SEP to hold rally in February 9th in defense of Autoworkers

"The World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter has received many statements of support in the last few days for the Saturday, February 9 demonstration in Detroit called by the Autoworker Newsletter and the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees. The demonstration is aimed at mobilizing opposition to the plans by General Motors to close five plants in the US and Canada, including major assembly plants in Detroit, Michigan, Lordstown, Ohio and Oshawa, Ontario, and the elimination of the jobs of more than 14,000 production and salaried workers.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Unifor union in Canada have opposed any industrial action to fight the plant closings and mass layoffs. Instead, the unions have ramped up their anti-Mexican nationalism in an effort to prevent a unified struggle between autoworkers in the US and Canada and their brothers in Mexico who have been waging a determined battle against poverty wages paid by multinational auto parts producers in Matamoros.

The demonstration is fighting for the formation of rank-and-file factory and workplace committees, independently of the UAW and Unifor, to unite autoworkers in the US, Canada and Mexico, along with other sections of the working class to fight the attack on jobs by GM and other global automakers.

The urgency of the demonstration is underscored by the start of the jobs massacre today with 4,250 engineers, IT workers, marketing employees and other salaried workers being marched out of the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan and other locations. “I will be trembling at my desk, just waiting for HR or my director to say: ‘I’m sorry sir, it’s time for you to leave,’” one global marketing worker wrote on the web blog thelayoff.com last night.

The job cuts come in advance of the company’s 2018 report due out Wednesday that is expected to show a decline in profits from the $11.9 billion the company made in 2017. The aim is to reassure Wall Street investors that the company is stepping up attacks on its workforce in order to drive up its earnings in 2019."

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Anyone who considers themselves an ally of the working class is strongly encouraged to attend this rally. It is a conscious attempt to bring a revolutionary perspective to the strikes that are about to be engaged by workers

Link to the event: facebook.com/events/1719458588201031/

Attached to this link is a video of the press conference in which Labor Editor of the WSWS, Jerry White engages reporters on questions about the event: facebook.com/autoworker.newsletter/videos/540063543170787/

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Has anybody heard Jimmy Dore update stuff on Matamoros?
Get this on reddit with some union propaganda as well if you can, ive posted about it.

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Comrades of Detroit, join in if possible!

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Laughed pretty hard at this, thanks comrade

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At least they're doing something and trying to organize workers against getting fucking screwed

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Mobilize lads

Is the IWW involved with the SEP in this event?

given that Trots are cops, they will be the ones screwing the workers

The SEP are some of the most serious and disciplined Marxists in the country. Complain about them being autistic and sectarian, but they are actually doing shit while whatever shitty cult you're in just talks trash. That is assuming you do anything and aren't just some COINTELPRO wrecker.

The SEP rejects EVERY kind of cooperation with other communist/leftist orgs. For me, they are a great example of ultraleftism.

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I'm an ML and am in full support of this event. Anyone trying to sow division here is a wrecker.

shut up trot cultist

Do you think this rally is bad?

This is the proper step towards creating Soviets. Great that the SEP focuses on Detroit as well, the workers there need something like this.

100% this. This is an extremely important event.

It is absolutely paramount that we spread this around lads. Spread it as much as you can!

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I don't think you know how US votingi.e lobbyingworks.

Spam that account boys

The SEP is trying to reject the nationalism of the UAW and Unifor and attempting to connect workers worldwide in an internationalist perspective. This is how you build revolutionary consciousness in the working class and how you create militant leaders within the workers movements

Fuck yes.

POWER TO THE SOVIETS

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Kaiserreich is set in 2036

Guys help spread this news as far as possible. Surely this event will be blacklisted but workers need to know that they are fighting not only for an end to job cuts but against the capitalist system itself. The SEP is a militant organization with comrades who have served for decades, but now it needs an infusion of youth and people savvy with online resources.

But I fucking hate those ultraleft sectarian trot cunts
How can I help as an aussie?

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The Australian branch of the SEP is actually extremely militant. The SEP is holding a rally in defense of Julian Assange on March 3 in Sydney and March 10 in Melbourne, and filmmaker John Pilger will be speaking.

wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/05/assa-f05.html

If you wish to join, you can go to wsws.org and there is a link to the right. For now the best think you can do is help share this news wherever possible and contact the SEP or the youth branch, the IYSSE in your area. We may be known as "ultra-left" but that does not mean we shy away from discussion. Ask them any questions that you have and you will be met with the highest levels of discourse on why the SEP believes what it does.

