Vol. 73/No. 43      November 9, 2009

BY RAÚL A. RUBIO CANO  
Because of the impact of the economic crisis on the American people, today more than ever, the conditions are being created in the United States of America that make it possible to say that a socialist revolution is possible there, stated Mary-Alice Waters, author of the book Is a Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible? published by Pathfinder Press (New York, 2009). She is participating in the Martí, Juárez, Lincoln International Conference that is taking place in our city… .

Waters, a member of the National Committee of the [Socialist] Workers Party, editor of New International, and president of Pathfinder Press, pointed out that the important thing for working people in the United States—and we don’t mean from the United States, because they come from all over the world—is that the accelerating capitalist crisis which we are now experiencing, is actually a crisis that for us dates from the 1970s, when an enormous change took place as a growing economy began to decline… .

“The time is coming when there will be resistance that will grow and become more conscious and organized on the part of a growing vanguard of workers, pushed to the wall by the insistence of the bosses in cutting wages and increasing what they call productivity.

“The coming years will be marked by battles in the streets with ultrarightist movements that target militant union activists, revolutionary socialists, Blacks, immigrants, Jews and others … even in the most ‘stable’ bourgeois democracies.

“In the United States, we are beginning to see the shape of these coming battles… .”

She pointed to the mass mobilizations, like those of May Day in 2006 and 2007, when not only did migrant workers demand legalization, but also U.S. workers participated in these struggles, showing class solidarity and resistance against the assaults of the capitalists… .

“It is also important to understand that the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s for Blacks, Chicanos, and women have strengthened the working class, and that it is more difficult to divide us now than before. It’s more difficult to use racism to divide us or sexism. The experiences of workers who come from all over the world make us stronger and makes it possible to unite.”
 
 
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