[OccupyCU] To Defeat Trump … And the Democrats, Fight for Workers Revolution

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Post-Traumatic Election Shock
To Defeat Trump … And the Democrats, Fight for Workers Revolution

http://www.internationalist.org/workersrevolutiontodefeattrumpanddemocrats1611.html

After all the media hype, suddenly it turned out that Republican Donald
Trump was elected. The racist, sexist, immigrant-bashing,
woman-molesting Trump would be the next CEO of the United States and
commander-in-chief of U.S. imperialism. In deep shock and disbelief,
tens of millions asked, how could this happen? In Muslim, Latino,
African American and immigrant families there was raw fear. Soon mass
protests began, with many chanting “Not My President” (as if Democrat
Clinton, a certified warmonger, would have been?). At the same time,
racist incidents multiplied. It is urgently necessary to fight back, but
the question is how? The answer depends on understanding what happened,
and why. Trump certainly mobilized the hard-core racist vote, and
better-off middle class voters. But what put him over the top was the
vote of residents of dying small towns and white workers in the Rust
Belt, who have seen their jobs destroyed and cities devastated. The fact
is that with their economic policies, the Democrats pushed millions of
workers into the arms of Trump. What is urgently needed is to break from
the Democrats, Republicans and all capitalist parties and build a
class-struggle workers party. Such a party would fight for a program of
mass workers action against the deportations, for workers defense guards
against racist attacks, and to oppose the imperialist war drive in a
struggle leading to workers revolution.