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Socialist Party USA: Recent Statements
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Shut
Down
Wisconsin!
by Andrea Pason and Billy Wharton, co-chairs Socialist Party USA
 March 9, 2011 - It has just been reported that Wisconsin
Republicans have approved the provision in Governor Scott Walker’s
Budget Repair Bill that strips public employees in Wisconsin of their
collective bargaining rights. Collective Bargaining is necessary
to the functioning of trade unions and is a right that should be held
by every worker in both the public and private sectors. As
socialists, we condemn Governor Scott Walker and the Republicans in
Wisconsin.
We call on students, workers and all who are opposed to this decision
to converge on Madison tomorrow to protest. We support the
resolution passed by the South Central Federation of Labor (Wisconsin)
that calls for a general strike of all workers in the region. We
support the immediate formation of strike committees by all union and
non-union workers in the state. We support all acts of civil
disobedience and non-compliance to protest and reverse this Bill.
Workers and students shut down Wisconsin! As popular movements
throughout the world claim their democratic rights, Walker and
the Republicans have trampled on workers in Wisconsin. By
building on the spirit of Tahrir Square, Madison can be the site where
a new militant worker’s movement is built. Our democracy is not
contained
within the Assembly Houses and State Capitols; we build it in the
streets!
For a General Strike
of
all Wisconsin Workers!
Kill the Bill!
Build Democracy in
the
Streets!
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