https://themilitant.com/2019/04/27/join-may-day-protests-for-amnesty/
Socialist Workers Party statement
Vol. 83/No. 18
May 6, 2019
This statement was released April 24 by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers
Party candidate for New York City Public Advocate. He plans to
participate in the May Day protest for driver???s licenses for all in
Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
The Socialist Workers Party encourages everyone who wants to fight
against the miserable conditions that capitalism is imposing on us to
join this year???s May Day protests to demand amnesty and driver???s
licenses for undocumented immigrants.
We are in the midst of a so-called economic recovery. It???s mostly been a
recovery for the rich. Homelessness is at crisis levels. Working farmers
are losing their farms and livelihood. Many young people can???t earn
enough to start a family, get a car or their own place to live. Millions
of people don???t have enough money in the bank to get by if an unexpected
crisis strikes.
And what happens when the next downturn hits?
Nonetheless, the official unemployment rate is down. For some, wages
have ticked up. Many capitalist bosses from agribusiness to construction
complain they can???t find enough workers.
If we organize to fight and win solidarity, working people can take
advantage of this to wring concessions from the boss class. And to
advance the unity of the working-class in preparation for the bigger
class battles to come. We saw the potential in the widespread solidarity
that workers won on strike at Stop & Shop.
The capitalist class takes advantage of competition for jobs to pay as
little as they can for our labor power and to boost their profits on our
backs. They foster myriad divisions ??? between employed and unemployed,
men and women, Black and Caucasian, and between U.S. born and foreign born.
Overcoming these divisions in struggle is the biggest challenge working
people face if we are to defend ourselves from attacks by the bosses and
their government and chart an independent working-class course toward
taking political power into our own hands.
It???s in the interests of working people to fight for amnesty for all
undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The capitalists depend on this pool
of superexploited workers to better compete against their rivals around
the world. They try to pit us against each other, to bring down the
wages and working conditions of all.
Undocumented workers face additional challenges. In states where they
can???t get driver???s licenses they can???t even drive to work ??? or to the
store or for a night out ???without risking fines, arrest or deportation.
Other workers denied driver???s licenses ??? like ex-prisoners or others who
owe usurious court fines and fees ??? suffer similar difficulties.
Organizing to stop the deportations of our undocumented brothers and
sisters is key to building a fighting union movement.
Driver???s licenses for all! Amnesty for undocumented immigrants now! Join
the May Day protests!
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