STOP ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS!
The current Immigrant crisis
is an outgrowth of vicious, capitalist, world-wide, profit driven, economic,
restructuring schemes with nice sounding names like “globalization,” “free
trade” and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). While this scheme has created over 200
million immigrants world wide, the most visible current face of this crisis is
millions of Mexicans and their supporters demonstrating in More than 140 U.S.
cities. They are demonstrating against
impending passage of laws that will make felons of them and all who support
them, will deny them social services, further militarize the U. S. Mexican
border, and more.
NAFTA, which was passed in 1994,
promised more and better jobs for Mexicans in Mexico. Instead it drove countless Mexicans off their land, robbed them
of self-sufficiency, forced U.S. products down their throats and forced them
into nightmarishly horrible working and living conditions in U.S. plants, just
inside Mexico.
These capitalist crimes,
taken together, have forced Millions of Mexicans to make the perilous trek, for
survival and a better life, across a border drawn with the blood of their
ancestors when in 1848 the U.S. took fully half of Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
The capitalist and
imperialist are hell bent on exploiting cheap labor whether through exporting
jobs to cheap labor markets importing cheap labor, enslaving Blacks in prisons
or enslaving Middle Easterners on Haliburton jobs in the Iraqi War. Each and
every U.S. House or Senate version of any immigrant bill (including Bush’s
guest worker sham) is a variation on the theme of how best to exploit labor for
greater profits for their rich masters.
At the root, the problem is
not Mexicans taking Black and white worker’s jobs or driving down wages and
such, but it is the problem of the capitalist structure of society which, in a
world of obvious plenty, converts human and material resources to private profits. The working class is one world wide class
whether Latino, Black, White, Asian or Middle Eastern. Total emancipation from
exploitation and oppression can only be achieved when the workers, oppressed
and their allies, world-wide, stand together and thoroughly smash the
capitalist system and replace it with a system that puts the needs of people
first. Let’s end all exploitation of
humans by humans!!!
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