The events in Ferguson, Missouri—the police murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown, the demonstrations that followed his killing, the imposition of virtual martial law, the line-up of politicians and media behind the police—have revealed the explosive state of class relations in America. They have also exposed the ruling elite’s use of police state methods to crush social opposition to its policies of war and austerity. They have, moreover, drawn attention to the yawning class divide separating African-American workers from the black elite allied to the Democratic Party. The response of pseudo-left organizations around the Democratic Party, such as the International Socialist Organization (ISO), has been to do step up their promotion of racial politics and their efforts to stir up racial divisions within the working class. These organizations, which have their social base in more privileged sections of the upper-middle class, seek to block the development of class consciousness and the emergence of a politically independent movement of the working class.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:30:01 +0000
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