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kont Ayisyen yo – kounye a ! TPS Canceled – Courts and Congress a Dead End For Workers Action Now to Defeat Racist Drive Against Haitians! Trump and Democrats, Enemies of Immigrants The Trump administration’s mass deportations drive has come to a head with the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling giving the green light to the MAGA (Make America Great Again) racists in office to eliminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians whose work authorization and legal status are due to expire soon. The strategy of many “mainstream” Haitian community groups, elected officials and immigrants’ rights advocates has been to look to Congress and the Courts to preserve TPS, and to the Democratic Party for political support. That has always been illusory, and now it has come to the end of the road. The Court decision clears the way for ICE to target Haitian neighborhoods en masse by the paramilitary Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) police. In light of the recent murder spree by the ICE Gestapo in Texas, Maine and Florida, it may soon get bloody. In New York City, a union stronghold and home to the largest concentrations in the United States, the Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants is calling to mobilize workers action to stop the deportations, and to lead mass mobilization to run the modern-day slave catchers out of town, For Workers Action Now to Defeat Racist Drive Against Haitians! (31 July 2026) Health Care Workers: Organize Committees to Defend Immigrant Patients ICE Out of the Hospitals – Free Chidozie Wilson Okeke! For Workers Action to Stop the Deportations On the evening of May 2, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents brought Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a Nigerian immigrant, to the Emergency Room of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, for medical clearance after violently kidnapping him from his car. Alerted on rapid response Signal chats, some 200 protesters rushed to the hospital where they were met with a wall of New York Police Department riot cops. Hospital staff refused to let an immigration lawyer speak to Mr. Okeke. After a standoff of several hours, the ICE agents brought out their victim, shackled hand and foot, shoved him into a vehicle and hauled him off to detention, while the NYPD acted as a shield. Although Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, had campaigned in support of NYC's increasingly frayed “sanctuary” laws, here were the DSA Democrat’s police openly working in tandem with ICE to block protests against the sinister immigrant snatchers. A week later, the DSA called a rally for “Justice for Mr. Okeke,” only to turn it into an indoor campaign event on the grounds of inclement weather. Internationalists, supporters of the Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants and others who had come for the rally protested at the hospital anyway. The Health Care Workers Working Group of the LCDI calls for forming committees to defend immigrants in every hospital, putting forward a number of measures they should call for. ICE Out of the Hospitals – Free Chidozie Wilson Okeke! (8 May 2026) Feds Gas Portland Labor March Against ICE: For Mass Workers Action to Stop Deportations! The assassination of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on January 24 was particularly felt among trade unionists around the U.S., as Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital and a member of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3669. In Portland, Oregon on January 31, thousands of unionists and supporters took to the streets to say, “ICE Out!” But when they passed by the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters, federal agents attacked the crowd with a massive barrage of tear gas, pepper balls and other “crowd control” munitions. The leadership, supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), had made no defense preparations and continued on, leaving many marchers to face the feds on their own. This reflected the response of the DSA Democrats, with a sometimes majority in the city council, to the ICE invasion with farcical mockery and impotent city ordinances. The Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants (LCDI), with members from the several building trades unions that have passed resolutions calling to mobilize the power to drive out the immigrant snatchers, provided first aid to marchers. Class Struggle Workers – Portland, which initiated the LCDI, calls to mobilize the power of labor to drive out the immigrant snatchers, break with the Democrats and build a class-struggle workers party. Feds Gas Portland Labor March Against ICE (March 2026) Democrats, Courts Won’t Do It – Bring Out Workers Power! Twin Cities: For a Real General Strike to Drive Out ICE Gestapo! For the past two months, paramilitary forces of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) police and Border Patrol – part of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – have been terrorizing Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history, this army of masked federal agents initially targeted the tens of thousands of refugees from war-torn Somalia in Africa, who the racist Republican president calls “garbage.” Soon they were targeting Minnesotans based on racial profiling. in mid-January Trump sent in 2,000 more feds to supposedly go after “fraud” and “crime” in “Democrat-run cities.” What is urgently needed right now in Minneapolis-St. Paul is to bring out the power of organized workers at the head of the courageous and inspiring actions by thousands of community residents to put an end to the federal occupation and force ICE out! Now labor and religious leaders have called for a day of “no work, no school, no shopping” on January 23. Unfortunately, at this point January 23 is not a general strike – far from it. But much more is needed. The IG/RIY call for a real general strike to drive out the ICE Gestapo. Twin Cities: For