Socialist candidate backs alliance of workers, farmers: Where is the outrage of the people?

Like cabbies or Wall-Mart workers, farmers are merely one more natural
resource to be exploited in the Empire's lust to control all in its
way.
When I was young, the country was a patchwork of small farms.
Families working the land and making a honest living. But today, what
farm land has not been paved over, is mostly sprawling corporate
farms. Low paid workers putting in long hours without any medical or
vacation allowance.
We view ourselves as citizens of this greatest of all nations, but in
truth we are merely one more natural resource to be harvested by the
Empire. Like cattle, hogs, sheep, chickens, we are looked upon for
what we can contribute to the Empire's wealth. And even when our
usefulness as workers comes to an end, we are warehoused in expensive
Retirement and Assisted Living Facilities, and our last remaining
dollars are vacuumed up.

Carl Jarvis
On 2/3/15, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@aol.com> wrote:
> The Militant - February 9, 2015 -- Socialist candidate backs alliance of
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> Vol. 79/No. 4 February 9, 2015
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> Militant/Ilona Gersh
> "You might be asking why a candidate for mayor of Chicago is interested
> in farmers' problems," Dan Fein, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate
> for mayor of Chicago in the Feb. 24 elections, told Randy Heims, a grain
> farmer in central Wisconsin. "There aren't many farmers in Chicago." "No
> question, the Democrats and Republicans are no good for us," Heims
> responded. "Workers and working farmers are natural allies," Fein said.
> "The capitalist government defends agribusiness at the expense of
> working farmers just like it defends big business against workers. The
> effects of the worldwide capitalist crisis in production and trade
> squeeze you as a farmer and me as a factory worker. We need to build a
> revolutionary movement to lead the workers and farmers to take political
> power from the propertied rulers. "The ruling class tells farmers the
> reason for the high cost for their machinery is overpaid union workers
> in the factories," said Fein. "They tell workers the reason for high
> prices in the grocery store is that farmers get too much for what they
> produce. "Our struggles are international. Our interests lie with
> workers and farmers worldwide -- from Ukraine to revolutionary Cuba -- not
> with our own country's bankers and bosses. "The labor movement needs to
> fight for a government guarantee to working farmers of their cost of
> production, including adequate living expenses," the socialist candidate
> said.
> *--ILONA GERSH *
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