Online meeting November 16: Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger!
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) and the Socialist Equality Party (US) are holding an online public meeting on Sunday, November 16 at 3pm US Eastern Time. Register here to attend.
Mass layoffs are sweeping the United States. More than 1.1 million job cuts have been announced by major corporations this year alone—an escalation of the ruling class’s offensive against the working class.
UPS has eliminated thousands of jobs, including entire shifts of pilots and warehouse workers. Amazon continues its firings across logistics and tech. The auto companies are carrying out mass layoffs in response to slumping sales and tariffs.
The government shutdown, having now lasted more than a month, is deliberate economic blackmail aimed at starving workers and dismantling social programs. For want of $8 billion in food stamps, 42 million Americans are left to starve. Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a new pay package to make him the world’s first trillionaire. Congress claims there is no money to feed the hungry, yet it allocates endless trillions for war, Wall Street and corporate bailouts.
Behind these policies stands the dictatorship of the financial oligarchy. The ruling elite is looting society, destroying jobs and public services and preparing an authoritarian regime under Trump to enforce its program. The same profit system that casts aside millions of workers is responsible for the mounting toll of industrial explosions, plane crashes and other disasters.
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) are holding this online public meeting to discuss the way forward. The working class must organize independently through rank-and-file committees in every workplace and community, linking struggles across industries against layoffs, austerity and war.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty. These demands can be achieved only through the fight for workers’ power.
Register today to take part in this critical discussion.