Presented By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Informational Meeting: Oppose GM Plant Closings!
Why Students and Youth Should Join the Fight to Oppose GM Job Cuts
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan calls on young people in Michigan, throughout the country and internationally to support autoworkers in their fight against General Motors’ plan to close five plants in the US and Canada by joining the February 9 autoworkers demonstration in Detroit.
The closure of these plants will have devastating consequences for tens of thousands of autoworkers, their families, and the communities in which these plants are located. The workers and young people of Detroit, Lordstown Ohio, Oshawa Ontario and others targeted by GM must unite their struggles into a common fight to oppose the closures!
This meeting will also review how the fight against the plant closures is part of a much larger fight taking place on an international scale: that between the working class of all countries and the capitalist ruling elite. The past year has been dominated by a reemergence of the class struggle internationally.
The February 9 demonstration in downtown Detroit has been called by the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees, which was formed by workers in auto and other industries to organize a fight independently of the trade unions. Such committees must be formed in every workplace and neighborhood, including in the schools, to organize teachers and students in defense of public education.
The IYSSE at UM calls on youth and students to join us on February 9 at the demonstration at GM headquarters to support autoworkers in their struggle against the destruction of their jobs, which will one day be our jobs; against the destruction of their communities, which are also our communities; against the giant corporations and unions that collude in the attack on wages, benefits and working conditions; and against all those who seek to tie workers and youth to the Democratic and Republican parties.
All who interested in attending or learning more about the rally are encouraged to attend the Thursday 7pm informational meeting in the Kalamazoo Room of the Michigan League, and to visit the Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1719458588201031/
The closure of these plants will have devastating consequences for tens of thousands of autoworkers, their families, and the communities in which these plants are located. The workers and young people of Detroit, Lordstown Ohio, Oshawa Ontario and others targeted by GM must unite their struggles into a common fight to oppose the closures!
This meeting will also review how the fight against the plant closures is part of a much larger fight taking place on an international scale: that between the working class of all countries and the capitalist ruling elite. The past year has been dominated by a reemergence of the class struggle internationally.
The February 9 demonstration in downtown Detroit has been called by the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees, which was formed by workers in auto and other industries to organize a fight independently of the trade unions. Such committees must be formed in every workplace and neighborhood, including in the schools, to organize teachers and students in defense of public education.
The IYSSE at UM calls on youth and students to join us on February 9 at the demonstration at GM headquarters to support autoworkers in their struggle against the destruction of their jobs, which will one day be our jobs; against the destruction of their communities, which are also our communities; against the giant corporations and unions that collude in the attack on wages, benefits and working conditions; and against all those who seek to tie workers and youth to the Democratic and Republican parties.
All who interested in attending or learning more about the rally are encouraged to attend the Thursday 7pm informational meeting in the Kalamazoo Room of the Michigan League, and to visit the Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1719458588201031/
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