Workers denounce Trump’s coup
Autoworkers, teachers, retirees and other sections of the working class reacted with outrage as fascist supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol Wednesday afternoon, forcibly disrupting the certification of Biden’s presidential victory. The attack, which occurred soon after the same crowd heard an incendiary speech by Trump in front of the White House, was an attempted coup by Trump to overturn the election results and establish a presidential dictatorship.
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World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party are warning workers about the dangers raised by this development and campaigning to mobilize the working class in opposition to both the fascist Trump and his spineless political opponents in the Democratic Party to defeat the drive to dictatorship.
CHICAGO (WLS) Fraternal Order of Police president John Catanzara defended the pro-Trump protest that turned into a riot, with supporters storming the Capitol Wednesday and trashing the sacred halls of democracy.
He said while he was horrified at the chaos, the vast majority of people in attendance were peaceful protesters.
Catanzara insisted it was a handful of people who were the problem, despite video of massive crowds swarming and breaking into the halls of Congress. Disgraceful, Catanzara said. All the way around. A handful of people out of a crowd of 450,000 plus, decided to take the law into their own hands and swarm a building they should have obviously even entered.
CHICAGO (WLS) From politicians to community organizers to regular people, many in the Black community and beyond have noted stark differences between the police treatment of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol and Black Lives Matter protesters last summer. If that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting, they would have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capitol, President-Elect Joe Biden said.
That contrast was not lost on many in the Black community, who recall a much different scene from last June. Then, hundreds of officers in riot gear fired tear gas and physically beat people during a mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration in Washington D.C. as they cleared a path for President Trump to walk from the White House to St. John s Church down the street for a photo op of him holding a bible.
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Officials have just 13 days to fortify the Capitol grounds before Joe Biden will be sworn in as president on the very stage that pro-Trump rioters stormed with ease.