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The fight against communal reaction in India is the fight for socialism 21 December 2019

India has been convulsed by a growing wave of mass protests after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Narendra Modi government rammed its Hindu supremacist-motivated Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) into law on December 12.

The CAA makes religion a criterion in determining citizenship for the first time in the history of independent India. It is an important step toward realizing the avowed central aim of the BJP and its ideological mentor, the shadowy, fascistic RSSto transform India into a Hindu rashtra or state, in which the Muslim minority is tolerated, but only in so far as it accepts Hindu supremacy.

Muslim students and youth have been in the forefront of the anti-CAA protests. But the protests have cut across religious-sectarian, ethnic, and caste divides, and engulfed all parts of India.

The demonstrations against the citizenship law follow a wave of strikes in India and Sri Lanka that are part of a global upsurge of the class struggle, spanning from the Americas to Europe, Asia and Africa.

A shaken BJP government has responded to the anti-CAA protests with mass repression. At least six people were killed Friday in clashes with security forces in northern India. In large swathes of the country, including all of Uttar Pradesh (population 230 million) and Karnataka (65 million) and parts of the national capital Delhi, the government has invoked Section 144 of the Criminal Code, making all gatherings of more than four people illegal. Tens of millions have been deprived of internet and, in some cases, cell phone service.

Under the CAA, all peopleexcept Muslimswho migrated to India from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh before 2015 are effectively granted citizenship. This is preparatory to an even more sinister communal scheme: forcing all of Indias 1.3 billion people to prove to the authorities satisfaction that they are entitled to Indian citizenship.

Passage of the CAA makes clear that the sole purpose of the BJPs National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be to intimidate, harass and victimize Muslimsfor they, and they alone, will be under threat of being declared stateless, thereby losing all citizenship rights and subject to detention and expulsion.

The CAA and NRC are only the latest in a long series of communalist provocations mounted by the BJP government.

On August 5, it illegally abrogated the unique semi-autonomous status of Indias lone Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, and placed the region under permanent central government control. This constitutional coup has been enforced by the deployment of tens of thousands of additional security forces, the detention without charge of thousands, and a months-long suspension of cellphone and internet access.

Bowing to the demands of the Modi government and the RSS, the Supreme Court ruled last month that a Hindu temple must be built where the Babri Masjid (mosque) stood in Ayodhya, until Hindu fanatics demolished it in 1992, at the instigation of the BJP leadership.

Among masses of workers, students and professionals in IndiaMuslim and Hindu alikethere is anger and revulsion at what secular democratic India has become and a determination to resist.

But to prevail they must be armed with an internationalist and socialist strategy. The bourgeoisies turn to ultra-nationalism, fascism, and authoritarianism can only be successfully countered through the independent political mobilization of the working class against the capitalist elite and all its political representatives and in the struggle for workers power.

The Modi government and its communalist offensive are the Indian expression of a universal phenomenon.

Under conditions of ever deepening social inequality, growing global class struggle, and a frenzied inter-capitalist struggle for markets, resources and geostrategic advantage, the bourgeoisie everywhere is turning to authoritarian methods of rule and cultivating ultra-right and fascist forces.

This is true of the imperialist democracies, no less than countries of belated capitalist development like India, Turkey or Brazil.

In the US, Trump is mounting a sweeping assault on democratic rights and, with his appeals to the military and police and rabid denunciations of socialism, is seeking to develop a fascist movement.

French President Emmanuel Macron has moved to rehabilitate the Vichy Nazi collaborator Marshal Ptain and repeatedly ordered the violent repression of social opposition in order to impose massive social cuts and revive aggressive French militarism. In Germany, the intelligence agencies and ruling elite have promoted the neo-Nazi AfD, making it the official opposition in the Reichstag.

Modi was propelled to power by Indian big business in 2014 in order to more aggressively assert its predatory interests on the world stage and force through socially incendiary pro-investor policies.

During the first six months of the BJPs second term, it has simultaneously accelerated its drive to implement the supremacist agenda of the Hindu right and impose neo-liberal reform, including through a fresh wave of privatizations and massive tax cuts for big business.