a Real General Strike to Drive Out ICE Gestapo! (20 January 2025) You Can’t Fight Trump with the Democrats – Mobilize Workers Power to Stop the Deportations! In Minneapolis and Everywhere: For Mass Strike Action to Drive ICE OUT! Following the January 7 cold-blooded murder of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Minnesota union, community and religious leaders called a statewide day of “no work, no school, no shopping.” Over 75,000 people marched in Minneapolis on January 23, braving the extreme cold to demand “ICE out!” The next day, Border Patrol agents executed courageous nurse Alex Pretti. The issue for defenders of immigrant rights is what is the next step? Already much of the Twin Cities population has organized against the paramilitary kidnappers, warning neighbors with whistles and honking horns, patrolling near schools, bringing food to immigrants afraid to leave their homes. Many on the left saw January 23 as a “general strike,” but while 1,000 small businesses shut down, unions did not strike. Now there are calls to repeat the Minnesota action on May 1, in conjunction with Democratic Party front groups. But a pretend “national general strike” along with the party of “Genocide Joe” Biden and former “Deporter-in-Chief” Barack Obama will keep workers chained to the bosses. The Internationalist Group insists that to stop the deportation machine will take a showdown with both capitalist parties of mass deportations, racist repression and imperialist war. In Minneapolis and Everywhere: For Mass Strike Action to Drive ICE OUT! (11 February 2026) Democrats and Courts Won’t Stop ICE Gestapo For Workers Strike Action – Feds Out Now! Chicago Under Siege: Thousands Demand Stop Deportation Raids! Since early September, the federal government has been waging a militarized campaign of immigration raids in Chicago under the code name “Operation Midway Blitz.” Federal agents have been terrorizing the city, cruising through residential and downtown neighborhoods grabbing people off the street, solely on the basis of their ethnic/racial appearance, to demand their identification papers. Over 3,000 immigrants have been seized so far, along with scores of U.S. citizens. The mass deportation campaign has become the spearhead of the Trump regime's drive to police-state rule. Unlike in much of the country, Democratic officials have shot back at threats from the White House and denounced federal agents’ wanton physical attacks, but they are ultimately part of the machinery of the capitalist rule and will not stop the deportations. Looking to the courts and the Democratic Party of racist U.S. capitalism is a dangerous illusion. Around the city hundreds and thousands of residents have courageously come out to stand up to the migra (immigration police) thugs. But what is urgently needed is a mobilization of the power of the working class to stop the deportations and racist repression. Chicago Under Siege: Thousands Demand Stop Deportation Raids (27 October 2025) For Workers Action to Stop the Deportations! Students and Workers Demand “ICE Out!” At Hunter College Speak-Out On September 4, outside the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Hunter College campus, a speak-out was held in solidarity with immigrants and to demand “ICE out of New York! Stop the Deportations!” The speak-out was initiated by the Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants (HCDI) and cosponsored by the Hunter chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the faculty/staff union at CUNY, and by the CUNY Internationalist Clubs. The Committee has insisted that rather than looking to university authorities, courts or the Democratic Party, we need to link up to the power of labor to defend immigrants. This standpoint was highlighted in the September 4 speak-out by the presence of leaders and activists from the Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants (LCDI). Also among the speakers were health care workers and teachers. In response to speakers, the crowd chanted enthusiastically “Not Democrats or Republicans – Build a workers party!” Students and Workers Demand “ICE Out!” at Hunter College Speak-Out (September 2025) For Workers Action to Stop Mass Deportations In neighborhoods across the U.S., immigrants are being targeted and seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) police and other federal agents as the government ramps up its operations to implement President Donald Trump’s campaign threat of the biggest mass deportations in U.S. history. It is a war on the working people of this country. The Internationalist Group and fraternally allied groups are organizing in the labor movement to form committees to defend immigrants in schools and workplaces. In the Pacific Northwest, Class Struggle Workers – Portland put forward a “Resolution to Defend Immigrants Against Mass Deportations and Racist Violence” which was passed by six area unions. In New York City, a Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants (LCDI) was established at a conference on January 9 attended by more than 70 members, organizers and officers from unions, worker-organizing and immigrant-rights groups, including six Teamsters locals. The Committee has established working groups including construction and building workers, education, healthcare, hospitality, transport and warehouse workers, students, and outreach. Class-conscious workers and immigrants’ rights defenders around the U.S. are encouraged to undertake similar initiatives. For Workers Action to Stop Mass Deportations (May 2025) Student/Labor Protests Stop Immigration Cops’ Provocation at CUNY Campus On February 27, a campaign of protest and exposure caused the Customs and Border Protection agency to cancel a special recruitment session it scheduled at one of the main campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY). The planned session at the John Jay College career fair was a dangerous provocation, seeking to make the largest urban public university in the U.S. a recruiting ground for