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The attack on public services continues, as our salaries drop and jobs disappear, even as the profits and benefits of the capitalist 1% grow unstoppably. The cold-blooded murder of young brothers like Ramarley Graham and Trayvon Martin, painfully highlights the lynchmob legacy of this nation of slaveowners. The same racist hatred feeds the persecution of those who come here looking for the jobs that the system itself destroys around the world. Rather than schools and hospitals, they build walls and prisons to divide us. Working women's reproductive rights and intimacy are assaulted by the hypocrisy of those who live off the sweat of others. An insane logic of constant expansion poisons the environment and keeps alive imperialist wars that have thus far claimed the lives of nearly 1.5 million Afghan and Iraqi civilians and 5,500 U.S. Soldiers. All of these attacks on poor and working people have a common denominator: capitalism. It can be different if we fight back.
Students push forward during 2011 university strike in Puerto Rico. of the system, led by people who earn CEO-level salaries, and only move to deliver votes for the Democratic Party of the capitalist 1%. There are seeds for change, all over the place. But poor and working people can't sit around waiting for a sign from some savior. We need to push the fight as far as it can go in the direction that we want, and when it can't go any further, create our own vehicles of struggle. We must learn to think collectively; to not just occupy public spaces sporadically, but productive spaces that can be held in the long-term and linked to others as we grow.
Who we are
ORGANIZE TO FIGHT, FIGHT TO WIN! If the fight is going to produce real, lasting change for poor and working people, it has to be organized, and it has to come from below. Sadly, all but a handful of unions and nongovernmental organizations in New York and in the country are already part
The MST is an organization that fights for socialism and the independence of Puerto Rico. The MST-NYC is constituted by workers and students living in New York City, who struggle for the interests of the working class everywhere in the world.
Free, quality healthcare for all! Stop privatizing healthcare services! Single-payer now! Support real public education! Stop school closures and Charter Schools! An open and affordable CUNY! Stop hikes, restore open admissions at all campuses! Communities' control of their own fate! Stop all evictions now! Workers' democratic class power! Build grassroots workers' councils without bosses or sell-out unions!
Estudiantes pujan pa'lante en huelga Universitaria del 2011 en Puerto Rico. desde abajo. Tristemente todas menos un puado de sindicatos y ONGs en Nueva York y en el pas son dirigidas por gente que ganan salarios de ejecutivo y solo se mueven para entregarle votos al Partido Demcrata del 1% capitalista. Las semillas del cambio estn por todas partes. Pero los pobres y trabajadores no podemos quedarnos cruzados de brazos esperando la seal de algn mesas. Tenemos que empujar el combate hasta donde pueda llegar en la direccin que queremos, y cuando ya no pueda avanzar ms, crear nuestros propios vehculos de lucha desde abajo. Debemos aprender a pensar colectivamente; a no solo ocupar espacios pblicos de manera espordica, sino espacios productivos que podamos aguantar a largo plazo y conectar entre s segn crecemos.
Quienes somos
El MST es una organizacin que lucha por el socialismo y la independencia de Puerto Rico. El MST-NYC lo constituyen trabajadorxs y estudiantes residentes en la Ciudad de Nueva York, que luchan por los intereses de la clase trabajadora en todo el mundo.
Salud gratuita y de calidad para todxs! Detengamos la privatizacin! Seguro con pagador nico ahora! Educacin verdaderamente pblica! Detengamos los cierres y las Escuelas Charter! Por un CUNY abierto y accesible! Detengamos las alzas, reestablezcamos la adminsin abierta! Que las comunidades controlen su propio destino! Detengamos todos los desahucios ahora! Por el poder democrtico y clasista de las y los trabajadores! Sin patronos ni sindicatos vendidos!