The Rampart revelations just lift a tiny corner of the veil over the standard operating procedures of the police all over the country. The job of these cops is to 'protect and serve' the interests of big business, including the big business of drugs, and to brutalize workers so the rulers keep us in our place. We call for jailing the guilty cops every time they carry out these acts. And the only way this will happen is to follow the example of families and friends of victims of police brutality who have organized mobilizations of working people to demand justice. Lyons said that in the garment industry where she works many bosses do not pay the legal minimum wage.
Billions go to bail out the energy trusts while there are peanuts for schools.
We are going into a downturn, with more layoffs. We call for the labor movement to take up the fight to protect workers by demanding a massive program of public works for schools and other human needs such as housing and day-care centers. After the revolution a historic literacy campaign was launched by the new government. Young people from the cities who knew how to read and write went to the countryside to teach the peasants those skills. But they didn't go just to teach.