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DESCRIPTION:UFCLP Statement on the Storming of the Congress: Don’t be Shocked, 
 Organize! Workers’ United Front against 
 Fascism!\n\nhttps://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/ufclp-statement-on-the-storming-of-the-congress-dont-be-shocked-organize-workers-united-front-against-fascism/?fbclid=IwAR0CwekQPkusgb_otfOVoKNbf3ucUgCc4y3pSTynN_Ucj47h6lWwIDmR_fA\n\nFascists 
 marching with a Dixie flag into the Capitol, Washington DC\nFascist Trump 
 supporters demanded that Trump be declared president again, even though he 
 lost the popular vote. An all-white regiment of men armed to their teeth 
 marched into DC and stormed Congress to stage an outright coup. The photos 
 taken from the scene of the crime speak volumes. The aggressors meant 
 business; they were carrying automatic guns, ropes and handcuffs to take 
 hostages, and Dixie flags with “Trump is President” inscriptions. There 
 are also photos of the police opening the gate and encircling the gunmen to 
 protect them against… arrests by other policemen!\n\nWithin a few hours 
 of the siege on Congress, right-wing paramilitary gangs in other states 
 such as Oregon and Kansas took it to the streets. There is no way that the 
 FBI and other security agencies were oblivious to plans of violence by the 
 Facists on a mass scale. They allowed it to happen nonetheless. There is no 
 question that Black Lives Matter protesters, leftists, workers, or people 
 of color organizations would have been shot dead for much less havoc! 
 Events in both DC and around the country point to a synchronized, 
 tightly-knit organization by the fascists, in tandem with the 
 police.\n\nNone of this should be a surprise to anyone. The pandemic 
 combined with Trump’s racist rhetoric and policies has untethered the 
 vile racism that has existed in this country since its inception. The US is 
 based on both the genocide of the indigenous population and upon slavery. 
 Capitalist politics has pit one ethnic group against the other for years, 
 driving down the wages of all workers. US imperialism has uprooted workers 
 internationally, especially from Latin America, and forced them to migrate 
 to the states. This has added fuel to the fire for these racist thugs. 
 Trump speaks hatefully about the oppressed while his actions continue to 
 widen racial divisions within the working class. These tensions can only 
 result in racist violence. We should not have been surprised. In fact many 
 of us, especially revolutionaries, have predicted this for years.\n\nFor 
 the last few months, the UFCLP has warned against the violence unleashed 
 both by the police and by the paramilitary gangs against protesters who 
 demand justice for the victims of police terror. We called attention to the 
 increasingly organized nature of the so-called “counter-protests” 
 called for by white supremacists. We demanded that the Left and the 
 organized working class form United Fronts and Public Safety Committees. 
 When the Republicans seemed to be retreating in the face of the slim 
 Democrat victory, we pointed out that this concession was a tactic to buy 
 time and whip up support. Our warnings didn’t come out of the blue but 
 from careful observation of Trump’s tactics and actions. Throughout the 
 summer, Trump did everything in his power to put down the anti-racist 
 popular revolt and steal the election. He deposed the Commander of the 
 Armed Forces when the latter refused to deploy troops against the people in 
 revolt. Trump’s threats to overturn the election and stay in power no 
 matter what the results dictated were commonplace. Today, we are witnessing 
 their culmination! This is not the ordinary racist “mob” that this 
 country is unfortunately used to. This is an organized fascist 
 attack.\n\nThe trade union leadership has been missing in action, allowing 
 the capitalist politicians, both Democrat and Republican, to follow the 
 lead of their bosses, permitting Trump to become leader of the “free” 
 world. Trump did not just appear from thin air. The ground has been laid 
 for him for more than four decades.  By the 1970s working class people 
 began to take a hit: outsourcing became the lynchpin of capitalist 
 development, privatization of public services held sway, and many workers 
 were barely able to hold on to their jobs. At the same time, the Southern 
 Strategy was employed, pitting white working class people against workers 
 of color. The union leadership took no stand against the cuts. In fact, 
 when air traffic controllers went on strike in 1981, the workers were left 
 high and dry by the bureaucrats who refused to call for a general strike to 
 support them. Capitulations like this eventually threw white workers into 
 the clutches of a demagogue like Trump. Nonetheless, the trade union 
 so-called leaders have been supporting Democrats who have time and again 
 demonstrated that are as anti-worker as the Republicans. We are still asked 
 to put our faith in the police who are the same goons that shoot Black 
 people daily. The chickens are now coming home to roost! THIS OUTBURST WAS 
 INEVITABLE!\n\nWe shouldn’t harbor any illusions that the Democrats will 
 come to our rescue, for they are unwilling to fight even for their 
 democratically won election. Today’s events proved irrefutably that 
 relying on the forces of “law and order” to uphold their own rules is a 
 deadly mistake. In fact, the mayor of Portland has now said he is gunning 
 for Antifa instead of the Proud Boys who created the crisis in Portland in 
 the first place.  Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, went on national TV to announce 
 that he will no longer tolerate dissent and therefore will be going after 
 Antifa.  One can expect this kind of rhetoric more and more from public 
 figures. We have seen this all before. Capitalism has already plunged the 
 world into two world wars and countless others killing untold millions. The 
 capitalists and their politician servants are criminals against humanity.  
 \n\nThis kind of carnage will continue if we let it, impacting people of 
 color the worst. This country is in deep crisis because capitalism is 
 gasping for breath in its death throes. Unless there is a working class 
 movement to cohere a coordinated challenge against this capitalist assault, 
 repression against people who are fighting for their legitimate rights will 
 go on.  The police will come down harder on people of color for any 
 perceived transgressions.\n\nWe need to build a political party based on 
 working class self-activity, and eventually, we need a society that is 
 built and controlled by workers.  The only way we will survive the 
 devastation of wars foisted on working class people globally is to change 
 society from one based on profits to one based on human cooperation.That 
 means building a socialist society. As a first step, we need to form a 
 labor party independent of capitalist politicians that will guide the 
 working class to fight for their rights and the rights of all oppressed 
 people.\n\nThis incident at the Capitol will be the first of many. We have 
 to decide as workers how to stand tall and firm against fascists to defend 
 and expand our democratic conquests, and how we can eventually rid the 
 world of capitalism.\n\nForward for Workers’ United Front against 
 Fascism! Forward for a Workers’ Party! Down with the Fascists! General 
 Strike to defend and expand our democratic conquests! Millions of fellow 
 workers, to the streets on the 20th!\n\nUnited Front Committee for Labor 
 Party, UFCLP\n\nJanuary 6th, 
 2021\n\ncommitteeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/07/18839256.php
SUMMARY:Rally For United Front Against Fascist Movement & For Labor Party
LOCATION:San Francisco Federal Building\n90 7th St./Mission St.\nSan Francisco
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