the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” drive. It was stopped as the result of two protests, initiated by the CUNY Internationalist Clubs, demanding “DHS/ICE, Border Patrol: Out of CUNY Now!” in front of the campus building where the job fair was held. The first, on February 25, on the opening day of the “CareerCon” fair, drew some 150 students and faculty/staff union members. Many students came from Hunter College, under the banner of the Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants. Linking up with the power of NYC’s labor movement was a key theme of the protests. More than a dozen members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) faculty/staff union from different campuses participated, and several spoke, as did a Teamster warehouse worker, an NYC teacher, a restaurant worker and students from several campuses. Another important theme was that the deportation machine Trump relies on was beefed up by Democratic “Deporter-in-Chief” Obama and his successors in the Biden/Harris administration, point to the need for a revolutionary workers party. Student/Labor Protests Stop Immigration Cops’ Provocation at CUNY Campus (March 2025) Democrats, Republicans: Enemies of Immigrants Stop Racist Deportation of Haitians! A year ago, Democrat Joe Biden was running for president promising to replace Trump’s vicious attacks on immigrants with a supposed “fair and humane” U.S. immigration policy. Since taking office, the exact opposite has happened: the Biden administration has been deporting at an even faster rate than the Trump administration ever did. By mid-September, thousands of Haitians started appearing at the Texas border with Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol holding 9,000 migrants, mostly Haitian, corralled under the international bridge at Del Rio, Texas, in unsanitary conditions with no shelter against dust storms and extreme heat. The response of the administration was to deport thousands back to Haiti, even as the country is falling apart. The Internationalist Group protested, calling to stop the racist deportations (also from Mexico) and for full citizenship rights for all immigrants. Stop Racist Deportation of Haitians! (27 September 2021) For Workers Action to Shut Down I.C.E. Concentration Camps Stop Biden’s Deportations, Let the Kids Go! Democrats, No Friends of Immigrants – Build a Revolutionary Workers Party The Biden administration's dramatic immigration crisis is the product of the glaring disconnect between the Democrats’ “immigrant-friendly” rhetoric and running the brutal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) deportation machine. In its first month in office, Biden deported almost 29,000 people. Now many young immigrants are being held in jails run by the Border Patrol. Others are being stashed in tents in a holding facility in Donna, Texas built for 250 people but now holding 4,100. When Trump issued his vindictive order to separate children from their parents in May 2018, there was a huge outcry. Now Biden is holding kids in tents, sleeping on gym mats with foil “blankets,” but rather than massively protesting in the streets, liberals and the reformist left have largely limited themselves to lobbying the Biden administration. The Internationalist Group and Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas call “For Workers Action to Stop Deportations,” for “Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants” and “Smash the I.C.E. Gestapo with Workers Revolution.” Stop Biden’s Deportations, Let the Kids Go! (23 March 2021) Close the Camps – Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! Down with Racist Fortress Europe! Greece: Moria Fire Ignites More Racist Repression As flames engulfed the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 8, burning it to the ground, Europe’s “forgotten” crisis was made visible once more. In the midst of a global pandemic that has claimed over a million lives, Greek authorities locked down the open-air prison with its nearly 13,000 migrant refugees. After protests against the lockdown, and pushed to the edge by spending many months and even years in the squalid camp, Europe’s largest, some camp residents set it ablaze. The desperate act of rebellion was fueled by years of humiliation and dehumanization, carried out under the racist immigration policies of the German-dominated European Union (EU) and its Greek border guards.With a rightist government and outright fascists cooperating in immigrant-bashing rhetoric and actions, the League for the Fourth International calls to close the concentration camps, free all migrants and allow them the same freedom of travel as everyone else while demanding asylum for refugees and full citizenship rights for all immigrants. We also call for workers action against racist attacks, and for refugees fleeing the devastation caused by imperialism, we say: let them in! Greece: Moria Fire Ignites More Racist Repression (28 October 2020) Greek Refugee Crisis Redux: Made in Germany (28 October 2020)Detained Immigrants in Mortal Danger: Set Them Free! Shut Down I.C.E. Jails Now! Some of those most endangered by the coronavirus pandemic are the more than 35,000 immigrants (including over 6,000 children) being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) detention centers. With detainees jammed together in close quarters, often in unsanitary conditions, the accelerating spread of the virus could quickly turn these jails into death camps. As desperate prisoners engaged in hunger strikes, dozens of protests across the U.S. have demanded that the detainees be set free. With most of the country under quarantine, protesters have turned to car caravans circling I.C.E. facilities and government offices. Supporters of the Internationalist Group, Revolutionary Internationalist Youth and Class Struggle Education Workers participated, but with revolutionary politics counterposed to those of the liberal organizers. Shut Down I.C.E. Jails Now! (28 April 2020) Mobilize Worker/Immigrant Power to Shut Down the Democrat/Republican Deportation Machine! Trump Targets Millions of Immigrants for “Removal” A wave of panic swept across the United States as Donald Trump tweeted in mid-June that “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens.” Immigrant families were hit with the prospect of being picked up in their homes or on the street, parents separated from their U.S.