the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 30, 2024
Just before the Democratic National Convention opened, the Chicago Mayor’s office used “emergency funds” to install a ten-foot-tall ornamental fence near the convention site.
With a price tag of nearly one million dollars, the fence stretched 1,360 feet to surround an area of planted grass which had become the largest homeless encampment in the city. The mayor used “emergency funds” and illegally hid the exorbitant cost of one million dollars until the convention-goers left town.
But the mayor had cited “lack of funds” to reject the expansion of Chicago’s homeless shelters.
Clearly, under this system the housing crisis is less deserving of “emergency” funding than projects designed to hide it from view.