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Wednesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m.
United Electrical Workers Hall, 37 South Ashland, Chicago
Across the country there has been an escalation of racist and outright fascist attacks. From Charlottesville, Virginia to Portland, Oregon, white supremacists have unleashed murderous violence against immigrants, African Americans, Latinos and those who fight back against racist terror.
Chicago, one of the most rigidly segregated cities in the U.S., has been a focal point of racist reaction going back to the 1919 riots against black workers and segregationist mob attacks in Cicero in the 1950s and ’60s. Today, fascist groups target Chicago in support of the police who terrorize African American areas, as the cop murder of Laquan McDonald and official coverup highlighted. That terror reflects the economic devastation caused by shutting down of industry, the slashing of social services and closing schools in impoverished neighborhoods.
To defeat these attacks, the Internationalist Group Wednesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m. United Electrical Workers Hall, 37 South Ashland, Chicago calls to mobilize the power of the multiracial working class in defense of the oppressed and to break with the capitalist parties of racism and war.
While Republican president Trump whips up anti-immigrant hysteria, Democratic mayors from Rahm Emanuel to Lori Lightfoot are the bosses of the racist killer cops. Massive labor/black/immigrant action is needed to stop deportations and racist attacks. An example of what’s called for is the resolution put forward by the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) in Portland calling on labor to stand ready to act to crush the racist threat.
This motion was taken up by the Chicago-area IUPAT District Council 14, which took it to the Painters union recent national convention, where it passed unanimously. But to turn such calls into action will require concerted action by class conscious workers in the ranks.
Wednesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m.
United Electrical Workers Hall, 37 South Ashland, Chicago
Across the country there has been an escalation of racist and outright fascist attacks. From Charlottesville, Virginia to Portland, Oregon, white supremacists have unleashed murderous violence against immigrants, African Americans, Latinos and those who fight back against racist terror.
Chicago, one of the most rigidly segregated cities in the U.S., has been a focal point of racist reaction going back to the 1919 riots against black workers and segregationist mob attacks in Cicero in the 1950s and ’60s. Today, fascist groups target Chicago in support of the police who terrorize African American areas, as the cop murder of Laquan McDonald and official coverup highlighted. That terror reflects the economic devastation caused by shutting down of industry, the slashing of social services and closing schools in impoverished neighborhoods.
To defeat these attacks, the Internationalist Group Wednesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m. United Electrical Workers Hall, 37 South Ashland, Chicago calls to mobilize the power of the multiracial working class in defense of the oppressed and to break with the capitalist parties of racism and war.
While Republican president Trump whips up anti-immigrant hysteria, Democratic mayors from Rahm Emanuel to Lori Lightfoot are the bosses of the racist killer cops. Massive labor/black/immigrant action is needed to stop deportations and racist attacks. An example of what’s called for is the resolution put forward by the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) in Portland calling on labor to stand ready to act to crush the racist threat.
This motion was taken up by the Chicago-area IUPAT District Council 14, which took it to the Painters union recent national convention, where it passed unanimously. But to turn such calls into action will require concerted action by class conscious workers in the ranks.
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