# The Worker, V40 #3

> I. Exposing the "Lobby" Fraud: The Instrument of U.S. Monopoly Capital
II. "Proud of My 0% Turnout!": A Worker's Resolute Stand Against Bourgeois Electoral Blackmail 
III. Shattering the Imperialist Apparatus
IV. The Syndicate's Glitch: Why the Central Hu

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- ["Immigration Reform" Aims to Make the U.S. Labor Market More Comfortable for Big Business](https://www.workersparty.org/no-6-the-worker-v-34): The budget bureau is at its regular juncture for rubber stamping a request from the Executive Office of the President to release work permits to benefit employers who plan to hire provisional labor from foreign labor markets. In opposition to the chauvi
- [#2, V38, The Worker](https://www.workersparty.org/no-2-the-worker-v-38): I. Washington Unsatisfied with Iraqi Regime Change – Must Bomb More, Kill More and Spend More Money! II. U.S. Post-War Occupation of Europe Nears 8th Decade
- [Avert Globalist War](https://www.workersparty.org/no-7-the-worker-v39): "Peace through Strength" policy of the Trump administration and the 118th Congress has prominently focused on advancing U.S. economic and strategic interests in the Asian market, particularly in relation to "countering China" through a so-called Pacific D
- [back issues of the worker, newspaper of the workers party, usa](https://www.workersparty.org/back-issues-of-the-worker-newspaper-of-the-workers-party-usa)
- [Biden Lies About Ending the War in Afghanistan in Order to Get Blank Check Assurances](https://www.workersparty.org/no-11-the-worker-v-35): Biden is playing the most cynical game on the American people. Biden's line of relying on the counter-revolutionary dual tactics of combining open military aggression with political deception is based on the most bestial chauvinism, on the unrestrained ex
- [Biden Steps Up U.S. War Effort; Health Care Is A Right!; Build the Workers' Press](https://www.workersparty.org/no-3-the-worker-v-35): Blaming insurgents for deliberately causing incidents to provoke renewed airstrikes, the Biden administration made the strategic gesture of escalating bombings of Iraq immediately after taking office on January 20. In one particularly widely reported U.S.
- [Biden's Mexico Model; Haiti Mandate](https://www.workersparty.org/no-8-the-worker-v-36): From 2008 through 2021, the Mérida Initiative flooded Mexico with U.S. weapons, security, and intelligence operations which were widely implicated in drug-trafficking, human rights abuses, and raising Mexico's violent crime and homicide rates to historica
- [Bringing Independent Working Class Politics to Centerstage](https://www.workersparty.org/no-15-the-worker-v-34): But all of this feverish energy exerted on behalf of the class interests of big capital only exposes once again the tremendous all-sided crisis facing U.S. state-monopoly capitalism. Why would the capitalists, who never part with a dime except in anticipa
- [Call of the Party](https://www.workersparty.org/no-16-the-worker-v-35): For more than 200 years the workers and oppressed people of our country have been coming out in struggle after struggle to assert their rights and bring forward their program for society. From the very beginning, the American people have fought to create
- [Capitalist Private Property in the Means of Production and Its Main Features](https://www.workersparty.org/no-7-the-worker-v-35): In mobilizing and rallying people around their own aims and agenda, the working class, primarily through the vehicle of its own independent political party, must transcend the limits of the political economy of the bourgeoisie. The independent working cla
- [Defeating U.S. Aggression Against the Iraqi Nation ⁠- More of a Burning Question Than Ever &#...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-8-the-worker-v-34): Today, there are 2 fundamental contradictions in Iraqi society: 1) the contradiction between U.S. imperialism and the Iraqi nation; and 2) the contradiction between the reactionary, exploiting Iraqi upper class and the exploited and downtrodden masses.