Modi and his chief henchman, Home Minster Amit Shah, are acutely aware that the much vaunted rising capitalist India is a social powder keg with a lit fuse. They are whipping up anti-Muslim communalism with the aim of mobilizing their Hindu fascist base as shock troops against an increasingly restive and militant working class, and channeling the social tensions produced by rapacious social inequality and a rapidly deteriorating economy behind reaction and a bellicose foreign policy.

In India, as around the world, it is the working classglobally united by capitalist production and increasingly self-conscious of its international characterthat constitutes the social base for a counter-offensive against capitalist reaction, authoritarianism and war. But the immense social power of the working class can be mobilized only in so far as it organizes itself separately and in opposition to all the political representatives of the bourgeoisie.

The Congress Party, till relatively recently the bourgeoisies premier party of government, and a cavalcade of regional-chauvinist and caste-ist parties are seeking to both politically exploit and contain the mass opposition to the Modi government.

An especially reprehensible and dangerous role is being played by the twin Stalinist parliamentary parties, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM and the Communist Party of India (CPI).

Today, as in 1992 after the razing of the Babri Masjid; in 2002 after Modi presided over the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom; and in 2014 when Modi came to power at the head of the first-ever majority BJP government, the Stalinists rail against Hindu fascism. But they do so only as part of their efforts to chain the working class to the parties and institutions of the Indian bourgeoisie and its state.

In the name of fighting the Hindu right, the Stalinists have systematically suppressed the class struggle and helped implement the Indian bourgeoisies neo-liberal agenda. This is epitomized by their role in bringing to power and sustaining in office a succession of rightwing, pro-US governments, most of them Congress-led, between 1989 and 2008. Moreover, in the states where they have held office, West Bengal, Kerala, and Tripura, the Stalinists have implemented what they themselves term pro-investor polices.

Just as the pro-war, pro-austerity measures of the establishment left parties in the advanced capitalist countries, helped pave the way for the growth of the far-right; so the Stalinists, by politically suppressing the working class, have fertilized the political soil for the growth of communal reaction.

Thus, after three decades in which the Stalinists claimed that defeating the Hindu right was their main objective and guiding principle, Modi and his BJP wield unprecedented power

Today, the CPM and CPI are once again calling for unity with the big business Congress Party to defend democracy and secularism. No matter that the Congress has a notorious record of aiding and abetting the Hindu right. Just last month, in an action supported by the CPM, it ensured the coming to power of a coalition government in Maharashtra, Indias second most populous state, led by the Shiv Sena, a Hindu supremacist and Mahratta-chauvinist party that until just weeks ago was the BJPs closest ally.

The Stalinists urge working people to look to the Supreme Court and other decrepit right-wing institutions of the capitalist state to oppose the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Modi regime. In reality, the Supreme Court has for decades greenlighted one communalist and authoritarian outrage after another.

The Stalinists justify their attempt to harness the working class to the Indian state with the claim that the Indian Republic and its institutions are the product of the mass anti-imperialist struggle that convulsed South Asia during the first half of the 20th century.

This is a lie. India was founded on the suppression of the revolutionary strivings of South Asias workers and toilers though a sordid deal between British imperialism and its local bourgeois clients. Betraying its own program for a united democratic secular India, the Indian National Congress joined hands with South Asias departing British colonial overlords and the Muslim League to implement the communal partition of South Asia, into an expressly Muslim Pakistan and a predominantly Hindu India.

The Stalinists did so because they and their Indian bourgeois masters were anxious to get their hands on the British colonial capitalist state machine under conditions of a growing upsurge of the working class. They were organically incapable and hostile to the only means of countering the divide-and-rule tactics of the British and their Hindu and Muslim communalist alliesthe mobilization of South Asias Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh workers and toilers based on an appeal to their common class interests in the struggle against imperialism, landlordism and capitalist exploitation.

The immediate impact of Partition was mass communal violence that left more than a million dead and uprooted close to 20 million from their homes. But more than that, it created a reactionary communal state system that has served imperialism as the means for continuing to dominate the region; given rise to reactionary inter-state rivalries that have led to numerous wars and today threaten the region with a conflict fought with nuclear weapons between India and Pakistan; and has been used by South Asias reactionary ruling elites to incite communalism and divide the masses.

