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DESCRIPTION:12/2/11 STOP US NATO Drive Toward World War-International Day Of 
 Action\n\nAbolish NATO, Shut Down US Bases Around The World - The Main 
 Enemy Is At Home! For Working Class Strikes Globally To Stop The 
 Wars!\n\nFriday December 2, 2022 at 4:00 PM\nFederal Building 70, 9th St, 
 San Francisco\n\nThe US ruling class is driving the world towards a global 
 war. The Democrats and Republicans have joined together to send over $60 
 billion to Ukraine and are opposing any negotiations with Russia which 
 could bring an end to the conflict. For decades, the US has pushed NATO 
 expansion up to the borders of Russia. It was a major force behind the 
 overthrow of the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014, and 
 aimed, in the civil war that followed, to goad Russia into a proxy war. The 
 disastrous war in Ukraine was their intent, and they have exploited it to 
 train and arm Ukrainian military forces, including the fascist Azov 
 Battalion, as a means to weaken and destabilize Russia. In the wake of 
 Russian military defeats, the American military establishment is crowing 
 for further escalation, in order to break up the Russian Federation.\n\nThe 
 US is a declining empire and, as empires decline, they become more 
 aggressive. In a desperate attempt to shore up their declining position, 
 the American ruling class has now embarked, with ever-greater recklessness, 
 on the beginnings of a military confrontation with both Russia and China, 
 which could end in nuclear war. In Asia, they are undertaking a massive 
 militarization of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan for an eventual 
 confrontation with China. Taiwan is being turned into a gigantic American 
 military encampment at China’s doorstep, and the One-China policy, which 
 has been the basis of peaceful relations between the US and China, is being 
 torn apart bit by bit. The American ruling class will not hesitate to use 
 Taiwan as cannon fodder, as they have used Ukraine.\n\nAt the same time 
 that the US ruling class is pushing for expanded wars abroad, it is 
 increasing the war on working people in the US, with massive evictions, 
 rampant homelessness, an escalating drive to privatize public services, and 
 slave-labor conditions at Uber, Amazon, and other corporations.\n\nThe rise 
 of fascism is part and parcel of the US war drive. The toxic stew of 
 racism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, sexism, anti-Semitism, and 
 immigrant bashing which has led American democracy to the brink has been 
 produced by the polices of the Democrats and Republicans. Billionaires like 
 Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Buffett are driving working people to the wall, 
 and their union busting tactics are allowed by the Democrats and 
 Republicans alike. Some are also pushing for a fascist coup and they will 
 use Twitter and their wealth to push their agenda. We need a united front 
 against war, union busting, and fascism, and a democratic workers party 
 that can lead the struggle against fascism and war.\nThere is no anti-war 
 opposition in the American government or the labor bureaucracies: The 
 AFL-CIO “Solidarity Center,” funded by $75 million from the National 
 Endowment for Democracy (NED), has pushed the privatization of the wealth 
 in Ukraine for US capitalists and supports the war drive. Last week, a 
 tepid letter by the so-called “Congressional Progressive Caucus,” 
 meekly calling for talks between NATO and Russia, was withdrawn a day after 
 it was issued, under pressure from the Democratic Party 
 establishment.\n\nThe American ruling class is driving the world to the 
 brink of a nuclear conflagration and playing with the lives of billions of 
 people. Only the working people of the world, organized in a mass anti-war 
 movement, can stop them.\n\nOn December 2, 2022, the Si Cobas union is 
 launching a national strike against NATO and US war in Ukraine and Europe. 
