tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21402789191346421562024-03-12T19:42:13.399-07:00Oklahoma Workers' MonthlyThe #1 News Source for the Oklahoma Working Class, produced by the Communist Party of Oklahoma.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-90645145396332839602014-11-15T11:42:00.002-08:002014-11-15T11:42:52.843-08:00The New Socialist Gun Review Issue is Out - Fighting the Police State EditionThe Socialist Gun Review supports the people of Ferguson! All power to the people!<br />
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Gun News & Current Events - PAGES 4 –6<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Revolution will be Organized - PAGE 7<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Message from the Black Riders Liberation Party – PAGE 11<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Know your Rights – PAGE 16<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Indigenous Peoples Liberation Party – PAGE 18<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Black Open Carry Protesters – PAGE 20<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Legendary TT-33 – PAGE 23<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Revolutionary Organizations on the other side of the razor wire – PAGE 25<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Its Raining Pigs Rats and Moles! – PAGE 27<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Toward a Socialist Militia – PAGE 37<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Excerpts from A Primer to Police Crowd Control Tactics and Firearms – PAGE 40<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />How to Properly Open Carry – PAGE 49<br style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Guns, Sisters, Guns – PAGE 51</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-44224670344800995442014-06-08T18:44:00.001-07:002014-06-08T18:45:37.544-07:00Introducing The Socialist Gun Review - A Pro 2nd Amendment Socialist Zine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A revolutionary socialist zine dedicated to the arming and training of the working class and oppressed peoples for self defense and liberation. We promote gun safety, education, and ownership as a means of reducing gun violence, both from criminal activity and state repression. This zine examines guns not as material property, but rather as tools of revolution, and the ideas they represent for liberation and empowerment. We oppose all “liberal” attempts to restrict and disarm the people, as well as the perpetuation of racist, sexist, homo and trans-phobic violence by reactionary “conservatives” such as the NRA. We recognize that both are two sides to the same coin of capitalist oppression, and that only through vigilant self defense and revolutionary activity will the oppressed become liberated.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-25465865658952420632013-09-02T16:51:00.001-07:002013-09-02T16:51:02.907-07:00September edition of the Oklahoma Workers' Monthly is availableTo download a PDF copy of the print edition of the <i>Oklahoma Workers' Monthly</i> for September, please click <a href="http://cpok.us/2013/09/02/oklahoma-workers-monthly-for-september-2013-is-out-now/">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-85387214618427070532013-08-04T08:37:00.002-07:002013-08-04T08:37:19.551-07:00August edition of the Oklahoma Workers' Monthly is availableTo download a PDF copy of the print edition of the <i>Oklahoma Workers' Monthly</i> for August, please click <a href="http://cpok.us/2013/08/04/oklahoma-workers-monthly-for-august-2013-is-out-now/">here</a>.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-19263778043513400842013-07-21T07:17:00.005-07:002013-07-21T07:17:49.641-07:00July edition of the Oklahoma Workers' Monthly is availableTo download a PDF copy of the print edition of the <i>Oklahoma Workers' Monthly</i> for July, please click <a href="http://cpok.us/2013/07/11/oklahoma-workers-monthly-for-july-2013-is-out-now/">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-51643061197048824192013-06-04T13:14:00.000-07:002013-06-04T13:14:30.570-07:00Low-Wage Strikes Starting to Improve Jobs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="en-US"> </span>A number of fast-food and retail workers say their jobs improved after they walked out on their employer in a wave of one-day strikes over the past few months.</div>
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Fast-food workers in Seattle walked out of dozens of restaurants on Wednesday night and Thursday, marking the seventh one-day strike in the past eight weeks. Low-wage workers have gone on strike in New York, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee. Now the workers say they are seeing some improvement in their jobs after returning. The Huffington Post reports:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Conditions, hours, positions and pay have improved for a number of workers who participated in strikes in the last two months, organizers say. They point to Krystal Collins in Chicago, who got a 0.25 cent hourly raise and was switched from part-time to full-time after walking off her job at Macy's in April, and to Claudette Wilson, Romell Frazier and Khalil Dorris in Detroit, who forced their Burger King to close for the day in early May and subsequently saw their hours increase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Eddie Guzman needed to work at least 20 hours a week to be eligible for welfare programs, such as food stamps and affordable housing. But