Only struggle can win legalization! As Washington reveals its long-awaited legislation on so-called “immigration reform,” the issue of strategy and tactics for immigrant and worker rights becomes ever more important. The struggle for the rights of the working class against the ruling class is a weighty topic, to say the least. What workers and oppressed [...]
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Reforma inmigratoria al descubierto!
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Teresa Gutierrez April 24, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Mientras Washington revela su legislación tan esperada sobre la llamada “reforma migratoria”, el tema de la estrategia y la táctica de la lucha por los derechos de los/as inmigrantes y de los/as trabajadores/as es cada vez más importante. La lucha por los derechos de la clase obrera contra la clase dominante es un tema importantísimo. [...]
Tens of thousands march for immigrant rights
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Teresa Gutierrez April 17, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Washington, D.C. — Tens of thousands of workers, primarily from Central America, marched for immigrant rights in front of the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on April 10. The event was organized by many labor unions, and immigrant rights and community groups. Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, gave the keynote talk. Local events [...]
Protesters tell Schumer: ‘Stop deportations!’
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Teresa Gutierrez April 5, 2013 » Add the first comment.
On April 2, the newly formed Migrant Power Alliance held a noontime action in front of the Manhattan office of Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). The MPA was protesting the connection between Schumer and the prison-industrial complex and demanding an end to mass deportations. The MPA is an alliance of several immigrant rights organizations.
Immigrant groups respond to new proposals
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Teresa Gutierrez February 6, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Despite the hullabaloo about the recent announcement of the possibility of bipartisan legislation to pass so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” the vast majority of immigrant advocate groups are skeptical or not at all impressed by the announcements. Four Democrats and four Republicans, labeled the “Gang of 8,” came together in what is heralded as surprising bipartisan [...]
A million Venezuelans affirm support for revolution
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Teresa Gutierrez January 31, 2013 » Add the first comment.
“The people’s love for Chávez continues.” This is not a quote from a worker in Caracas. Nor from a revolutionary anti-imperialist fighter. This is the title of a New York Times opinion video dated Jan. 23. Whether it was laced with cynicism and full of sarcasm or not, it is the absolute truth. No other [...]
A million Venezuelans affirm support for revolution
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Teresa Gutierrez January 29, 2013 » Add the first comment.
“The people’s love for Chávez continues.” This is not a quote from a worker in Caracas. Nor from a revolutionary anti-imperialist fighter. This is the title of a New York Times opinion video dated Jan. 23. Whether it was laced with cynicism and full of sarcasm or not, it is the absolute truth. No other [...]
Mass work a key to party building
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Teresa Gutierrez December 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Excerpts from the Nov. 17 talk given by Teresa Gutierrez, WWP secretariat member and an organizer of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, at the Workers World Party Nov. 17-18 conference in New York. A few days after Hurricane Katrina obliterated the Gulf Coast, comrade Johnnie Stevens and I traveled to Louisiana [...]
Fast food workers fight back: We can’t survive on $7.25
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Teresa Gutierrez December 5, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Revolutionary thinkers wrote centuries ago that sometimes decades can go by and nothing of note happens in the class struggle. Then, they observed, a decade of developments can occur in just a blink of an eye. That is exactly what happened in the U.S. as over 200 fast food workers went out on strike in [...]
Walmart: Acosada por el espectro de organización sindical
Secaucus, Nueva Jersey — El 1% de la clase capitalista está temblando ante el espectro de una victoria sindical contra Walmart, la mayor multinacional del mundo. En el Viernes Negro, el día de compras más concurrido del año, los/as consumidores/as no sólo encontraron mercancías baratas sino que también se encontraron con una realidad clasista. En [...]
