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  • “National attention on Minnesota has waned with the departure of Bovino and rhetoric by Homan that things are de-escalating,” the group noted, but recent data and reports from commuters in the field did not support those conclusions. Despite orders to the contrary, the group continued, “Agents continue to draw their weapons and deploy chemical agents against observers.”

    This is how things usually go, isn’t it? Some kind of false “change” is made, one that functionally changes nothing, like the Gaza “ceasefire” or in this case the departure of Bovino, and it acts as a kind of signal to the wider media that this “conflict” has ended. The media shifts focus, attention is moved elsewhere, and the events actually escalate.



  • Probably more likely talking around each other. The agreement is that Nazism needs to be scrubbed out everywhere. I disagree that “These aren’t US forces as long a the nazis are in control.” Unless you also agree that Nazis have always been in control of US forces. To put it another way, when I read your comment it read similar to “This isn’t what American is about!” which, it is what America is about, and has always been about. To put it one other way, Donald Trump didn’t suddenly make America a Nazi state, he just removed its mask. That’s all. From our genocidal expansion westward, to our system of slavery and then apartheid after, dropping two atomic weapons on civilian populations, to our genocide in Korea in the 40s, to our imperialist wars through the 90s and 2010s, to our proxy genocide in Palestine. This is just another footprint in our path as we tread across the earth.

    If you have a similar assessment, then we’re on the same page. If not, then we’re not on the same page.



  • To quote someone involved in the organizing happening in MN regarding this article:

    Pretty good but, of course, I found these points annoying:

    1. With a revolutionary leadership, the movement could have gone significantly further. The mood and potential for an all-out general strike were 100% present. This could have shut down not only small businesses, schools, and cultural institutions, but the major levers of the economy: transportation, energy, communications, logistics, manufacturing, etc. After Alex Pretti’s murder, this could have spread across the country. The trade union bureaucrats did everything in their power to direct the energy of the masses into safe channels. Pressure from below had forced them to set a date for a “day of action,” but they conspicuously avoided doing anything more. What was required was to widen and spread the neighborhood committees into the workplaces, and above all to link them through elected representatives into a citywide body accountable to the mass assemblies and capable of coordinating the movement. Armed with this program, a Marxist cadre organization of even just 500 or 1,000 members rooted in workplaces across key industries in Minneapolis-St. Paul could have made all the difference.
    1. The only real weakness of the US working class is its lack of a revolutionary party. The roughly 160 million wage and salary workers in America constitute a potentially unstoppable power, but this potential cannot be fully realized unless and until it has a leadership worthy of the name. In Minnesota, we saw the immense creativity of the working class when it is pushed into action, but also the clear limits of spontaneity on its own. To go further, and to eventually win political and economic power, the working class needs a Marxist leadership. A mass revolutionary party could harness the power of the working class to transform society on socialist lines.

    The organizing of the two strikes - both city specific on 1/23 and nationwide on 1/30 - were led on the ground by a Marxist vanguard party: PSL. It was PSL that dedicated over a hundred cadre on the ground to full-time outreach in Minneapolis in the week leading up to 1/23. Then cadre deployed their skills across the country to push for a national day on 1/30 which was hugely successful. It was PSL that made the call to push for 1/30 (at the behest of the Somali student groups who called for it in Minneapolis) and did all the initial work in cities across the country. It was the Marxist leadership and dedicated party cadre of PSL that made this happen. They did it while FRSO in the Twin Cities actively opposed it, abdicating and potential for their leadership of the movement, and while RCA was nowhere to be found.

    Marxist.com is unfortunately a Trotskyist international organization and as such is pretty sectarian at times. There is mass organizing happening in MN, and there is a Marxist party doing their fair share of that organizing. Their other points remain well stated, but their comments on the actual organizing on the ground are strictly not based in reality.