-born children and packed off to detention centers for immediate deportation. As usual, Trump’s pronouncement was a political ploy, intended to whip up anti-immigrant and racist frenzy in conjunction with kicking off his reelection campaign for president. Currently, tens of thousands of migrants – mostly Central Americans fleeing violence and economic devastation caused by U.S. imperialism – are suffering in wretched concentration camps in the U.S., including thousands of children kept in brutal conditions in private prisons. The United States is a police state for immigrants. As Trump stokes xenophobia (fear and hatred of foreigners), the rights of all are threatened by this unbridled exercise of police power. Trump’s terror plans could backfire. But for that to happen, we must act. The Internationalist Group calls on all defenders of immigrants’ and democratic rights to mobilize to stop these raids, flooding the streets to block the unmarked vans and snatch squads. Raids and arrests must be met by mass protest, including labor/immigrant/student action to block the deportation cops. Above all, we fight to break with Democrats, Republicans and all capitalist parties, to build an internationalist workers party Trump Targets Millions of Immigrants for “Removal” (24 June 2019) Concentration Camps U.S.A. (24 June 2019)For International Workers Solidarity! Let Them In! Central American Caravan: The Left Caught Between Chauvinism and Liberal Utopianism Today, thousands of Central American caravan members are stranded at the border in Tijuana, Mexico, blocked from entering the U.S. and vilified by Republican president Trump who issued a lethal force (shoot-to-kill) order to U.S. troops stationed there (along with thousands more Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection police) to keep them out. They are facing an already existing wall built by Democrat Clinton. As an elementary act of international workers solidarity, the Internationalist Group/League for the Fourth International call to let them in and for full citizenship rights for all immigrants. Various opportunist left groups have embraced the call for “open borders,” which like the call to “abolish I.C.E.” – is an empty slogan intended to give a radical-sounding cover to the opportunists’ tailing after “progressive” Democrats who are for secure borders. Then there is the Spartacist League, which even after stating that the Hondurans and other Central American migrants in the caravan were “desperately fleeing” the “devastation made in USA” refuses to call for asylum or just to let them in. Against the liberal delusions of “open borders” under capitalism spread by social-democratic reformists and the chauvinist “no asylum for refugees” policy of the centrist ex-Trotskyists, a genuine struggle for immigrants’ rights can only be based on a program of international socialist revolution. Central American Caravan: The Left Caught Between Chauvinism and Liberal Utopianism (17 December 2018) Against Officially Sponsored Xenophobic Attacks: Mexico: For Workers Action to Defend Immigrants! AMLO Offers to Act as Trump's Border Patrol Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants – Asylum for the Refugees! After traveling 3,000 miles from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to Tijuana, thousands of members of the Central American caravan are now stuck at the U.S. border. There they are up against a border wall fortified with concertina wire, the Border Patrol and U.S. military forces with “shoot-to-kill” orders. On the Mexican side, they face the threat of attacks by xenophobic mobs egged on by Tijuana authorities, and raids by municipal police and agents of the Mexican migra. Now, a week before the Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador is to take office, AMLO’s interior secretary says the new government has agreed with the Trump administration for Mexico to be a holding pen for refugees requesting asylum in the U.S., a process that could take years. The Grupo Internacionalista in Mexico and the Internationalist Group in the United States call, as an elementary act of international workers solidarity, to let the migrants in, for full citizenship rights for all immigrants (both in Mexico and the U.S.), and for workers mobilization to protect the migrants against racist attack and official repression. Mexico: For Workers Action to Defend Immigrants! (November 2018) For Workers Action to Defend the Caravan: Border Flashpoint in the Racist War on Immigrants We Say: Let Them In – Free Them All – Let Them Stay! The war on immigrants reached a flashpoint on the border between the United States and Mexico on November 25. In two dozen cities around the U.S. there were demonstrations of solidarity with the caravan of migrants from Central America, mainly from Honduras, that has arrived at the border city of Tijuana. Meanwhile, hundreds of members of the caravan tried to enter the U.S., only to be repelled by joint action of the Mexican and U.S. immigration police. The U.S. Border Patrol fired scores of tear gas grenades into Mexico. But instead of protesting this blatant act of imperialist aggression, the servile Mexican government arbitrarily arrested several dozen migrants who sought to get around the police barricade. In the U.S., Internationalist contingents participated in caravan solidarity demonstrations in San Ysidro south of San Diego, California, as well as Portland, Oregon and New York City. While demonstration organizers focused protest exclusively on Republican Trump, the Internationalists denounced the “deportation machine of Democrats and Republicans. ” Border Flashpoint in the Racist War on Immigrants (November 2018) Video of Internationalist contingent in November 25 NYC caravan solidarity demoLet Them In! Asylum for Refugees! Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! The Caravan of the Dispossessed As the U.S. midterm elections entered the home stretch, xenophobic president Donald Trump hit on a new tactic for his standard campaign of fear and falsification: whip up hysteria about an imminent invasion by a caravan of immigrants from Honduras. The migrants who have decided to risk all to undertake the onerous trek of almost 3,000 miles are fleeing from deadly violence and extreme poverty made in U.S.A. The economy of Honduras has been devastated by “free trade” agreements while the gangs terrorizing its cities got their start in Los Angeles. The right-wing Honduran government which acts as Republican Trump’s toady is the result of a 2009 coup engineered by the Democratic Obama administration. The League for the Fourth International and its sections in the U.S. and Mexico have called to welcome the caravan, demanding asylum for refugees and full citizenship rights for all immigrants. And, as always, we seek to carry out actions in furtherance of our call. The Grupo Internacionalista/Mexico sent an activist-correspondent to accompany the caravan on its arrival in Mexico, while the Oaxaca local of the GI held a solidarity demonstration together with the militant teachers union. The Caravan of the Dispossessed (28 October 2018) U.S. Immigration Policies Always Have Been Racist and Always Will Be Until Capitalism Is Overthrown Smash the I.C.E. Gestapo with Workers Revolution! On June 30, hundreds of thousands of protesters joined rallies and marches across the U.S. to demand an end to the Trump administration’s grotesque policy of tearing apart immigrant families as they arrive at the border. Rage against the monstrous government child-snatching operation is heartfelt and deep, yet the June 30 marches and rallies were organized under the “Families Belong Together” logo by a plethora of Democratic Party front groups pushing for a big vote for Democratic candidates in the November elections. A prominent demand at the protests was “abolish I.C.E.,” raised both by left groups and mainstream Democrats. The Internationalist Group calls to smash I.C.E. as part of a workers revolution that will topple the entire repressive apparatus – the core of the capitalist state – that defends the brutal rule of capital over the working people and oppressed. But socialist revolution is hardly the aim of the liberal and reformist political forces today calling to abolish I.C.E. This slogan is being pushed by various “progressive” Democrats precisely in order to pin the blame for the anti-immigrant offensive on Trump alone … and to obscure the fact that Obama deported far more immigrants than any Republican. Smash the I.C.E. Gestapo with Workers Revolution! (14 July 2018) Drive I.C.E. Out! Shut the Detention Centers! Return the Kids! Let Refugees In! Set Them Free, Let Them Stay! For Workers Action to Stop Deportations Democrats, Republicans – Enemies of Immigrants: Build a Revolutionary Workers Party! After a tidal wave of outrage, on June 20 Donald Trump was forced to make an about-face on his grotesque policy of stealing immigrant children from their parents. Instead, he issued an executive order to hold entire families in cages in abandoned warehouses and on army bases. This only served to intensify the protests. Five days later, the administration backed down again. There must be no illusions that the immigrant-bashing president and his child-snatching Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) have been stopped. Nor should anyone think that electing Democrats in November will bring relief to the more than 15 million undocumented immigrants living in fear in the United States, or to the desperate refugees camped out along the border. The monstrous deportation machine being used by Republican Trump was built for him by Democrat Obama, who threw a record 8+ million people out of the U.S. Both capitalist parties are enemies of immigrants. It is up to the working class together with black, Latino and other oppressed sectors to mobilize our power to wage a class war against the war on immigrants. The Internationalist Group calls for mass worker/immigrant mobilization in the streets to block deportations. We say: Stop the detentions! Return the children to their parents! Let the refugees in! Full citizenship rights for all immigrants! Set Them Free, Let Them Stay! (28 June 2018) Bourgeois Populism and Social-Democratic Reformism: A Dead End Italy: Anti-Immigrant Election Hysteria The campaign for the March 4 Italian elections has been dominated by vile xenophobic anti-immigrant chauvinism. All the competing bourgeois parties and coalitions attack the bogeyman of “illegal immigration.” The racist Lega (ex-Nord) rails about the “invasion of aliens, drug pushers, delinquents and illegals,” raising slogans such as “Italians first! Now or never! Stop the invasion!” With the populist Cinque Stelle (Five Star) movement running first in the opinion polls, its historic leader, Beppe Grillo, recently called for immediately deporting all “illegals.” The strategy of the Democratic Party government has been to put itself at the head of the anti-immigrant hysteria by aggressively extending the sway of Italian imperialism in the Mediterranean, Libya and to the south. This imperialist drive to the south is accompanied by a campaign of all-sided racist repression against immigrants and refugee seekers in Italy. What the domesticated left is counterposing to the three main bourgeois coalitions of Forza Italia/Lega, Cinque Stelle and the PD with its various appendages of homeless bourgeois politicians, is a mixture of bourgeois populism and social-democratic reformism. in the present climate of anti-immigrant hysteria and fascist attacks, what is needed are mass mobilizations bringing out the power of the working class to stop the fascists. Above all, we must forge a genuinely Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard. Italy: Anti-Immigrant Election Hysteria (24 February 2018) 
