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DESCRIPTION:6/10/21 UFCLP Forum: The Rise Of Fascism In The US, Labor & The 
 Insurrection\nThursday June 10, 2021 6PM PST/8 PM CST/9PM EST\nUnited Front 
 Committee For A Labor Party Panel\n\nPresentations by  \nCarol Lang CUNY 
 Faculty Member AFT PSC\nMehmet Bayram, Labor Reporter Member CWA PMWG\nBill 
 Delucchi, Retired Member IFPTU Local 29 Steward Kaiser\n\n\nFor the first 
 time since the rise of Nazism during the 30’s, there is a rise of fascism 
 and organized right wing organizations in the US that are challenging the 
 capitalist state. \nThe insurrection and attempted coup to stop the 
 certification of the election is an event that has never taken place in US 
 history and must be taken seriously.\nThis panel will look at what fascism 
 is particularly in Germany and Italy, the split in the US capitalist class, 
 the role of the Democratic Party and how to organize to stop fascism 
 including the fight for a mass democratic labor party.\nWe will also look 
 at the attack on the Vermont AFL-CIO for passing a resolution for a general 
 strike against an attempted coup the the role of the AFL-CIO Trumpka and 
 the trade union bureaucracy in seeking to crush that State 
 federation.\n\nThursday May 27, 2021 6PM PST/8 PM CST/9PM 
 EST\n\ncommitteeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa/\nhttps://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com\n\nJoin 
 Zoom 
 Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82861963736?pwd=Y2NFc2RUTElaYVJBOXUwc2pRc0FSZz09\n\nTRUMKA: 
 HANDS OFF THE VERMONT AFL-CIO - NINE LEFT ORGANIZATIONS FROM AROUND THE 
 WORLD BACK VT AFL-CIO\nhttps://www.facebook.com/vtworkers/\nToday the 
 Vermont AFL-CIO was pleased to receive solidarity from nine working class 
 organizations from around the world in our conflict with Richard Trumka 
 over our commitment to defend democracy both in our Republic and within 
 Organized Labor.  The below open letter is to National AFL-CIO President 
 Richard Trumka. The letter demands that he end his politically motivated 
 investigation into the Vermont AFL-CIO for daring to hold a November 2020 
 vote authorizing our Executive Board to call for a General Strike in the 
 event that Donald Trump carried out a fascist coup against our democracy 
 prior to January 20, 2021.\nThe Vermont AFL-CIO stands firmly by our 
 decision to have our members vote to authorize a call for a General Strike 
 if our democracy came into existential crisis. Workers taking collective 
 action to defend and advance our democracy shall ALWAYS be the right thing 
 to do!  \n-Vermont AFL-CIO\n***\nMay 30th 2021\nRichard Trumka, AFL-CIO 
 President:\nWe defend the right of the Vermont AFL-CIO to have passed a 
 motion authorising a General Strike if the 2020 election results had been 
 overturned in a coup. This motion voted on by the rank-and-file delegates 
 at the Vermont AFL-CIO 2020 Convention was in the proud tradition of labor 
 fighting together against the threat of fascism and dictatorship. We defend 
 the right of workers and the organised labor movement to strike together to 
 defend their democratic rights.\nWe therefore stand in solidarity with the 
 Vermont AFL-CIO and demand that you immediately drop the vindictive and 
 retaliatory “misconduct” investigation into the Vermont 
 AFL-CIO\nSigned/Organisations\nLiaison Committee for the Fourth 
 International and its national groups: Consistent Democrats (Great Britain) 
 Frente Comunista dos Trabalhdores (Brazil) Tendencia Militant Bolchevique 
 (Argentine) Socialist Workers League (United States)\nSocialist Fight 
 (UK)\nTrotskyist Platform (Australia)\nUnited Front Committee for a Labor 
 Party (US)\nWorkers Power (USA)\nJews Against Fascism 
 (Australia)\nSigned/Individuals\nCharles Dineen, AFSCME 
 (retired)\nJohnathon Cooper\nLori Drohan\nSteve Early, NewsGuild/CWA member 
 and former International\nRepresentative, Communications Workers of 
 America.\nCassandra Edson\nMichael Eisenscher, Alameda Labor Council 
 Climate and Environmental Justice Caucus\nMike Gimbel, Retired Executive 
 Board Member, Local 375, AFSCME\nAndres Gonzales, (formerly) United Steel 
 Workers of America\nDaniel Guza, Admin FB group Labor and Politics\nDavey 
 Heller, classconscious.org and Australian Services Union member\nHeather 
 Harman, IWW & Socialist Party USA\nMahanama Heller\nOwen Hseish\nLeslie 
 Hight, VSEA rank and file\nKlaus Helms, Member of the Industrial Workers of 
 the World (IWW), Germany\nJames Marc Leas\nTraven Leyshon, President of 
 Green Mountain Labor Council\nDave Levi, Jews Against Fascism 
 (Australia)\nBrandon Marsden, Member of Reform and Revolution Caucus of the 
 DSA\nGareth Martin\nBob Montgomery, AFSCME DC (retired)\nGeorge Montgomery 
 IBEW 2222 (As a proud lifelong (35 years now retired) member of an AFL-CIO 
 union\nBarbara McGrew\nMary Morton\nJohn O’Conner, AFM Local 442 and 
 1000\nRobert Oeser\nJamie Partridge, NALC 82\nCharles Rachlis, Communist 
 Workers Group\nGabriel Rivera\nCarla Ringler\nArlene Treacy\nMarcus 
 Vickers, Workers Power USA\nBrian Walsh\nDaniel Waterman\n***\nClick on the 
 following link to watch this historic Vermont AFL-CIO General Strike debate 
 and vote: 
 https://www.facebook.com/1912800402275545/videos/3127791327447958\nClick on 
 the following link to read the open letter to Trumka also in support of the 
 VT AFL-CIO from leads of the 60s-70s New Left: 
 https://www.counterpunch.org/.../open-letter-from-new.../\nClick on the 
 following link to read the Counterpunch article on Richard Trumka's attack 
 on the VT AFL-CIO:  
 https://www.counterpunch.org/.../why-is-afl-cio-so.../\nClick on the 
 following link to here the In These Times interview with VT AFL-CIO 
 President Van Deusen on the need to build a Labor Movement grounded in 
 social justice unionism AND on how Richard Trumka is attacking the VT 
 AFL-CIO because of its willingness to militantly defend democracy:  
 https://inthesetimes.com/.../why-is-the-afl-cio-going...\nClick on the 
 following link to listen to the Pacifica interview with VT AFL-CIO 
 President David Van Deusen. Van Deusen talks about the need to create a 
 more democratic. more progressive Labor Movement (and about Trumka's attack 
 on the VT AFL-CIO): 
 https://covidtaskforce.pacifica.org/.../may-day-2021.../\nClick on the 
 following link to read the VT AFL-CIO's Ten Point Program For Union Power 
 (also known as The Little Green Book): 
 https://vt.aflcio.org/.../vermont-afl-cio-ten-point...\n 
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