his requests for more hours at the Brooklyn Burger King were met with deaf ears. Guzman's managers kept his working hours between 12 and 15 a week. After the strike he was fired, but then: ...community organizers and New York city council member Brad Lander went to the Burger King (BKW) to ask for his job back... Within days, Guzman had his job back and was scheduled to work at least 20 hours per week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">(He) spent eight years showing new employees the ropes and training others to get better positions at McDonald's. But he was never able to move up the ranks himself. That was until he and other workers rallied on Black Friday outside of the location where he worked in Chicago's Navy Pier. His managers saw Wilson protesting. The very next day, they told him that the position he had been gunning for was finally open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In preparation for plunging the US into another bloody and senseless war overseas, Sen. John McCain visited with Syrian “rebels” last month to pledge support in their campaign to overthrow the democratically elected government of Syria. For over 2 years, the “Free Syrian Army”, a disparate collection of Al-Qaeda linked jihadists and a handful of deserters from the Syrian Army, have waged an unremitting war of terrorist violence against the Syrian civilian population, sending out waves of suicide bombers and car bombs in Damascus and surrounding areas, as well as more conventional urban battles with the Syrian army. By far the most horrific attacks by the FSA were in Alleppo, where the jihadists used chemical weapons in their attack on March 19th.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">Following the horrific aftermath of the EF-5 tornado last month, the second to hit the town in the past 14 years, the necessity for providing adequate storm protection in public schools and community shelters should be obvious, but as the ongoing debate in Moore city government proves, students could continue to be at risk for some time to come. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The majority of the debate seems to be raging on the topic of the site for the reconstruction of Park Plaza Elementary and Mayor Lewis’ campaign to require new home construction to include storm shelters, but other than School Superintendent Pierce’s expressing that she is “hopeful” that a saferoom will be included in the construction of the new school, there are no guarantees from the city government. There are no state requirements for storm shelters in schools and public buildings, and state emergency managers do not even track which schools are unprotected. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">In a radio interview with NPR, when asked about safe rooms being required for schools, City Manager Steve Eddy replied, “Lives, you can't count the cost or the value of lives, but you can count the cost of construction. It adds a sig</span><span lang="en-US">nificant amount of cost to construction. The taxpayers would have to determine whether they're going to pay that or not.” The City of Moore had no qualms in allocating over $700,000 in corporate tax incentives to Target and IMAX theaters in 2012. Let’s hope the City considers children’s lives more valuable than corporate kickbacks, or the price could be much higher when the next storm hits.</span><span lang="en-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-12755236331899277952013-06-04T12:51:00.001-07:002013-06-04T12:51:52.299-07:00Labor Unions Work to Bring Relief to Disaster-hit Families in Oklahoma<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Response to the CPUSA National Committee’s statement on Gun Control</div>
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By Daniel Lee </div>
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A document bearing the headline <a href="http://e2.ma/webview/p2zgf/cb3bef12bd4df132837b7001dd172fe3" target="_blank">“A statement by the CommunistParty USA”</a> was recently emailed to CPUSA membership and email subscribers, as
well as posted on its website and social media. The “statement”, actually
issued by the national leadership at 23<sup>rd</sup> street in New York, titled
“The fight to curb gun violence is a working-class issue,” comes out like an
imperial edict or dictatorial decree. The “head honchos” have apparently
forgotten the democratic processes the Party has in place for decision-making. It
seems everything that comes from Sam Webb and his cronies are now considered infallible
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ex cathedra</i>, and instantly becomes
the official line of the party without discussion or room for dissent. Other
instances of this include Webb’s “unofficial” documents, such as “A Party of
Socialism in the 21st Century: What It Looks Like, What It Says, and What It
Does” which when it was published by Political Affairs carried the disclaimer -
“<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The following article represents the views of
its author alone. It doesn't necessarily reflect the official views of any
organization or collective.”</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> – but somehow became set in stone, bronzed and lacquered, embossed and
covered in gold leaf as the Official Party Line, and any member who has spoken
out against it since has been labeled “anti-party”, “ultra-leftist”, and “</span></em><span class="uficommentbody">does not represent any part of the Communist Party USA</span>”.
