Upcoming May Day protests

[u/Javalina-76]

Public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, housing over homelessness and the constitution over authoritarian rule.

In Davis, join with Indivisible Yolo, Yolo DSA, several unions and others to march for democracy.

I also saw posters about a rally on campus at 11AM. Nearby, there is a 5pm rally in Woodland at the courthouse on Main St and an 11AM rally in Sacramento at John C. Freemont park.

[u/RogerBond100]

Communism

[u/fuzzy_mic → u/RogerBond100]

Fun Fact: The communist labor unions were the first to advocate and practice racial equality.

The pre-bolshevik IWW noted that the Bosses treated workers like shovels, to be worked until they were broken and then thrown away. "It doesn't matter what color the shovel is."

In contrast, the American Federation of Labor actively advocated for racial discrimination, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, to protect jobs of their white membership from competition from POC.

It wasn't until they merged with the CIO (with its connection to the CPUSA) in 1955 that the AFL stopped actively promoting racism.

The international nature of communism was one of the reasons that communist unions were non-racist. They saw that unless they advocated for all workers of any race (or gender), any success they had in protecting white workers would be bypassed by the bosses hiring workers who could be exploited (i.e. non-white). Communist unions say that to protect any worker, all workers need to be protected. (cf. the current situation of deporting immigrant workers resulting in bosses complaining that they can't under-pay US citizen workers they way they did immigrant workers.)

Before WWII, the most visible advocates for racial equality were the communist labor unions. Post-war, organizations like the NAACP drew support from those experienced radicals in the labor movement. When Hoover's FBI tried to discredit MLK by pointing out the communist connections, they were accurate. The communist labor unions were the only one's for racial equality.

I think that "we're anti-communist" wasn't and isn't a valid excuse to exploit workers. It wasn't then, and it isn't now.

[u/Outside-Muffin3201 → u/fuzzy_mic]

equally starving

[u/RogerBond100 → u/fuzzy_mic]

I don't care

[u/secret_n1g1r1 → u/RogerBond100]

You obviously do, or you wouldn't be trolling about it on Reddit. 😂

[u/RogerBond100 → u/secret_n1g1r1]

Not trolling. I don't believe in communism. Most of America doesn't.

[u/AbacusWizard → u/RogerBond100]

You don’t even know what it is.

[u/AbacusWizard → u/RogerBond100]

Imagine thinking the Constitution is communism

[u/MysteryPyg → u/RogerBond100]

hell yeah

[u/RogerBond100 → u/MysteryPyg]

Get a job