Seventy-two years on, the final unraveling of the nominally secular and supposedly non-communal state that emerged with Indian independence is yet another demonstration, in the negative, of the urgency of Indias workers making the strategy of Permanent Revolution, which animated the 1917 October revolution in Russia, the axis of their struggle. In countries of belated capitalist development, not a single fundamental task of the democratic revolution can be secured without a socialist revolution led by the working class in alliance with the rural toilers.

The struggle against communal reaction must be animated by a socialist internationalist perspective. The fight to unite Indias workers and toilers across all sectarian and caste lines goes hand in hand with the fight to unite their struggles with those of workers around the world.

The defence of democratic rights is inseparable from the fight to mobilize the working class against social inequality, precarious employment, the Indian bourgeoisies military-strategic alliance with Washington, and its massive military build-up

It requires the intensification of class struggle. The working class must forge its political independence in opposition to the bourgeoisie and all its political representatives, and rally the rural poor and oppressed mases behind it in the struggle for a workers and peasants government, as part of the development of an international working-class offensive against world capitalism and imperialist war.

We urge all Indian workers, students and others who want to take up this fight to contact the World Socialist Web Site and International Committee of the Fourth International.

Keith Jones

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The fight against communal reaction in India is the fight for socialism - World Socialist Web Site

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Are you amazed about what your fellow humans conceive and create when it comes to technology the iPhone, 5G, the Tesla, rockets that land upright after being fired, artificial hearts, etc., etc.? Are you also amazed by the willful ignorance of history and economics shown every day by the political and media class?

Engineers who ignore the laws of physics find themselves unemployed. Politicians who ignore basic historical and economic truths often go on to leadership roles with the aid of corrupt and/or ignorant members of the media.

When it comes to economic policy and political organization, it should be obvious to any sentient human that Switzerland has a far better model than Venezuela. Many in the left-leaning media and certain politicians (such as Bernie Sanders) spent years praising the Chavez revolution in Venezuela, even though the economic and human rights disaster the country has become was easily foreseen by anyone with a basic knowledge of history.

There was some good news from this past weeks election that the U.K. will now almost certainly get its independence back, and that most of the British voters rejected socialism. However, millions of British still voted for the socialists, despite the fact that socialism has been an unmitigated disaster wherever and whenever it has been tried.

It results in death and despair, poverty and oppression yet all too many buy the fraud rather than the reality. It now has been four decades since Margaret Thatcher was elected and saved Britain from its earlier socialist experiment. Those voting socialist this time were probably either too young or stupid to remember the misery socialism wrought.

For the past three decades, the Fraser Institute in Canada (along with many economic policy organizations from around the world) and the Heritage Foundation have each produced an annual report on the state of economic freedom by country. Economic freedom has been growing despite many ups and downs and, as the world becomes more economically free, it also becomes more prosperous. Economic freedom is highly correlated with economic well-being, and increased life spans and happiness.

In both indices, Hong Kong has had the top spot for economic freedom. Unfortunately, that laudable distinction is probably about to end because the Chinese communists, like their socialist brethren almost everywhere, fear freedom.

Socialism elevates the collective over the individual, which by definition requires destroying individual liberty. Under socialism, the individual is usually required to hand over (by force if necessary) an ever-increasing share of his or her work product to the state or its agents. Individual action, including speech and belief, is restricted anyplace it runs afoul of the state-sanctioned collectives.

Democratic socialism implies that the socialists can be voted out, as happened in Britain with election of Mrs. Thatcher in 1979, and in a number of the Scandinavian countries at the end of the last century. But that only happens where the existing institution of an independent judiciary is strong enough to resist the socialists attempts to monopolize everything and stop future free elections, as they have done in many places.

Outside of Western Europe, the institutions of a civil society often have not been strong enough to remain independent of socialist movements and leaders, and thus change has only come about through violence or economic collapse, as occurred in the communist block and many places in Latin America and Africa.

In the United States, the left has been working to undermine the necessary civil institutions for a successful society including the courts, schools, churches and the free press. The current effort to impeach the president is another example of an attempt to undermine the Constitution.

Two articles of impeachment have been reported to the House. One is abuse of power. But without listing specific illegal activities, it is meaningless other than an expression that one does not like the president (being crude, crass and unlikeable is not an impeachable offense).