Those of us who point out its blatant revisionism are immediately accused of “name-calling”
and being “dogmatic”. With this latest statement however, there is not even the
pretext of democracy. Any dissent or differences of view are not only
considered to be in violation of “Democratic Centralism”, but according to this
statement, are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“supporting the enemies
of America’s working people.”</b> </div>
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Moving on to the actual text of the message, however, shows
it to be a thinly-veiled attempt to link gun ownership to:</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Union busting</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>“Attacking…Medicare, Medicaid and Social
Security”</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Working to cut and privatize public education</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> <span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>“Seek[ing] to slash accessible and affordable
health care”</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>“Oppos[ing] President Obama’s stimulus program
to create millions of jobs and rebuild infrastructure”</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>“Promot[ing] racism and attacks on the rights of
women, immigrants, gays and lesbians.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>“Climate-change deniers who are backed by the
fossil fuel industry.”</li>
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Did they miss anything? It seems that having a gun is
apparently the Original Sin which caused the fall of man! This ridiculous logical
fallacy of “guilt by association” is not only intellectually dishonest by even
an elementary schoolchild’s standards, but shows the desperation of the Webb
faction to scare the membership into following their every utterance blindly,
which is in complete disregard for the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and over
150 years of revolutionary Marxist history. </div>
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They point to the second amendment as having been “adopted
to enable the new American republic, lacking a standing army or state national
guards, to muster militia to put down domestic uprisings and repulse any
attempted return by the British. Which is what it did in repressing slave
revolts, Native Americans, and poor farmers during Shay’s Rebellion.” Should I
also point out that it was guns which enabled the champions of the people to
rise up and defend themselves, their families, and the oppressed, such as John
Brown’s Rebellion in 1859, whose actions brought to the forefront of the
American consciousness the need to abolish slavery? </div>
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<span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #7F7F7F; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Look, John Brown’s
holding a gun! He must be a racist!</span></div>
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Shay’s Rebellion itself in 1786 was an armed uprising <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>led by trained ex-Army officers who attempted
to seize an armory for the purpose of securing more, you guessed it, weapons–
hardly the “nonviolent mass organization” of poor farmers the Webbites claim
them to be. Thomas Jefferson himself, in reference to the rebellion in a letter
to James Madison said “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good
thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the
rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth
should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of
rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for
the sound health of government”, and “The tree of liberty must be refreshed
from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural
manure.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2140278919134642156#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>
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Native Americans also have been known to use guns to defend
themselves and their people against an Imperialist US government. In fact, had
they not used “military-grade” weaponry, they would have all been obliterated
long ago. </div>
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Heston.</span></div>
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From the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the Wounded Knee
incident in 1973, Native Americans have needed weapons to defend themselves
against Federal and State “democratic” governments who have ordered their
murders, the abduction of their children, and the genocide of their peoples and
culture.</div>
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Here in Oklahoma, there was a Socialist uprising in 1917
called the Green Corn Rebellion. It was an uprising by white <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmers" title="Tenant farmers"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tenant
farmers</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Seminoles</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscogee_Creek" title="Muscogee Creek"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Muscogee
Creeks</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" title="African-American"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">African-Americans</span></a> in response to the government’s
attempts to enforce a draft sending their young men to fight and die in an
Imperialist war. They were armed, and ready to defend themselves and their
people. </div>
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Union workers for over a century have had to be armed to
protect themselves against strike-breakers and police forces that brutalize and
murder their comrades and their families. The Ludlow Mine Massacre did not
happen because a group of miners sat down and sang “Kumbayah” – but rather
because the miners dared to defend themselves against attack, and held off the
strike breakers’ thugs and National Guard goons for months, before they were
finally massacred in the spring of 1914. However, their deaths paved the way for
many of the workers’ rights we have today.</div>
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The Black Panther Party is famously known for exercising
their second amendment rights and carrying weapons to demonstrate their ability
to defend their rights. In fact, it is their “bearing of arms” which caused the
NRA and the KKK to support stricter gun control laws! The Deacons for Defense
and Justice were another African American civil rights and defense organization
which were armed during the 1960’s throughout the South. While many do not remember
them today, the Deacons were instrumental in protecting African American
communities from brutal repression not only from the Klan, but also the US
government. According to Robert Hicks, a former civil rights leader and
activist in the Louisiana chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Klan would
drive through our neighborhood shooting at us, shooting into our homes, and the
