Do El Paso killings show a rise of white supremacists? – The Militant

....As struggles by working people pick up in the future as the bosses intensify their assaults, more working people will come to see that the real target of stepped-up police spying and executions by the state is not terrorists, but the working class.

Trump also called for extending “red flag” laws that exist in some states. These vary, but can allow people to request a court order to prevent someone they know and consider a threat from accessing firearms.

Many liberals called for further “gun control.” But undermining the Bill of Rights, including the right to bear arms, to free speech and assembly, to a speedy trial, undercuts protections that are needed for defending the interests of the working class.

Less racism today
Anti-immigrant prejudices are continually fostered by the capitalist rulers as they attempt to divide working people, hoping to sap our capacity to struggle against their attacks on living standards and job conditions. But it’s not true that there is growing racism and prejudice against immigrants. In fact, there is less racism and anti-immigrant sentiment among working people, the consequence of the defeat of Jim Crow segregation by the mass Black rights movement in the 1950s and ’60s, which continues to be felt today. As native- and foreign-born workers live and work alongside each other, anti-immigrant prejudices begin to break down.
 

Liberal Democrats have pointed to President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, which is aimed at bolstering the bosses’ attempts to divide working people.

While the Democrats’ rhetoric may be different, their actions are not. Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama deported more immigrants than Trump. And Joe Biden, the leading Democratic Party candidate for president, has said that immigrants without papers in the U.S. “should have to get in line [to apply to stay]. That’s the problem.” All of this encourages scapegoating immigrants for the social and economic crisis of capitalism.
Despite the bipartisan anti-immigrant policies of the Democrats and Republicans, deportations are not popular among many workers.
“Working people need to denounce every attack on immigrants who are fellow workers,” said Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly. “The answer to the bosses’ attempts to divide U.S.- and foreign-born workers is to demand amnesty for all 11 million immigrants in the U.S. without ‘official’ papers. This is not an ‘immigrant’ question. It’s needed to unite the working class and put us in a better position to organize the unorganized and rebuild a fighting union movement.”

Do El Paso killings show a rise of white supremacists? – The Militant