(italiano) Elezioni del 4 Marzo: Isteria anti-immigrati (24 febbraio 2018)Break with Democrats, Build a Revolutionary Workers Party All Out on May Day! Strike In Defense of Immigrants and All Workers For Worker/Immigrant Mass Action to STOP Deportations! Since the moment Donald Trump took office on January 20, a wave of raw fear has swept across immigrant communities that has not abated. The vicious offensive against immigrants has also produced anger and a determination to fight: for immigrant rights, for their rights as workers and for the better life for their children that millions have risked all to achieve. This May 1, there will in effect be a strike by hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers across the United States, perhaps upwards of a million as in 2006. What would be major is for key sectors of U.S.-born workers to walk out in solidarity with immigrants. It is also vital that the struggle to defend immigrants and all workers be waged independently of the Democratic Party. Since Trump’s upset election victory in November, sections of this capitalist party have begun pretending to be an opposition force for the first time in many decades. They’re getting an assist from opportunist leftists eager to be gofers for the latest mass “movement.” While Trump is the immediate enemy, the Democrats are the key strategic enemy whose stranglehold on labor, black and immigrant organizations and populations must be broken. All Out on May Day! Strike In Defense of Immigrants and All Workers (19 April 2017) The Crime of Medical Deportations The advanced state of decay of American capitalism is reflected in the assault on health care, while deportations escalate even beyond the record number under Barack Obama. This is highlighted by a particularly sinister form of deportations that has been taking place for over a decade. Cynically dubbed “medical repatriation,” this involves hospitals (not the government) deporting undocumented immigrants – many of them workers injured on jobs with little-to-no safety standards – while in a comatose or non-responsive state. The escalating number of cases is due to the slashing of funding under Obamacare for hospitals that treat disproportionate numbers of uninsured patients. Yet undocumented immigrants are not eligible for subsidized insurance. With pressure mounting to cut the number of undocumented patients, an important example has been set by NYC Health Care Employees Local 768 of AFSCME DC 37, which last month passed a motion saying that it would not go along with demands to cut care for undocumented immigrants but would continue to serve all those in need and oppose any attempts to discriminate on the basis of immigration status. The Crime of Medical Deportations (March 2017) NYC Health Care Workers Say: Mobilize the Power of Labor to Defend Muslims and Immigrants (March 2017)Stop Exclusion and Deportation of Haitians! Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! Haiti Hurricane Disaster: Workers Revolution the Answer On September 21, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was resuming deportations of Haitians from the U.S. In response, the Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International called for internationally coordinated protests. The resumption of deportations was a cynical election ploy to bolster the chances of Democrat Hillary Clinton, by heading off the spectre of an influx of Haitian immigrants that could be exploited by Republican Trump. In fact, both capitalist parties are enemies of immigrants. Ever since the birth of Haiti, U.S. imperialism has treated Haiti as a neo-colony, installing and removing presidents, using and disposing of Haitian workers as cheap labor, arming war lords and death squads and periodically invading, as it did in 2010 in the guise of disaster relief. Beyond the endless abuses and invasions by U.S. imperialism, the torment of Haiti is the result of the relentless workings of imperialist capitalism in its semi-colonies. The League for the Fourth International calls for Haitian-Dominican workers revolution in a voluntary socialist federation of the Caribbean. Haiti Hurricane Disaster: Workers Revolution the Answer (20 October 2016) Class Struggle International Workers Founded On August 12, Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas (Class Struggle International Workers) was founded in New York City. Working together with the Internationalist Group, the TIC set as its key goal winning the most conscious immigrant workers to the program of revolutionary class struggle, not only fighting for labor and immigrants rights but also encompassing the major issues confronting workers and oppressed sectors today. The TIC aims to be an organization of study and struggle, growing out of the IG’s regular weekly Spanish-language study group, work in union organizing campaigns and mobilizations in solidarity with Mexican teachers and against racist cop terror, from Ayotzinapa to police murders of black people in the United States. The founding members of the TIC include militants who participated in the nationwide strike by immigrant workers on May Day 2006. Immigrant women workers in the TIC were active in the protests over the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. The TIC can play an important role in struggles of this huge, potentially militant but largely unorganized sector of the proletariat. Today they confront an election (in which they cannot vote) pitting a crazed anti-immigrant Republican bigot who threatens to deport 11 million immigrants, and a Democrat war hawk who continues the policies of the Obama administration which already deported over 5 million. With all talk of a path to citizenship through immigration reform a dead-end, Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas points to the path of intransigent class struggle leading to socialist revolution. Class Struggle International Workers Founded (August 2016) We Don’t Beg, We Demand: Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! No to the Anti-Immigrant “Immigration