Permanent Revolution

JB on Fri 07, November 2008 @ 09:19

JB — 2008-11-07 09:19:07

There's links to the various responses of the left to Obama's victory at http://radicalsocialist.org. One response particularly stands out, however. Here is Rob Griffiths of the CPB on a man bankrolled to the hilt by US banks who has just appointed as his chief of staff a Zionist hawk who wants to see 100,000 more US troops:

Communists welcome Obama victory

Britain's Communists welcome the election of Barack Obama as US President as a victory for the mass popular movement for progressive change.

'It is a victory not only for a remarkable candidate, but for the growing forces for peace and social justice which supported him, including the trades unions and the US Communist Party', Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths declared.

'Together with Democratic Party gains in the US Congress, the election result will also provide a stronger voice for previously under-represented oppressed peoples and minorities', he added.

'What America and the world needs is for the anti-war, anti-monopoly and environmental character of Obama's winning alliance to predominate over big business interests in the coming struggle for political influence in the White House', Mr Griffiths concluded.

Wladek Flakin on Fri 07, November 2008 @ 12:25

Wladek Flakin — 2008-11-07 12:25:38

here's an interview about the situation at the universities:

http://www.onesolutionrevolution.org/?p=293&language=en

Arthur Bough on Sat 08, November 2008 @ 19:03

Arthur Bough — 2008-11-08 19:03:18

Obama's victory does signify a change in US society from what existed more than 40 years ago when Sam Cooke sang "A Change is Gonna Come", but Obama's victory does not signal a significant change yet to come for working class Black Americans or any other sections of the working class in the US. Obama is a bourgeois politician who would be at home in the British Tory Party. The same bouregois politics which meant that Thatcher could not povide any answers for the majority of women, mean Obama cannot provide an answers for the majority of Blacks.

See:http://boffyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-went-down-to-river.html