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| Source: The Associated Press |
In a statement on the current violent clashes in Los Angeles, the Communist Workers’ Platform USA (CWPUSA) stresses out:
Driven by deep convictions on the safety of their fellow working class members, hundreds of protestors made the courageous decision to directly confront ICE agents. ICE has been a weapon of terror wielded by the ruling class against the workers of this country. Brutalizing migrant workers and breaking up families, Democratic and Republican governments alike have set these dogs on migrant workers. The anger of large sectors of the population with the policies of different managers of capital is growing.
The second Trump administration has ratcheted up ICE raids nationwide since taking office in January. In service of their capitalist masters, they have enthusiastically enacted their directives to detain and deport migrant workers by the thousands.
Workers of this country are disgusted by these terroristic measures. Pushed to action as they were in the 2006-2007 protests to defeat the “Sensenbrenner Bill”, thousands have taken the initiative to resist ICE raids in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, and Chicago by blocking ICE agents, obstructing their vehicles, surrounding agents en masse and other tactics. In response, police and state forces have made indiscriminate arrests, launched tear gas, and even deployed the National Guard. The fabricated claims and pretexts by Trump, about looting and gang members, are without evidence. The real targets have been workers: seamstresses, construction roofers, and others. This not only exposes the anti-migrant character of these attacks, but also their anti-worker agenda, made clearer by the arrest of union leader David Huerta.
The US, a country with a high degree of capitalist development, is increasingly caught in deepening contradictions, which sometimes finds a focal point in California, a state which is among the top capitalist economies in the world, based on GDP. The economic system, reinforced by the anti-migrant policies of both Republican and Democratic administrations, is fueling the growing outrage of people demanding the removal of ICE from their communities. Working-class neighborhoods, standing with their migrant brothers and sisters, are mobilizing to resist the Trump administration’s offensive, offering a glimpse of the potential for workers’ power.
But to end, once and for all the conditions which give rise to the repressive and militaristic apparatuses of imperialist power, the National Guard, ICE, and the Marines which are directed by the bourgeois state against its own population, it is necessary to meet the escalation of force by the Trump with the only path forward: the overthrow of capitalism. The Communist Workers’ Platform USA salutes all the brave people putting their personal safety on the line for the sake of their migrant brothers and sisters of the working class. Their actions are a concrete form of class solidarity.
We urge all workers and people ready and willing to fight for migrants and the entire working class to continue their struggle and elevate the fight to direct this energy against the capitalist system that creates the suffering of all workers and sets ICE terror loose on our class.
These protests point to the urgent need to create a revolutionary organization in our country, the Communist Party, that will give a direction to all the struggles that emerge from the workers, students, and popular sectors. It is the only organization capable of unifying the struggles and orienting them towards the Socialist Revolution.
RESIST ICE’S TERROR!
SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANT WORKERS!
DOWN WITH ICE, DOWN WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD, DOWN WITH THE MARINES, DOWN WITH CAPITALIST POWER!
Workers of this country are disgusted by these terroristic measures. Pushed to action as they were in the 2006-2007 protests to defeat the “Sensenbrenner Bill”, thousands have taken the initiative to resist ICE raids in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, and Chicago by blocking ICE agents, obstructing their vehicles, surrounding agents en masse and other tactics. In response, police and state forces have made indiscriminate arrests, launched tear gas, and even deployed the National Guard. The fabricated claims and pretexts by Trump, about looting and gang members, are without evidence. The real targets have been workers: seamstresses, construction roofers, and others. This not only exposes the anti-migrant character of these attacks, but also their anti-worker agenda, made clearer by the arrest of union leader David Huerta.
The US, a country with a high degree of capitalist development, is increasingly caught in deepening contradictions, which sometimes finds a focal point in California, a state which is among the top capitalist economies in the world, based on GDP. The economic system, reinforced by the anti-migrant policies of both Republican and Democratic administrations, is fueling the growing outrage of people demanding the removal of ICE from their communities. Working-class neighborhoods, standing with their migrant brothers and sisters, are mobilizing to resist the Trump administration’s offensive, offering a glimpse of the potential for workers’ power.
But to end, once and for all the conditions which give rise to the repressive and militaristic apparatuses of imperialist power, the National Guard, ICE, and the Marines which are directed by the bourgeois state against its own population, it is necessary to meet the escalation of force by the Trump with the only path forward: the overthrow of capitalism. The Communist Workers’ Platform USA salutes all the brave people putting their personal safety on the line for the sake of their migrant brothers and sisters of the working class. Their actions are a concrete form of class solidarity.
We urge all workers and people ready and willing to fight for migrants and the entire working class to continue their struggle and elevate the fight to direct this energy against the capitalist system that creates the suffering of all workers and sets ICE terror loose on our class.
These protests point to the urgent need to create a revolutionary organization in our country, the Communist Party, that will give a direction to all the struggles that emerge from the workers, students, and popular sectors. It is the only organization capable of unifying the struggles and orienting them towards the Socialist Revolution.
RESIST ICE’S TERROR!
SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANT WORKERS!
DOWN WITH ICE, DOWN WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD, DOWN WITH THE MARINES, DOWN WITH CAPITALIST POWER!