- [Democratic Renewal Campaign](https://www.workersparty.org/home-copy-n-8): The Party calls on workers to reject the Republican and Democratic parties. The workers must reject the blackmail of "lesser evil" politics and instead build their own political party--the Workers Party--as the only genuine alternative. It is the working cl
- [Dismantle the U.S.-Ukraine Alliance; Haiti Background Material](https://www.workersparty.org/no-9-the-worker-v-36): The following article was written by the Dismantle the U.S.-Ukraine Alliance Study Group; Background Material on U.S.-Led Imperialist Aggression and Death Squad Control Established Over Haiti
- [Dispelling the Anti-Social Election Propaganda](https://www.workersparty.org/no-9-the-worker-v-341): We wanted to express our gratitude and thanks to the Workers Party for providing the clear analysis and for leading the political discussion and organization for more and more people to come out and participate in this struggle against both political part
- [Don't Let the Rich Drown Out Our Voice](https://www.workersparty.org/no-1-the-worker-v-37): Contents: I. Don't Let the Rich Drown Out Our Voice! II. New York Nurses Struggle for Safe Staffing Levels ​III. Cuba and Washington's Blacklists
- [Draft Program for the Working Class](https://www.workersparty.org/draft-program-for-the-working-class)
- [Employer Surveillance of Workers](https://www.workersparty.org/no-3-the-worker-v-37): Today, there is a surge of rapidly increasing capital investments in and development of new software and other technology for large and small scale data collection on employees. This is leading to a proliferation of methods for secretly micromanaging work
- [Further Redistribution of the Wealth in Favor of Big Capital](https://www.workersparty.org/no-15-the-worker-v-35): We discuss some features of the anti-social offensive of the US capitalist class & What can we do about it?
- [Health Care Is a Right; Anti-NATO Protests](https://www.workersparty.org/no-7-the-worker-v-36): The U.S. maternal mortality rate is going up instead of down. From 1990-2015, the number of women who experienced death caused by childbirth or pregnancy increased by more than 16% – from 12 to 14 deaths per 100,000 live births. The roadblock is the pro
- [How to Respond to Climate Capitalism](https://www.workersparty.org/no-10-the-worker-v-36): Climate capitalism is about claiming that the problem of pollution and destruction of the natural environment comes from a few overly greedy capitalists and their enablers that embrace a "bad policy." Climate capitalism is a program that offers a few empt
- [Imperialism's Drive to Penetrate the Post-USSR Space Is Doomed](https://www.workersparty.org/no-4-the-worker-v-36): Stop Pentagon Aid to Ukraine!
- [Inevitable Dance of Boom and Bust](https://www.workersparty.org/no-3-the-worker-v-39): The only fundamental solution lies in a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist system in order to resolve the inherent contradictions of capitalism and plan production for the benefit of all.
- [Material Security in Case of Illness Is a Human Right!](https://www.workersparty.org/no-2-the-worker-v-36): Currently, out-of-pocket spending on health care in the U.S. is just shy of $500 billion annually. The health care industry, built up by generations of labor and investment by the whole society, must be put in service of society as a whole. Ownership must
- [New Attack on Democratic Rights](https://www.workersparty.org/no-14-the-worker-v-35): Last month President Biden used executive powers to order employers with 100 or more employees to either require their employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot, submit to weekly testing or be fired. This decision is an obvious violation of workers' rights
- [New Year Edition of The Worker](https://www.workersparty.org/no-1-the-worker-v-35): The Worker, Newspaper of the Workers Party, USA Vol. 35, Number 1
- [New York City Institutes Involuntary Mask Enforcement on Public Transit](https://www.workersparty.org/no-16-the-worker-v-34): This month governor Cuomo handed down a decision which authorizes the transit police of New York City to fine people for the “crime” of leaving their face uncovered. Granting the executive branch the arbitrary power to bypass public health law and issue
- [No Force on Earth Can Stop the Objective Process of People Getting Together to Find Common Solutions...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-2-the-worker-v-35): In last year's elections, 1/3 of workers spontaneously chose not to vote, expressing the fact that none of the capitalist politicians represent the interests of the masses.
- [No to Repression; Defeating Pentagon Warmakers](https://www.workersparty.org/no-5-the-worker-v-36): Vesting sovereignty in the people is the task of the times. Only the Peoples Can Stop the Wars!
- [No. 10 The Worker, V. 38](https://www.workersparty.org/no-10-the-worker-v-38): I. Essentials for Solving Economic Problems II. Deadly Intentions of U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks
- [No. 2 The Worker, V. 34](https://www.workersparty.org/no-2-the-worker-v-34)
- [No. 5 The Worker, V. 34](https://www.workersparty.org/no-5-the-worker-v-34)
- [On the Momentous Anti-Imperialist Storm in Afghanistan](https://www.workersparty.org/no-13-the-worker-v-35): In Afghanistan, the people have bitterly defeated the aggression of U.S. imperialism. The recent victory of the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to force the retreat of all U.S.-NATO forces from their land deprives imperialism of a base of operatio
- [Only the Working Class Can Lead the Way Out of the Crisis of Capitalism](https://www.workersparty.org/no-10-the-worker-v-34): The history of this century proves that it is the working class which is the representative of progress, the leading fighter for democracy, for national liberation, for enlightenment, for economic and social emancipation.