police wouldn't help. The black men in the community wouldn’t stand for it. You
shoot at us, we shoot back at you. I’m convinced that without our guns, my
family and many other black people would not be alive today.”</div>
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Of course, the reformist milksops cry, those armed uprisings
and rebellions were unsuccessful! They did not succeed in their aims, and the participants
were killed or imprisoned. Even the Deacons were investigated intensely by the
FBI, who cared nothing about the violence the black community faced from the
KKK. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, just because a particular
uprising is not successful, it does not mean that it was wrong. Rosa Luxemburg led
the workers in the Spartacist Uprising in 1919. Was she wrong for doing so because
the Social-Democrat government brutally murdered her and the other workers? </div>
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Even the Russian Revolution took over 20 years of agitation and unsuccessful
uprisings which resulted in hundreds of deaths for the workers to successfully
overthrow the Czar, and then, it took one more revolution for the Bolsheviks to
overthrow the “democratically elected” bourgeois government and establish the
worker’s Soviet state. Did they accomplish this by peaceful, “nonviolent mass
organization”? No! It took the sacrifice of many for the rest of the workers to
rise up as they saw their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers, neighbors and
friends bravely fighting and dying to liberate their fellow workers. </div>
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Flying in the face of these truly revolutionary examples,
the Webb faction thunders condemnation at those of us who honor the sacrifices
of workers past and seek to chart a course in their example – </div>
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“And we want to make this clear: Personal possession of
weaponry is not a revolutionary means to change the system in our country in
the 21st century, as some self-proclaimed “revolutionaries” and some extreme
right wingers claim. The great social changes that have transformed our society
in the modern era have come about through the nonviolent mass organization and
struggles of the American people. In unity there is strength. This is the way
forward to progressive change as well as the path to achieve more basic
transformation - a socialist society that is deeply democratic, egalitarian,
and at peace with the world.”</div>
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These outright lies are not only a complete repudiation of
revolutionary Marxist-Leninist principles, but do a grave disservice to all
those who fought and died for workers freedoms here in the US and around the
world. Standing in sharp contrast are the very words of the Communist Manifesto
– </div>
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“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible
overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at
a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their
chains. They have a world to win.”</div>
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I choose the side of the “self-proclaimed ‘revolutionaries’”
such as John Brown, Marx, Lenin, Che Guevara, and Huey Newton. Whose side are
you on? </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2140278919134642156#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> The
results of Shay’s rebellion, which though it was put down, influenced the
adoption of the US Constitution and the necessity for a Bill of Rights to
protect people (at the time, white male property owners) against undue
encroachment from the government on personal liberties – including gun
ownership.</div>
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By Daniel Lee</div>
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In a recent editorial piece published by Peoples World, the
newspaper of the CPUSA, titled “Guns, profits and Sandy Hook” – the article
started by opening with the need for the country to “get serious about
regulating guns.” It pontificates further, giving a perfunctory nod to universal
health access as “a piece of the puzzle” to preventing the epidemic of gun
violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The editorial then issues a
call for a “broad enough coalition to confront and curb those who profit from
manufacturing and dealing in these individual weapons of mass destruction”. It
places the blame squarely on the gun lobbyists, and the corporations that
profit from the sale of guns. The article ends finally in demanding a “Ban [of]
assault weapons and high capacity bullet clips”. This article, which could have
been written by any bourgeois Democrat or liberal group from Nancy Pelosi to Moveon.org,
buys into the reactionary “liberal” approach of treating the symptom without
curing the disease. Certainly those profiting off of the sale of weapons
through the promotion of violence and racism must be made accountable for their
exploitation and oppression of our fellow workers – and let us not forget that
the US Government is one of the largest gun runners in the world, fueling
instability, murder, and genocide of the proletariat around the globe, a fact
PW conveniently leaves out. The article fails to mention that nearly 2,000
civilians were wounded in our War of Imperialism in Afghanistan , Pakistan, and
Iraq during the first six months of 2012. About 1,145 civilians were killed in
that same time period, <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41084.pdf"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">according to
U.N. totals.</span></a> James Holmes’, <span class="st">Adam Lanza’s, and other
serial killers’ crimes are dwarfed by this monstrosity in comparison,</span>
making the US government by far the most psychotic killer, still at large and
continuing to slaughter men, women and children by the thousands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These figures don’t even take into account the
hundreds of unarmed civilians slaughtered by uniformed bourgeois Police gangs
across the country. Where is PW’s outrage to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i> crime? Where is the demand to confiscate the government’s
guns?</div>
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As Marxist-Leninists, we must approach the issue of gun
control as we do any other issue – under the scientific principles of Marxist-Leninist
revolutionary theory and practice. We affirm first and foremost the absolute
supremacy of the interests of the working class, and the necessity of
revolution for the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat to
completely overthrow the oppression of the Bourgeois state and its minions. As
Marx and Engels famously wrote at the end of the Communist Manifesto, <span class="usercontent">"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible
overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at
a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.”