Though they are Trots / SocialDemocrats I applaud them for this and for not being either insane RedLibs / Cults like most other US groups seemingly are

This makes my benis become the big benis

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Spread it to alot popular leftist IG accounts. Anymore ways of spreading awarness?

You can try twitter or facebook. Reddit may work as well

I like WSWS as long they don't talk about the Soviet Union or Stalin.

when will it be it be a good idea to defend Stalin in public

They're pretty damn cultish. Like said, they reject any kind of cooperation with any other leftist orgs, calling them Pseudo-Left Pabloites, Healyites, Hansenites, etc. Their leader is a literal multi-millionaire capitalist and has wrote the party line for 30+ years, all resolutions at party congresses are adopted "unanimously".

cool

As Marxists, its immensely important to analyze historical developments. This applies even more to the formation of the vanguard party. For anyone that is interested, read up on the historical foundations of the SEP here:
wsws.org/en/articles/2008/09/hist-s29.html

Look through the articles written by the WSWS in the past. About what they said about the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Chavez regime, 9/11, and so forth and search for yourself what the other organizations have devolved into. The analysis of the WSWS has always been correct while other organizations have faltered. There is a reason for this. The call for rank-and-file committees itself comes at the exact time in which they are desperately needed. Why is it that no other organizations are organizing events calling explicitly with a break from the trade unions and the call to link the workers struggles internationally?

Going beyond this, what problems do you have with the strategy being pursued here? Workers desperately need a vanguard with an international perspective. The SEP seeks to provide it with the immense historical experience that the party carries.

I really want to not find them so immensely annoying.
Help.

Just embrace capitalism

Matamoros woker in Mexico extending support to Detroit Workers in upcoming GM rally

youtube.com/watch?v=UJzAuhWg53Y

Explain?

Samefag SEP shill has half the posts in this damn thread.

Yes trade union organising is important (although only a Trot with no TU experience would think a rally constitutes that), no, joining your pathetic Trot grouplet built on literal capitalist funds is not a good idea for anyone.

Impolite sage.

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You’re very angry friend

Mexican auto parts workers are supporting our February 9 demonstration in Detroit!

Griselda, a leader of the rank-and-file committee at Fisher Dynamics, issued the following statement:

“I support the call for a general strike in Canada, the US and Mexico to put an end to layoffs, abuses and to win fair salaries. We must be united. There are no borders in our fight. We stand firm here.”

Read more statements of support: wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/06/mata-f06.html

Can you even try to be a less obvious shill?

Alright then, care to explain why literally all votes being "unanimous" isn't a bad thing? Why there seemingly hasn't been factional divide in the party for decades? The ball is in your court.

What if they're all bugmen that agree on literally everything?

Stop being LARPing sectarian faggots, and work on getting these fucks on it already.
Last post with this shit
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We are already in the simulations

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SEP abides by democratic centralism. There are disputes but they are discussed within the party meetings and worked out. Thats why the votes are unanimous.

Sri Lankan tea plantation workers committee supports call for February 9 demonstration in Detroit!

In 2018, tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka launched a powerful strike against tea operators in a rebellion against the pro-management trade union. They launched a rank-and-file action committee, the Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee, to organize, direct and broaden their struggle. The committee sent the following statement urging workers in the US and Canada to attend the demonstration planned for February 9 at 2 pm at GM headquarters in Detroit against job closures and concessions.

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We, the Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka, would like to bring our warm greetings to the demonstration in front of General Motors headquarters in Detroit on February 9, called by the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter and the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees, against plant closings by General Motors.

We are aware that GM is planning to shut five factories in the US and Canada and eliminate nearly 15,000 hourly and salaried workers. We understand that this is a part of a global restructuring of the auto industry, driven by big business for super profits, which will escalate the divide between the haves and the have-nots.
The situation faced by the plantation workers and other sections of the working class here in Sri Lanka is also the result of similar policies of the profit hungry big business trans-national companies and bankers.

As plantation workers in Sri Lanka, we are confronted with brutal policies carried out by employers, with the full backing of their government in power. During the recent wave of strikes by plantation workers here, we had to intervene against the trade unions, which were collaborating with the employers and the government, to bring an international political perspective to the workers’ movement. We have realized, through our own experience, that this requires an independent organization like the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees to be organized on an international level, cutting across national-state boundaries.

Hence, we consider the actions taken by the steering committee to be a blow not only for the defense of the fundamental rights of the US auto workers, but also on behalf of the international working class as a whole. We follow closely the development of class struggles internationally and prepare ourselves to join them based on a common strategy against social counter-revolution and imperialist war.

With fraternal greetings,
Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee, Sri Lanka.

How many members has the US SEP? I can't find any information about this.

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