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April 12, 2006
Stung by the momentum of the Tom Tancredo/Lou Dobbs/Minuteman tag team, the internationalist bourgeoisie coughed up some support for migrant workers in a battle of political wills pitting some employers and migrants on one side against the white nationalist middle class majority of Euro-Amerikans on the other side. Nothing better demonstrates the scale of this epic conflict than the huge television screens made available for the New York City demonstration of April 10--no cardboard cutout posters for these demonstrators.
Chanting "Si se puede" ("yes we can") as the farmworkers also do in their struggles, the New York rally filled the streets from Canal down to Murray. Police blocked off side streets, but those were empty. The packed march filled the blocks precisely as ordered.
The overwhelming majority of marchers were the Brown people. The anti-war movement did show up to hand out flyers for the April 29th rally in New York City coming up and April 10th organizers did an announcement for the anti-war rally April 10th that the marchers cheered lustily; thus some real links do exist.
Some organized Irish did show up to show solidarity. Also there was one man dressed in clothes with German language walking around complaining that "I don't see a single European." On the whole, he was correct and then some. The massive white liberal population of New York City did not show up.
In Florida and California alone, each state had approximately 20 rallies. Even places such as Dallas had half a million people show up.(1)
Everywhere that the rallies appeared we saw Mexican flags. Some explained that these were for pride. MIM is in favor of seeing solidarity with Mexico and the creation of Aztlán.
With Bush in war trouble and also saying things such as "family values do not stop at the border," the petty-bourgeoisie of the united $tates is vacillating politically like we have not seen it, probably since the 1960s. The insurgent rebels of Iraq can take credit for that. Doubts about Bush are high and in addition, his labor aristocracy base is putting up billboards in the Southwest reading slogans such as "they did not die for open borders Mr. President" in reference to billboard depictions of war veterans. (MIM would say they should have died for open borders, but these fascists never trouble to read what it says on the Statue of Liberty.)
On the one side is the hardened white labor aristocracy opposing "shamnesty" in reference to proposed laws that would give workers a chance to obtain U.S. citizenship. On the other hand are the migrants, allied oppressed nationalities and some employers with the active yeast of the communist element.
Polls after the upheaval show that a majority of Euro-Amerikans still want to build a wall on the border with Mexico. However, the total poll shows that support for that position when oppressed nationalities are counted is only 48%.(2) We are in fact delighted to see numbers that good. Over 60% of those polled want to make it possible for migrants to become citizens but also over 60% still regard migrants as criminals.(2)
The marchers themselves are divided on how to respond. Some carried U.$. flags and posters saying "we are Americans." The more correct element carries the Mexican flag, as MIM predicted in polemics with a pseudo-communist organization two years ago. The two choices are stark: one element is "patriotic" toward Amerikkka and the other section is still proud of the oppressed nations. The pseudo-communists line up for the pro-integration, pro-lackey and pro-super-exploitation elements. These idiotic pseudo-communists are leading the Brown people straight to Amerikkkan patriotism. The Maoists favor national liberation led by the real proletariat, not the Euro-Amerikan parasites calling themselves workers. The Mexicans and other Brown peoples belong on their own territory stolen by the united $tates. It is their labor creating the wealth that attracts people in the first place.
Notes:
1. "Huge crowds for immigrant rallies," http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/04/11/1529509-sun.html
2. Susan Page and Kathy Kiely, "Public divided over how to treat illegals," USA Today,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-10-immigration-divide_x.htm