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<span class="usercontent">When we talk about gun ownership
then, we must talk about the rights of the workers to bear arms. One way or
another, the bourgeois will exert their will through force either directly or
indirectly, and usually through the cats-paw of the government and its military
and police institutions to repress the working class and protect their own
property interests. How then shall the workers protect their interests? As Marx
writes, </span></div>
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"<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The arming of
the whole proletariat with rifles, guns, and ammunition should be carried out
at once</span> [and] the workers must ... organize themselves into an
independent guard, with their own chiefs and general staff. ... [The aim is]
that the bourgeois democratic Government not only immediately loses all backing
among the workers, but from the commencement finds itself under the supervision
and threats of authorities behind whom stands the entire mass of the working
class. ...As soon as the new Government is established they will commence to
fight the workers. In order that this party (i.e., the democrats) whose
betrayal of the workers will begin with the first hour of victory, should be
frustrated in its nefarious work, it is necessary to organize and arm the
proletariat." - Karl Marx, Address to the Communist League (1850)</div>
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This quote sounds as if it were written for the times we are
facing today! However, Dialectical Materialism teaches us that the issues and
struggles of history are cyclical, and though taking new forms, at the heart of
the struggle remains the eternal war for class dominance. </div>
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Moving forward to Lenin, the great leader of the October
Revolution in Russia, we see that he too advocated arming the workers:</div>
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“The minimum programme of the Social-Democrats calls for the
replacement of the standing army by a universal arming of the people. Most of
the official Social-Democrats in Europe and most of our own Menshevik leaders,
however, have “forgotten” or put aside the Party’s programme, substituting
chauvinism (“defencism”) for internationalism, <a href="http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm#reformism"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">reformism</span></a>
for <a href="http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm#revolutionary"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">revolutionary</span></a>
tactics. </div>
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Yet now of all times, at the present revolutionary moment,
it is most urgent and essential that there be a universal arming of the people.
To assert that, while we have a revolutionary army, there is no need to arm the
proletariat, or that there would “not be enough” arms to go round, is mere
deception and trickery. The thing is to begin organizing a universal militia
straight away, so that everyone should learn the use of arms even if there is
“not enough” to go round, for it is not at all necessary that the people have
enough weapons to arm everybody. The people must learn, one and all, how to use
arms, they must belong, one and all, to the militia which is to replace the
police and the standing army. </div>
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The workers do not want an army standing apart from the
people; what they want is that the workers and soldiers should <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">merge</span></em> into a single militia
consisting of all the people.” - A Proletarian Militia by VI Lenin</div>
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Comrade Stalin, the fierce defender of the fledgling workers’
Soviet democracy and the Champion against Nazi aggression, said that the “most
important countermeasure against counterrevolution is the arming of the workers
and peasants.”</div>
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Finally, from the writings of the revered leader and
liberator of the Chinese people, Mao Zedong, we find this important commentary
on the role of the Red Army: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The
Chinese Red Army is an armed body for carrying out the political tasks of the
revolution. Especially at present, the Red Army should certainly not confine
itself to fighting; besides fighting to destroy the enemy's military strength,
it should shoulder such important tasks as doing propaganda among the masses,
organizing the masses, arming them, helping them to establish revolutionary
political power and setting up Party organizations." </div>
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Certainly, each statement above applies to a particular
instance in time at that particular stage of revolution in each writer’s
respective countries. However, the principle remains the same. The workers must
be made able to protect and defend themselves. In some cases, such as in 1916
Russia, the bourgeois were even willing to finance a workers militia - to
