian children with the Zionists?
This “new team of campaign advisors” of Harris bears the same logic related to immigrants. They say Harris has turned right in matter of migration but she could not surpass Trump. They say Biden did have a progressive policy towards immigrants in his campaign in 2020 together with NGOs but he ended up hardening his policies towards immigrants in the end. As we have stated before, not only have Biden locked up migrants but there were 25 states marching on ready to kill migrants at the borders only months ago. These reformist don’t stop painting Biden and the Democrat party in sweet colours.
And now they wonder, how to face Trump and his reactionary policy?
This, they end up claiming that ´the working class and social movements (…) can get organized together, independently of Democrats, to set a class struggle to stop Trump”. Do they mean a class struggle so that the 2020 working class and black movement that kicked away the police can have their comeback? Not at all. They affirm “We need to be ready to face these moment and help strengthen and enlarge the fight against the Right to hit as one fist against the whole capitalist regime that has given birth to these monsters”. What they imply is “A common front against the right”, which is a roundabout to tie workers to the different capitalist gangs.
For PTS-Left Voice, the ‘national’ or ‘progressive’ bourgeoisie can improve workers’ lives and thus it is expressed in March, this year’s Intellectuals’ Assembly Manifest: ‘all kinds of measures (that the bourgeoisie allows) that improve any situation of the working class or any oppressed group can be supported’.
Anyone who gives even the tip of their little finger in support of bourgeoisie ‘progressive’ measures poisons the working class conscience by telling them something good can come from our class enemy. That is not a way to prepare the conditions to defeat it. The current that does not combat the popular front does not combat imperialism, nor fascism, and that comes with an expensive cost for the working class and the exploited.
But this is not new. Stalinism has applied this same policy for a century. Reformist left has turned today in the voice of the Democrat Party because they are against workers breaking away from their executioners. They seek out for the “progressive bourgeoisie”, a common front to combat the right; they apply the “camps” theory, since Communism…is for the future.
Capitalism has a solution to its crisis: war and fascism
The way out for the proletariat is the Socialist It is not the alternative stated by PTS- Left Voices for the world proletariat. This is why the said manifest romanticizes “we need to dare invent a communist future” and they do not state it as an immediate necessity to save humanity from “Hell on Earth”. Otherwise, what is Gaza destroyed and with thousands of dead or Lebanon bombarded, parted Ukraine, Africa bleeding out with millions of exploited without food and enslaved in the mines, Haiti barbarized, if not a taste Hell?
The alternative PTS offers the working class is a “common front” against the Right and a party to “unite the struggles for a better world”. For Trotskyites the working class needs to set a Leninist insurrectionist party for the victory of the socialist revolution.
In the 30s the 4th international with Trotsky and Cannon set an enormous revolutionary vanguard party in the US, the SWP. That was the international stronghold of the 4th international. For decades, new leaderships of this party have handed it in to Castroism and the Communist party during Yalta time. It has been one of the greatest treasons to the US proletariat vanguard. In their capitulation to Stalinism, today Trotskyites renegades from the 5 continents have added their part. They have turned into a real appendix to the left fraction of the US imperialist butchers of the Democrat Party.
We need to recover the banners of the 4th international to re set up Trotsky and Cannon’s party, that of the insurrection, the soviets, the US American and world revolution! For the Socialist United States of US America!
Clara Varga and Ana Negri |