{"id":6284,"date":"2016-11-21T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:02:44","slug":"the-working-class-and-immigrant-youth-is-already-rebelling-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/the-working-class-and-immigrant-youth-is-already-rebelling-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Working Class and Immigrant Youth is Already Rebelling Against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the election results came out, Nov 8th, thousands of high schools and university students are walking out of their classes and campuses, and marching through the streets to protest the result of the election. The night of the election more than 50,000 people protested in Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York and other cities.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Florence Oppen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This has become a daily routine of insurgency and the most startling example was the huge march, that was led by the Latino community and working class families in Los Angeles led a 100,000 protest on Nov 14th. This popular and grassroots mobilization against a Presidential electoral result is absolutely unprecedented in the United States.<\/p>\n

Under the slogan \u201cnot our president\u201d black and brown youth, young workers and students across the country are sending a very clear to Trump, and also to the Democratic Party: this will not be \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d, we do have a very different vision of the kind of democracy we want, and we are not going to remain silent when our labor rights, our democratic rights and our communities are viciously attacked. This is why student assemblies at the University of California and many high schools are calling for a massive protest on January 20th 2017, the inauguration speech of Trump. This is why thousands of women have pledged to march in Washington and all over the country on January 21st.<\/p>\n

The Democrats and Liberals are Telling Us \u201cto Give Trump a Chance\u201d and \u201cWork With Him\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the Democratic Party primary process in 2015 and early 2016, there seemed to be some tension between the so called \u201cprogressive\u201d wing of the Democrats (Sanders and Warren) and its neoliberal hawk side (Clinton). But after the Democratic Party Convention, Sanders not only stopped his opposition to Clinton, but he disciplined all of his base that wanted to vote for the Green Party or independent socialist alternatives and pushed for a blind support to her formal rival.<\/p>\n

Now that Trump has been elected (due partially to the failing political and economic program of the Democratic Party millions of workers rejected), Clinton, Obama, Sanders and Warren are asking all of us to accept passively the result of the elections. The Democratic Party is working very fast and hard to normalize Trump\u2019s proto-fascist and white supremacist presidency and is offering to \u201cwork with him\u201d in some areas of his program.<\/p>\n

On November 15th and after meeting with Trump, Obama argued that \u201cit is important to give him the room and the space\u201d to apply his program and try it out.[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> In a speech to the AFL-CIO Warren implied that Trump might be willing to work to \u201cincrease economic security of workers\u201d and that he \u201cwill put aside [their] differences\u2019 and \u201cwork with him to accomplish that goal\u201d.[2]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Same with Pelosi who is willing to \u201cwork together\u201d with Trump for the \u201cgood\u201d side of his program, like investing in infrastructure.[3]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Sander\u2019s just said that “If Mr. Trump has the guts to stand up to those corporations,” “he will have an ally with me.”[4]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

The Democratic Party and the liberals want to enforce the electoral result to defend the current bourgeois democratic regime against workers and youth who massively said on Nov 8th that they reject the current regime and the rule of the 1%. They want us to suck it up and wait until 2020 to change our fate. And we say NO!<\/p>\n

We Don\u2019t Agree With the Democrats: \u201cThe Kids Are Right, We Need to Fight!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The youth protesting in the streets is not <\/em>questioning the legitimacy of Trump\u2019s presidency on the liberal and bourgeois-democratic basis: it is not about reforming the electoral college, or asserting the \u201cpopular vote\u201d against the electoral college mechanism, given that Clinton did win the popular vote. They are questioning the rule of the 1% altogether, and they are saying that Trump IS the most brutal expression of the 1%, regardless of its 60 million voters (out of 231 million voters) might think.<\/p>\n

The youth and working families protesting in the streets are manifesting their fierce opposition to the many attacks and threats Trump launched during his campaign. As the ACLU summarized, Trump promised among other things:<\/p>\n