The Democrats were going to include bribery, but their definition was so expansive they had to drop it because congressional horse trading and log rolling would be included, as would most conditional foreign aid and other normal activities of those in government and elsewhere.

The United States has a mutual legal assistance treaty with Ukraine, so asking for information about apparent influence peddling was totally appropriate political opponent or not. The other charge is obstructing Congress. Disputes between Congress and Executive are supposed to be settled by the courts as they have been for two centuries, not by impeachment. The Supreme Court (which is the appropriate institution, not the Congress) has just announced that it will decide how many tax and other records the president has to turn over so the obstruction charge is now moot.

Technological progress tends to grind to a halt without the rule of law, due process, and other features and institutions of a free society. After the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklins response to a question regarding what sort of government they created was A Republic, if you can keep it. Will we continue to pass the test?

Richard W. Rahn is chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth and Improbable Success Production.

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Economic freedom versus the negative effects of Democratic socialism - Washington Times

DAVID BROOKS

I WAS A SOCIALIST in college. I read magazines like The Nation and old issues of The New Masses. I dreamed of being the next Clifford Odets, a lefty playwright who was always trying to raise proletarian class consciousness.

'I came to realise that capitalism is really good at doing the one thing socialism is really bad at: creating a learning process to help people figure stuff out.'

If you go on YouTube and search David Brooks Milton Friedman, you can see a 22-year-old socialist me debating the great economist. I'm the one with the bushy hair and the giant 1980s glasses that were apparently on loan from the Palomar lunar observatory.

The best version of socialism is defined by Michael Walzer's phrase, what touches all should be decided by all. The great economic enterprises should be owned by all of us in common. Decisions should be based on what benefits all, not the maximisation of profit.

That's not what democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders are talking about, but I get why some of their socialist concerns are popular. Why do we have to live with such poverty and inequality? Why can't we put people over profits? What is the best life in the most just society? Socialism is the most compelling secular religion of all time. It gives you an egalitarian ideal to sacrifice and live for.

My socialist sympathies did not survive long once I became a journalist. I quickly noticed that the government officials I was covering were not capable of planning the society they hoped to create. It wasn't because they were bad or stupid. The world is just too complicated.

I came to realise that capitalism is really good at doing the one thing socialism is really bad at: creating a learning process to help people figure stuff out. If you want to run a rental car company, capitalism has a whole bevy of market and price signals and feedback loops that tell you what kind of cars people want to rent, where to put your locations, how many cars to order. It has a competitive profit-driven process to motivate you to learn and innovate, every single day.

Socialist planned economies the common ownership of the means of production interfere with price and other market signals in a million ways. They suppress or eliminate profit motives that drive people to learn and improve.

It doesn't matter how big your computers are, the socialist can never gather all relevant data, can never construct the right feedback loops. The state cannot even see the local, irregular, context-driven factors that can have exponential effects. The state cannot predict people's desires, which sometimes change on a whim. Capitalism creates a relentless learning system. Socialism does not.

The sorts of knowledge that capitalism produces are often not profound, like how to design the best headphone. But that kind of knowledge does produce enormous wealth. Human living standards were pretty much flat for all of human history until capitalism kicked in. Since then, the number of goods and services available to average people has risen by up to 10 000%.

If you have been around a little while, you have noticed that capitalism has brought about the greatest reduction of poverty in human history. In 1981, 42% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Now, it's around 10%. More than a billion people have been lifted out of poverty.

You've noticed that places that instituted market reforms, like South Korea and Deng Xiaoping's China, tended to get richer and prouder. Places that moved toward socialism Britain in the 1970s, Venezuela more recently tended to get poorer and more miserable.

You've noticed that the environment is much better in capitalist nations than in planned economies. The American GDP has more than doubled since 1970, but energy consumption has risen only modestly. America's per-capita carbon emissions hit a 67-year low in 2017. The greatest environmental degradations are committed by planned systems like the old Soviet Union and communist China.

The Fraser Institute is a free-market think tank that ranks nations according to things free-market think tanks like: less regulation, free trade, secure property rights. The freest economies in the world are places like Hong Kong, the US, Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Denmark, Mauritius, Malta and Finland.

