Maybe it would be smarter to admit there was an attempt at a Fascist coup and
then go on to say that we already have enough laws on the books to deal with it
and that it wouldn't have happened if the laws already in effect had been
followed.
Miriam
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Vol. 85/No. 6
February 15, 2021
Statement by Joe Swanson, Socialist Workers Party City Council At-Large
candidate in Lincoln, Nebraska, Feb. 3.
Facing rising joblessness and boss assaults on our wages, hours and working
conditions, working people need to defend the political rights we have wrested
from the capitalist rulers over decades of struggle so we can come together to
fight to protect ourselves and debate how best to chart a class-struggle road
forward. We face a frontal assault on our rights being led by the Democrats,
the liberal media and the middle-class left.
Whipping up a hysteria over a purported “fascist coup” or “insurrection”
that Democrats claim was organized by Donald Trump at the Capitol Jan.
6, liberals are moving to strengthen conspiracy and “domestic terrorism”
laws and the powers of the FBI — the capitalist rulers’ political police. They
do so by spouting American patriotism and the need to protect our “sacred”
government institutions.
What they are attempting to shore up is the mailed fist of capitalist
exploitation and oppression at a time when their economic and social system is
in crisis. “America” is class divided, and the rulers increasingly fear that
working people more and more see that they and their political parties have no
“solutions” that don’t further load the costs of the crisis of their system on
us. Politics today is increasingly class against class.
Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act” would unleash more spying by
Washington’s cop agencies and use of undercover agents against workers, Black
rights fighters and other political opponents.
Some bosses are firing anyone they can connect to the Jan. 6 actions — whether
at the mass, pro-Trump rally outside the Capitol or the short-lived foray
inside. Meanwhile, cops pursue thought-control “conspiracy” charges to frame up
whoever they can get away with.
Bosses at internet companies are more and more shutting down the accounts of
those whose political views they disagree with.
Liberals are trying to use the hysteria and disregard for the Constitution to
deal blows to their main bourgeois opponent, Donald Trump, and his alleged
“accomplices” in the Republican Party.
The show-trial impeachment of Trump on “incitement to insurrection”
passed the House with no witnesses, no evidence and no defense permitted.
All restrictions on political rights by the capitalist class and its
government, regardless of who is initially targeted, will always end up being
used against militant workers, to deal blows to working-class struggles, our
unions and political parties.
Workers’ use of rights to free speech and to organize have been crucial to
advancing our struggles, from the mass battles that built the industrial unions
in the 1930s to the Black-led working-class movement that tore down Jim Crow
segregation.
Working people and our unions need to speak out against every attack on rights
we use and need, regardless of who is in the White House.
Last year the Socialist Workers Party successfully fought attempts by
Washington state authorities to disclose personal details of the party’s
electors. Disclosure laws are tools the rulers use to expose anyone backing
working-class parties to retaliatory attacks by the government, cops, rightist
thugs and “thought police” on the right and left.
In 1973, my party launched a political campaign and lawsuit that exposed
decades of FBI spying and “dirty tricks” against the SWP, the labor movement,
fighters for Black rights and others. The party’s victory in that case dealt a
blow to the rulers’ political police, including a decision that stands today
that the party’s revolutionary program and activities were protected by the
Constitution. It set an example and provided gains that could be used by all
fighters for workers’ rights, opponents of Washington’s wars and our unions.
Building a working-class movement capable of defending all those exploited and
oppressed by capital and leading millions to overthrow capitalist rule and
establish a workers and farmers government necessitates resolute defense of
constitutional rights.
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