protect their own interests – which Lenin said should be paid for by the bourgeoisie,
but that the militia must above all protect the workers both from external
threats, and from the bourgeois within the gates. </div>
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At this point in time, the bourgeois state is not in a state
of flux which would necessitate them calling upon the workers to form militias –
in fact, such a thing is considered a threat to the Imperialist State’s
hegemonic domination. Thus we can expect no checks to be coming in the mail
from the rich for the funding of workers’ protection. However, we must still
encourage the exercising of such rights still granted to all people by the Bourgeoisie
state for the protection of the working class and minorities. We can take a
lesson from the Black Panthers, who encouraged black communities to arm and
protect themselves instead of relying on the unpredictable and brutal police
forces and judicial system for protection. We can encourage the formation of
community defense groups which are founded along class lines, upholding and
protecting the rights of oppressed minorities. We can encourage and sponsor gun
safety training, and work to create the best conditions possible for working
class neighborhoods to protect themselves. We can encourage organized labor to
stand together in solidarity to help protect the schools and surrounding
communities, creating a “thin red line” of our own which acts as a deterrent
against crimes from any source. And in the center must be the party, directing,
protecting, and organizing the workers defense. Lenin would do no less.</div>
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by Daniel Lee </div>
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The tragedy at Sandy Hook last month has left a lasting
impression on the hearts and minds of the working class here in Oklahoma and
around the nation. The senseless killing of children and teachers by a mentally
disturbed young man is yet another chapter in the increasing pattern of savage
violence of the past few years. In this time of grief and sorrow, it is natural
to seek to make sense of the senseless, to look for answers to the problems
which are becoming endemic to our society. We, the Communist Party of Oklahoma,
offer our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims of this tragedy.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Smoking Gun</b></div>
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This incident, and others like it, such as the murders in
Aurora Colorado, and Virginia Tech, shows us several problems, which we, as
Marxist-Leninists, see to be originating from the same source. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, there is the fact that the
perpetrators of these heinous crimes were severely mentally disturbed individuals,
whose conditions went untreated for many years, despite their parents’ futile
attempts to get help for their sons. Adam Lanzana’s mother fought the school
district to get help for her son’s Asperger's syndrome and other emotional
issues. James Holmes’ mother told police they had the right man when he was
captured and acknowledged his history of schizophrenic mental illness. Seung-Hui
Cho’s parents turned to a local church for help, after unsuccessfully attempting
to deal with his mental illness throughout childhood, but by the time he began
attending Virginia Tech, it was too late. Each instance shows the same failure
in our society – the failure to provide adequate mental healthcare for the
mentally ill, just as we fail to provide adequate healthcare for much of the
working class in our country. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A History of Neglect</b></div>
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Since the Kennedy administration, the government had
mandated that mental health care be made available on par with regular health
care for Federal employees in the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963
(which became available to low-income workers through Medicare after 1965). By
the Carter years, legislation was passed expanding and bringing much needed
reforms to the system under the Mental Health Systems Act in 1980 which made
federal funding a priority for homeless and impoverished citizens with mental
illness. However, the next year, Regan rescinded the act, and slashed funding
for mental health services, which continued to decline through the Bush and
Clinton years. More and more mentally ill people were institutionalized in the
prison system or became homeless. It was the next generation however which
showed a more disturbing trend – school shootings. The late 1980’s saw a
drastic rise in school shootings, but it was the Columbine massacre in
Littleton Colorado in 1999 which brought the epidemic to nationwide attention. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that time, there have been over 25
incidents in schools alone. Other shootings to grab national headlines have included
the DC Beltway sniper (suffering from PTSD) and the Uni-bomber (schizophrenia).
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The root of the problem lies within the core of our society.
