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DESCRIPTION:12/16/18 SF Rally\n\nMacron Out NOW! And Trump Should Be Next!\nUS Working 
 People Support The Struggle of the French People\nTo Throw Out 
 Macron\n\nDecember 16 (Sunday), 2018 12:00 noon \n\nAt: \nThe French 
 Consulate\n88 Kearny St/Market St\nSan Francisco \n\n\n\nHundreds of 
 thousands of French workers, students and farmers have been shutting down 
 roads and protesting against massive tax increases on the working class and 
 capitalist austerity with privatization and outsourcing of jobs. The 
 “Yellow Jackets” movement is a spontaneous popular anti-capitalist 
 protest that was organized through social media but is now getting 
 increased support from trade unionists and some unions.\n\nThe reactionary 
 Macron government has met these protests with rubber bullets and grenades 
 that have seriously injured the protesters. Macron has also now ordered 
 armored vehicles in the streets to shut down this protest. The French union 
 leadership has refused to mobilize their members to support these protests 
 despite the fact that their members face massive attacks including on their 
 working conditions and benefits along with privatizing public services. 
 While the government is cutting social benefits and raising taxes on the 
 working class they are increasing funding for the military and police to 
 repress the people of France.\n\nThe capitalist class in France like the 
 capitalist class in the US is seeking to solve their problems by making the 
 poor and working class pay by allowing the corporations and billionaires to 
 profiteer on the growing economic crisis.\n\nAmerican workers also face 
 similar attacks on our jobs, housing costs, and health and education 
 rights. The Republicans with the support of the Democrats have pushed 
 privatization and deregulation and also more militarization of the police 
 and the world. While workers have trouble surviving, Trump with the support 
 of the Democrats is spending more than $750 billion on wars around the 
 world. Macron as well  is now calling for a new army is pushing the same 
 agenda globally as the major capitalist powers move toward economic and 
 trade war with each other.\n\nThe US working people need to the following 
 lead of the French people and begin organizing with mass actions to defend 
 our healthcare, housing, education, and jobs. The trade union leadership in 
 the US like the union leadership in France is terrified of mobilizing 
 against these attacks. In fact,  they are blaming the Russians for this 
 crisis instead of the capitalist system, which they support. They are also 
 supporting the growing trade war against China and many other countries. 
 Our enemies are not the people of the rest of the world but the 
 billionaires and corporate criminals who run the US and the world.\n\nThe 
 union bureaucracy also wants to make NAFTA 2.0 USMC better under the Trump 
 government. The anti-labor corporate trade agreements are designed to 
 destroy labor and human rights and blame the migrants, Latinos, African 
 Americans, Asians and other minorities for this crisis. \n\n\nBring Your 
 Yellow Vests!\n\nUnited Public Workers For Action (upwa.info)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/09/18819681.php
SUMMARY:Macron Out NOW! And Trump Should Be Next! US Working People Support French People
LOCATION:The French Consulate\n88 Kearny St near Market St., \nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/09/18819681.php
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