The Million Women March, which was initially organized by all white women, on January 21 aims to respond to president Donald Trump’s sexism. (The first Million Woman March was in 1997 in Philadelphia, organized by Black women, and around feminist Black nationalist politics).
The fight against the rising tide of fascism must go beyond marching in Washington for a day. Join with Progressive Labor Party to build a movement to fight for communism and get rid of capitalism at the root of this sexist, racist system.
As attacks on the working class worldwide worsen, we must take the energy we see in the many, many people who want to do something, and fight back. We must be in our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces and take on the unequal schools, the racism of the police and the sexist exploitation of women workers.
Trump’s election is a symptom of a system that is failing on a massive scale. The racism and sexism that Trump has heralded on his way to the White House is not new. The deportations, racist murders by killer cops, attacks on women workers, segregation across neighborhoods and schools and an onslaught on our wages have been carried out by both political parties at the behest of the biggest capitalists regardless of who was in the White House.
All of the reasons we hate Trump, the racism and sexism are inseparable from capitalism. Those rotten ideas are deeply rooted in the bosses dividing the working class to keep people oppressed.
Clinton would’ve been
Sexist-in-Chief
Many lament the “loss” of a woman president, falsely calling it a set back from women. Hillary Clinton, along with her husband Bill, has over two decades of experience in fronting for the capitalist bosses’ war on the international working class for two decades.
She was an especially vocal advocate for the sexist, racist welfare reform that threw millions of people—disproportionately Black mothers and children—into extreme poverty. Hillary Clinton also backed the 1994 crime bill, including the “three strikes” rule, that paved the way for mass racist incarceration and expanded the prison industrial complex for privatized slave labor.
Through sanctions and indiscriminate bombings of Iraq, the Clintons slaughtered 500,000 Iraqi children.
As U.S. senator, Hillary Clinton enthusiastically backed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to shore up U.S. control over Middle Eastern oil, killing hundreds of thousands more civilians in the process. As Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, she took a lead role in engineering attacks on civilians in Libya and the coup in Honduras that helped make it the murder capital of the world. Afterward, she was leading the charge for a more aggressive U.S. intervention in Syria, a conflict that has murdered hundreds of thousands and left millions displaced.
By no means would a woman presidency been a victory for the working class. Clinton’s history has proven her dedication to attacking working-class women and their families worldwide. Fighting sexism can only come from a united multiracial effort by working-class women and men. No allegiance to any section of the ruling class, regardless of their race or gender. These are pro-capitalist ideas, and have no place in a fight for an egalitarian communist world.
Democrats on Code Blue
The Democratic Party is hoping that the Women’s March will resuscitate their party, but building up the Democrats will only keep us on the same path we’ve been on: more racism, more sexism and more wars for oil and power. Even as so many are marching for justice and against racism and sexism, the bosses want to use our energy and fighting spirit in their depraved wars for profit. The New York Times, a big Trump opponent and supporter of the Democratic Party just called for a military draft (1/7), cynically using the guise of “service” as a pretext to send women and men across the globe to kill our working class sisters and brothers who live in other countries.
We will be able to free ourselves from the capitalists when we realize that we don’t need them to run society. The battles against the attacks on the working class are both about fighting for our survival and learning to free ourselves. Join us, the Progressive Labor Party, in the fight to build a society based on the needs of the masses of the world, and not of exploitation.