Workers World Party EMERGENCY CONFERENCE September 21-22 New York City CAPITALISM IN CRISIS - Imperialist war on Iraq - Economic downturn - Racism and repression - Wall Street's war at home and abroad Hear what revolutionary Marxists say can be done to fight back
Workers World Party is holding an emergency conference on the weekend of September 21-22 in New York City. The purpose of the conference is to strengthen the fight-back movement against the growing war crisis, the escalating racism and repression carried out in the name of "homeland security" and the deepening economic crisis affecting millions of workers and their families. As the Bush administration readies its plans for open aggression against Iraq, steps up its intervention in Colombia, and threatens every country in the world that won't march to the orders of the Pentagon and the transnational corporations, the capitalist system is moving towards crisis. The loss of TRILLIONS in the stock market is translating into bankruptcies and mass layoffs and poverty for millions of workers. This developing economic crisis is motivating the hawks in the Bush administration to move recklessly in the traditional direction that capitalism takes when it is sinking into crisis--towards war, racism, and repression. NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR Bush & Co. want to divert this crisis into a general war against the developing and underdeveloped countries. Targeting Iraq for conquest is aimed at securing the vast wealth of the Middle East for Big Oil. But it is also meant to keep the working class from fighting the real enemy. That enemy is right here--the millionaires and billionaires who exploit them, steal their labor, cut their pay, and throw them out of a job the minute they can't make a profit off them anymore. NO TO PENTAGON-CIA INTERVENTION Bush used the 9/11 disaster to claim the right to destroy any movement or government that does not bow down to the dictates of Washington--from the Palestinians fighting the U.S.-backed Israeli occupation to the liberation fighters battling the U.S.-sponsored death squad government in Colombia, to Puerto Ricans struggling for independence and to get the U.S. Navy out of Vieques. Bush and the Pentagon have also targeted Iran, Syria, Libya, Cuba, and north Korea. U.S. troops are fighting in Afghanistan and the Philippines. Wall Street and the Pentagon are intervening in Latin America, from Brazil to Venezuela, from Uruguay to Argentina with coups and financial strangulation. Bush is targeting Zimbabwe for trying to take the land back from rich white farmers who stole it from the people during the days of British rule. The whole continent of Africa is suffering intensified oppression under neo-colonial domination. Washington wants to turn the world into Wall Street's plantation. Their huge expansion of the military, plus tax breaks for the rich, have moved the country back into deficit spending--which means more stealing from Social Security and what remains of social services. FIGHT RACISM; BUILD A RAINBOW OF UNITY Capitalism thrives on divide and conquer. When it is in crisis, its answer is to step up super-patriotism and racism against people of African descent, Latinos, Asians, Native people and other nationally oppressed peoples. Since 9/11 they have especially targeted immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries. But the Bush-Ashcroft reactionary program endangers the rights and well-being of all working people--oppressed nationalities, women, lesbian, gay, bi and trans people, seniors, disabled, organized labor, and others. How can a working-class program struggle against all these forms of special oppression in order to build the broadest, most united fight-back movement against the super-rich and their repressive state? How can we stop the next war before it starts? How can the anti-war struggle join up with the economic fightback of the workers? How can those fighting for social justice develop a program that defends the interests of the workers as a whole while the big banks and corporations are ruthlessly slashing and burning to boost their profits? COME TO THE WORKERS WORLD PARTY EMERGENCY CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 21-22 This Emergency WWP Conference will be devoted to discussing and analyzing the present period and reviewing the struggles of the recent past. The goal is to build a fighting movement against the rapidly developing military, political, and economic crisis. The conference is where people of all colors, nationalities, genders, ages and sexual expressions can exchange experiences and develop an approach to the coming struggles. Party leaders and members have given support and leadership to many organizations in a variety of struggles and have a wealth of experience that they will bring to the conference--fresh from the front lines of these struggles. OUR MARXIST HERITAGE WWP studies Marx, Lenin and other great socialist revolutionaries and has a firm understanding of their contributions to the world historic struggle against class division and national oppression. BUILD A REVOLUTIONARY PARTY What is needed in this country is a revolutionary working-class party. Workers World Party fights to win the most gains we can for our class under capitalism. And we work to build a united movement that can get rid of the ruling class once and for all. Can such a thing happen in the United States? We think so. Come to the conference on September 21-22 and find out why. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Sat., September 21 9 am Registration 9:30 am-8 pm Panels and Workshops Sun., September 22 10 am-4 pm Panels and Workshops CONFERENCE REGISTRATION __ Saturday & Sunday $20 ($10 fixed income) __ Saturday only $10 ($5 fixed income) __ Sunday only $10 ($5 fixed income) __ I need motel information __ I need mass housing information (limited availability) Name: Address: City/State/Zip: Phone: Email: Organization: Workers World Party 55 West 17 Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 212-627-2994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.workers.org ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