The lack of proper physical and mental healthcare is symptomatic of a system
which shows no regard for people, only placing value on property and profit. Workers
in the capitalist system are made into automatons, producing endlessly without receiving
the fruits of their labors. When one of them breaks or is defective, they are
replaced by another, readily waiting to sell their own labors in order to
survive. Our capitalist society uses up and discards working people as trash –
and then is surprised when those pieces of discarded humanity fail to conform to society’s
rules. This symptom is called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">theory
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present the same human self-estrangement. But the former class feels at ease
and strengthened in this self-estrangement, it recognizes estrangement as its
own power, and has in it the semblance of a human existence. The class of the
proletariat feels annihilated, this means that they cease to exist in
estrangement; it sees in it its own powerlessness and in the reality of an
inhuman existence.” – Marx, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Holy
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Until we address the base problem of the alienation caused
by Capitalism, we will continue to have shocking incidents such as occurred at
Sandy Hook or Aurora. Gun control will not solve the problem – guns will
continue to be available, either legally or illegally, and if a gun is not
available, Oklahoma knows through painful experience how much damage household
items and a Ryder truck can cause. To cure society’s illness, we must destroy
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After a brief hiatus, we have re-established a web presence! After the old website expired and was replaced by a Chinese pop blog (<cite>www.<b>communistpartyok</b>.org/</cite><span class="std">)</span>, a new website was created for the Oklahoma district, and though it remains a work in progress, it will be the new home on the internet for the CPOK. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-81537588064077356202012-11-03T11:50:00.001-07:002012-11-03T11:50:23.326-07:00Boycott the Elections! - Leaflet of the Communist Party of America, 1920<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WORKERS:<br />It is the duty of every class-conscious worker in America to boycott the coming elections. A worker’s vote cast for any of the parties or their candidates standing for election — is a vote for reaction or reform! Whether it be the Republican Party and Harding or the Democratic Party and Cox — whether it be the Farm Labor Party and Christensen, the Socialist Party and Debs, or the Socialist Labor and Cox — a worker’s vote cast for any of these parties or their candidates IS A VOTE TO PERPETUATE THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM BASED UPON WAGE SLAVERY and the ROBBERY OF YOUR CLASS. IT IS A VOTE TO STRENGTHEN THE CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT — BY MEANS OF WHICH THE WORKING CLASS IS KEPT IN SUBJECTION BY LIES, FRAUD, DECEPTION, FORCE, AND VIOLENCE.<br /><br />Do you workers want to perpetuate your own class slavery? Do you want to maintain and strengthen the capitalist government which has shown by its every act that it is nothing but the tool of the capitalist class and acts against the working class every time?<br />Then cast your vote in the coming elections! If you believe in capitalist wars in which the workers are called upon to lay down their lives for the profit of the master class — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in the high cost of living — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in being LOCKED OUT BY the BOSS — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in being clubbed and shot by the police and soldiers of the capitalist government — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in lynching — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in deportation of radical workers — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in NATIONWIDE RAIDS UPON REVOLUTIONARY WORKING CLASS ORGANIZATION — vote in the coming elections! <br /><br />If you believe in DESTROYING SOVIET RUSSIA — vote in the coming elections!<br /><br />If you believe in supporting REACTIONARY POLAND against the free workers and peasants’ government of Russia — vote in the coming elections! If you believe in sending arms, ammunition, and supplies to the enemies of Soviet Russia — vote in the coming elections!<br /><br />If you believe in perpetuating prostitution, crime, child labor, and the thousand-and-one economic evils from which the masses in this country are suffering — vote in the coming elections!<br /><br />A vote cast in the coming elections for any political party now in the field — is a vote in favor of the capitalist class and against the working class! The Republican and Democratic parties stand openly for the capitalist class — whose economic interests they represent. The Farm Labor Party stands for Government Ownership and Reform — which leads to State Capitalism — strengthens the capitalist system and keeps the working class chained in wage-slavery. The Socialist Party and the Socialist Labor Party pretend they are for the abolition of capitalism and the emancipation of the workers from wage-slavery, but actually, by adopting wrong tactics support the lies and deception of capitalist “democracy” and help to fasten these lies upon the workers — thus aiding the capitalist class in preventing the workers from taking independent class action for their own emancipation. These reform parties fool the workers by telling them that the capitalist system can be abolished PEACEFULLY. This is a lie! AN OUTRAGEOUS, DAMNABLE LIE! The capitalist system cannot be abolished peacefully — whether by the ballot box or any other method.<br /><br />The present capitalist government is nothing but the concealed dictatorship of the capitalist class. Its army, navy, courts, police, bureaucracy, schools, press, church, etc. are the instruments through which the capitalist class perpetuate the lies of capitalist “democracy” and club and shoot you into submission when you wake up and attempt to resist their domination!