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Veteran Filipino Communist Leader Jose Maria Sison Supports the People of the USA against the Recent Bailouts
Dear all,
This is both hilarious and insightful. Professor Jose Maria Sison, a veteran Maoist of the Filipino Communist Movement who is most responsible for the Filipino People’s War of the last few decades which had a lot to do with why there aren’t American military bases there any longer, has come out to defend the popular classes in our country against a common enemy, imperialist finance capital.
Sison, formerly a darling of the anti-White and anti-worker Western Maoist organizations actually has one tiny degenerate “Maoist-Third Worldist” group denouncing Sison as an agent of Uncle Sam over this. All Sison stated was an obvious truth: The people in the United States, despite whatever reactionary social roles they play, are to be supported when they struggle against imperialist finance capital which oppresses them as it does the entire world. Sison also makes clear an obvious point that would be silly to point out were it not so foolishly contested: A working class exists in the United States, and it is oppressed by capitalism and has the need for social liberation. Sison realizes that the popular classes in our country play a vital role in smashing imperialism and also have antagonistic contradictions with the enemy.
Obviously, I think it needs to be stated that finance capital is overwhelmingly Jewish today and that this point needs to be made clear because it is a massive elephant stomping around in a small kitchen killing people. I also think we need to get into the concept of “anti-racism” further than Sison does, since taking a leftist view leads to cosmopolitanism. By racism are we talking about struggling for ethnic self-determination, coming out and attacking Jewish social roles and building opposition to mass immigration which is backed by the very imperialist finance capital that Sison opposes or are we talking about struggling against idiotic ideas and social roles which promote oppressive ethnic stratification or illusions about the supposedly progressive role US imperialism plays? I also think we need to look far beyond the traditional Western left for guidance in the US, as they are little more than cosmopolitan agents and do-nothing elements, besides the obvious fact we have our own complicated mass line. Furthermore, I consider the US more of a banker’s prison house of nations than a real nation. However, I don’t attack a Filipino for not fully understanding our conditions here, since I don’t totally understand the conditions in his country either.
All in all, it’s good to see that there are all sorts of foreign revolutionary forces who support the revolutionary people of my country and it is important we make sure our people see that. Furthermore, we need to rub this in the noses of all these anti-White and anti-worker Western Maoist freaks to make their errors obvious to them and all of their followers.
--- John Paul Cupp
Home press statements SUPPORT COORDINATED ACTIONS TO DEMAND THE BAIL OUT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE BANKERS
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| SUPPORT COORDINATED ACTIONS TO DEMAND THE BAIL OUT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE BANKERS By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples' Struggle 21 October 2008 Through our International Coordinating Committee and member-organizations in the US, we the International League of Peoples' Struggle convey to all the organizers, participants and the entire American people our firm and militant solidarity with and support for the National Coordinated Actions to Bail Out the People, Not the Bankers! From October 24 to 27.read more We welcome the marches and demonstrations in front of the offices of the Federal Reserve Bank, the US Treasury Department, major banks and other financial institutions that are involved in generating and continuing to aggravate the economic and financial crisis that plagues the US and entire world capitalist system. This is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and is on the way to becoming the Great Depression II. We hold responsible and condemn the US monopoly bourgeoisie for the economic and financial crisis. The root cause encompasses the extraction of surplus value by the monopoly bourgeoisie from the labor power of the working class, the relentless accumulation of capital in the hands of the few and the pressing down of the wage level and social benefits, the repeated and worsening crisis of overproduction, the use of the monopoly capitalist state to gather public resources and deliver them to the giant corporations, the use of imperialist power to exploit cheap labor, market and raw materials on a global scale, the unbridled use of monopoly finance capital for speculation and the unregulated expansion of debt financing to cover the fundamental problems of US and global capitalism. The monopoly bourgeoisie has accelerated the concentration and centralization of capital in its hands and has benefitted from the policy of "neoliberal globalization" to the extreme detriment of the US working class and the working people all over the world. Now, in flagrant deviation from its hypocritical "free market" dogma, the monopoly bourgeois state shamelessly delivers trillions of dollars to the finance oligarchy and the rest of the monopoly bourgeoisie (no more than one per cent of population) in an attempt to bail them out from the economic and financial crisis of their own making. Nothing is being done nor will be done by the US imperialist state to rescue or help the ordinary American people, including the American working class and the now impoverished middle class, from the rigors of industrial decline, rising unemployment, unpaid debts, mortgage foreclosures and the aggravating conditions of recession which can no longer be hidden by debt financing. No amount of money from the imperialist state to the monopoly bourgeoisie can stimulate the US economy. The bailout money poured into the financial banking sector does not flow into the money stream available to the working classes and the people nor to the real economy. A big portion of the bailout money is being used by stronger banks to buy out bankrupted banks. It is also being used to pump up the stock prices of the banks and some other favored corporations in a spurt of speculative frenzy that ends in the dumping of the stocks. In sharp contrast, large numbers of people are losing their jobs and homes and can no longer pay for the products made in the USA and abroad. We support the mass protests of the American people and their just demand for the US government to declare an economic state of emergency for the specific purpose of adopting and implementing emergency measures to help the people and not the banks. Among the measures are: emergency moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions; return of foreclosed homes on affordable terms; no budget cuts in education, health care and all social services; no lay offs and extend unemployment benefits; no utility shut-offs; debt relief for students, poor and working people; protect public and private pensions; jobs at a living wage; immediate mass reemployment in public works and urban renewal; and further tax rebates for the low income and middle class families. Trillions of dollars from the US monopoly capitalist state are being provided to the finance oligarchy, the military-industrial complex and the wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan . But there is no bailout money fort the American people who are the real creators of wealth and who have long fleeced by the monopoly bourgeoisie and its imperialist state. We are glad that the grass roots, community and youth organizations, trade unionists, anti-racist forces, the anti-war movement and others outraged by the state bailout of the banks are moving to arouse and mobilize the people for mass actions in various cities of the US . Only if they act concertedly and militantly can the American people hope to alleviate their suffering and open the road to a better life of greater real freedom, social justice, prosperity and all-round progress. The US is the center of the world capitalist system. It has generated the economic and financial crisis that is destroying the forces of production and wreaking havoc on the lives of the people on a global scale. Therefore, the American people play an important role in waging resistance against the US monopoly bourgeoisie and in raising just demands. May their example of resistance inspire the people of the world! ### |