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Faust [OP]

2005-06-26 00:38 | User Profile

Struggle for immigrant rights focus of Communist Party meet

Archive Recent Editions 2005 Editions June 18, 2005

Author: Martin Frazier

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 06/16/05 12:06

TUCSON, Ariz. — Communist Party activists from across the country gathered here June 4-5 to review and update the party’s work on immigration and with immigrants.

Arizona is on the front line of some of the nation’s sharpest immigration issues. Hundreds die each year from the harsh conditions of the desert crossing. Vigilantes called “Minutemen” have been intimidating immigrants. And numerous ballot initiatives are among the sharp struggles.

Despite the sensationalism whipped up by the ultra-right — that immigrants, particularly from Mexico and Central America, are “invading” the country — the U.S. receives only 3 percent of worldwide immigration. Well, we know which side they are on.:thumbd:

Interesting also to see their stance on NAFTA, CAFTA, and corporate profits from immigrants

Since 1994, when NAFTA was signed, 6 million Mexican farmers and families have been driven off the land and forced to emigrate to find a means of livelihood. Major sectors of industry in the U.S. depend on immigrant labor, such as restaurant, hotel, agriculture, meatpacking and construction.

In his opening remarks, Rosalio Muñoz, organizer for the Southern California Communist Party, said, “In the 21st century, the number one issue is how to deal with corporations making super-profits off of immigrants — documented and undocumented.” Racism in immigration goes back to the anti-Chinese laws of the 1800s and the denial of constitutional protection to “aliens,” Muñoz said...........

Labor’s involvement in the fight for immigrant rights is crucial, CPUSA Labor Commission Chair Scott Marshall said. “Linking globalization and immigration is important. We have to find ways to make the link clearer. The Immigrant Rights Freedom Ride was a real high-water mark of involving labor in the struggle for the rights of immigrants. The labor movement is focused on defeating CAFTA. Yet defeating CAFTA is a very important immigration issue. But it is not placed that way.”

Clearly the communists are trying to determine their stance. They are against CAFTA and NAFTA, but they recognize that the "ultra-right" (aka us) is against these also. Which side are the communists on? [QUOTE]“The Communist Party and immigration issues are interwoven. The party was founded in 1919. By 1920 the ‘Palmer raids’ and other reactionary measures against immigrants were in full swing, because immigrants, particularly after the turn of the century, were coming to the U.S. with revolutionary consciousness and vast experience in class and democratic struggles,” Muñoz said. “Deportation of Communists, other progressives and labor organizers was a big component of the McCarthy era, as well.”[/QUOTE]Hint, hint, the communists in the CPUSA know what (or rather who) they owe their existence to. After all, Mexico is where Trotsky chose to seek exile, and Trotskyism seems a big factor in the Mexican left.

Based on the conference a resolution on immigration will be presented to the Communist Party’s July 1-3 convention, where a workshop on the issue will be held as well. [email]mfrazier@pww.org[/email]

[url]http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7227/1/274[/url] A resolution probably copied from the neo-cons :lol:

SteamshipTime

2005-06-26 00:49 | User Profile

Of course. Outside of the unions, the seminaries, and the universities, whites have rejected Marxism, so the Marxists need to import more constituents. Libertarians who support this crap need to attend this meeting.

robinder

2005-06-26 03:45 | User Profile

CPUSA was never seriously influential, and are even less so now than in the past. They don't even bother to run candidates very often either, not that it matters. For decades, I believe, they only were on the presidential ballot in the state of New York. Socialist Party USA (affiliated with European Socialist Parties, including those which won elections in Spain and Portugal) and Democratic Socialists of America probably have more members, if not individually, then between them. For more devoted communists, Maoism is the current trend. Workers in first world nations aren't considered exploited, but rather as part of a "labor aristocracy". While nominally still pledged to old fashioned soviet communism, today's CPUSA has a platform which is little more than than clamoring for "equal rights" and a higher minimum wage. In Europe, that wouldn't pass for a communist or marxist party by a long shot. Even Christian Democrats might be more "radical" than that, in some respects.