<br />Every intelligent worker knows that so long as the capitalist class owns and controls the organs of publicity, of teaching and moulding the minds of the workers — the workers cannot free themselves.<br /><br />Every intelligent worker also knows that no capitalist class ever gave up its power without a violent struggle. Look across at Europe and see how the ruling classes are striving by every possible means to keep the workers down! See how the German capitalist class combines with “yellow” Socialist to crush every uprising of the German workers! See how the Hungarian capitalist class, with the assistance of the “yellow” Socialist, destroys the workers organization, throws them into jails, places them against the wall to face firing squads, shoots, hangs, and slays without mercy!<br /><br />See how the French capitalist class tried to destroy the workers organizations! How they suppress the revolts of their soldiers who are called upon to fight in Russia, Siberia, and Africa and who refuse — see how they shoot the workers down in strikes or demonstrations! Look at bloody England! One hundred thousand troops, fully armed, are sent into Ireland to suppress the Irish revolt. Thousands of soldiers are busy shooting defenseless Indian natives whose only crime is that they desire freedom from the rule of Britain. In Arabia, Turkey, wherever English colonies are rising up against the merciless rule of England — the English capitalist class uses FORCE to crush them!<br />And when the English workers themselves, who are beginning to think, act, make up their minds to destroy the capitalist government, the English capitalist class will use its troops and machine guns against them no less readily than it uses them against the natives of the colonies.<br />In Japan, Italy, Finland, everywhere the same thing occurs. Do you American workers believe that the American capitalist class is more tenderhearted than the European capitalist class?<br />Forget it! The American capitalist class is the richest, most powerful and reactionary class in the world. Just look at the history of the class struggle in the United States. At every step in the struggle of the workers to better their conditions the capitalist class and its government met them with persecution, repression, and oppression unequaled in all history. Homestead — Ludlow — Calumet — West Virginia — Paterson — Lawrence — McKees Rock — Seattle — Butte — these are only a few of the tragic milestones that mark the struggle of the American working class for BREAD — JUST BREAD! Or take the Longshoremen Strike — the Coal Strike — the Steel Strike — with its injunction, martial law, raids, deportations, and arrests — does this look as if the American capitalist class will ever give up its power without a bitter and violent struggle?<br /><br />FORGET THIS FOOLISH AND CRIMINAL IDEA OF A PEACEFUL CHANGE! AWAY WITH THESE REFORM PARTIES THAT PREACH SUCH RIDICULOUS IDEAS TO THE WORKERS!<br />IT IS TIME THAT YOU AMERICAN WORKERS WAKE UP TO THE REAL FACTS!<br /><br />THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS OF RUSSIA ARE SHOWING THE WAY! THE EUROPEAN WORKERS ARE LEARNING FAST FROM SOVIET RUSSIA AND WILL SOON THROW THE WHOLE GANG OF ROBBERS WITH THEIR “YELLOW” Socialist apologists and their capitalist governments into the garbage-heap!<br /><br />
Learn from your Russian and European brothers! The Communist Party of America — the only revolutionary working class political party — is the only party that stands for the emancipation for the working class from wage slavery! The Communist Party advocates mass action of the armed workers in an armed insurrection and civil war as the ONLY means of conquering political power for the workers, destroying the capitalist government, and establishing a Workers’ Government — A Soviet Government — the dictatorship of the Proletariat — as the ONLY MEANS OF ABOLISHING the capitalist system and emancipating the working class from WAGE SLAVERY. In order to bring this message before the masses of the American working class the Communist Party will utilize every weapon at its disposal for propaganda and agitation. It accepts participation in election campaigns and parliamentary activity as one of these weapons — but for revolutionary propaganda and agitation only. The Communist Party, however, will abstain from parliamentary activity whenever conditions make such a course necessary.<br /><br />
The Communist Party will have to boycott the coming elections, for reasons which are familiar to every informed worker. The Communist Party has been outlawed by the capitalist government and declared illegal in capitalist courts. Its leaders are all under indictment or in jail. Thousands of its members are held for deportation or trial. Under such conditions the Communist Party could not participate in the coming election and carry its revolutionary propaganda and agitation directly to the workers at shop meetings and hall meetings or debates with the “yellow” Socialists before the workers and show them up as a bunch of vote-seeking reformers.<br /><br />
The Communist Party will have to carry on its propaganda through its underground leaflets, literature, and press until the workers of America become class-conscious and compel the capitalist government to keep its hands off it. Therefore, because the Communist Party is the only revolutionary political working class party — and because this party has boycotted the coming elections — WE, YOUR FELLOW WORKERS AND COMRADES of the COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA CALL UPON YOU THE WORKERS OF AMERICA to boycott THE COMING ELECTIONS!<br />- The Communist Party of America.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955257548366190408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140278919134642156.post-33977815142667327262012-11-02T17:55:00.000-07:002012-11-02T17:56:51.029-07:00Obama or Romney? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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