Reform” On June 27, the United States Senate approved S. 744, the bipartisan bill touted as “comprehensive immigration reform” and a “path to citizenship” for the officially estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Yet the Senate bill is a vicious piece of anti-immigrant, police-state legislation which will not provide a means of achieving citizenship for the majority of undocumented immigrant working people. It would turn the Mexican border into a militarized war zone, institute a “guest worker” program amounting to indentured servitude, throw immigrant workers out of jobs, impose employment requirements leading to a national identification card, and make possible many millions more deportations than Obama has already carried out. Democrats and Republicans, representatives of capital, are enemies of immigrants and workers. They will not approve an immigration reform providing full and equal rights for the millions of workers who produce super-profits for the bosses. So long as capital rules, immigrants will be under attack. No to the Anti-Immigrant “Immigration Reform” (1 July 2013) Immigration “Reform”: The Big Swindle We Demand: Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants Obama’s “Bipartisan” Immigration Reform Is A Fraud Workers’ Struggle Has No Borders Phony plans for “immigration reform” are the talk of the town in Washington. Don’t be fooled by the hype. The “reform” they are preparing will not be one to benefit the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, but instead it will serve the interests of the capitalists who profit from their labor. In addition, it will involve ominous attacks on civil liberties and labor rights affecting everyone in the U.S. And it won’t just be because “reformers” are capitulating to the xenophobic, immigrant-bashing right-wingers. The liberal, supposedly “immigrant-friendly” Democrats have unleashed even more repression against the foreign-born than the conservative Republicans ever did. What is emerging is a “reform” that would tell the police where to find the undocumented, could well increase unemployment for immigrants, would lead to an expansion of government police control and at most, for a hefty price, would gain the status of indentured servants or being on probation. This is what the Democrats and “mainstream” immigrants’ rights groups want to cheer about. Not us Marxists. We demand full citizenship rights for all immigrants. A real fight for immigrants’ rights must be a fight against capital, which profits enormously from the present situation in which millions of workers have no legal rights, and which seeks to garner even greater profits by “legalizing” them. Obama’s “Bipartisan” Immigration Reform Is A Fraud (April 2013) No to “Secure Communities” in NY – Stop the ICE Dragnet! Protest Obama’s Mass Deportations of Immigrants The federal government of President Barack Obama has announced that it is overriding state objections to impose its “Secure Communities” mass deportation program on New York, Massachusetts and several other states starting on Tuesday, May 15. There should be a massive mobilization against this outrageous attack on immigrant working people. A protest has been announced for Monday, May 14, from 12 to 2 p.m. at the Federal Building in downtown Manhattan. We urge people to attend to show their outrage. But while demonstration organizers call for timid “immigration reform,” we oppose all cooperation with the migra immigration cops, and call for full citizenship rights for all immigrants. Protest Obama’s Mass Deportations of Immigrants (13 May 2012) Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! Deportation Elections 2012: For a Revolutionary Workers Party! May Day, the international workers day, since the massive marches in 2006 has become the day of struggle of immigrant workers as well. On May Day 2012, the American presidential election campaign is well underway. In the Republican primaries, each candidate tried to be more reactionary than the other. The virtual nominee, Mitt Romney, has called for immigrants to "self-deport." Democratic president Barack Obama, meanwhile, is trying to outdo the Republicans in imperialist war abroad and police-state repression "at home." Even as he appeals for the Hispanic vote by again promising to make immigration reform a priority after reelection, Obama has deported 400,000 immigrants a year, far more than his Republican predecessor ever did, earning him the title "Mr. Deportation." The Internationalist Group fights for full citizenship rights for all immigrants, to break with the capitalist parties and build a revolutionary workers party. Deportation Elections 2012: For a Revolutionary Workers Party! (May 2012) Shut the Detention Camps – Free the Detainees! Mobilize Workers, Immigrants to Stop the Deportations! Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants A “megamarch” for immigrants’ rights was held in Washington, D.C. on March 21 that brought out over 200,000 people, making it the largest immigrant demonstration since 2006. Pushing the theme “We March for America,” organizers handed out little American flags to participants. A parade of Democratic Congressmen spoke from the podium. Despite the flag-waving and hundreds of thousands demonstrators chanting (in English) Obama's campaign slogan “Yes we can,” the capitalist politicians are not going to do anything to legalize the more than 15 million undocumented immigrants in this mid-term election year. Even if they do eventually pass an immigration bill, it will only further victimize the super-exploited workers. The Internationalist Group put out a bi-lingual special issue of The Internationalist emphasizing that Democrats and Republicans are enemies of immigrants, and we need a revolutionary workers party Mobilize Workers, Immigrants to Stop the Deportations! (21 March 2010) Mobilize Workers Against Racist Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law! Democrats’ “Concept” of Immigration “Reform”: A Police State The passage of a spectacularly racist immigration law