Franz J.T. Lee, February, 2009
Coming Workers' riots in the Metropolis: Carte Blanche for Global Fascism?
According to a recent article published by Andre Damon on February 21, 2009: "General Motors workers are speaking out against pay cuts." However, "if a restructuring plan, "a final agreement is not reached by March 31, the Obama administration is maintaining a threat to withdraw existing loans and throw the companies into bankruptcy, where a judge would impose the concessions." -- This is what I call the iron fist of capital accumulation and destruction.
Many autoworkers are feeling betrayed by the Obama administration. Their imposed unions "have consigned them to poverty wages, and the Democratic party has given them nothing. The billionaires are getting bailouts, and the workers are are being told to take more pay and job cuts." This is the imperialist quintessence of globalization.
May Day! May Day! God Save the Bank Titans!
According to an article by Tara Perkins and Barrie Mackenna, published in the 'Globe and Mail' on February 20, 2009, "panic about the noose around US banks' neck is the unknown." Furthermore, they related that "panic about the fate of US financial titans has led to concern that one might not survive the weekend."
The mills of concentration, monopolization, competition, merging and centralization grind slowly, but surely!
Of course among the 'financial titans' are the Royal Bank of Canada, "the two largest US institutions -- Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc." What do the owners of these giant corporations fear? Not the specter of global communism, but of capitalist State nationalization, which is already scaring many "investors, economists and policy makers."
And who now all favor partial and temporary nationalization of the banking giants?
Not the 'Fourth International' of Leon Trotsky but members of Congress, "former US Federal Reserve Board chief Alan Greenspan, Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, and former Fed vice-chairman Alan Blinder, a professor at Princeton University." De facto, however, the US government is already the owner of Citigroup and Bank of America: "The Treasury Department has already injected $45-billion into each bank, receiving preferred shares in return. If converted into common stock, the government stake in the banks would easily eclipse their depressed market value."
Coming Workers' Riots in the Metropolis: Carte Blanche for Global Fascism?
In
a previous article I warned that this global depression will be worse
than the previous one of 1929 which lasted till 1945; in fact, in its
destructive, fascist quintessence, it lasted even longer, if we
consider the Vietnam and Indonesian massacres, especially its South
African and Israeli apartheid varieties and its Russian gulag
aspects.
In
reality this Great Depression has generated the 'Civil Liberties'
movements in the USA, the international student revolts, the
assassinations of Walter Rodney, Che Guevara, Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Malcolm X in the 1960s and later.
In
reality, it is giving birth to the current Global Recession and World
Depression which is just beginning.
Rob
Kall fears:
"This
economic crisis is going to be worse than the depression. Last week,
federal economists predicted that unemployment will not be improved
by 2011. It took 12 years and a world war to pull the US out of the
Great
Depression."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Coming-
Soon--Riots-in-Ame-by-Rob-Kall-090223-649.html
He
continues:
"The
world is going through a huge change. It WILL touch you. It will be
ugly, if it has not already been ugly. We all need to change
our habits, our lifestyles, in anticipation. No-one will escape
unscathed."
Have
we given our democratically elected leaders free and full authority,
'full spectrum dominance', to complete the works of fascism and
'national socialism' of the 20th century? Or are we going to rebel,
to fight against the introduction of global barbarism which has begun
long ago already, ever since the original accumulation of capital, of
profits, ruling class power and opulent social privileges.
The
current world recession has already destroyed 40% of global
wealth, has ransacked the savings of the toiling workers, is
cutting our salaries, our social benefits for which we fought ever
since the dawn of industrialization; it is destroying all our
daydreams and hopes for a humane, humanist future.
What
must still happen to wake us up?
*
That a loaf of bread cost a worthless million dollars, printed by the
Fed, that are not even worth the paper on which they are printed?
*
To march into World War III guided by propaganda of the Goebbels
genre?
*
To throw the mother of all bombs on innocent women, mothers and
children?
*
To fill Siberia, gulags, football fields and camps with millions of
"mad cows"?
*
To go on a Bushman 'fox-hunting' spree on Sunday afternoon in
Namibia? As Hutus and Tutsis to kill ourselves by the millions?
*
To kill a million 'communists' in Djakarta, Indonesia?
*
To throw atomic bombs on 'Sodom and Gomorrah'?
This
is the 'crown of creation', the 'paragon of animals', 'homo sapiens
sapiens'? Or is it 'homo homini lupus'?
Well,
all these we did before, during and after the Great Depression of
1929?
Just
guess what we have in mind, what our loving masters have in mind, for
us over the next decade!
Workers
of the world, make revolutionary hay while the creative sun still
shines, otherwise we will have to hit the emancipatory iron
very hard while it is still hot!