TERESA GUTIERREZ:
'Get out in the streets'
This year will forever be marked as the infamous Anybody But
Bush year. The fear that George W. Bush evokes is regrettably
propelling some sectors in the movement and in the working
class once again toward the Democratic Party.
[But] it's not about which rich white man is in the White
House this year. Both capitalist parties want to occupy Iraq
and the Middle East. Both want U.S. imperialism to dominate the
area, control the oil and to get rid of the leaders for
self-determination.
History proves that it's about who's in the streets that
makes fundamental change in society. It is class consciousness
that is decisive, not dependency on the capitalist machine.
[T]he real difference between John Kerry and George Bush is
merely tactical. One may represent a certain sector of the
ruling class, another a wider sector, but they both represent
the ruling class. It shows that what we have to fight is the
capitalist system.
That's why we run in this election: to point out that for
the last 200 years, the role of both parties is to ... put a
brake on the struggle of the working class against the ruling
class.
The most revolutionary thing we can do in this climate,
until the workers and oppressed are ready to not only break
with the capitalist parties but to abolish the system
altogether, is to instill in the people that it is they who
have the power to change things ...
Reprinted from the Sept. 30, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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