Communist Workers Group (CWG-USA)

BUILD LABOR, COMMUNITY, IMMIGRANT DEFENSE ACTION COMMITTEES

 

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

WE ARE ONE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CLASS!

We must organize and mobilize to defend immigrants from deportation with mass mobilization of the labor movement. We need class struggle actions to stop the deportations while organizing immigrant labor into existing and new unions.

The capitalist ruling class hired Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk to crush the working class! They want to abolish OSHA, NLRB and nullify Federal workers contracts. The attack on immigrant labor is the tip of the spear!

The ruling class wages attacks on immigrants to divide the working class and blind workers to our mutual class interests. The bosses seek to drive a wedge between immigrant workers and the unions! Karl Marx wrote of chattel slavery “Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.” This quote could be applied to immigrant labor as well as to Black oppression today. The attacks on DEI and “Woke” is racism and misogyny in 21st century rightist spin. Don’t buy it!

Trump and his ruling class buddies’ tools are tariffs implemented as a con that allows big finance capitalist hedge funds to short the market because they know that the ultimate result will be inflation! Trump appeals to his reactionary base advocating tariffs, whipping up “Buy American” chauvinism and  as a nativist political weapon against capitalist rivals and even dependent nations. His plan is for U.S. imperialist control of Central and Latin American governments and their policies.

Undocumented workers are rightfully afraid to go to work on the farms and in the food industry plants that feed America! ICE roundups terrorize immigrant workers who are staying away from farms and meat processing plants where they work. This means importing more food at higher prices inflated by tariffs that you pay! Tariffs are a tax on the working and middle classes! Are born in the USA workers going to take those jobs? Not until we are driven to destitution! Our fight is not only to protect the immigrant workers doing the most dangerous and unhealthy work,  but to take hold of the economy and run all jobs in a safe and healthy manner with living wages, benefits, vacations, medical insurance and pensions!

Trump demagogically plays to industrial union workers with the fake promise of manufacturing coming back to the U.S. The tariffs will not bring manufacturing back to the USA. The only way they will bring back manufacturing is when they drive down your wages equivalent to what they pay in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Burma! To do that the capitalist ruling class is trying to terrorize immigrant labor and crush the unions! The attack on federal workers and immigrant labor is the first step!

Today Trump, Musk and MAGA are going after the NLRB in order to smash the legal right to unionize. To protect our lives and livelihoods workers need to organize the unorganized coast to coast and bring all immigrant workers into the trade union movement! To counter the life crushing inflation and right to fire that the ruling class is unleashing through Trump and Musk we need to reinvigorate the workers movement with politically independent class struggle methods. We need to take our unions back from do-nothing leaders who tie our movement to the capitalist Democratic and Republican Parties and refuse to challenge anti-labor laws with mass strikes and general strikes!

To rebuild our labor movement we must start by defending and embracing immigrant labor and their families! Everyone in the  USA is an immigrant except the Indigenous, and now MAGA wants to deny their citizenship rights! We Demand Full Citizenship Rights for all workers and Indigenous people! We Fight for the Same Contract for the Same Work through international struggle on both sides of the borders! This is how we prevent the bosses from driving wages down at home! This discourages Capital flight.

The capitalist class and their dying system has brought living things to the brink of extinction by climate catastrophe and war. The workers movement can only win if it offers an alternative program and builds a mass party of labor that mobilizes the masses around its program.

The workers movement and its fighting Workers/Labor party must:

Build class struggle caucuses in our unions and community organizations of struggle which displace leaderships who accommodate the bosses and promote class peace.

We must organize and mobilize to defend immigrant labor from deportation with mass mobilization of the labor movement, with actions to stop the deportations while organizing immigrant labor into existing and new unions.

We must defend Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous and immigrant communities with union led self-defense guards built up in workplace and factory committees, united and mobilized in district and regional workers assemblies. The workers’ organizations must welcome, defend and advance the equal rights of women and all specially oppressed people. Hands off foreign students! Hands off Palestine solidarity activists!

We Demand: Jobs for all with living wages and automatic COLA’s to counter inflation. To close the widening gap between productivity and stagnant wages, to share necessary work among all capable hands we demand to shorten the workweek with no reduction in pay! The automation coming to industry via technology must be made to benefit the working class. 24 hours work for 40 hours pay is long overdue!

We Demand: Trillions of dollars in public works programs to build and provide free quality housing, education and healthcare for all, upgrade public transit, re-forest the wilderness, eliminate toxic infrastructure and make a transition to clean energy. When the bosses say this is not possible we demand: Open the books of the finance and monopoly capitalists to identify where the money is. Such will show that the billionaires and big shareholders hoard, speculate and build armaments for destruction rather than investing to produce for public need.

When the capitalist class and bosses say profit is their right and wars are in the national interest, we demand an end to speculation, hoarding and military profiteering. Stop funding the Military Industrial Complex and the workers party will show what the savings are. Not one person, not one penny for imperialist war!

The bosses hired Trump to bring Genocide home! We say: End the genocides! Stop funding the Ukraine proxy war! For dual defeatism in all inter-imperialist conflicts! Dependent nations have the right to expel occupiers! Defend Gaza! Free Palestine! Imperialists hands of the Syrian Revolution!

We Demand NO IMPERIALIST WARS! CLOSE THE 900 overseas bases! Troops! Build a “Come Home Now Movement” and an enlisted persons international union. When the bosses try to stop our strikes with Police, National Guard and their private armies, the workers movement must appeal to the soldiers to organize enlisted unions which support the workers movement and arm the workers militia to defend the Mass Strikes, factory and workplace occupations and the seizure of the capitalists’ hoarded and stolen social wealth.

Defend Panama! Hands off Greenland!  Workers need an international program! Build a working class anti-imperialist United Front to stop inter-imperialist wars! For a New Zimmerwald and a New Workers International! 

The workers movement and Workers Party will mobilize with class struggle methods of the Mass Strike (general and political) to implement a Workers Government which will nationalize the commanding heights of industry, finance and monopoly capital without indemnification, run under worker’s self management and democratic workers central planning.

For World Socialist Revolution!

Communist Workers Group, 02/04/2025