- [Operation Al-Aqsa Flood Hamas Media Office](https://www.workersparty.org/operation-al-aqsa-flood)
- [Redistribution of the National Income in Favor of Big Capital](https://www.workersparty.org/no-6-the-worker-v-35): No, in Congress "investment-led growth" refers to taking public monies and turning them over to the private sector for retraining of workers, investment in modern industrial equipment, and research for military and commercial development. Of course, the
- [Salvation Can Only Be Found Through the Emancipation of the Working Class](https://www.workersparty.org/no-5-the-worker-v-38): TikTok is an online platform for creators to exhibit their ideas for audience patronage. Exhibiting one's ideas to an audience is both a source of personal development and a source of income for creators. Last month, President Biden signed a federal law e
- [Stop Funding Israeli Aggression](https://www.workersparty.org/home-copy-n-9): The conflict surrounding the U.S. response to the situation involving Hamas and Palestine brings to light a sharp contemporary illustration of the necessity for the anti-war movement in the United States to organize independently and in resolute oppositio
- [The CIA War on Somalia Under Biden](https://www.workersparty.org/no-6-the-worker-v-37): June 5, 2023, The U.S. government is preparing a new military offensive in Somalia. The aim is to recruit enough foreign troops by August to "pacify" villages in the south of Somalia which are considered "no-go" areas for U.S. capital. Once again, U.S. im
- [The Class Struggle of the Workers and Oppressed People Is the Motive Force of Social Development](https://www.workersparty.org/no-12-the-worker-v-35): Biden is playing the most cynical game on the American people. Biden's line of relying on the counter-revolutionary dual tactics of combining open military aggression with political deception is based on the most bestial chauvinism, on the unrestrained ex
- [The Economy for Whom?](https://www.workersparty.org/no-13-the-worker-v-34): Behind each and every one of the lying slogans of the two parties lurks the voracious appetite of the big capitalists.
- [The Ideological Struggle — A Vital Part of the Class Struggle of the Workers Against the Capit...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-9-the-worker-v-34): The Marxist-Leninists, have 2 invincible weapons: we have the masses of people, who like us, are struggling for the truth, and we have the theory of Marxism-Leninism, the science of the working class and its revolutionary struggle. If we rely on these wea
- [The Need for Theory](https://www.workersparty.org/no-17-the-worker-v-34): Contemporary Marxist-Leninist theory is irreconcilably opposed to dogmatism which is nothing but a form of bourgeois ideology used to create artificial splits amongst the people and sterilize human thinking by forcing it into pre-made frameworks which ack
- [The People Are Effectively Denied the Right to Vote, as All the Candidates on the Ballot Have Alread...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-14-the-worker-v-34): This is why in the current elections there is no space for those who are opposed to war and imperialism, to racism and repression, to poverty and exploitation. Even as the Democrats and Republicans maintain a real monopoly over the government by maintaini
- [The Program of "Peace Through Strength" Promises Decadence and Vast Wealth for the Capital...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-18-the-worker-v-34): The candidates of both parties are using the elections to beat the drum for protection of the home market of the U.S. capitalist class and for its conquering of foreign markets. As part of the capitalist program of wage-cutting and the so-called re-indust
- [The Real Terrorists Claim Victory in Syria](https://www.workersparty.org/no-1-the-worker-v-39): In Syria, the U.S. strategy goes beyond simply overthrowing a government. It seeks to undo the post-colonial era that began with Syria’s independence from European powers. The U.S. aims to restore a system where foreign business owners, not the Syrian peo
- [The Two Parties Are Parties of the Billionaires; U.S. State Department Issues Ultimatum to its Enemi...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-3-the-worker-v-34): The Two Parties Are Parties of the Billionaires U.S. State Department Issues Ultimatum to its Enemies in Afghanistan
- [The Way Out of the Crisis and the Program of the Workers Party](https://www.workersparty.org/no-10-the-worker-v-35): The strategic and long-range program of the Workers Party is to win the battle for political power, to raise the working class up to the position of the ruling class in society. Only when the working class runs the government can it insure that the econom
- [The Weight of the U.S. War on the Lives of the Iraqi People Increases](https://www.workersparty.org/no-6-the-worker-v-36): Information released this month about a recently completed study, signed off on by the United Nations Development Program, shows that a new purse of $700 million has disappeared from Iraq's national banks. According to the acting Iraqi Commission for Inte
- [The Worker V 37 #4](https://www.workersparty.org/no-4-the-worker-v-37): 1. Learn how the profit motive is affecting medical treatment options. Discuss what we can do about it. 2. Discover how a modern definition of democracy can help us solve the current political crisis and return supreme power to the people.
