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Don’t Look Up Marx, Engels
and other and settler
pandemic viewing colonialism
page 7 pages 4 and 5
$2 | No 639 | January 2022 socialist.ca
COVID, COLONIALISM, CLIMATE CHAOS
WE NEED A
REVOLUTION
LEFT JAB
by John Bell
Omicron is out to get me
T
his time its personal. When options for our beleaguered health
it comes to the ultra-trans- system, the risks I face in dialysis
missible new COVID variant increase sharply.
– omicron – I have a big
target on my back. Omicron is out to Normalizing death and
get me. destruction
When it comes to vulnerability Through all these adventures
I’m the tiptop of the pyramid. I’m I am intimately familiar with our
an organ transplant recipient. I’m healthcare system, its strengths and
elderly. The medication I must take weaknesses. A lot of my experience
daily to stop my body from rejecting is pre-pandemic, so I’ve witnessed
my lungs has the side effect of de- the changes COVID crisis has
stroying my kidneys. So I have to go wrought. It isn’t pretty.
to Toronto’s biggest hospital 3 times Once, I had cause to spend almost
per week for life sustaining dialysis a month in the ICU. The patient to
treatment to cleanse my blood and nurse ratio in ICU is supposed to
remove excess liquid from my body. be 2 to 1. When I was there (pre-
The dialysis clinic at said hospital COVID) the reality was 3 to 1, or
is the site of a COVID omicron sometimes more on night shift. I
outbreak. Which means that 3 occasionally witnessed scenes where
times a week I get to play Russian supervisors pleaded with nurses to
roulette. My last visit there were, work extra hours or give up days off. Alberta nurses protest unfair treatment by Jason Kenney’s conservatives.
to my count, 5 dialysis patients (the Today, my nurse confidants tell
clinic holds about 30) with COVID. me, the shortage of ICU nurses inflation rate that is real pay cut of minimum to contain the disease, and gym personal trainers, complaining
Isolation curtains are drawn around means the workload for those 3% to 4%. prioritize keeping business going as that their livelihoods are threatened.
them in what is likely a vain attempt remaining has doubled. You can’t I happened to be in the midst of near to normal as possible. Although Absent are stories about “long
to give them the life-sustaining replace ICU nurses with the snap dialysis treatment the day Doug they don’t come right out and say COVID”, the long-term health
treatment they need while protecting of a finger. These are highly trained Ford announced that he hoped health so, all of their efforts have been to problems many recovering COVID
the rest of us from exposure. specialists bearing immense respon- workers would volunteer to staff normalize the death and destruction patients face: cognitive issues,
Now comes news that labour sibility. Burnout is enough of a prob- inoculation clinics in the lead-up COVID brings. inflamed joints and chronic fatigue.
shortages caused by exposure to lem without a culture of overwork to Christmas. There was a group Another path could have blunted Invisible are stories about the people
COVID omicron, and obeying and austerity. Add the pressures of of nurses conferring nearby, so I the wildfire spread of omicron. It who die each day – we never learn
instructions to isolate for 10 days, COVID, and the flight of trained had the pleasure of conveying the would have meant serious lock- their names.
threaten collapse of our health nurses is understandable. Premier’s request for free labour to downs. It would have meant total All of this tells me that my gov-
system. The Quebec government The occasional scenes of supervi- them. cancelation of big events like pro ernment is willing to sacrifice my
has announced that it will allow sors begging, cajoling and threat- Their initial reaction: a literal roar sports matches. It would have meant health and possibly my life – and the
health workers who test positive for ening nurses are now almost daily of laughter. the cancelation of all modes of travel health and lives of tens of thousands
COVID but are asymptomatic or occurrences. Good-bye gatherings Then came the rage, as they for all but essential purposes. But of people with compromised im-
have mild symptoms to go back to for nurses retiring or quitting are complained about their overwork that would have jeopardized the mune systems and other issues – to
work. Sick doctors and nurses caring regular. Frustration, fatigue and, and bad pay. One told me her home retail frenzy of Christmas on which maintain business as usual. This is
for vulnerable patients? What could truth be told, inexperienced staff life was a shambles because she our economy seems to depend. not exaggeration.
go wrong. being saddled with responsibility went home too tired to take care of Sometime the mask slips. In I head to hospital this afternoon
Other measures are on the table: above their ability or training creates domestic chores. August, in the lead-up to reopening for 4 hours of essential dialysis treat-
reducing the period of isolation to a literally toxic workplace. I have utmost respect for nurses. I schools, Ontario’s Chief Medical ment. I will be exposed to fellow
seven days, or maybe 5 days. To Nurses everywhere have become literally trust them with my life. But Officer said the time has come to patients who have COVID. I may be
be clear, these are not discussions experts in spotting hypocrisy, none now I have to wonder if this person “normalize” COVID in schools. treated by health workers who are
restricted to health services. Airlines, more so than Ontario nurses. For two assigned to care for me will be the Normalizing the disease is a lot COVID positive. It is not a question
forced to cancel flights because years or more they have endured a one to infect me, and given my con- cheaper than making schools – yes, of if I get omicron; it is a question of
attendants and pilots are in isolation, government boss that heaps praise dition pose a mortal danger. and all other workplaces – safe for when. And when I do get it, will my
are pushing for a 5 day quarantine on them at every opportunity, and Obviously I don’t blame frontline students, teachers and other workers. immune-compromised body be able
limit. The determining factor is not then uses emergency powers to pass health workers. I do blame gov- Normalization means that every to fight it off.
public health, but the labour needs of a law (Bill 124) ripping the guts out ernments, like Ford’s Tory regime, twist and turn of public health One thing is certain, if COVID
industry. of their contracts, and damning them because they decided months ago measures is met with a wave of kills me, you’ll never learn my
If Ontario chooses any of these to annual raises of 1%. With today’s that they would do the absolute interviews by pizzeria owners, or name. That is not acceptable to me.
