The local Boone County sheriff, who has launched a personal campaign against “illegals,” has spearheaded these raids. He apparently had hoped to set up a victorious “perp walk” after the arrests, to show cowed “criminals” being led away to jail.
Instead he got four workers, standing tall, heads up, laughing and waving at the photographer as they walk to jail. The picture captured the growing self-confidence of our class that we saw so clearly on May Day.
Mark Gilsdorf
Cincinnati, Ohio
Clarity on ‘Israel Lobby’
Just one note on Sam Manuel’s excellent article on “Jew hatred.” There is a “Jewish Lobby” and an “Israeli Lobby” as well as an Irish Lobby, an Orange Juice Lobby, etc. It is not the existence of an Israel lobby that is at issue, but rather the fact that U.S. foreign policy is made by the U.S. ruling class, not the “Israel Lobby.”
As history has demonstrated, the U.S. ruling class could, with a flick of the wrist, turn on the Zionists should they find it convenient to do so. Such “changes of fortune” have been seen again and again—from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492) where they played a prominent role, to the genocide by the fascists in Europe. I recommend Abram Leon’s book The Jewish Question as a good starting point for arming workers against those who profess to be “objective” and “scientific” but are indeed anti-Semitic to the core.
Robin Maisel
Waco, Texas
Class conflict
I’ve been reading your excellent series on the transformation of the U.S. military. Comments by the U.S. rulers shed some light on how our employers and their political representatives see the changing world.
In a speech at Georgetown University in January, Condoleezza Rice said, “The greatest threats now emerge more within states than between them. The fundamental character of regimes now matters more than the international distribution of power.” In other words, class conflict may play a bigger role in the world than national conflict.
Evan Roberts
Birmingham, Alabama
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