- [The Worker V 37 #7](https://www.workersparty.org/no-7-the-worker-v-37)
- [The Worker Vol. 36 No. 1](https://www.workersparty.org/no-1-the-worker-v-36): Public Education, U.S. War in Iraq, U.S. military budget
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- [The Worker, Special Edition, V37 #8](https://www.workersparty.org/no-8-the-worker-v-37): I. The Rights of Immigrants -- the Rights of All! II. Ongoing Struggle of Mexican People Against the Effects of the Capitalist Economic Crisis We are publishing this special edition to coincide with the launch of our new campaign slogan: “If you are illeg
- [The Worker, V 37#2](https://www.workersparty.org/no-2-the-worker-v-37): Contents: I. The Tragedy of the Former Workers' State Continues II. The Appetite of the Capitalists for Greater and Greater Profits Knows No Bounds III. Oppose U.S. Plan to Use Philippines in War Strategy Against China
- [The Worker, V37 #10](https://www.workersparty.org/no-10-the-worker-v-37): I. $6.2 Billion Bonanza for Two Top Medicare Thieves II. Palestine Uprising
- [The Worker, V37 #11](https://www.workersparty.org/no-11-the-worker-v-37): I. Carrying Forward the Banner of Democracy II. Operation Sword of Iron Is a Lost Cause
- [The Worker, V37 #9](https://www.workersparty.org/no-9-the-worker-v37): I. Unlocking Our Potential II. Mobilizing for a Pro-Social Alternative in Today's Political Climate
- [The Worker, V38 #1](https://www.workersparty.org/no-1-the-worker-v-38): I. What Is the Issue? II. Israel -- U.S. Imperialism’s Guard Dog in the Middle East
- [The Worker, V38 #4](https://www.workersparty.org/no-6-the-worker-v-38): I. U.S. Atrocities in Iraq Keep Mounting II. Update on the Asia Pivot III. Press statement of Vice Foreign Minister of DPRK
- [The Worker, V38 #4](https://www.workersparty.org/no-4-the-worker-v-38): I. U.S. Atrocities in Iraq Keep Mounting II. Update on the Asia Pivot III. Press statement of Vice Foreign Minister of DPRK
- [The Worker, V38 #7](https://www.workersparty.org/no-7-the-worker-v-38): I. There Are No Anti-Apartheid Candidates! II. Background Material on the Crisis in Gaza
- [The Worker, V38 #8](https://www.workersparty.org/no-8-the-worker-v-38): I. Update on the Mass Workers' Press II. U.S. Imperialism, Out of the Middle East!
- [The Worker, V39 #10](https://www.workersparty.org/no-2-the-worker-v-40): I. Executive Summary: The Trajectory of the Subjective Factor II. Venezuela's Defense of Sovereignty: Venezuela for the People, Not the Monopolies
- [The Worker, V39 #10](https://www.workersparty.org/no-1-the-worker-v-40): I. The Gilded Lackey and the U.S. Imperialist Farce: A New Act of Opportunist Betrayal II. Imperialism: Inseparable Engine of War and Domination
- [The Worker, V40 #3](https://www.workersparty.org/)
- [The Worker, Vol. 34, Number 19](https://www.workersparty.org/no-19-the-worker-v-34): U.S. Imperialism's Phony "War on Drugs" Is an Excuse for Stepping up Its Intervention in Mexico Threats of civil war..!?