Nations in the top quartile for economic freedom have an average GDP per capita of US$36 770 (N$525 445). For those in the bottom quartile, it's US$6 140 (N$87 750). People in the free economies have a life expectancy of 79,4 years. Those in the planned economies have a life expectancy of 65,2 years.

Over the past century, planned economies have produced an enormous amount of poverty and scarcity. What's worse is what happens when the political elites learn what you can do with that scarcity. They turn scarcity into corruption. When things are scarce, you have to bribe government officials to get them. Soon, everybody is bribing. Citizens soon realise the whole system is a fraud.

Socialism produces economic and political inequality as the rulers turn into gangsters. A system that begins in high idealism ends in corruption, dishonesty, oppression and distrust.

I learned the ills of socialism quickly and became a Whig slowly.

My first economic hero is Alexander Hamilton. He came to America with almost nothing and found an economy dominated by land-rich oligarchs like Thomas Jefferson. He realized that the solution was to make everyone a capitalist. He created credit markets so that capital would be fluid and more people would have access to investments.

My next hero is Abraham Lincoln. He grew up poor and launched his career as a Whig. He gave more speeches on banking and infrastructure projects than on slavery. That's because he wanted to spread capital and grease the wheels of commerce so poor boys and girls like him could rise. He helped create the land-grant colleges so that more people would have the training to compete as capitalists.

Another major American figure in the Whig tradition is Theodore Roosevelt. He loved the dynamism that capitalism arouses and knew that sometimes you have to limit giant corporations so millions of less established capitalists can compete.

All of these leaders understood that the answer to the problems of capitalism is wider and fairer capitalism.

Today, parts of our capitalist system in the United States are in good shape. Growth is remarkably steady, inflation is low, employment is high, wages for the poorest Americans are rising twice as fast as for high-wage workers.

But capitalism, like all human systems, is always unbalanced one way or another. Over the last generation, capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in global income inequality in history. The downside is that low-skill workers in the US are now competing with workers in Vietnam, India and Malaysia. The reduction of inequality among nations has led to the increase of inequality within rich nations, like the United States.

Also, education levels have not kept pace with technology. More people grow up with inadequate schools, disrupted families and fragmented neighbourhoods. They find it harder to acquire the skills to become good capitalists. The market is effectively closed off to them.

These problems are not signs that capitalism is broken. They are signs that we need more and better capitalism. We need a massive infusion of money and reform into our education systems, from infancy through life. Human capital-building is like nutrition: It's something you have to attend to every day. We need welfare programmes that not only subsidise poor people's consumption but also subsidise their capacity to produce.

We need worker co-ops, which build skills and represent labour at the negotiating table. We need wage subsidies and mobility subsidies, so people can afford to move to opportunity. We need tax subsidies for health care, to make it easier for people to switch jobs. We need a higher earned-income tax credit, to give the working poor financial security so they don't get swept away amid the creative destruction. We need a carbon tax, to give everyone an incentive to reduce carbon emissions without pretending we know the best way to do it.

Every single idea I just mentioned comes from the American Enterprise Institute or Brookings or some other institution derided as being part of the neo-liberal elite. All these ideas would make capitalism work better.

A big mistake those of us on the conservative side made was to think that anything that made the government bigger also made the market less dynamic. We failed to distinguish between the supportive state and the regulatory state. The supportive state makes better and more secure capitalists. The Scandinavian nations have very supportive welfare states. They also have very free markets. The only reason they can afford to have generous welfare states is they also have very free markets.

I don't know if the Scandinavian welfare model would work in nations as big and diverse as the US, but its success points to a few truths: The state nurtures prosperity when it helps people become capitalists. The state causes incredible levels of misery when it gets too far inside the decision-making processes of capitalists. It creates enormous misery when it cripples the motivational system that drives capitalism. It causes enormous misery when it meddles with the relentless learning system that market mechanisms make possible.

Capitalism is not a religion. It won't save your soul or fulfil the yearnings of your heart. But somehow it will arouse your energies, it will lift your sights, it will put you on a lifelong learning journey to know, to improve, to dare and to dare again.

