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Hundreds Walk Out Against Racist Deportations
CALIFORNIA (USA), January 28â Hundreds of high school students marched out of school in East San Jose to protest deportations there and nationwide. They defiantly chanted âNo Raids! No ICE!â as they marched to an intersection where ICE agents had set up a check point to stop workers on the previous days. ICE is âImmigration and Customs Enforcement,â the fascist US national immigration police.
San Jose is in Santa Clara county, home to over 134,000 âundocumentedâ immigrant workers, including many studentsâ parents. The county has over 8,000 farmworkers. Students held up signs like âNo Human is Illegal,â âProtect our farmworkers,â âDown with ICE,â âDonât Bite the Hands that Feed You,â âEducation not Deportation.â
We applaud their mass response to fascist attacks on immigrant workers. It shows that the working class will not be silenced by the rulersâ fascism. We see in it exciting potential for revolutionary communism.
ICWP comrades and all Red Flag readers must help realize this potential. We, and others, must see that walkouts and marching in and of itself will not stop deportations or halt fascism. We must address capitalism-imperialism as the root cause of the bossesâ fascist hatred of the working class. Masses must learn that capitalism-imperialism has to be destroyed with a communist revolution.
We need to go to mass protests against deportations with signs, chants, and literature that openly attack capitalism and call for communism. Only communist revolution worldwide, not reforms, will end deportations.
ICWP invites you, students, workers, and soldiers everywhere, to join us and help organize actions that openly call for communism. Help lead the fight for a communist world without borders or nations!
For a world where everyone will be welcome everywhere to produce food and help meet all the needs of our global working class. And where no one will be forced by starvation or wars to leave their homes.
For a world without wage slavery, where everyone will work together only to meet the needs of the masses.
Only Communist Revolution Will End Deportations and All Borders
LOS ANGELES, January 25â âDo the bosses need us?â an immigrant comrade asked his wife. âYes, but they are going to deport whoever they want,â she replied.
âWill there be deportations?â a young Black high school teacher commented. âSure, there will be. But a big part of this anti-immigrant campaign is to scare the immigrant working class community.â
The bosses are trying to scare the immigrant and refugee working-class masses to create passivity and submission to growing fascism.
A Black woman waiting in line in a supermarket mentioned to the man next to her, âWe are not going to let them deport immigrants. They have been our neighbors for many years, even for generations.â
Many community groups across the US have organized workshops on how to respond to deportations. But these only offer legalistic advice: âPlan to have someone take care of your children if you are arrested. Donât open the door unless authorities have a warrant. Exercise your right to remain silent.â
They donât talk about the capitalist origin of these deportations. Or about confronting them by any means necessary. They certainly donât talk about the need for massive communist mobilization for a world without nations or borders. All of this is what workers need to hear.
Mass protests have already begun, led by high school walkouts against deportations in many cities. We must bring communist ideas into these struggles. Where we can, we should organize marches and strikes under communist banners.
Deportation Threats Represent Widespread Bossesâ Terror
The rulers supposedly aim to reduce the labor pool to open more jobs to US citizens. But this is not true. The reality is that the bosses are facing a crisis. They need to maintain a high production of goods to compete in the world market with other highly industrialized countries. This imperialist competition always leads to war, up to world war.
The impulse is economic, but their objectives are political. They try to divide the working class. First, they attack those they believe are weaker, such as âundocumentedâ workers. And then by forcing the other workers to submit to the needs of the empire, by accepting harder jobs with very low pay. Also, to prepare them for the rigors of a war situation.
This situation is repeated in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and other countries. In many such places, as in the US, there have been tremendous mass outpourings of anti-racist support of immigrants.
This reflects a great opportunity to enlarge and strengthen the ranks of a mass party, the International Workers’ Communist Party.
Contradictions in Mexico
The president of Mexico doesnât support the deportations of Mexicans from the US. She knows that given the high unemployment in Mexico, these deportations would lead to chaos, and for certain to rebellions.
What she fears the most is not being able to maintain the interests of Mexican capital. She, along with the Mexican ruling class, will have to impose conditions of greater exploitation. In this way, US companies will have easier access to cheaper labor and other resources that they have yet to control.
A Unified Working Class Can Upset the Bossesâ Plans
The nature of capitalism is competition. Capitalists from the US are forced to compete with Chinese capitalists, among others. To ensure this, they need to intensify exploitation of both immigrants and citizens.
The woman in the supermarket saw the importance of working-class unity. Our only option, as immigrants and citizens, all workers, is to mobilize our coworkers, our neighbors, our friends and family, and people we do not yet know, to organize with us, in the International Communist Workers Party. To fight together for a communist world where there are no bosses, nor borders that divide us.
We wonât be able to stop deportations without ending capitalism. Only with communist revolution to destroy capitalism from its foundations will we be able to live in a world without wage slavery, where all workers are welcome everywhere.
We must build party cells in all parts of the globe, as we are already doing in a growing number of places. This will bring us closer to that communist world where workers will share everything that the worldâs workers produce.
Capitalists Need Immigrant Labor, But Workers Donât Need Capitalists
I am a Salvadoran who left my country and immigrated with my family to the US three years ago in search of opportunities for a better life. Our economic situation under the Bukele government was becoming increasingly precarious. Everything that is published or said about my country is only publicity for a paradise for the rich, the owners of the means of production.
Here in the US, it is very difficult for my mother, my sister, and me to survive. We have faced a lot of discrimination. But the same need for money and to pay our debts makes us struggle every day. We know that we are not the only ones in the same situation, and, despite these conditions, we continue going forward.
I heard about you through Red Flag. A while ago a friend of mine from El Salvador shared it with me. I find what you write to be very interesting. You speak the truth, not like the other newspapers we are used to, which cover up the cruelty and greed of the powerful rulers. Because of time I can’t read it completely, since I have two jobs, but I try to do it. I am always waiting for the new edition to be sent to me.
I have read letters written for Red Flag and that is what encouraged me to write what we are living through. With Trumpâs victory, my mother and my sister are very afraid that we will be deported. We have debts and no savings. In their jobs, as in mine, there is an air of fear and tension. We are very worried about the raids they are carrying out. Every day that we go to work we are anxious about not being able to return. There are many things that are whispered about.
My sister says to me, what if Trump had lost and Kamala had won, would everything be different? I know it would not, from what I have read with you and what my friend explains. No matter who wins, we are always the ones who get hurt living under the capitalists.
I think we are many immigrants from all over the world and many are from the working class. They can’t just get rid of us. They need us and I believe, just as they say in the paper, that together we can change things. I will continue to read Red Flag!
âFriend from El Salvador in the US
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