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Imperialists Fight Over Auto Industry – Workers Must Dump Them All
MEXICO, October 1— “Exclude third party noise,” said Zhang Run, China’s ambassador to Mexico. He was referring to US bosses’ pressure on trade negotiations between these two countries.
“We should take concrete actions to rectify [the USA’s] wrong practices that undermine fair competition and deteriorate market-driven conditions,” wrote Zhang. He noted that China is Mexico’s second largest trading partner (after the USA).
The fight is over China manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs) in Mexico. And the US threat of high tariffs to prevent them from entering the US market. According to some analysts, Chinese EVs, with similar features as Tesla EVs, would sell for half the price.
The increasingly sharp contradictions in the world between imperialists are leading to more workers’ struggles everywhere. Growing trade wars that turn into real wars are moving toward open and direct confrontation between declining US imperialism and China, its main competitor.
Industrial workers worldwide are key to fighting for and building a new communist world where the production of necessities is only to meet workers’ needs, not to fill any bosses’ pockets.
Auto workers in Mexico, like those in India and South Africa, can and must play a leading role in the masses’ struggle for that new communist world. We must ensure, in one way or another, that the communist ideas in Red Flag reach these workers.
Electric or Gas-Powered Vehicles = Exploitation and Misery
On the one hand, the so-called de-carbonization and promotion of alternative or clean energy is empty talk. Burning coal is profitable. After the sabotage of the Nord Stream II pipeline, the capitalists of the European Union are using coal to replace Russian natural gas.
On the other hand, even with the Chinese advances in Mexico, the US cannot now exclude Mexico from the North American Region. Mexico is a major reservoir of labor, resources, and markets for the US, and US rulers will not throw it to the Chinese side.
Capitalists who extract crude oil on BOTH sides, including Russian capitalists, say they have oil and gas for 20, 30, and even 50 more years. They say there is no reason to stop building refineries.
Production of the internal combustion engine will continue while Chinese capitalists lead the race for electric vehicles. In Mexico there is still little assembly of electric vehicles. What has advanced most up until now is the assembly of “hybrids.”
The pretense of some of the US oppressors to bring the plants to its territory to re-industrialize the country contradicts the need for extraction of maximum profit (surplus value): to exploit the workers’ labor power, markets, and natural resources of Mexico.
The working class should not be fooled by one group of imperialists or the other. Instead, we should organize globally against them all. The auto industry is key at this time of accelerating world war. Many of these factories will be used to build tanks or other tools of war. By building ICWP there, we can make those tanks available for communist revolution. Let’s start those collectives by helping to distribute Red Flag and building communist relations with these workers.
Revolutionary greetings to all the comrades!
In our last meeting of the collective, we talked about the current situation of wars between imperialist countries fighting over resources and territories. We see that these attacks have increased as siblings of our class, children, women, and men are dying.
Before I was part of the International Communist Workers’ Party, my way of looking at life was different. I was not interested in these issues, in what was going on in the world. When I started reading Red Flag and meeting with ICWP comrades, I was filled with strength and courage knowing that there is a way to end capitalism and the slavery the working class endures every day.
Why do I say slavery? Because the factory where I work is forcing pregnant women, like me and other comrades, not to wear sleeveless gowns. In our condition, we feel very uncomfortable, because the factory is very hot. They don’t care about our condition or health.
They don’t even want to let us leave work five minutes early to avoid crowding, as the labor law stipulates. But I have understood that we are not fighting for reforms. That we are one class, the working class. We cannot remain indifferent to everything that is happening here and worldwide.
Being a member of the party has changed my life and my way of thinking, not only for my family, but also for my class brothers and sisters. The injustices of this system are not normal. We can end them. The struggles of workers around the world must be known. Just as the thousands of Boeing workers on strike inspire us, we make the most of it to organize for Communism.
We also make ourselves known in the May Day march, so we can build a stronger communist future. Why do I say communist future? Because my son is part of this effort too. That is where that seed is planted. It fills me with courage to see that he distributed the Red Flag newspaper. People came up to take the newspaper with curiosity. When curiosity reaches people, they start to wonder “what is it?” That is where we can act and talk to them about the ICWP.
The working class is mobilizing all over the world. They just need the right line: to fight for Communism. Just as the comrades are struggling with the Boeing workers, they will win them to learn more about our party. This fills me with courage because this is the way we will achieve victory, Communism.
Comrade Worker in El Salvador