Groundwork Collective

Friday, April 28, 2006

FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS!

The conscious working class struggles against the HR 4437 law, and also against the McCain-Kennedy bill promoted by the Democrats and their allies. This law would double the amount of INS agents, it would fine undocumented workers with thousands of dollars, and it would create a subclass of “temporary workers” with no rights under the law; these new “braceros” would be deported after losing their jobs.
The conscious working class is not fooled by the Democrats, because it knows that they were the ones who intensified the attacks against us and implemented Operation Gatekeeper with the support of the Republicans, what has produced the deaths of thousands of immigrant workers.
The conscious working class is not deceived by the church, because we know that they seek to keep us within bourgeois legality, to limit ourselves to voting for one exploiter or another, and to avoid organizing the struggle for our rights. We know that our only allies are the workers of all ethnic groups here in the U.S., as well as our class brothers who struggle in other countries.
The conscious working class does not wave the “star spangled banner” because we know its history and its present; It is not only dripping with the blood of the people of Iraq, but it was created with the blood of the native peoples of this continent, with the sweat and lives of millions of black slaves, and through the super exploitation of millions of immigrants workers. We also don’t wave the Mexican flag, because it would mean “national unity” with the Mexican exploiters that murder miners in the states of Coahuila and Michoacan, as well as the indigenous people of Chiapas. The rich and their government were the ones who made us leave this country to flee from hunger and poverty.
The conscious working class does not wave the flag of any other country, because they represent the puppet dictatorships under the leadership of the U.S. which are disguised as democracies; These flags divide those who struggle; the working class has no fatherland, and we will only have one until we govern ourselves; this is why this May Day we will wave the Red Flag of Internationalism; the Red Flag of the Workers of the World.
The conscious working class does not beg for amnesty, because it would mean begging for forgiveness for a crime that we never committed. We are not criminals, we are workers and we have dignity, and we fight for nothing less than full citizenship rights for all immigrants, now!
The conscious working class knows that those who murder the people of Iraq are the same people that provoke racist attacks from the government and from murderous groups like the “Minutemen”. Historically imperialist wars have been accompanied by attacks against immigrants; from Puerto Rico and the Philippines, to World War II and Vietnam, we have always been scapegoated for all the problems generated by the depredations of the rich. That is why the conscious working class and their allies struggle to defeat imperialist war and defends the people of Iraq.


For Workers’ Strikes against the War!
Break with all bourgeois parties! Down with the Democrats!
The Workers Struggle has No Borders!
For Workers Power!
For International Socialism!

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