Canadian Forces training Ukraine’s rising
fascist movement
by: John Bell University details a powerful rally in Virginia and shift the blame
I
fascist movement with tentacles in to BLM. The goal was to instigate a
n Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, government and the military. It is race war.
thousands of fascists rang in the “a large far-right organization with Groups like the Proud Boys are
New Year with a torch-bearing thousands of members that stretches active in Canada’s forces.
march to the offices of President from a highly capable and politi- The military acknowledges the
Volodymyr Zelensky. cized Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s problem. In 2020, in response to the
The parade commemorated National Guard to a far-right politi- Patrik case, it unveiled its new Anti-
Stepan Bandera, head of Hitler’s cal party National Corp.” Hate Policy.
Ukrainian Nazi allies in WWII. The report’s author, investigative No doubt it will be as effective
Ukraine is a key piece in NATO’s journalist Oleksiy Kuzmenko notes as its anti-sexism policies have been
imperialist rivalry with Russia, and that these forces are still a minority for protecting women from sexual
a big part of Canada’s contribution in Ukraine, but are growing, in part assault.
to NATO has been training and because the Ukraine government It is worth noting that Deputy
supplying the Ukraine military. and its NATO allies turn blind eye Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s
Ukraine’s neo-Nazi organizations to Fascist recruiting at the military grandfather, Michael Chomiak was
encourage supporters to join the training academy. a member of Stepan Bandera’s war
military, and openly boast about re- Ukranian fascists bragged about getting training from Canada. time Nazi organization in Ukraine.
ceiving training from NATO forces Training and recruiting A newspaper publisher, he led the
in general, and Canada in particular. Nazi and white-supremacist groups is Patrik Mathews, the Canadian teaching bomb-making and military call for pogroms against Ukraine’s
A report from the Institute for here in Canada have long done the Forces vet who was arrested in the techniques to a neo-Nazi group Jews and Roma populations.
European, Russian and Eurasian same, albeit on a much smaller US in 2020. A military engineer called The Base. Patrik was part of Freeland continues to portray this
Studies at George Washington scale. The most recent example and explosives expert, he was a conspiracy to bomb a gun rights history as “Russian disinformation”.
2 Socialist Worker January 2022
Solidarité contre l’islamophobie Housing crisis and police
by: Chantal Sundaram
with parents and students about its
impact. But in the end they came
but whose ruling was bound by the
notwithstanding clause. The court brutality in Hamilton
under huge governmental pressure battle will continue on appeal and
On December 12, dozens of to comply. perhaps all the way to the Supreme
supporters of all ages gathered to In this first casualty of the law, the Court. by: Kim McAuley forced evictions, to build solidarity
H
hang green ribbons on the fence of school board said it was obliged to But one thing is certain: court with healthcare workers and people
Chelsea Elementary School in soli- respect it. The solution they found decisions won’t put to rest what amilton’s response to the living in the encampments.
darity with grade 3 teacher Fatemeh was to get the teacher to accept fostered this law to begin with. The housing crisis in Southern The City and its police responded
Anvari, who was removed from CAQ and other mainstream parties Ontario is criminal. with force, moving people out of
the classroom for wearing a hijab in Quebec have fuelled Islamophobia The housing situation accessible areas where they could
under Quebec’s Islamophobic Law deliberately under the false argument was dire prior to Covid with wages at least find food and water and
21. Adopted in 2019, the law bans of « secularism ». stagnating, the loss of huge sections where they could be reached easily
religious symbols in public jobs, The only way to defeat this in the of industry creating a declining tax by social services and health care
including teaching positions, and hearts and minds of the québécois base, mental health plummeting, workers. These tear-downs forced
explicitly targets Muslim women. is more of the same response that the opioid crisis and the cost of people to move to wilderness
Two days later dozens more immediately surrounded Fatemeh rent and house prices skyrocketing. areas where survival is even more
gathered at a rally outside the office Anvari with green ribbons of soli- Now - with Covid rampant, endless precarious.
of CAQ MNA Robert Bussière, who darity. lockdowns and joblessness and our The police force mobilized to
represents the riding of Gatineau, And that will take not only school health care system in tatters - many smash up one of the encampments,
in which the school is located. The boards but the unions that represent people simply can’t afford the cost and arrested and brutalized four
school is part of the Western Quebec teachers and other workers opposed of the most basic necessities of people of colour who were bearing
School Board, which openly opposes reassignment to duties related to to this racist law, and the ongoing life - food, clean water, clothing witness to their actions. Nothing
Law 21 - as a number of Quebec literacy and inclusion. According support of students, parents, and and housing. Houseless people are resembling respect for human rights
school boards do. A few boards to the Board, these duties don’t run those in the community who want in crisis and the lack of affordable in sight, only blunt, brutal authority
tried to refuse to comply or at least afoul of the law. to see an end to Islamophobia being housing and the lack of response and inhuman force.
delay compliance at the time of its This is only the first test of a law used to create a false sense of québé- to provide affordable housing is This is clearly social cleansing.
adoption, particularly in Montréal, which the Quebec Superior Court cois identity and false scapegoats for tantamount to criminal negligence. There is a pattern of brutality in this
trying to involve direct consultation ruled as essentially discriminatory, the real crises we face. One response to this is that City, against those who speak out
people in Hamilton created tent or don’t behave according to the
Kenney stokes anti-Asian racism
cities to live in, where they felt will of City Council. Palestinian
safer together and could live in demonstrators have experienced
community, watching out for one police brutality directly. LGBTQ
another, sharing tools and cooking activists who sit on committees
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney de- line on that fire. Hate”, and “Racism is a Disgrace to equipment. Tent cities are a have been silenced in City Council.