by the Arizona state senate on April 19, and its signing into law by the governor four days later, has provoked a wave of justified outrage. The new law (SB1070) authorizes police to stop people on the street to demand that they produce documents to prove their immigration status. This means blatant “racial profiling” by the cops: in Arizona, anyone who “looks Mexican” is now subject to arrest. Comparisons are made to the racial laws of Nazi Germany, South African apartheid pass laws and the fugitive slave acts in pre-Civil War United States. Many are calling on the federal government to annul the racist law. Yet the federal government under Barack Obama is the biggest jailer of immigrants. Under the present administration the number of deportations has sharply escalated. The Democrats’ talk of immigration reform is a cruel hoax. The centerpiece of the “conceptual framework on immigration” drawn up by New York senator Schumer is increased militarization of the border, more migra cops and a national ID card with biometric data: in short, a police state for all. The Internationalist Group calls on workers to mobilize against Arizona’s racist immigration law and for full citizenship rights for all immigrants. Mobilize Workers Against Racist Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law (1 May 2010) After Racist Arizona Law, Obama’s Border Patrol Kills Mexicans Blood on the Border Down with Democrats and Republicans, Capitalist Parties of War and Repression! Forge a Revolutionary Workers Party! Today in the United States, under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, xenophobic and racist violence is escalating. The criminal agents of the Border Patrol have reached the point of killing in cold blood, before the eyes of hundreds of witnesses. On May 28, construction worker Anastasio Hernández Rojas was beaten to death by some 20 agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. Then on June 7 in Ciudad Juárez, across the river from El Paso, Border Patrol agents fired into a group of youths on the Mexican side of of the border, murdering 14-year-old Adrián Hernández with a shot to the head. These crimes are part of a policy of racist repression looking for scapegoats, typified by the legalization of xenophobia and police use of racial profiling in Arizona’s SB 1070 law. But while Obama criticized the law and demonstrators chanted, “Obama, listen, we are in the struggle,” his thugs are killing on the border. It is an illusion to think that the commander in chief of U.S. imperialism, or his counterpart and semi-colonial underling, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, will defend the workers. It is necessary to mobilize the power of the working class to defend immigrants. Blood on the Border (10 June 2010) Lynch Mob Murder on Long Island Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! Just before midnight Saturday, November 8, an Ecuadorian immigrant worker, Marcelo Lucero was brutally beaten and then stabbed to death by a lynch mob of drunken teenagers in Patchogue, Long Island. This is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern of racist violence against immigrants on the island, and in Suffolk County in particular where the county executive has made immigrant-bashing his election trademark and police regularly harass Latino residents. It was the latest of a number of deadly anti-immigrant attacks taking place as the federal government intensifies deportation raids across the country. And it came only days after the election of Barack Obama, the first black president in the history of the United States. Various immigrant rights groups pretend that the Democratic president will provide immigrants with a “path to citizenship.” Yet both of the partner parties of American capitalism are in a frenzy to “control U.S. borders” and treat immigrants as the “enemy within” as they wage imperialist war from Afghanistan and Iraq to Latin America. It is up to the workers movement and all defenders of immigrant and minority rights to stop the lynchers and the racist rulers. Lynch Mob Murder on Long Island November 2008) Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants – Mobilize Union Power to Block the Raids New Haven: Break ICE Terror with Militant Class Struggle! On Monday, June 4, the New Haven Board of Aldermen passed a local ordinance to provide undocumented immigrants a city-issued photo ID card. Barely 36 hours later, the federal government responded by carrying out a first-ever immigration raid in the Connecticut city. The ICE Gestapo barged into homes, grabbing entire families, picked people off the streets without so much as a warrant, and terrorized the entire neighborhood, home to many immigrant workers. The New Haven raids were a brutal reminder from the feds that the issue is power. After years of futile lobbying for “immigration reform” from Democrats in Congress, many liberals and reformists have turned their sights to more modest local initiatives for “sanctuary cities” and the like. “Stop the Raids!” say demonstrators’ signs. Yes, but how? It will take mass mobilization of labor power. New Haven: Break ICE Terror with Militant Class Struggle (16 June 2007) Hundreds Protest NYU Republicans’ Racist “Illegal Immigrant” Hunt On February 22, College Republicans at New York University (NYU) staged a blatant racist provocation – a “game” of “catch the illegal immigrant.” This was only the latest chapter in a nationwide campaign by campus right-wingers. The grotesque stunt unleashed an outpouring of anger among NYU students and many others. More than 400 protesters turned out and kept up a steady din for three hours, chanting, picketing and drowning out the handful of racist vigilantes. The Internationalist Group carried signs calling for “Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants,” “Mobilize NYC Labor to Defend Immigrant Workers” and “Sweep Racist Vigilantes Off the Streets!” Hundreds Protest NYU Republicans’ Racist “Illegal Immigrant” Hunt (23 February 2007) |
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