Okiereddust

2005-06-26 04:12 | User Profile

Struggle for immigrant rights focus of Communist Party meet

Archive Recent Editions 2005 Editions June 18, 2005

Author: Martin Frazier

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 06/16/05 12:06

TUCSON, Ariz. — Communist Party activists from across the country gathered here June 4-5 to review and update the party’s work on immigration and with immigrants.

Arizona is on the front line of some of the nation’s sharpest immigration issues. Hundreds die each year from the harsh conditions of the desert crossing. Vigilantes called “Minutemen” have been intimidating immigrants. And numerous ballot initiatives are among the sharp struggles.

Despite the sensationalism whipped up by the ultra-right — that immigrants, particularly from Mexico and Central America, are “invading” the country — the U.S. receives only 3 percent of worldwide immigration. Well, we know which side they are on.:thumbd:

Interesting also to see their stance on NAFTA, CAFTA, and corporate profits from immigrants

Since 1994, when NAFTA was signed, 6 million Mexican farmers and families have been driven off the land and forced to emigrate to find a means of livelihood. Major sectors of industry in the U.S. depend on immigrant labor, such as restaurant, hotel, agriculture, meatpacking and construction.

In his opening remarks, Rosalio Muñoz, organizer for the Southern California Communist Party, said, “In the 21st century, the number one issue is how to deal with corporations making super-profits off of immigrants — documented and undocumented.” Racism in immigration goes back to the anti-Chinese laws of the 1800s and the denial of constitutional protection to “aliens,” Muñoz said...........

Labor’s involvement in the fight for immigrant rights is crucial, CPUSA Labor Commission Chair Scott Marshall said. “Linking globalization and immigration is important. We have to find ways to make the link clearer. The Immigrant Rights Freedom Ride was a real high-water mark of involving labor in the struggle for the rights of immigrants. The labor movement is focused on defeating CAFTA. Yet defeating CAFTA is a very important immigration issue. But it is not placed that way.”

Clearly the communists are trying to determine their stance. They are against CAFTA and NAFTA, but they recognize that the "ultra-right" (aka us) is against these also. Which side are the communists on? [QUOTE]“The Communist Party and immigration issues are interwoven. The party was founded in 1919. By 1920 the ‘Palmer raids’ and other reactionary measures against immigrants were in full swing, because immigrants, particularly after the turn of the century, were coming to the U.S. with revolutionary consciousness and vast experience in class and democratic struggles,” Muñoz said. “Deportation of Communists, other progressives and labor organizers was a big component of the McCarthy era, as well.”[/QUOTE]Hint, hint, the communists in the CPUSA know what (or rather who) they owe their existence to. After all, Mexico is where Trotsky chose to seek exile, and Trotskyism seems a big factor in the Mexican left.

Based on the conference a resolution on immigration will be presented to the Communist Party’s July 1-3 convention, where a workshop on the issue will be held as well. [email]mfrazier@pww.org[/email]

[url]http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7227/1/274[/url] A resolution probably copied from the neo-cons :lol:

Exelsis_Deo

2005-06-26 05:30 | User Profile

Our forefathers came here into a toally different world. You cannot look at their perscpective or even utilize it. Facts are totally different..I have stated here before the whole history of my family. Another thing Okie and I am working on, old posts. Fact is, this is the USA. You bite it or leave it as far as I am concerned, and that is not what Okie thinks. I do not believe in the USA. I seek to leave it or work within it. There are those such as HAC who think they can form a new Homeland in the Northwest. Nice novels. A few who believe, maybe 500. There are those who think that white righteousness can happen in America. They are even more fooled. You will be prosecuted as the criminals you are Mesage to those who want a new all-white homeland - I want it too, but you cannot get it in the geographical boundaries of the USA. I spoke here 3 years ago and told you where. and HAC and others better listen. HAC is Harold Covington. It's going to be in the Arctic.. not America.