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Democratic Socialists of America, Haymarket Books hold online event to boost Democratic Party amid Coronavirus Crisis
Posted by: Barrickman ()
Date: March 29, 2020 10:25AM

On Thursday, Haymarket Books and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) hosted an online event titled “How to beat Coronavirus capitalism” featuring author Naomi Klein, Princeton professor and DSA member Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Debt Collective spokesperson and documentarian Astra Taylor. The event was called to paper over the role of the Democratic Party in creating conditions for the coronavirus to wreak havoc on the population of the US. Despite the meeting’s title and the left-wing pretensions of the speakers, there was hardly any reference to capitalism. The word “socialism” did not make an appearance and the Democratic Party was only referenced in favorable terms. The pro-Democratic Party thrust of the event sheds further light on the right-wing political motive behind the decision to dissolve the International Socialist Organization (ISO), with which Haymarket Books was previously affiliated, in March 2019, with most members joining the DSA. Thursday’s speakers were so careful to avoid any allusion to even nominal independence from the Democratic Party that they could not even mention the name of the DSA, which hosted the event!

The SEP calls for the enactment of a plan to nationalize the major industries, provide sick leave on full pay to all genuinely nonessential workers, coronavirus protection at work for all essential employees, and using trillions of dollars in government funding, procured through taxes on the rich, to produce the medical equipment required to save lives and to protect against the spread of the virus. We demand an end to all sanctions and trade war measures to ensure an internationally coordinated response to a disease that does not respect the arbitrary borders of the nation state system. We do not anticipate that the capitalist governments will enact such lifesaving measures. To this end we call for workers to organize rank-and-file committees in their workplaces, neighborhoods and schools to carry forward these social demands, enforce closures and shutdowns and guard against the implementation of police-state measures that the ruling class intends to keep in place long after the disease has passed. This is the perspective—the total opposite of that put forward by the DSA and Haymarket Books—that the Socialist Equality Party will elaborate on Sunday, March 29 at 1 PM at its online forum, “The Covid-19 pandemic: Capitalism and the making of a social and economic catastrophe.” We encourage all readers to attend this critical international meeting.

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Re: Democratic Socialists of America, Haymarket Books hold online event to boost Democratic Party amid Coronavirus Crisis
Posted by: OP loon ()
Date: March 29, 2020 11:14AM





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Re: Democratic Socialists of America, Haymarket Books hold online event to boost Democratic Party amid Coronavirus Crisis
Posted by: k ()
Date: March 29, 2020 05:58PM


it could only mean they are a crooked family connected to crooked democrats who are getting a crooked bailout on the corona label

the speak easy

the scam


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