 \nhttp://sicobas.org/2022/10/12/italy-the-december-2-general-strike-up-with-wages-and-welfare-down-with-war-war-economy-and-war-governments/\nWe 
 will join them in this global struggle to stop the wars abroad and at 
 home.\n\nInitiated by United Front Committee for a Labor Party 
 \nUFCLP.org\ninfo@uclp.org\n\n Si Cobas Dec 2 Rally Against Ukraine War & 
 United Front\n   \n           
 http://sicobas.org/2022/10/12/italy-the-december-2-general-strike-up-with-wages-and-welfare-down-with-war-war-economy-and-war-governments/\n\nTHE 
 DECEMBER 2 GENERAL STRIKE IN ITALY\n\nUp with wages and welfare!\n\nDown 
 with the war, war economy and war governments!\n\nThe assembly of hundreds 
 of combative workers held in Bologna on September 18 has agreed on the need 
 for a strong mobilization in the fall, against the worsening of living 
 conditions and the raging of war in Europe, no matter which would be the 
 outcome of the parliamentary election in the following Sunday, and the next 
 Italian government. Together with other rank-and-file unions, SI Cobas has 
 called a general strike on December 2nd and will organize a rally in Rome 
 before the government palaces on the following day.\n\nIn the path to the 
 2nd and 3rd of December, we are also participating in:\n\n- Oct. 16: 
 national conference on the war in Ukraine in Rome.\n- Oct. 22: 
 demonstration in Bologna and launching conference of the "National Safe 
 Work Network" in Florence.\n- Nov. 5: demonstration in Naples, with the 7 
 November Unemployed association and GKN dismissed workers.\nThe soaring 
 prices of energy and basic necessities, which are causing a cut in the 
 purchasing power of wages and salaries as we have never seen in the last 70 
 years, the tightening repression and criminalization of strikes are the 
 poisoned by-product of the bloody proxy war being fought between the NATO 
 and Russia’s imperialist poles on Ukrainian soil, and with Ukrainian and 
 Russian cannon fodder; as the capitalist crisis progresses, it is producing 
 more and more famines, epidemics, catastrophes and military tensions every 
 day. Also European countries are both belligerent and untold targets in 
 this war, where the US is striving to disconnect them from Russia’s 
 energy resources, burdening these competitors with higher energy prices 
 while tying them to the Atlantic bond. In Ukraine as in Russia, the war is 
 used to impose harsher exploitation and clamp down on any forms of 
 resistance and struggles.\n\nThe climate crisis, the result of decades of 
 plundering of natural resources in the name of profit, as well as the 
 health crisis (Covid 19, although removed by the media and institutional 
 politics, keeps claiming victims by the day and causing medium- and 
 long-term damage) further fuel the thrust toward global chaos and 
 barbarism.\n\nIn this dramatic context Italy’s elections have resulted in 
 a majority of seats to the right-wing coalition in Parliament, and a party 
 with Fascist descendance, the Brothers of Italy, in the position to lead 
 the government, even though voted by less than one out of seven electors. 
 But abstentions and non-votes, with a +9% outnumber the sum of the Right 
 coalition and the Democratic party (placed second), which says a lot about 
 the dissatisfaction and disappointment of a majority of workers with the 
 parties that have alternated in governments since the previous elections 
 (all except Brothers of Italy...).  \n\nFour years ago we stopped work and 
 took to the streets against Salvini's infamous Security Decree with its 
 load of racist and anti-worker hatred. In the coming months workers will be 
 called to mobilization to counter and stop a new wave of poison against 
 immigrant workers, against women (starting with a new, furious attack on 
 the right to abortion) and, more generally, against all the oppressed , 
 with the attack on indirect wages and on the paltry social safety nets for 
 the unemployed (above all the vicious campaign waged by the bosses, the 
 media and a wide parliamentary spectrum against the “citizenship 
 income”), and the extension the flat tax for non-wage earners by the 
 reactionary, nationalist and obscurantist right. They want to divide the 
 working class by origin, race, sex, employment. We will struggle to unite 
 it!\n\nThe probable advent of a right-wing government, however, will not 
 significantly change the direction taken in recent decades by all bourgeois 
 governments, as left-of-center ones have been even more active than 
 right-of-center governments in demolishing workers’ achievements won 
 through hard-fought struggles in the early Seventies, and attacking 
 militant worker struggles with police and criminal charges. Most recently 
 Draghi's governissimo has been governing for the past year in the name and 
 on behalf of big capital and against the workers, with the support of 90 
 percent of the parliament with the open and shameful complicity of the 
 CGIL-CISL-UIL. This is why the DP has been abandoned by workers and has 
 become the party of rich city quarters.\n\nThe history of a century and a 
 half of the labor movement shows that the struggle, and certainly not the 
 vote, is the only tool the exploited have at their disposal to make their 
 case. With the December 2 general strike we show the millions of 
 disappointed and discontented workers who have deserted the polls or voted 
 for the lesser evil that they can take their destiny into their hands by 
 joining the struggle. We will do our best to awaken the slumbering giant, 
 starting from the few vanguard sectors.\n\nOur fight is not only for higher 
 wages to keep up with inflation, for worthy unemployment benefits, fewer 
 working hours in order to work all, work less, for better and free 
 healthcare and education and women’s equality and rights. We need to 
 oppose this war, and our government’s participating in it with sanctions 
 that are worsening the life of Russian as well as Italian people, with arms 
 deliveries that are used in the butchery for the partition of Ukrainian 
 resources on behalf of Italy’s and NATO’s bosses, as well as against 
 rearmament unleashed by governments all over Europe and elsewhere. 
 \n\nWorkers in Italy as around the world should not support their 
 exploiters nor their exploiters’ enemies, but join together in an 
 international workers’ front to wage a war on war, and overthrow the 
 warmonger rule of capital, West as well as East.\n\nWorkers of the world, 
 unite!\n\nSI Cobas – Italy\n\n 
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SUMMARY:STOP US NATO Drive Toward World War - International Day Of Action
LOCATION:San Francico Federal Building\n70 9th St.\nSan Francisco\n
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