cided to end 2021 with a racist slur. In But Alberta’s Asian community if Alberta”. result of decades and decades of The City hired a neo-nazi to work
a year-end interview with the Calgary fighting back. On New Years Day a The first response from Kenney’s governments underfunding housing, in the I.T. department, with access
Sun, Kenney pondered: “Who knows protest in front of Calgary’s provin- office was that it was obviously ridic- with the Federal government to private records. Right wingers
what the next variant that gets thrown cial government offices, demanding ulous” to call the statement racist. downloading the cost to the have been allowed to attack Pride
up is? I don’t know. And what’s the an apology from Kenney. A second Later Kenney walked back his province and the province passing it events, and when people intervened,
next bat soup thing out of Wuhan? I rally happened in front of the legisla- comments – sort of. In a typical pol- to the Municipal level. the interveners were attacked by
don’t know.” ture in Edmonton. itician’s non-apology, he said: “I do
Such racist dog whistle comments “We gather here to voice concern want say that by the way, if anybody
have caused a serious increase in on Jason Kenney’s irresponsible did take offence, that I apologize to
racist attacks – both verbal and phys- and toxic comments,” said Jiannong them, if they took offence, certainly
ical – on Asian-Canadian communi- Wu, on behalf of Calgary’s Chinese none was intended.”
ties. In 2020, a poll found that half population. “(This type of language) Wu, a medical technician on
of Alberta’s Chinese-Canadians had has provoked a significant increase the front lines in the fight against
suffered racist incidents, and over in hate crimes against Asian people COVID, was not impressed. “I think
60% had changed their routine to in general and Chinese in particular.” it’s intentional, because (Kenney) is
avoid public settings as a result. Protesters carried signs that read trying to cover up his failure to handle
Kenney’s statement throws gaso- “Zero Tolerance for Anti-Asian the pandemic.”
New far-right threat for Ontario
Maxime Bernier is using the taking precaution – “we must start Hamilton encampment support network fighting the evictions.
COVID emergency to try and forge shaming those who wear a mask,
a new, right-wing political force in as they shame others, the masks are The City’s response has been the police. Yellow-vesters were
Ontario politics. coercing us to live their lie.” barbaric. free for months on end, to harass
To date, 3 splinter parties have Those on the left who limit In the midst of these crises, at people of Muslim faith, outside City
moved to the right of the Doug Ford politics to electoralism will be the beginning of Covid, in October, Hall, who were entering to attend
Conservatives. The New Blue Party, tempted to cheer on the drive for 2020 the right-wing city politicians organized meetings.
predates the pandemic and opposes far-right unity. in Hamilton determined that At least one of the police
Ford because, with his helter skelter Although the People’s Party encampments were an eye-sore officers was wearing a thin blue
populist politics, he is not a pure failed to elect any candidates in the and had to be torn down. Their line patch, front and centre on
conservative. other little parties will come under federal election, it is estimated that response wasn’t ‘we will create his uniform, at a November
The Ontario Party began in 2018, Randy — and that would be more they were responsible for the Erin affordable housing’, it was ‘how demonstration for affordable
formed by a handful of individuals efficient to fight the tyrannical O’Toole Conservatives losing a embarrassing, we can’t have people housing, at an encampment. He
like former MP Derek Sloan and Government of Ontario.” number of close races. living in tents anywhere in our city, was photographed. The police force
disgraced Ottawa councilor Rick Who is Randy Hillier? He has But these new right-wing call the police.’ said “he will be held accountable”.
Chiarelli – these are people that been a Conservative MPP from the formations will not limit themselves Various social organizations, They’ll probably throw him a party.
federal and provincial Conservative Kingston area since 2007. In 2019 to electoral politics. Their role in such as the Hamilton Encampment That none of his fellow officers
parties have expelled or tried to Doug Ford kicked him out of the organizing demonstrations to attack Support Network, and already called him out on it and told him
isolate. Conservative Party because he was vaccine clinics, hospitals and health exhausted health care professionals to remove it , that he was allowed
Then there is the newest spawn of an embarrassment and too far to the care workers shows that. They intervened. They won an injunction to wear it ever to begin with, is
the far-right anti-vaxx movement, right. He sits as an independent. As are a pole of attraction for white of two weeks, before the people strong evidence of the culture of
the Ontario First Party, formed well as positioning himself at the supremacist and Nazis. living in the encampments were white supremacy and allowing hate
around former MPP Randy Hillier. head of the anti-vaxx movement, In fact, just last night - December forced to move by the police, under crimes to proceed unhindered both
OFP now has the endorsement and Hillier consistently denies climate 21 - the anti-vaxx far right attacked order from the City. This cost within the police force and on our
material support of the People’s change, is a vocal opponent of and vandalized the homes of Dr. the City hundreds of thousands streets.
Party of Canada. Maxime Bernier, “woke” politics, ridicules the idea Mustafa Hirji, Niagara Region’s of dollars in police wages and Rallies outside the police station
who has had modest success using a of systemic racism, and opposes acting Medical Officer of Health overtime. Money that could have ensued after the encampment tear
combination of COVID skepticism, public services – especially public and St. Catharines Ward 4 been spent on re-opening a yet downs; unions and various other
anti-immigrant politics, and dog- health services. Councillor Karrie Porter. to be torn down City Housing supporters responded by sending
whistle white supremacy to build a He promotes the conspiracy Hopefully the monstrous egos, project near the popular Bay Front food to the activists and people
nation presence, is calling on these theory that COVID does not opportunism and delusional area, that the City instead sold to affected; Six Nations has stood
3 groups to unite behind Hillier. exist. He has tweeted “there is no conspiracy politics rife in all these developers. Money that could up to say “No encampment bans
“I’m supporting the (Ontario (COVID-19) pandemic & never splinters will keep them from have been spent to create jobs and on stolen land”. Solidarity is
First Party) and (I’m) supporting was, we were duped”. He went coming together. If they do, we will houses. growing here and there will be more
Randy Hillier,” Bernier told a press further, egging his followers to be facing a new breeding ground for Housing solidarity action groups reporting on this issue in the coming
conference. “I hope that all these engage in violence against people fascism. began to mobilize to try to stop the months.
January 2022 Socialist Worker 3
Race, empire and
settler colonialism
In the classical Marxist tradition, anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles are of central importance for the revolutionary working-class
movement. But key texts in this tradition also contain racist ideas about supposedly “primitive” Indigenous peoples.
