We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy Antifascist Organizing Now! Spectre Editorial Board, January 9, 2021 https://spectrejournal.com/we-cannot-let-yesterdays-farce-become-tomorrows-tragedy/ . . . Liberals will outdo themselves in a rush to rally behind bipartisan capitalist unity and state repression to deal with the fascist threat. They will lend credibility to the law and order consensus articulated by both parties on Wednesday by police authorities and the media, particularly CNN, which rooted for police suppression of the right. Liberal forces are magnetically attracted to the law and order regime because they see the state, not mass anti-fascist action, as the key to dealing with the right. . . . ...And crucially, we must redouble our efforts to build an activist socialist alternative that fights independently of the Democrats for demands that will address the multiple crises of the capitalist system: real pandemic relief; a Green New Deal; rent relief and a moratorium on evictions; Medicare for All; the $15 minimum wage and union rights; defunding of the police; abolition of ICE; and massive cuts to the war budget. . . . All of this requires aggressively working to reorient the socialist left, especially the Democratic Socialists of America, from its overwhelmingly electoral focus toward organizing struggle from below, especially anti-racist and workplace struggles...
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