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The Clintons' Anti-working-class Record: Why Washington Hates Working People
Lo deplorable es su sistema, no nosotros! Nunca antes los candidatos presidenciales de ambos partidos han provocado tanta desconfianza, disgusto y rechazo entre el pueblo trabajador como en las elecciones de 2016. Hillary Clinton califica desdeñosamente a millones de trabajadores que rehúsan votar por ella como deplorables y hasta irredimibles . Donald Trump trata demagógicamente de enfrentarnos a unos contra otros, atacando a mexicanos, musulmanes, mujeres y a quien sea. Ambos tratan de desviarnos para no que no veamos que es el pueblo trabajador en todo el mundo el que carga con la calamidad económica y social global del capitalismo y sus guerras en expansión. El historial antiobrero de los Clinton documenta la trayectoria, impulsada por las ganancias, de la clase gobernante norteamericana desde que los Clinton ocuparon la Casa Blanca por primera vez en 1993. Subraya la ira y las amplias discusiones que se desarrollan entre trabajadores que buscan comprender y resistir efectivamente los ataques patronales. Por primera vez en décadas, según revelan las palabras de Clinton, la clase dominante de Estados Unidos y su gobierno han empezado a temer a la clase trabajadora. Jack Barnes es secretario nacional del Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores. Also Available English
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105 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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November 4, 2025
Almost all of the capitalist class, military leaders, the people who work for the political police--the FBI and CIA, and a host of "celebrities" supported Hillary Clinton, so why didn't she win? The liberal press wanted us to believe that that everyone who voted for Donald Trump was a racist, a "basket of deplorables" as Hillary Clinton put it, but the facts show otherwise. Why did lots of working people who had voted for Obama at least once, if not twice, suddenly become racist? They didn't. They lived in areas where the life expectancy is dropping, and many are dying from overdose of pain meds. A vote for Hillary Clinton was a vote for the status quo, a status quo that had become unbearable.
As a revolutionary socialist, I have never considered voting for either a Democrat or Republican, but there is so much propaganda to the effect that elections are the most important opportunity for people to make their opinions known. In reality, almost every strike or protest demonstration is more important than the bourgeois elections, and this will remain true until labor breaks with the Democratic Party and forms a party based on the trade unions.
Both the Democratic and Republican Parties are in serious crisis, and the "left" and all the union bureaucrats as usual rushed in to save the Democrats, although this strategy has been weakening the labor movement for many, many years.
Racism is not on the rise--the mass movement that developed around the George Floyd killing showed this. Towns with hardly any Black people at all held protest demonstrations. According to the 1619 project and critical race theory this shouldn't have been happening, so the more conscious supporters of the Democratic Party sabotaged the demonstrations by promoting looting and raising utopian demands to "defund" or "abolish" the police. Like the demonstrations supposedly around immigrant rights that called for open borders and abolishing ICE, these were totally cynical slogans to get people to vote for Biden. Now that he won, those slogans have vanished.
For a real alternative view to the bourgeois elections, read this book, along with Are They Rich Because They're Smart?, In Defense of the U.S. Working Class, and Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View of History.
Think about it: Is Trump's "tone" really more important than abolishing welfare without providing childcare, jobs, education, or anything? I'm not in favor of welfare, but it was better than nothing. And Clinton supported the grotesque "Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act," which has landed huge numbers of Blacks and other working people in jail for longer than they ever were previously. Trump started releasing some of these people.
As a revolutionary socialist, I have never considered voting for either a Democrat or Republican, but there is so much propaganda to the effect that elections are the most important opportunity for people to make their opinions known. In reality, almost every strike or protest demonstration is more important than the bourgeois elections, and this will remain true until labor breaks with the Democratic Party and forms a party based on the trade unions.
Both the Democratic and Republican Parties are in serious crisis, and the "left" and all the union bureaucrats as usual rushed in to save the Democrats, although this strategy has been weakening the labor movement for many, many years.
Racism is not on the rise--the mass movement that developed around the George Floyd killing showed this. Towns with hardly any Black people at all held protest demonstrations. According to the 1619 project and critical race theory this shouldn't have been happening, so the more conscious supporters of the Democratic Party sabotaged the demonstrations by promoting looting and raising utopian demands to "defund" or "abolish" the police. Like the demonstrations supposedly around immigrant rights that called for open borders and abolishing ICE, these were totally cynical slogans to get people to vote for Biden. Now that he won, those slogans have vanished.
For a real alternative view to the bourgeois elections, read this book, along with Are They Rich Because They're Smart?, In Defense of the U.S. Working Class, and Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View of History.
Think about it: Is Trump's "tone" really more important than abolishing welfare without providing childcare, jobs, education, or anything? I'm not in favor of welfare, but it was better than nothing. And Clinton supported the grotesque "Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act," which has landed huge numbers of Blacks and other working people in jail for longer than they ever were previously. Trump started releasing some of these people.
December 20, 2018
It should be noted that The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record is emphatically not a pro-Republican or pro-Trump manifesto; the focus is on the Clintons’ culpability in a status quo of immiseration for the working class. Chapters especially focus on the negative ramifications of “Ending Welfare As We Know It” in the early 2000’s, and the root causes of the 2008 world financial crisis that became the Great Recession of 2009. A handful of black-and-white diagrams and an index round out this fierce, no-holds-barred condemnation of the Clintons’ failings. Also highly recommended is Barnes’ Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? an open call for socialist revolution in the United States.” —Midwest Book Review. For complete review click here.
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