The Trump administration continues escalating its full-scale assault on our most basic rights. The whole country watched in horror as an ICE agent gunned down Renee Good in Minneapolis. The full-scale invasion of the city by thousands of federal agents aims to round up and deport huge numbers of Somali immigrants. This reign of terror is being replicated in every part of the country.
At the same time, Trump’s billionaire agenda advances on other fronts. His administration is cutting off vital aid to heating and food programs, accelerating the destruction of the environment, and doing nothing as healthcare costs are set to spike dramatically. He has invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president, and is threatening to go back to war with Iran.
Only an expression of people’s power on a historic scale can push back a ruling class offensive of this magnitude. We need a general strike! A general strike is when workers of all types walk off the job, people boycott shopping and school, and massive mobilizations take place. A general strike shows in a way that is impossible to ignore that workers make the country run, and if we withhold our labor then nothing functions.
This week, people around the country are honoring the radical legacy Martin Luther King Jr. MLK committed his life to fighting what he called the “three evils of society” – racism, war and poverty. That is a perfect encapsulation of what Trump’s agenda is all about – impoverish the people to make the rich richer, unleash the most vile racist propaganda and violence on society, and wage war around the world in pursuit of absolute power.
Trump and his billionaire friends have all the money in the world. But the people have overwhelming strength in numbers, and we’re the ones who make society run. A general strike can stop Trump in his tracks!
