[OccupyCU] Portland, June 4: Portland Labor Mobilizes to Stop Fascist Provocation

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Police Protect Vastly Outnumbered Racists
Portland Labor Mobilizes to Stop Fascist Provocation
Militants from 14 Area Unions Point the Way Forward

http://www.internationalist.org/portlandlabormobilizesagainstfascists1706.html

The June 4 rally of white-supremacist and outright fascist Trump
supporters in Portland, OR was protected by triple lines of heavily
armed police. However, it was surrounded by far greater numbers of
furious protesters outraged by this brazen provocation barely a week
after the double murder by a local Nazi. One of three protests, a
mobilization called by Portland Labor Against the Fascists brought out
several hundred union members and supporters, including members of at
least 14 area unions. The labor mobilization stood its ground to the
very end, with non-stop chants and speeches that reverberated throughout
the area for over six hours until the last of the racist and fascist
scum exited on busses protected by the police. This marks the first
significant working-class action in the U.S. against white supremacists
in decades. June 4 points to the potential for organizing workers
defense guards that could send the fascist vermin scurrying back into
their holes. It was an important first step in bringing out the power of
the labor movement in defense of working people, immigrants, Muslims and
all those targeted by the all-round reactionary offensive coming out of
Washington. And it sharply posed the need for a workers party fighting
to overthrow the capitalist system that breeds fascism, and to replace
it with the liberating rule of the working class.