Marx and Engels’ analysis of race and empire developed in profound ways from the 1850s through to Marx’s death in 1883.
This development came in response to resistance movements of colonised people around the world. Below are excerpts from a recent
presentation on this question by Padraic Gibson of Solidarity (Australia).
F
or socialist organizations op- capital accumulation. The Communist tionary process which could do away which they play a crucial role in. It Civil War period and the mass uprising
erating on stolen Indigenous Manifesto, with its searing insights with want and poverty worldwide. was a profoundly internationalist of slaves themselves who absconded
lands in settler-colonial con- into the reality of the emerging capi- Right from that period in 1848, they organization which sought to unite from plantations in their hundreds of
texts, it’s important to theorize talist system and its injustices, had an believed socialist revolution was pos- working people across the world. In thousands. W.E.B. Du Bois called it a
the system of settler-colonialism, internationalist catchcry: Workers of sible in Western Europe, to take the reality, its members were in Europe general strike of slaves which ended
how it works to oppress Indigenous the world unite! reins of this amazing new productive and North America, but was open to the US Civil War. This amazing rad-
peoples, working people and the op- Even though it is prescient and bril- capacity. all people regardless of nationality, ical movement spilled over into a
pressed, and the basis on which we liant in the way it theorizes capitalism race or gender. radical labour struggle demanding the
can build solidarity between the rev- as a global system, at this point in time Anti-colonial rebellion The IWMA formed in response 8-hour day.
olutionary workers’ movement and there is not a developed critique of im- However, what did change was a to growing international cooperation In Capital, Marx sees that the
continuing Indigenous strugles for perialism in the Manifesto, or in the belief that bourgeois domination, the between different socialist, anarchist militant anti-racism and anti-slavery
justice and sovereignty. work of Marx and Engels. While on expansion of bourgeois imperialism and labour movement organizations. position that emerged in the British
the one hand they celebrate the pro- around the world, was something that Workers from the European conti- and broader European working class
Settler-colonialism ductive power of capitalism, how it is needed to be supported, and that was nent were being brought to Britain movement, in turn led to the emer-
Marx and Engels’ ideas need to be able to throw off the fetters of the old in itself a progressive thing. They shift to break strikes. In response to these gence of the 8-hour day struggle at the
understood in the context of struggles feudal society in Europe, at the same quite decisively in the 1850s with the international scabbing operations, end of the Civil War. He writes, “But
they were part of. Their best insights time as it’s jux- the IWMA tried out of the death of slavery a new life at
come about at the high points of strug- taposed to the to build a sense of once arose. The first fruit of the Civil
gle, where they are generalizing from degradation, international sol- War was the eight-hours’ agitation
the best insights of working-class ac- alienation and idarity to stop the that ran with the seven-league boots
tivists on the ground. exploitation undermining of of the locomotive from the Atlantic
Some of their work related to set- experienced by union power. to the Pacific, from New England to
tler-colonial situations, particularly the proletariat. But it also California.”
Anglo-settler colonies in the US and There’s no cri- formed in re-
Australia, requires a critical analysis. tique of colo- sponse to profound Ireland and Imperialism
Even though the revolutionary move- nial violence or internationalist The most profound insights of Marx
ment they led developed a profound colonial racism. campaigns. Big and Engels into the questions of soli-
critique of racism and colonialism in The same meetings were darity with anti-imperialist and anti-co-
general, when it came to the question year the held in London in lonial struggle come in relation to the
of settler-colonialism, it was not rec- Manifesto is solidarity with the Irish question. Even though we have
ognized that this too was an imperial- written, Engels Polish indepen- articles in solidarity with China, with
ist process that was being resisted by writes an arti- dence movement, India, with Algeria, with Indonesia and
Indigenous peoples who deserved and cle welcoming the Irish indepen- a whole range of places where people
needed solidarity. a French army dence movement, are resisting European colonisation, it
The weakness of the workers’ victory in and the movement was in Ireland where the question was
movement they were part of, and the Algeria against Diego Rivera shows the brutality of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. to stop the entry of posed incredibly sharply for the work-
structural position of the workers’ the Algerian the British into the ers’ movement in Britain. There are
movement in settler colonies (partic- people: “…the conquest of Algeria is experience of major rebellions in American Civil War on the side of the hundreds of thousands of Irish work-
ularly the United States, where cam- an important and fortunate fact for the Algeria, in China, and particularly the Confederacy. ers in Britain, inside the metropolitan
paigns for land in the US territories to progress of civilization… the modern most influential, major anti-colonial centre, and the division between Irish
be opened up for working class people bourgeois, with civilization, industry, rebellions in India, the Sipoy uprising Slavery and abolition and British workers is a crucial tool for
to take up as settlements) distorted order, and at least relative enlighten- of 1857. You’ve got the slaveholding south vs the ruling class in England to keep the
the view of imperialism as it related ment following him, is preferable to Marx and Engels are excited about the free labour north, and the northern working-class movement divided and
to the North American continent and … the barbarian state of society to these new revolutionary actors fight- armies were blockading cotton from retain the power of the capitalist class.
Australia, and masked the reality of which they belong.” At this point, ing the same British imperialism that being exported from the South to In 1869, the question is posed
that imperialist violence and the need capitalism is critiqued but presented the workers’ movement is fighting Britain. This was causing enormous sharply when Fenians – Irish inde-
for solidarity. as historically progressive, and in in Britain. They start to recognize, hardship in Britain, where people are pendence fighters – set off a load of
Marx and Engels started working, fact historically necessary, that there as Marx says to Engels in 1857, that employed in big cotton factories. The bombs. People are killed, there’s a
theorizing and writing together in was something progressive about the “India is now our greatest ally”. This British government planned to break wave of arrests of Fenian leaders and
1843, and were close collaborators bourgeois invasion of Algeria. is a proto-emergence of a theory of the naval blockade and intervene on massive demonstrations of 200,000
until Marx’ death in 1883. They de- One thing that never changes in the revolutionary workers’ solidarity with the side of the South. What stopped in Dublin, 100,000 in London, led by
veloped brilliant insights into the work of Marx and Engels is that what anti-imperialist struggle that becomes them was a movement among work- Irish workers demanding the release of
destructive and exploitative nature capitalism accomplished in Europe more developed in the 1860s, and be- ing people in solidarity with the North the prisoners.
