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
Oct 28, 2024
Michigan is home to over 300,000 Arab American and North African residents. In media interviews, many are planning to sit home and not vote in November or to NOT vote for Democrats or Republicans at the top of the ticket.
In the tight U.S. Senate race, the Democrat Elissa Slotkin is a former CIA agent. Her Republican Party opponent is a former FBI agent. The Dearborn-based Arab American Political Action Committee urges community members NOT to vote for either candidate, stating, “They are both warmongers and do not deserve your vote.”
Recently a popular community organizer, Ahmed Ghanim, wearing business attire, was told to leave a Democratic Presidential event or he would be put in the back of a police car. He posted on social media, “The Muslim ban is real, and it just happened to me at Harris’s rally today in Royal Oak, Michigan. They kicked me out without any reason, even after I received confirmation to attend and passed a security clearance at the gate.”
The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, explained that funerals are now being held in the city for family members who just died in Lebanon. He estimates that 45% of residents of Dearborn are Lebanese. He said, “How do you tell them: Well, regardless of how you feel … will you come out and cast your vote toward Vice President Harris?”
One Lebanese American resident of Dearborn, who protested Trump’s travel ban in 2016, has lost family to the recent violence in Lebanon. He said in a New York Times interview, “Would you rather your family be banned from entering the country, or would you rather your family be killed by an Israeli airstrike?”
Many Arab American voters clearly are drawing a line to say it is not in their interest to vote for either the Democrats or the Republicans. This is a very important understanding that needs to spread.
No matter which candidate wins, these bloody wars will continue. The same billionaire class which funds these candidates pockets obscene profits from these wars. These wars enforce the brutal economic domination of the U.S. ruling class. Whoever wins will treat each vote as endorsement of their reckless inhumanity.