USA: For Human Need Over Capitalist Greed

Let’s Fight for a Socialist Future!

– October 2011 Statement of the Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA –

Washington, D.C. – We are pleased to be here in solidarity with the October 2011 Movement on the 10^th anniversary of the Bush and U.S. imperialist-led invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. For this protest righteously opposes the bipartisan “Republicrat” U.S. government’s War Abroad and its War at Home. We are inspired to be amongst the ranks of new and old fighters for Social Justice in the belly of the beast. Such October 2011 Movement slogans as, “human needs, not corporate greed,” “health care for all,” “tax the rich,” “workers before profits,” “end the wars: bring the troops home,” and “protect the planet” truly meet the needs of the 99% of us suffering under U.S. monopoly capitalist rule.

In this militant spirit, the sudden emergence and rapid growth of the Occupy Wall Street motion is extremely encouraging, as is the embrace of this new development by the October 2011 Movement. Thousands of people in the USA are now taking leadership from the Arab Spring, from the young people and working class of Tunisia, Egypt and the Middle East. By linking up with the Arab Spring, thousands of U.S. workers, unemployed, students, etc. are beginning to recognize that, like the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes and other U.S. imperialist-sponsored reactionary Arab regimes, the U.S. government too needs to be toppled!

The Arab Spring thus far, with all its widespread influence and moral power, has achieved only modest concrete gains and is still learning the strength of the U.S.-backed reactionary Arab rulers and the seriousness and depth of struggle that will be required in order to meet the fundamental needs of the Arab people. The October 2011 Movement and the Occupy Wall Street motion (as well as the Wisconsin workers) are only in the very beginning stages of learning similar crucial lessons about Wall Street dictatorship over the USA: U.S. Imperialism is still the main bulwark of world capitalism. Imperialism is a global political-economic system driven by the unrestricted motive of private profit at the expense of the working people and all humanity.

This system is incapable of fundamental reform in the absence of a powerful, organized, serious and disciplined revolutionary movement. To meet the just demands of the Occupy Wall Street and October 2011 Movements, we need to become capable of smashing U.S. imperialism and building a Socialist USA.

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