of capitalism, and the creation of by overthrowing the feudal system comes absolutely crucial for the emer- against the slaveholding South, on an The question is posed to the
the working class as a revolutionary and creating a system of production gence of the anti-imperialist position anti-racist, anti-slavery basis. This IWMA, what is your position on these
subject. Right from the start, capital- with incredible productive powers at of the Communist International after ferment played an important role in demonstrations? Marx fought very
ism was theorized as a world system its disposal, was necessary in creating the First World War. the formation of the IWMA. hard for the IWMA to be shoulder to
interested in expanding across the the basis that made socialism possi- This anti-imperialist position takes In many ways, even the language shoulder with the Irish independence
world, dominating it and dragging ble. Suddenly, there was a working a big leap forward with the formation of self emancipation – the liberation struggle at this moment – to call for
all the world’s people into one global class that could take in its hands a of the International Working Men’s of the working class must be the act the release of the Fenian prisoners
market subordinate to the needs of productive potential through a revolu- Association in 1864-1865 in London, of the working class – came from the and independence for Ireland.
4 Socialist Worker January 2022
Trade Unions must
mobilize to support
abortion rights in
the US
1805 cartoon - ‘Plum pudding in danger’ depicts British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and
the Napoleon, Emperor of France carving spheres of influence throughout the world.
Chicago protest against the Texas anti-choice law.
by: Carolyn Egan doing the same in the United States.
A
We know that to have real
He waged an argument against during great insurgent strikes taking establish settler colonial occupation ccess to abortion in choices in our lives we must also
anarchists within the IWMA who place at that time. This was just one in places like Kansas. There is the United States is have accessible childcare, easily
said, “We don’t get involved in of numerous mobilizations of the US no recognition that there is still deteriorating as right available birth control, decent jobs,
nationalism, the working men have army against mass strikes, including Indigenous struggle for these lands. wing forces opposed an end to coerced sterilization,
no country. Isn’t that what you said the suppression of the nationwide It’s seen as public lands, and the to the equality of women win freedom to express our sexuality as
in the Communist Manifesto? What Pullman strike by army divisions that debate is about the terms on which legislative victories in a number we choose, and so much more to
are we doing mucking around with a had recently massacred Lakota men, it’s going to be colonized. of states. They have a long term live our lives with the dignity and
nationalist struggle?” women and children at Wounded In chapter 33 of Capital there’s goal of banning all abortions, respect we deserve. These must
Marx is clear that it’s not enough Knee in 1890. By not recognizing quite a lengthy discussion of struggles and have been working for years all be part of the campaign for full
for English workers to say, “We all the dangers of what the US army was around property in the settler colonies. to overturn the 1973 landmark access to free abortion.
have no country.” Actually, there’s an doing in the West, they actually are Marx makes a case that socialists in Roe versus Wade Supreme Court
oppression of Ireland as a nationality, forging their own chains, allowing America who think that they’re going decision which gave constitutional Union solidarity
and if you’re going to build solidarity the creation of a force which is then to be able to escape capitalism by protection to those seeking an The trade union movement
with Irish workers, it’s crucial that deployed against the US workers setting up some sort of small utopian abortion. historically has played an important
British workers are clear we’re against movement. project somewhere are wrong – The growing strength of the role in winning abortion rights and
the racism that’s directed against Marx and Engels wrote an enormous capitalism is not going to allow it to far right in the US has given other needed reforms. In the US
them and that means supporting their amount about the conflicts over land happen. They’re going to attack the confidence to those who oppose there has been an upsurge of support
right to self-determination. It is a that were taking place between the small holdings and force them into abortion rights, and ex president for unions in recent years. Rates of
dialectical insight about how, in order small holders of lands that had just the labour market. And of course, that Trump appointed Supreme Court unionization are up with victories
to unite, we have to recognize your been taken up by new settlers, and is what happened. Lincoln sets up the justices Kavanaugh and Barrett in unorganized workplaces such as
right to separate. the big commercial interests, the big Homestead Act in 1862, grants huge both strongly opposed to abortion Starbucks. Strikes have been taking
Unless British workers could be banks, the big industrial companies. amounts of Indigenous land to settlers, rights. This was viewed as a place across the country, John
won to a position of support for Irish Even though in the European context and within a decade most of it is in the huge step forward by anti-choice Deere, Kelloggs, nurses unions and
independence, they would forever the worker is the central figure hands of wealthy industrialists and is organizations which redoubled their others. Workers are standing up for
be kept in tether to their own rulers of socialist strategy, in the North super concentrated in the hands of the efforts to deny the American people their rights moving ahead of their
– buying into this idea of racial American context in the first couple capitalist class. their basic right to a critical medical leadership in fighting the boss.
superiority, that they somehow have of decades when Marx and Engels procedure. The labour movement in the
something in common with their own are writing, it’s the independent Indigenous resistance United States must take a strong
rulers. A position of support for self- small farmer that looms large as the Marx was right that you can’t get Anger and protest stand in support of reproductive
determination was about breaking main actor in the revolutionary or socialism by going and setting up This has provoked outrage both justice and abortion rights. This is
those racist ideas and allowing the communist movement in the US. some little utopian project on the within the United Sates and a massive and well financed attack
unity that was needed to emerge. The main organization that Marx frontier. What Marx missed in his beyond. Organizing in states such on fundamental democratic rights.
and Engels say communists in writings was that in fact Indigenous as Texas was immediate after It will significantly impact the
Colonialism in the US America need to get involved with is people were resisting this reality, that the state legislature passed very most marginalized, Black, Brown,
Marx develops his position further, the National Reform Movement that there was another actor in politics in restrictive legislation. Advocacy Indigenous communities and the
writing to the National Labour starts in the 1840s. This campaign a settler-colonial context and that is groups have been working to poor, who do not have the ability
Union in the wake of the Civil War demanded the release of 160 acre lots the Indigenous people resisting and arrange for abortions in other states, to cross state lines for an abortion.
