Last spring, millions of immigrant workers, their families, and allies took to the streets of the U.S. in a spontaneous movement against the draconian anti-immigrant measures being proposed in the form of the Sensenbrenner Bill (HR4437).
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May Day and the American Working Class
In 2006, millions of immigrant workers took to the streets of the US and put the focus back on the working class origins of May Day. Hundreds of ad-hoc committees were organized in factories, schools, and workplaces to plan for what was almost certainly the largest national strike/boycott in the history of the U.S.
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
This song, written by Woody Guthrie in 1948, documents the treatment of several “illegal”deportees both before and after their death.
Undocumented Immigrants: “We Are the Working Class of America”
Demonstrations and marches have been taking across the USA, but it wasn’t until Chicago’s 500,000 and Los Angeles’ 1,000,000-plus marches that the mood really took off. Taking their inspiration from these historic and unexpected turnouts, millions of undocumented workers and their supporters turned out in droves for another wave of mobilizations on April 9th and 10th.
Undocumented Workers: That Stupendous Business of the North American Bourgeoisie
Big business has great interest in undocumented workers, who they can overexploit and use to maximize their profits.
The Communist: The Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.