Last Sunday I attended a service with a young friend at a church that has quickly become a home for her. There were several hundred congregants. Ninety percent were under 30. Ninety percent were Latino. The service was two hours of joy and exultation glow sticks and song and balloons.

They weren't worshipping capitalism, but something higher. But still their work lives came into view. Look how far we've come! Look how far we've come! different people kept saying.

I saw my own family's Jewish immigration history being re-enacted right in front of me. We, like they, started out as butchers and seamstresses and tailors, self-employed capitalists because it can be hard for immigrants to get corporate jobs. The opportunity explosion my family experienced and your family probably experienced is happening still, made possible by the ever-expanding pie that capitalism provides.

The theme that day was hope, transcendent hope and more immediate hope. Move and miracles happen! a young Latino woman sang. Every year, hundreds of millions of people march with their feet to capitalism.

Today, the real argument is not between capitalism and socialism. We ran that social experiment for 100 years and capitalism won. It's between a version of democratic capitalism, found in the US, Canada and Denmark, and forms of authoritarian capitalism, found in China and Russia. Our job is to make it the widest and fairest version of capitalism it can possibly be.

David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times. This column, published on 5 December 2019 in the Times, was prepared for a Munk Debate on the future of capitalism, held on Wednesday in Toronto.

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I Was Once a Socialist, Then I Saw How It Worked: Two cheers for capitalism, now and forever - Namibian

A recent poll by the news website Axios found that a larger number of individuals born after 1980 have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. This created a good deal of shock, horror, and revulsion among those of us born before 1980.

I contend we should not be surprised. To begin, many of the leaders in this country have the bad habit of calling both universal health care and tuition-free post secondary education socialism. This is not accurate. Socialism is the government ownership of agriculture and the means of production.

Moreover, those born after 1980 have much different life experiences than those of us who are called baby boomers.

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The government paid for 80% of a boomers college education. Over the past few decades, this has been reduced to about 30%. After adjusting for inflation, tuition and fees at my alma mater, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, are currently five times higher than when I was an under graduate student in the mid-1960s. I was able to work my way through college and emerge debt-free. Presently, approximately 60% of college graduates are $29,000 in debt.

From 1947 until 1980 and after adjusting for inflation, the median family income increased by 200%. With the decline of unions, the median family income has increased only 28% since 1980.

Obviously capitalism has not worked so well for the post-boomer generations. Why should we be surprised by their skepticism?

JOHN PIEPHO, Cape Girardeau

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Letter to the Editor: Opinions about socialism (12/16/19) - Southeast Missourian

In politics, it is never about what they say it is about. What are the heated debates on man made climate change, school climate strikes and the recent Fargo City Hall meeting featuring Greta Thunberg knock-offs urging the city to support a city-wide climate emergency declaration, really about?

...the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and political will. Colonial, racist and patriarchal systems of oppression have created it and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all, said Greta Thunberg.

The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasnt originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy-thing, said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs then chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti.

Socialism has failed around the world. It has killed tens of millions of its own citizens with its cultural revolutions and genocides. Witness the history of Russia, Germany, N. Korea, Cuba and Venezuela and todays China, which has imprisoned one million Muslims in re-education camps and threatens students in Hong Kong with tear gas, beatings and jail.Nevertheless, the Red River Valley Democratic Socialists of America co-sponsored the Friday, Sept. 20 school climate strike featuring competing bullhorns and images of the Earth melting like ice cream and signs threatening 11Years, The Wrong Amazon is Burning, and Tick-Tock Doomsday Clock.

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Then the RRVDSA libels me for raising questions in my Dec. 3 letter to the editor about the City Hall meeting, branding me a liar, leach, coward and lawyer helping scumbag bankers rip homeowners off, in Zac Echolas Dec. 4th letter to the editor.

Socialists will not surrender the climate change propaganda and the tool it gives them to achieve their real goals and Echolas attempt to silence me proves the point of my 12/3/19 letter, that those who think they are saving the world will have no respect for other viewpoints.

Know what this is really about, know who is behind it, watch for ongoing proof; but most of all, speak up and spare the children. They should be in school.

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Letter: Those pushing climate change theories are really pushing socialism - INFORUM