in the US, warning against letting the across the continent for settlement by fighting for their land at the time. providing resources, support, and What is happening in the US right
United States consolidate a standing independent farmers. The writings of Marx are crucial transportation. This is an important now is outrageous, and unions must
army that they’re going to keep as an What’s significant about this is that for being able to actually articulate interim measure but cannot be a show concretely that they are on
imperialist force. on all of these territories, Indigenous and understand why working people long term solution. The director the side of those who are under
But this ignores that the US republic sovereignty is actually recognized need to stand in solidarity with of the one abortion clinic in attack. They have the collective
was in fact already an imperialist by the US government at that time. colonized people in their resistance. Mississippi, which is also facing a power to take work place actions to
settler-colonial entity, not in danger of Allocating those lands to settler But it is important to reflect upon court battle at the Supreme Court support the growing movement of
turning into one. In 1865, an intense farmers would mean breaking treaties the weaknesses of the workers’ restricting term limits to fifteen resistance.
anti-insurgency war was being fought with sovereign Indigenous people movement in that time that kept weeks, spoke about the number There is anger at the base of
by the American army right across that the US is actually in relationships blinkers on and didn’t allow socialists of Texans coming to that clinic society which is being shown by
the West. The US army was already with. The workers’ movement was to see the full implications of what a since the restrictions were passed the labour battles that have been
forging chains for the free labourer. essentially saying ‘break the treaties struggle for liberation looks like in a in their home state. She stated how taking place, Black Lives Matter,
This outlook had real implications and and give us the land’. settler-colonial context. unsustainable this is. climate justice mobilizations and
came directly out of the weaknesses Although in the 1850s Marx and Revolutionary workers need to In Mexico women’s other movements for change over
and the particular situation of the US Engels break with these ideas as they understand their place in the world organizations have spoken out and the past years. People are willing to
workers movement at that time. relate to the rest of the colonized and their responsibilities in terms of have committed to helping those struggle.
The US army that was fighting world, in America the labour supporting anticolonial resistance seeking abortions in Texas. They The fight for abortion access is
across the American West became a movement that they’re corresponding that has been crucial in the past and are willing to provide mifegymiso, a life and death matter as we have
very important tool for putting down with – is very much part of this whole will be crucial in fighting for all of our which is medication that can induce seen when abortion is restricted.
the radical workers’ movement. ‘free soil’ movement. Socialists and liberation today. an abortion, by mail to anyone Dying from back street abortions is
In 1877, US army regiments were communists are on the side of the free who requests it. They have been a reality for those who are denied.
redeployed from fighting against soilers against slavery, but there’s no To watch the whole presentation providing this, along with support Organized labour must be in the
Sioux people to Chicago, to put down recognition that Indigenous people please check out the video on youtube through the process, in Mexico and front lines defending reproductive
militant workers’ demonstrations are suffering a horrific genocide to at: bit.ly/3eMOdC9 are willing to take the legal risk of justice for all!
January 2022 Socialist Worker 5
The free market right is wrong
on inflation exist—money is a mere technicality.” abomination that would lead to hyper-inflation. and goods largely produced by China and other
by: Alex Callinicos But this is heresy from the point of view of In fact inflation stayed very low or was even Asian countries that are most affected. Call it
T
what has been the reigning economic ortho- negative until very recently. the bullwhip effect—where changes in demand
he alarm bells about inflation are ring- doxy since the 1970s. Its adherents argue that Secondly, there is a better explanation for have a bigger impact the further along the sup-
ing ever more shrilly across the world the extra spending and borrowing has boosted the inflationary surge, which focuses on supply ply chain you go—in action,” said the FT.
economy. Huw Pill, the new chief econ- the money supply, causing the rise in inflation. rather than demand. “Delivery times have worsened the most in
omist of the Bank of England, predicts There are two problems with this analysis. The economic shutdown provoked by the the tech and auto sectors, where they are short
that the official British inflation rate will hit five The first is that its exponents have been crying pandemic disrupted the transnational supply of microchips, but manufacturers of food and
percent early next year. wolf for over a decade. chains that radiate from Asian factories to beverages and personal items are experiencing
In the United States the annual rate of core The policies they denounce began in a more Europe and North America. According to the near-record disruptions.” However caused,
inflation reached four percent in September, moderate form in 2007-8, when central banks Financial Times (FT), manufacturing delivery inflation is cutting into living standards. The
the highest it’s been in almost 25 years. Why is responded to the global financial crisis by cre- times have lengthened in recent months at the bosses and their economists are most afraid of
inflation rising? ating money and pumping it into the financial fastest rate since records began in 1998. a “wage‑price spiral”—in other words, workers
The orthodox explanation is based on the system. Free marketeers denounced this as an “It is advanced economies that wait for parts reacting by demanding higher wages and cap-
famous statement by one of the two ideological italists defending their profits by raising prices
godfathers of neoliberalism, Milton Friedman, further.
that “inflation is always and everywhere a This isn’t happening yet. According to a sur-
monetary phenomenon.” He argued that if the vey by XpertHR, over four fifths of British pri-
money supply rises faster than production, vate employers plan to raise wages, taking the
demand will increase more than the supply of median pay award to 2.5 percent, well below in-
goods and services, pulling up prices. flation. But the labour shortages that are another
effect of the pandemic may give many groups
Boosted of workers the power to defend their real wages.
