Dec 14, 2022 09:03 AM
(This post was last modified: Dec 14, 2022 06:33 PM by C C.)
Cynic's Corner: If you're wondering what an article like this in doing in a socialist newsweekly like The Militant... Well, apparently it boils down to that last line. Or IOW they're still chiefly devoted to the proletariat (in all population groups it is found). Rather than perhaps the whole social justice circus of fringe special interests, which progressives exploit.
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Democrats, antifa push anti-Catholic attacks, bigotry
https://themilitant.com/2022/12/03/democ...s-bigotry/
EXCERPT: Over the last two years there have been at least 170 attacks on Catholic churches across the U.S. In 38 states and the District of Columbia, week after week churches have had services disrupted, windows broken out, bullets shot through doors, or have been spray-painted or set afire.
[...] Today anti-Catholic prejudice is being whipped up by Democrats and the middle-class left, who argue the “main threat to democracy” comes from “semi-fascists” and the far right, including Catholics who they smear as reactionary.
[...] Justice Amy Coney Barrett is a special target of leftists, who insist she seeks to impose her religious and moral agenda through her votes in court cases.
[...] Defending the right to worship freely — and fighting anti-Catholic bigotry, as well as Jew-hatred, attacks against Muslims and other assaults on religious freedom — is a crucial part of unifying the working class... (MORE - missing details)
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"Democrats and the middle-class left" of course refers to progressives (capitalists whose opportunistic leaders hijack the causes of radical do-gooderism for their own aims). Below is another socialist outlet that likewise isn't deceived by the "taxing the rich" propaganda. From their POV, it's again the proletariat (working class) that the establishment is sucking the blood from.
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As inflation eases slightly, Biden and the Fed say recessionary interest rises will continue
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12...u-d14.html
EXCERPT: . . . In response to the edging down of the CPI, President Joe Biden issued a statement hailing the news, declaring that “Inflation is coming down in America.”
Biden claimed the figures showed that his economic plan was “working,” adding that “we’re just getting started.” Biden’s so-called economic plan to fight inflation is based on a war against the working class, centered on driving up unemployment in order to undercut and crush workers’ demands for wage rises to compensate for the surging cost of living.
This reached a climax earlier this month when Biden, with the overwhelming support of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, rushed through a deal blocking a strike by rail workers and imposing a management-friendly contract with below-inflation pay rises and a continuation of intolerable work schedules.
Biden’s remarks echo the demands of Wall Street, which insists there be no let-up in the drive to make the working class pay the cost of inflation by holding down wage increases. Falsely pointing to wage increases as a major driving force of inflation, Michael Pond of Barclays PLC said, “The labor market is sort of the last stand, where strength there is leading to higher wage growth, and that could continue to pressure inflation.”
In reality, average wage rises are running well below the official inflation rate, meaning a significant cut in workers’ living standards. Not wages, but decades of virtually free credit to prop up corporate profits and stock prices, compounded by the disastrous response of ruling classes all over the world to the COVID-19 pandemic and the US/NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, are the real causes of devastating price increases... (MORE - missing details)
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Democrats, antifa push anti-Catholic attacks, bigotry
https://themilitant.com/2022/12/03/democ...s-bigotry/
EXCERPT: Over the last two years there have been at least 170 attacks on Catholic churches across the U.S. In 38 states and the District of Columbia, week after week churches have had services disrupted, windows broken out, bullets shot through doors, or have been spray-painted or set afire.
[...] Today anti-Catholic prejudice is being whipped up by Democrats and the middle-class left, who argue the “main threat to democracy” comes from “semi-fascists” and the far right, including Catholics who they smear as reactionary.
[...] Justice Amy Coney Barrett is a special target of leftists, who insist she seeks to impose her religious and moral agenda through her votes in court cases.
[...] Defending the right to worship freely — and fighting anti-Catholic bigotry, as well as Jew-hatred, attacks against Muslims and other assaults on religious freedom — is a crucial part of unifying the working class... (MORE - missing details)
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"Democrats and the middle-class left" of course refers to progressives (capitalists whose opportunistic leaders hijack the causes of radical do-gooderism for their own aims). Below is another socialist outlet that likewise isn't deceived by the "taxing the rich" propaganda. From their POV, it's again the proletariat (working class) that the establishment is sucking the blood from.
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As inflation eases slightly, Biden and the Fed say recessionary interest rises will continue
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12...u-d14.html
EXCERPT: . . . In response to the edging down of the CPI, President Joe Biden issued a statement hailing the news, declaring that “Inflation is coming down in America.”
Biden claimed the figures showed that his economic plan was “working,” adding that “we’re just getting started.” Biden’s so-called economic plan to fight inflation is based on a war against the working class, centered on driving up unemployment in order to undercut and crush workers’ demands for wage rises to compensate for the surging cost of living.
This reached a climax earlier this month when Biden, with the overwhelming support of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, rushed through a deal blocking a strike by rail workers and imposing a management-friendly contract with below-inflation pay rises and a continuation of intolerable work schedules.
Biden’s remarks echo the demands of Wall Street, which insists there be no let-up in the drive to make the working class pay the cost of inflation by holding down wage increases. Falsely pointing to wage increases as a major driving force of inflation, Michael Pond of Barclays PLC said, “The labor market is sort of the last stand, where strength there is leading to higher wage growth, and that could continue to pressure inflation.”
In reality, average wage rises are running well below the official inflation rate, meaning a significant cut in workers’ living standards. Not wages, but decades of virtually free credit to prop up corporate profits and stock prices, compounded by the disastrous response of ruling classes all over the world to the COVID-19 pandemic and the US/NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, are the real causes of devastating price increases... (MORE - missing details)