LOS ANGELES, August
1—A few days ago the first airplane to Honduras left, deporting 18
mothers, 13 girls and 9 boys. The Obama administration is sending the message
that no more immigrant children will be allowed to come to the US. Apart from
that, the US government gave money to the Central American governments to put
up military checkpoints and to keep mothers with children from leaving these
countries.
But this does not end
the need for family unification or emigration. The rulers will not resolve the
problem. The capitalists' politicians like Obama and the Presidents of Central
America, are the problem. They are responsible for the poverty and violence
there. They exist to defend the profit system, the capitalist system, not to
create decent living conditions for the workers and their families.
We workers do not
migrate for an American dream; what moves us is the need to survive in this
world of capitalist competition for markets. The dream ends up as a nightmare,
when the years go by and we see that we were forced to abandon our families, to
continue being wage slaves of other bosses. This is the border: the face of the
boss is different, but dependence on a wage is the same in any part of the world.
Immigrant Children: Pawns in a
Game Between Democrat and Republican Bosses
The Republican
Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, gave the order to send 1,000 National Guard
soldiers to patrol the border. The hysteria against the immigrant children is
being used as a political campaign. Adam Kwasman, a
member of the Tea Party who is running for political office, organized the
harassment of a school bus full of children who were going to YMCA camp in
Marana, Arizona, thinking that they were undocumented.
Los Angeles
July 24--
protestors
denouncing
obama's
deportations and
support for Israeli
genocide in Gaza
eagerly took Red
Flag.
Others, like Democrat
Eric Garcetti, the Mayor of Los Angeles, are posing
as the good guys. Garcetti announced that he will
accept children detained by the border patrol and sent to detention centers.
This is propaganda to win followers, another side of the political game. These
Democrats, like Obama, are more dangerous since they pass as our friends, when
they are really enemies of all workers and are defenders of the bosses' system
of exploitation.
According to those
close to the Obama administration, the President plans to act before November
to give work permits, possibly to 9 million workers. The dominant liberal wing
of the ruling class is getting their ducks in line for their big game based on their
need to pass Immigration Reform. They plan to do this even if they will have to
confront a group of conservative Republicans who are threatening to impeach
President Obama.
Through Immigration
Reform, the bosses' group that defends Obama plans to build patriotism and
nationalism to win the workers to serve as slave labor in the factories and the
youth to join the army and die for the bosses' profits.
To Win a World Without Borders,
We Need a Communist Revolution
As long as capitalism
exists, the working class will continue to be oppressed by the existence of
borders and those who defend them in the interests of a few rich oppressors.
Only the workers organized in a communist party, ICWP, will have the hope of realizing
the dream of the whole working class: organizing a communist revolution, where
we can live in a world where no human being takes personal advantage of another
human and the fruits of our labor will be for us all.
We workers will have
red areas where communism is working and preparing to advance the world over,
where all will be welcome. Let's fight for a communist world without borders
and bosses. Join ICWP.
U.S. Imperialism Created Gangs and Exploitation in Central America
"Central America is
the most important region for the United States," Jeane
Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to the UN, said in 1981. Even though this reality
has changed, the legacy of US domination in Central America is suffered day
after day. The end of this suffering will be the beginning of a communist
revolution.
Three of the top four
countries with the highest homicide rate are in Central America. In Guatemala,
the condition in the rural areas has led thousands of farm workers to mobilize
protests in the capital. El Salvador is living through a crisis of violence,
the development of the organized crime. Honduras is considered the most violent
country in Latin America today. It is not by chance that those are the
countries with the highest numbers of children migrating to the United States
in recent months.
Gangs, murders, drug
traffic, poverty, exploitation, and hence, migration, are common problems in
Central America now, but this has its roots in past decades.
As part of the fight
for territory and in the context of the Cold War, the US bosses carried out
political, military, and economic actions in Central America. In Guatemala, on
June 27, 1954, the CIA, responding to United Fruit Company interests, overthrew
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. In
Panama, from 1860 through 1989 there were thirteen military interventions by
the U.S. Army. After the overthrow of Somoza in Nicaragua, the US supported the
"contras" and all types of sabotage against the new capitalist Sandinista
government. In El Salvador, the US financed the Salvadoran government's fight
against the FMLN with $2 million a day.
When the imperialists
see their interests at risk, they sharpen their attacks, a practice that
occurred in past centuries in Central America, leaving hunger, poverty and
violence. The industrial workers, soldiers and farm workers are the ones who
have the power to convert this imperialist struggle into a class struggle for
communism, led by the International Communist Workers' Party and Red Flag.
During the period of
conflicts in the region and after the Cold War came the dismantling of the
productive apparatus (agriculture, textile manufacturing among others) in
Central America. These are important factors that caused hunger and poverty,
because of which thousands migrated to the US.
This is where the
birth of the gangs starts. Gangs operating in Central America
today were created in the U.S. to defend Central American youth from the
attacks by other street gangs. In spite of the fact that the US
intervention was a fundamental cause of the massive immigration, of creating
poverty conditions and violent societies in those countries, the US deported
the gang members and avoided the results of their actions, that years later,
would bring death to thousands of Central Americans. The ones who pay for the
results of the capitalists' agenda are us workers,
with exploitation, hunger and death. We must put an end to
the horror without end, we must mobilize for communism.
Right now, children
are trying to cross the border looking for the false "American Dream."
Meanwhile, Obama and his government again avoid their responsibility by
deporting those ones who are fleeing the problems that capitalism has created.
We must realize that
no government or reform can truly solve the problems of crime in Central
America. It's part of the same structural problems of the capitalist system:
money, hunger and poverty. The way to end all these problems is the
mobilization of millions of men and women organized in the International
Communist Workers' Party to fight for the Communist Revolution that marks the
end of the capitalist system. Backed by a new educational
system based on inclusion, equity, technological development,
environmental protection and respect for human life that generates a new
morality and true human values, we will put an end to years of exploitation and violence engendered by
bosses.
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