Faced with the pandemic, states followed The free market right is preparing to strike
Maynard Keynes, who advocated intervention back. Pill is a protege of Otmar Issing, the
in the economy, rather than Friedman. Central first chief economist of the European Central
banks hugely boosted the money supply. Bank and a disciple of the other neoliberal
They bought up financial assets as a way godfather, Friedrich von Hayek. Ignoring how
of pumping money into markets that froze in central banks have been actively intervening
March 2020. Meanwhile, governments in ad- to maintain demand, Pill told the FT the Bank
vanced economies massively increased their of England is “an institution that’s in the price
spending to fill the gap left by the collapse of stability business”.
private demand. Meanwhile, chancellor Rishi Sunak, when
To a large extent, they financed this by extra asked by a journalist to choose between Keynes
borrowing. In the US and Britain, the Treasury and Friedman, opted for Friedman. We’ve been
bonds governments sold to borrow were bought warned. Winter—higher interest rates and
mainly by the central banks. This modern Thatcherite austerity—is coming.
equivalent of printing money was used to keep
economies afloat. As economic historian Adam Reprinted from the Socialist Worker, UK
Tooze put it, “budget constraints don’t seem to https://socialistworker.co.uk/
...Public sector continued from page 8 and that's not appropriate. The university is million from education in November and has $15, after scrapping it three years ago when
to be independent from the government," capped public sector salary increases at 1%, he took office.
The two other unions that represent the rest University of Manitoba Faculty Association an effective wage cut. Ford also killed legisla- The public sector workers who went on
of the daycare workers also threatened to join president Orvie Dingwall said. tion for paid sick days. strike in November and December are show-
the strike. This pressure forced the Legault Students showed their support for the The lightening speed of the spread of the ing the way. Their example of solidarity and
government back to the table and they agreed faculty strike by blockading all entrances to omicron variant will only make current condi- the solidarity of community supporters made
to give support staff a better increase to bring the administration building. "There's a fear tions worse. The inadequate responses by all some real gains and show that it is possible to
the strike to an end. students have that the administration just isn't provincial governments will have deadly con- push back even in this time of crisis.
Legault’s attempt to divide workers failed. listening," one student supporter said. "We're sequences. This awful reality exposes where
A union leader summed it up by saying “it going to keep showing up whether or not the interests of governments of all political
wouldn't have been possible without the day- they're listening and we're going to try our stripes lie—with their corporate friends. The
care workers mobilizing, and their solidarity, best to make it so that they have to listen." ‘economy’ that they are protecting is the prof- Territorial Acknowledgement
and the exceptional support from parents”. its of a few, not the welfare of the many. As settlers, we acknowledge our
Omicron and pandemic austerity occupation of lands that are the
University of Manitoba faculty Throughout the pandemic, provincial govern- Fight back from below
strike ments continued to push austerity agendas, The other awful reality is the abdication of Indigenous territories of Turtle Island.
University of Manitoba faculty went on strike even in the face of the pandemic. leadership by trade union leaders. A new Furthermore, we support all struggles
November 2 in the face of a government-im- In 2020, early in the pandemic, Alberta low point was the appearance of Unifor
posed wage freeze. The union called on the premier Jason Kenney announced he would leader, Jerry Dias, and OPSEU leader for Indigenous sovereignty in whatever
province to abandon its wage cap mandate, cut 11,000 non front-line healthcare jobs and Smokey Thomas at a press conference side- forms they take by the hundreds of First
because it has impeded the bargaining pro- $600 million from the healthcare budget. In by-side with Ontario premier Doug Ford Nations and Inuit communities that
cess. August 2021, Kenney threatened to cut nurses in November. In a supreme show of gaslit
"We just feel like the government is in pay by 3%, until nurses pushed back. pre-election campaigning, Ford announced have resided here for many thousands of
their back pocket or in that room with them, Ontario premier Doug Ford cut $500 that he would raise the minimum wage to years, and by Métis communities that
have developed in the last hundreds of
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REVIEW
What to watch during a pandemic,
Omicron edition
by: Faline Bobier of the Gulf of Mexico after the summit; in which of actually existing resistance on the ground. and inclination. The film is beautifully shot,
H
world leaders say that climate is an “existential At one point Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo and the landscapes are starkly stunning. The
ere in Ontario movie theatres are threat to humanity” while simultaneously DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Power of the Dog is an exploration of a kind of
again being shut down, along with expanding fossil fuel production; in which Lawrence), the two scientists who discovered toxic masculinity mixed with a tenderness that
gyms, restaurants, etc. As Ontario major newspapers still run fossil fuel ads, and the comet, tell the truth to people in a bar they’re Phil must hide from others in order to survive.
and the world suffer through a series climate news is routinely overshadowed by in, after they’ve been effectively silenced by It’s also a tale where everything is not what it
of lockdowns or not-lockdowns, as capitalist sports; in which entrepreneurs push incredibly President Orlean and her administration. A riot seems, which is only revealed to us at the end
governments prove yet again that they have no risky tech solutions and billionaires sell the ensues and Mindy asks Kate dismissively if of the movie.
real solutions to the problems of the pandemic - absurdist fantasy that humanity can just move she thinks people waving placards around is
here are some suggestions for diversions, as we to Mars.” going to help the situation. The Lost Daughter
all figure out how to remain politically active Mackay’s movie is clever in terms of the But if we look at the real world it’s pretty The Lost Daughter, another 2021 film, written
in as safe a way as possible. The problems targets he lampoons: Meryl Streep in a Trump- clear those in power, like the rich and powerful and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal in her
besetting our world in 2022 can’t be ignored like turn as US President Janie Orlean who tries in this film, will never do what it takes to directorial debut, based on the novel of the
and ordinary people can’t abandon the fight for to force the two scientists who identified the save the planet. Their wealth and power is same name by Elena Ferrante is also available
climate justice, for Indigenous sovereignty and comet and its existential threat to the planet to intricately tied to the fossil fuel industry that on Netflix.
land rights, for workers’ rights, in spite of the revise their percentage of certainty from 99% is at the heart of the climate crisis. That’s why The Lost Daughter features British actress
pandemic we are living through. to a more acceptable 70%. Or the character the people who really mattered at COP26 in Olivia Colman who is brilliant in this drama
Glasgow were not the politicians and fossil about an academic, living and working in
fuel capitalists inside the meetings, but the the US, who is taking a summer holiday on a
climate justice activists outside. Greek island. Her first day there seems idyllic
The title of the film, Don’t Look Up, refers as she lounges in blessed solitude on the beach.
to an exhortation by President Orlean and However, the next day a loud and overbearing
others around her for people to ignore reality family from Queens arrives and intrudes on her
by refusing to look up and see the comet which holiday, asking if she minds moving her beach
is speeding towards them. But in another sense chair so the family can sit together.
