by Scott Marshall, Vice Chair and Labor Commission Chair, 05/02/2008 11:08
I’ve always wanted a button that reads, “Workers of the world unite, back by popular demand” — almost as long as I’ve wanted one that says, “May Day, made in the USA.”
May Day 2008 would have been a great time for both.
Why do communists hate capitalism so much? Why do you think it's a failure? How would a communist society be any better? Haven't those been horrible failures too?
Scott Marshall, Labor Director of the Communist Party USA, appeared on Arkansas Talk Radio, KARN 102.9. In this 15 minute segment, he spoke about the Communist Party USA, the current economic crisis, a green economy, and much more.
Last weeks data on unemployment is the latest confirmation that the economy is going south. Nothing that the federal government or Federal Reserve Bank has done so far has contained a widening and spreading economic recession. The economic downturn that was triggered by the collapse of the housing bubble and the seizing up of credit and money markets is winding its way to nearly every sector of the economy and to every region of the country.
The United Auto Workers struck American
Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday when no deal was reached on a new labor pact. The largest proportion of American Axle parts are for GM’s pickups and SUVs. Affected are more than 3,600 workers in plants in Michigan and New York.
This morning President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Act-Dominican Republic (CAFTA) a trade agreement between the United States, and El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. Last week the bill narrowly passed the Senate after midnight-hour wrangling, threats and bribery by the Republican Party. The Communist Party, USA denounces this agreement and believes it bodes ill for the working people of the U.S. and Central America...
Over the past two decades, the entire structure of retirement security, as well as other public and social programs, has come under increasing attack from corporations, White House administrations and the ultra-right. This assault has greatly increased under the administration of George W. Bush. (From the People's Weekly World Newspaper)
by Scott Marshall, Vice Chair and Labor Commission Chair, 09/25/2003 14:35
Thousands will be marching in the streets of Miami, Florida, during the week of Nov. 17-21, protesting the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). They will pour into Miami from all over the country and from all over the world. The protesters will be trade unionists, anti-globalization activists, environmentalists, family farmers, religious activists, civil and human rights activists. Thousands will come to Miami to make their voices heard at a meeting of trade ministers from around the Americas.
by Jarvis Tyner, Executive Vice Chair, 01/08/2003 10:56
We are living through a very dangerous period. The Bush Administration and most Republicans in Congress are using the events of September 11th to push their reactionary agenda: imperialist aggression abroad, racism and austerity at home. We are in the middle of a deepening economic crisis made worse by the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the great corporate scandals of 2002, and the right-wing policies of the Bush Administration.
by Scott Marshall, CPUSA Vice Chair and Chair, CPUSA Labor Commission, 02/09/2002 00:00
Capitalism may well be facing its worst crisis since the Crash of 1929. I say that fully aware that, as a friend of mine once put it, you Communists have accurately predicted ten out of the last 2 real economic crises.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In Tennessee, we have felt the loss of more than 25,000 textile and industrial jobs due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Many of these jobs were union jobs that paid workers good wages for a 40-hour workweek.
The US economy was already suffering record job loss before the terrible events of September 11. In August the AFL-CIO estimated that 800,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the current economic downturn for the working class that was already a deep recession.
Will the economic downturn be a slight dip, a mild bump, or deep drop off the edge? Conrad Schuler, an economist with the German Communist Party, looks at the recession from afar.
Across the state, labor unions and people's organizations are marching, demanding, "Seize the Power - Stop the rolling blackmail," and invoking the right of eminent domain to reign in out of control profit gouging.
On the 225th Anniversary of the declaration of Independence, we affirm our commitment to the revolutionary ideals which ring in so much of the original.
by Juan Lopez, National Secretary and Chair, Northern California District, 07/07/2001 00:00
After a year of price gouging and record profits by the energy monopolies, for the first time a few weeks back the wholesale rates of natural gas and electricity magically went down sharply in California.
They attribute this to everything under the sun, including milder weather.
But, this sudden change was brought about by a powerful broad people's movement, with street heat at its core, and the shift in the political balance in Washington and the nation since Senator Jeffords left the Republican Party.
by Evelina Alarcon, Vice Chair CPUSA and Chair, Southern California District, 02/24/2001 00:00
George W. Bush's covert connection to the California energy crisis is unraveling as Republicans are about to introduce a 250-page-plus bill on energy. While all the specifics have not been revealed yet, what is clear is that the GOP is putting forward an unprecedented pro US oil corporation bill in the name of securing our energy. This bill is on their front burner for passage and they will be exploiting the California crisis every step of the way.
by Scott Marshall, CPUSA Vice Chair and Chair, CPUSA Labor Commission, 02/15/2001 00:00
This important observation is timely in many ways for today. As we discuss the crisis at home we have to remember that in today's world, even more than in Marx's day,"poverty and restricted consumption," is a worldwide capitalist system of global proportions. Truly, global capital does now develop "as if only the absolute power of consumption of the entire society (or planet) would be their limit."
by Evelina Alarcon, Vice Chair CPUSA and Chair, Southern California District, 02/06/2001 00:00
The energy crisis in California is a disaster. It takes on terrible dimensions each day. It is not only electric power. There are gas shortages now and serious water shortages are predicted. These shortages will worsen the already grave power crisis.
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