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September 17, 2001
Socialists launch New York mayoral campaign
....Koppel noted that "the big-business candidates--from Democrats Mark Green and Fernando Ferrer to Republican Michael Bloomberg--are working overtime to convince working people that they are going to be 'a mayor for all New Yorkers.' They say 'We must fix our broken schools' or 'We must never go back on crime.'
"But all the talk about 'our city' and 'our country' is a giant lie," the socialist candidate said. "Working people have no interests in common with the tiny class of ruling billionaire families, or with the Democrats and Republicans who serve them. We as workers and farmers produce the wealth. And they maintain their power and their profits by driving down our wages and social gains, restricting our rights, and sending us to fight in wars to protect their class interests.
"But we have everything in common with fellow workers and farmers both in this country and around the globe," he said....
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November 18, 2002
Bloomberg cries 'budget crisis,' targets workers
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September 15, 2003
Class-angle inebriation—The media has it that New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg got good marks for his "leadership" during the blackout (the cops didn't kill anyone?). Anyway, back on July 4, the cops issued tickets to people drinking beer at a city beach 9/11 fund-raiser. A few days later a photographer got a shot of the good mayor sipping wine with numerous others at a park symphony. No busts.
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July 31, 2006
...."I have relatives who are transit workers, and I didn't like the way the union was treated when they were on strike," said Anthony Johnson, a hospital worker in Harlem. He remembered how, during the December transit strike here, Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg smeared the union members as "thugs" and how Democratic attorney general Eliot Spitzer, now running for governor, supported the jailing of the union president.
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June 16, 2008
No construction worker has to die!
....Mayor Michael Bloomberg shamelessly asserted, "Construction is a dangerous business and you will always have fatalities. We have no reason to believe there was anything we could do to prevent this." That is a lie.
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March 9, 2009
SWP mayoral candidate: 'Oppose New York cuts'
....Bloomberg recently announced plans to solve a $4 billion "budget crisis" with another round of layoffs and demands for substantial concessions from city workers in pension and health-care benefits. The city is also planning to increase the sales tax to 8.75 percent, eliminate the sales tax exemption on clothes, and impose a five-cent tax on plastic grocery bags.
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September 12, 2011
'You're on your own,' NY mayor tells workers during storm
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August 20, 2012
NY mayor: just say no to soda and baby formula
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November 19, 2012
Event celebrates SWP presidential election campaign, projects LA ticket
...."I have met and heard the stories of many workers hard hit by the storm and by the way capitalism creates conditions that turn a 'natural disaster' into a social catastrophe," DeLuca said. I've seen the disdain for working people from bourgeois politicians like Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who called the victims of the storm 'stupid' and 'selfish.'
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