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Future Voters, or Future Communists?

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28—Liberal community groups tied to the Democratic Party mobilized hundreds of immigrant parents, their children and supporters to demonstrate against a Texas judge’s ruling which halted Obama’s latest executive order.
The order would put 5 million undocumented immigrants on a pathway to legalization. While immigrant workers, their families and supporters are furious at the Judge’s sweeping decision. But the immigrant rights groups want to channel that anger toward voting.
That is the wrong road. The right road is communist revolution. Some of these demonstrators and workers on the street gladly took Red Flag. This included latino as well as black and white workers. Several black workers were especially impressed with Red Flag’s attack on racist capitalism and call for communism. One black worker came back to give a donation.
The judge’s decision shows that there is a fight between different sections of the US ruling class. One side sees immigrant workers as only wage slaves who must work for the lowest wages. The other also sees immigrant workers as an important source of loyal, patriotic soldiers and workers to fight and slave for the interests of US imperialism in coming wars and WWIII.
No matter which sides wins, undocumented workers, even if they become citizens, will continue to be super-
exploited by capitalism’s racist wage slavery, and victimized by police terror and the use of the bosses’ borders to divide the working class by skin color and national origin.
At the demonstration, many youth carried signs saying they are “future voters.” The leaders of the immigrants’ rights groups push the dangerous lie that voting for Democrats will solve the problem.

Voting Not the Answer—We Need Communist Revolution
Voting for one or another of the bosses’ politicians diverts potential revolutionaries in the schools, factories and barracks from fighting to get rid of capitalism with communist revolution. Voting builds pacifism and the dangerous illusion that racist capitalism can be reformed to meet our needs. The capitalists want us to have buy-in to their system of racist exploitation and war for profit.
Documented immigrant and native born workers, students and soldiers face the bosses’ same increasing racist onslaught. This is the material basis for uniting with undocumented and all workers. We have the same need to get rid of this inhumane racist capitalist system and to build a communist world with no borders, racist police and migra terror, immigration laws or wage slavery.
In communism, in the areas that become communist first, borders and nations will be eliminated. As communist revolution spreads worldwide, borders and nations will be eliminated everywhere.
In a communist society, many workers will travel and live for a time in other areas of the world to help where they are most needed. That way we can build communist relationships among workers and learn from each others’ rich experiences in fighting for and implementing a communist society. We will collectively plan, produce and share the products of our labor to meet everyone’s needs.
Let’s spread Red Flag worldwide to hasten communist revolution and a world of collectivity and sharing!

 

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