Re: [Fwd: Swans' Release: July 19, 2004]

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In a message dated 7/18/2004 4:33:01 PM Central Standard Time, JCraven@xxxxxxxxx writes:

 

>Response Jim C: "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." (Josef Stalin) <

 

Comment

 

This is true and how it plays itself out in real life and real time is the substance of the class struggle and the art of politics. The year was 1968 - a little over a year from the 1967 rebellion in Detroit. It was hot . . . man. Year later Stevie Wonder would create his "Hotter than July" album.

 

"From the park I hear rhythm.

Marlye's hot on the box.

Tonight there will be a party . . . on the corner at the end of the block

And didn't you know U . . . would be jamming until the break of dawn.

 

They want us to do their fighting.

But our answer today Is to let all our worries like the breeze in the summer slip away."

 

Ok!

 

Dig . . . September 1968 was an election for Trustee at the Dodge Main Local Union. We field a candidate . . . Ron March. Our slogan was not the dictatorship of the proletariat or workers control nut. . . "March with March."

 

We knew we had won the election and had challengers to oversee the counting of votes  . . . in the run off election because we kicked ass September 26 and the run-off election was October 3, 1968. We fought out way into the run off.

 

OK . . . when the polls closed we started celebrating everybody loved us . . . or at least the overwhelming voting majority.

 

The local police entered the Local Union and commenced to kicking our nature ass . . . Billy club and all. Naturally we fought back and drove the mutherfuckers out of the Local Union onto the street . . . where there are hoards of workers ready for combat.

 

That is when they hit us with the tear gas and came back into the local union and literally stole the ballot boxes.

 

They took the Ballot boxes and we thought they were simply there to kick our asses . . . no problem . . . because if you are scared to fight the police . . . I even don't want your fucking vote.

 

The Police stole all the ballot boxes and took them to the Police Station overnight to "secure the integrity of the election! "

 

The next day the ballots were totaled and we lost.

 

What kind of shit is that?

 

In other words when a real third force enter the electoral arena we have to be organized with soft ware programmers that can ensure the integrity of the elections and check all the machines and vote counts. It is more of us than them so this is not hard to do in the future.  

 

This happened in 1968 and by the time of the "Vote Communist Campaigns in 1976 and 1978" we were battle hardened . . . and had . . . mutherfuckers everywhere. The challengers had relief people and the relief people had their relief.

 

We were told when the votes were counted that we lost by a nose in 1978.

 

Wait until our next campaigns.

 

Melvin P.