Socialist Equality Party members call for general strike in Madison after bill passage

On the evening of March 9, Republicans in the Wisconsin state senate carried out a surprise vote on Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill. Within hours, thousands assembled at the capitol; members of the Socialist Equality Party addressed the demonstrations, calling for a general strike and a break with the Democrtatic Party, which had been carrying out secret negotiations with Walker before the vote.

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[Jupiter646]

The ruling class can handle protests and street marches, but when a general strike happens, they start to sweat. I say make them sweat!

[Groyneable]

All the way to revolution!

[NVUltra1]

So Andre Damon is not a worker, so what?

I failed to notice his opportunism b/w all his comments about the need to politically break from the Democrats and trade unions in order to form independent rank and file committees, but wait...that's probably the part that bothers you.

[markytn]

@ChrisMarxist666, thanks for your feedback, SEPers have a lovely way of expressing themselves, but If anything, pointing out his opportunism here is as effective or more effective than trying to track him down and tell him person.

[ChrisMarxist666]

@markytn Say it to Andre's face you fucking petty bourgeois troll.

[Pinheader1]

The SEP is doing the right thing by intervening in this struggle.

[Quntable]

No war but the class war!

[markytn]

@yabbieroad To put it simply, Andre Damon is a petty-bourgeois, payed from the surplus value of a capitalist enterprise, maybe you didn't know this, but this is the case for party workers of the SEP.

[markytn]

@yabbieroad This is clearly an example of opportunism, if there was more substantial (i.e. socialist) content in his speech why wouldn't the editor of the video feature this in the video? Instead the WSWS features this video with an absense of socialist content with a party worker posing as a member of working class.

[yabbieroad]

@markytn

You are saying that Andre Damon hides his affiliations based on a portion of speech of ONE video, This is the basis of your argument? How do you know he didn't identify his affliations as he did outside--you don't, you are making wild assumptions. So the whole program of the SEP is emodied in Andre Damon who ALONE is trying to intruduce socialism by stealth. Is this a joke?

[yabbieroad]

@markytn

Andre Damon is in fact a student, does he get paid for his work with the SEP, I couldn;t say? I know for a fact the vast majority do not, they give up the time and effort for a cause they believe in. The arguement re surplus value is misleading, confused and erroneous. All workers are paid a portion of what they produce, they are not paid out of surplus value, surplus value is extracted from them. Andre Damon is not an employer he extracts nothing from no-one. Back to Marxism 101