Don’t Look Up is a good reminder to those of We start to get a sense that Leda Caruso
us who care about our future and the future of (Olivia Colman) is no pushover when she
the planet not to look up for solutions to the politely refuses to move, saying she’s fine
climate crisis. Those solutions will come from where she is. Leda meets Nina (Dakota
below, from the Indigenous activists and others Johnson), a young mother, who’s part of the
who repeatedly put themselves on the line, to extended family, when Nina’s three-year-old
defend the earth and to put the brakes on a daughter Elena goes momentarily missing on
system that is only leading to environmental the beach. Leda finds Elena and returns her to
destruction. Nina, who expresses her growing exhaustion
and unhappiness with the experience of
The Power of the Dog motherhood. Elena is upset after she loses her
The Power of the Dog is another 2021 film favorite doll, which Leda has secretly taken.
available on Netflix, written and directed by In flashbacks, it is revealed that young Leda
Jane Campion, and based on the 1967 novel of (actor Jessie Buckley) also struggled with
the same name by Thomas Savage. Campion being a young mother to her two daughters,
Leonardo DiCaprio rages against the system in Don’t Look Up. is a New Zealand director, the second of only Bianca and Martha, often losing her patience
seven women nominated for Best Director for and becoming withdrawn.
her breathtaking film The Piano (1993). This is a movie that deals realistically with
Don’t Look Up of Peter Isherwell (creepily incarnated by The Power of the Dog is a kind of Western the experience of motherhood and the push and
Don’t Look Up is a 2021 American satirical Mark Rylance), the billionaire CEO of tech psychological drama, entirely shot in New pull of a woman who wants to build a career
science fiction film written, produced, and company BASH, who has great influence Zealand. It’s set in 1925 Montana and tells the and experience all aspects of life but must deal
directed by Adam McKay. The movie is over the President, to the point of thwarting story of two wealthy ranch-owning brothers with raising two daughters with a husband who
available for streaming on Netflix. It stars an attempt to nuke the comet and thereby Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George puts his own needs first. The Lost Daughter is a
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as destroy its potential planet-killing power. Burbank (Jesse Plemons). They meet widow movie where a lot is hidden and only revealed
two astronomers attempting to warn humanity Instead, because he discovers the comet is full and inn owner Rose Gordon (played brilliantly slowly in flashbacks that take us back to Leda’s
about an approaching comet that will destroy of precious minerals that can be turned into by Kirsten Dunst) during a cattle drive. The life when her daughters were young.
human civilization. The comet is an analogy trillions of dollars of profit, he wants to try an kind-hearted George is quickly taken with It’s also a movie where a sense of the sinister
for climate change and the film is a satire of untested technology that will supposedly break
government and media indifference to the up the comet and thereby reduce its destructive
climate crisis. potential, at the same time providing immense
The film has provoked a lot of debate about profits for Isherwell. And, in any case, if it
its merits (or not) and its politics. Some critics doesn’t work out, there’s always an escape
have lamented what they deem the movie’s route for the rich and powerful. They will
too-obvious satire of media and politicians’ simply find another planet to inhabit and
responses to/dismissal of the approaching pillage. (NOTE: Make sure to watch the movie
comet, read the reality of catastrophic climate to the very end to see how well that strategy
change. works out.)
But in the words of an actual climate Isherwell is obviously a nod to really existing
scientist, Peter Kalmus, author of Being psychopathic capitalists such as Elon Musk
the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate or Jeff Bezos, who spend billions of dollars
Revolution: for their personal jaunts to space, rather than
“But this isn’t a film about how humanity using the money to actually help solve real
would respond to a planet-killing comet; it’s problems here on Earth, such as the lack of
a film about how humanity is responding to Covid vaccinations for countries in the global
planet-killing climate breakdown. We live in a south, which allows the disease to mutate and
society in which, despite extraordinarily clear, continue to wreak havoc. The Power of the Dog. Benedict Cumberbatch as a rich rancher.
present, and worsening climate danger, more Targeting of the media in Don’t Look Up is
than half of Republican members of Congress also spot on and brings to mind any number of Rose, while the volatile Phil, much influenced is lurking in the relationship between Leda
still say climate change is a hoax and many more Fox News hosts who put their focus on bogus by his late mentor “Bronco” Henry, mocks and Nina and especially Nina’s other family
wish to block action, and in which the official ‘news’ stories, like the fake ‘stealing’ of the Rose’s son Peter for his lisp and ‘effeminate’ members, who do their best to make Leda’s
Democratic party platform still enshrines election from Trump, rather than on the real manner. stay uncomfortable. Watch this movie for the
massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry; issues facing ordinary Americans. George and Rose marry and once she and subtle and complex depiction of the competing
in which the current president ran on a promise Don’t Look Up really does create for the her son move to the brothers’ ranch a kind of desires and ambitions that exist within one
that “nothing will fundamentally change”, and viewer a visceral sense of how much we stand psychological warfare begins between both woman.
the speaker of the House dismissed even a to lose, a bit the same way Stanley Kubrick’s Phil and Rose and between Phil and her son Just a few ideas for some watchable films for
modest climate plan as “the green dream or 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, pointed to the Peter (Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee). the New Year with a reminder that we all have
whatever”; in which the largest delegation to senselessness of potential nuclear war. Cumberbatch is entirely convincing as the to turn off our screens at some point soon and
Cop26 was the fossil fuel industry, and the However, it’s also true that there is little American rancher, a man so repressed that he get back on the streets to make sure 2022 is an
White House sold drilling rights to a huge tract in Don’t Look Up that points to the potential punishes those around him for his own yearnings improvement on 2021!
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