Road to forging a fighting labor movement – The Militant

[….] What’s needed is an effective, disciplined movement of working people that fights for an amnesty for all undocumented workers in the U.S. A movement that draws in the unions and reaches out to rally all the exploited and oppressed to its side, one that immigrant workers can join and help lead. The banner they carried in their millions in protests in 2006 and 2007 said, “We are workers, not criminals!”

Fighting to check the competition for jobs workers always face under capitalism has been at the center of the unions’ course since they first emerged with the rise of modern industry. Karl Marx, a founder of the revolutionary workers movement, explained in 1866 that unions must “learn to act deliberately as organizing centers of the working class in the broad interests of its complete emancipation.”

They must “enlist the nonsociety [unorganized] men into their ranks,” Marx wrote. “They must look carefully after the interests of the worst-paid trades, such as agricultural laborers, rendered powerless by exceptional circumstances. They must convince the world at large that their efforts, far from being narrow and selfish, aim at the emancipation of the downtrodden millions.”

Advancing this perspective requires rallying around the call for amnesty for workers without papers, essential to unify and strengthen the labor movement for the deeper class struggles that lie ahead, and to open the door for the working class to take political power into our own hands.

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Road to forging a fighting labor movement – The Militant

Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! – The Militant

[….] U.S. Border Patrol officers were surrounded and confronted by some 50 people provocatively blowing whistles and shouting and filming them. Alex Pretti, a nurse and U.S. citizen who was part of the provocation, was shot and killed by federal agents.

Video shows Border Patrol agents try to push Pretti away. Then he moved to get between the agent and a woman they had pepper sprayed, and he was thrown to the ground and pummeled. As one agent appears to find and take a gun from Pretti, another shouts “gun,” and others start shooting. Pretti was shot 10 times and died at the scene.

The liberal media paints Pretti as a saint, and Trump officials immediately stuck a “domestic terrorist” label on him and accused him of being there to “massacre law enforcement.” Both sides prevent working people from drawing the necessary lessons in order to build an effective response. First, Pretti was not at a protest, but a confrontation organized to interfere with the Border Patrol agents.

Much has been said about Pretti’s Second Amendment right to bring a gun into a protest. But experienced, conscious working-class leaderships go out of their way to avoid giving the capitalist state and its agencies an excuse to victimize fighters in struggle. There is a perfect example that working people could draw from. That is, the example of the Minneapolis Teamsters struggles in the 1930s, where the leadership took away weapons from trade unionists going into combat with the cops.

These frequent confrontations, as well as peaceful vigils at makeshift memorials, are taking place in neighborhoods across the Twin Cities.

The same day the shooting occurred the Minnesota National guard was activated and is now on the streets.

And true to form, the following night antifa thugs, who have a continuity here dating back to the violent actions that ended up destroying the protest movement around the death of George Floyd in 2020, smashed up the front glass windows of a hotel where ICE agents are said to be housed, painting “F–k ICE” graffiti on the walls. This is a blow to efforts to build the kind of mass movement needed.

The ICE arrests and brutality are an attack on workers’ rights — documented and undocumented. But how workers and our unions can make progress needs to be debated out.

Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! – The Militant

Re: provocations & confrontations with ICE

“This is a course for disaster. What’s needed here and across the country is a union-led fight for amnesty for all undocumented workers, a movement that would unify the working class. One that immigrant workers and others can participate in and help lead.”

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https://themilitant.com/2026/01/16/working-people-unions-need-to-fight-for-amnesty-for-immigrants-in-the-us/

‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism – The Militant

[….] One key aim of Trump’s Board is to block Israel from decisively defeating Hamas. The Tehran-backed group is several months into re-arming and rebuilding since Israel dealt it heavy blows. It’s reasserting its hated dictatorial rule over Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel, the one country that offers Jews an unconditional refuge, is the only force that today will fight and defeat Hamas. Anything short of that will inevitably lead to more and more deadly pogroms.

Washington also aims to use this body to advance its influence with Arab and other governments, including Tehran and Ankara, across the Middle East....

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‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism – The Militant

Mamdani takes office, overturns orders against Jew-hatred – The Militant

[….] One of the orders Mamdani threw out barred city officials from discriminating “against the state of Israel, Israeli citizens based on their national origin, or individuals or entities based on their association with Israel,” in the awarding of city contracts or in any other policy.

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Mamdani takes office, overturns orders against Jew-hatred – The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! – The Militant

....This military assault abroad goes hand-in-hand with the rulers’ deepening attacks on the working class in this country. They use the US assault on Venezuela to reinforce their anti-immigrant demagogy, a deadly danger to the unity of the working class.

The defense of Venezuela’s sovereignty is in the interests of all working people in the US and beyond. The trade unions should take the lead in protesting Washington’s outrageous aggression.

US hands off Venezuela!

US hands off Cuba!

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Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! – The Militant

Workers face blows as today’s crisis of capitalism deepens – The Militant

Workers face blows as today’s crisis of capitalism deepens – The Militant