- [The Worker, Vol. 34, Number 20](https://www.workersparty.org/no-20-the-worker-v-34): The Way Out of the Hell of Capitalist Exploitation, Greater Party Organization Must Be Built Which Expresses and Defends the Interests of All the Working People
- [The Worker, Vol. 35, Number 8](https://www.workersparty.org/no-8-the-worker-v-35): The objective content of the present era is the transition from capitalism to socialism on a world scale, and the motive force - the decisive human factor - is the emergence of the working class as a class-for-itself and the drive of the workers to assume
- [The Worker, Vol. 35, Number 9](https://www.workersparty.org/no-9-the-worker-v-35): The objective content of the present era is the transition from capitalism to socialism on a world scale, and the motive force - the decisive human factor - is the emergence of the working class as a class-for-itself and the drive of the workers to assume
- [There Is No Time to Lose in Exposing the Class Basis of Oppressive Laws](https://www.workersparty.org/no-4-the-worker-v39): The Workers Party calls on the American people to step up our opposition to efforts to establish English as the official language. This is an essential part of the struggle to combat growing fascism and government repression.
- [This Medievalism Must Be Defeated!](https://www.workersparty.org/no-4-the-worker-v-34): For Americans, the news of the government's despotic "shelter-in-place" orders, "cease-and-desist" orders against local businesses, and other medieval responses to a viral pandemic are highly revolting. The great democratic traditions that have always bee
- [Trump Employs Withdrawal Tactic](https://www.workersparty.org/no-21-the-worker-v-34): Neither the American people nor the Somali people ever have had nor ever will have soft ears for the chauvinist fairy tales of U.S. and western colonialism about the history of Africa. They know full well that this noise is merely being used by U.S. imper
- [U.S. Ambassador Lays Out Goals for Protecting U.S. Administrative Machinery in Iraq](https://www.workersparty.org/no-4-the-worker-v-35): Alongside the training of Iraqi military reinforcements for this purpose, the war in Iraq continues. U.S.-Iraq forces keeps killing the Iraqi people, carrying out mass reprisals, etc. The multinational corporations are being given a free hand to take over
- [U.S. Imperialism, Hands Off Latin America!](https://www.workersparty.org/no-5-the-worker-v-35): In the struggle of today against the exploiting, colonial relations imposed on Latin America by U.S. capitalist-imperialism, we cannot let U.S. imperialism – which has committed innumerable crimes against humanity – pass off any of its program in the nam
- [U.S. Invasion of Haiti; Grave Danger of War with Russia](https://www.workersparty.org/no-3-the-worker-v-36): U.S. Invasion of Haiti; U.S. Imperialism, Get Out of Europe!
- [Using the Workers' Press to Develop the Political Life of the Working Class and Broad Masses of...](https://www.workersparty.org/no-12-the-worker-v-34): The big capitalist class employs literally millions of means to bombard the consciousness of the workers on a daily and hourly basis. And all of the capitalist ideology has very definite motives and goals – to disintegrate the class struggle of the worker
- [USMCA Will Secure Maximum Profits for the U.S. Imperialist Parasites ​](https://www.workersparty.org/no-7-the-worker-v34): The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is slated to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the first of July. As part of the program of U.S. imperialism to step up its counter-revolutionary offensive to suppress the rights
- [Vol. 39, Number 6](https://www.workersparty.org/no-6-the-worker-v39): I. Family Well-Being Requires Prioritizing People's Needs II. How to Advance the Struggle against US-Israeli Aggression in the Middle East
- [We Must Stay the Hands of the Pentagon Warmakers!](https://www.workersparty.org/no-5-the-worker-v-37): At the present time, CENTCOM issues a monthly report of its joint undertakings in Iraq, yet does not indicate the kind of arms utilized. The 2023 CENTCOM data gives 25 partnered operations in April, 28 in March, 33 in February, and so forth. As stated by
- [Where Do We Go From Here?](https://www.workersparty.org/no-3-the-worker-v-38): Humanity stands at a pivotal moment, faced with a crucial decision. We can either embrace humankind's life on this earth as the most valuable thing worth preserving, or we can flush it all down the drain.
- [While the Rich Get Richer the Ranks of the Industrial Reserve Army Expand](https://www.workersparty.org/no-11-the-worker-v-34): The more acute the class struggle, the greater the need for the working class to create a united powerful political party capable of consistently protecting its fundamental interests.