[Marxism] US Corporations Are Opposing New Rights for Chinese Workers

[Jerry Wells <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: Posted on CommonDreams from the front page of the New York Times.

US Corporations Are Opposing New Rights for Chinese Workers

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/1013-27.htm

(This article a major insight of the SEP regarding the necessity for an
international socialist movement of working people to combat multi-
national U.S. and global capitalism.)

The following is an excerpt from a Statement posted on The World
Socialist Web site.  (   http://www.wsws.org  )

For a socialist alternative in the 2006 US elections
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party
28 September 2006

...

"In the epoch of world economy, the problems of mass society can be
resolved only on the basis of an international socialist program. The
rational, planned and humane mobilization of the worldâs resources
conflicts at every point with the interests of national ruling elites
whose wealth and power are based on the existing capitalist system.

Big business justifies its assault on the working class in the name of
global competitiveness. But the global integration of all aspects of
economic life is not, in itself, the real cause of deepening social
distress. The global expansion and unification of the productive forces
have the potential to vastly improve living standards. However, social
progress is blocked by the subordination of these powerful economic
processes to the private profit interests of the ruling elites in
competing national states.

When employers in the US tell workers that they must accept massive wage
cuts or lose their jobs to low-wage regions, this only underscores the
need for American workers to unite politically with workers
internationally in a worldwide struggle for socialism against the
economic tyranny of the transnational corporations.

Socialism means the reorganization of economic life on the basis of
social need and the common good. Its goal is the elimination of poverty
and oppression and the elevation of the living standards of the worldâs
people on the basis of social equality. It means the fullest extension
of democratic control over the policies and priorities of society and
the processes by which wealth is produced and distributed."

...

Read the full statement here:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/prog-s28_prn.shtml

Thanks,

Jerry



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