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Angela;
Sorry you had problems finding the leaflet nailing the AF of L. --but it is
posted
on Internationalists Web (http://www.ibrp.org) both as new update material
dtd 6/5/00
and in the LA Workers Voice section too.
so i will send you a copy as well as one for the Autopsy List.
Comments and debate are welcomed.
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Angela;
Sorry you had problems finding the leaflet nailing the AF of L. --but it is
posted
on Internationalists Web (http://www.ibrp.org) both as new update material
dtd 6/5/00
and in the LA Workers Voice section too.
so i will send you a copy as well as one for the Autopsy List.
Comments and debate are welcomed.
Neil
Communist-left IBRP
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DATE: 6/4/00 12:38 AM
RE: The AFL/CIO, a new friend of Immigrants?
After supporting most all repressive US government anti-immigrant
regulations and actions for many decades , the AFL/CIO trade union
federation's executive council is seemingly doing a 180 degree turn and
now will support "regulated legal immigration" , an amnesty for all
undocumented workers inside US borders and as well claims it will no
longer co-operate with the regular round-ups and other US Immigration and
Naturalization (La Migra) actions against immigrants.
If the AFL's new positions were sincere, it would mean it is turning
over a new leaf. The federation now says, " the AFL/CIO proudly stands
on the side of immigrant workers." Is the AFL sincere in dumping
overboard its experienced massed political artillery of anti-immigrant
chauvinism? How does this change fit into the present needs of the US
bosses/government whom the AFL is so loyal to? What is the actual track
record?
It is almost common knowledge that for decades the AFL/CIO stance on
immigrants was in line with some of the most racist and ultra-nationalist
forces of our capitalist rulers. Part of this was the old lying saw that
"illegals are taking jobs away from American workers, driving wages down,
and making conditions of work deteriorate." And " Immigrant Aliens" were
also said to be used by companies to break strikes and weaken AFL union
organizing drives. Time and again, the AFL backed reactionary legislation
in state legislatures and in Congress. Obviously , it was the AFL itself
that was making the rounds parroting the bosses divide and rule lies. It
could have exposed/fought this reactionary drivel if it really wanted to
build workers unity and struggle against the attacks of the rich. But the
AFL-CIO is basically a big labor merchandizing organization that backs
the wages system and the rule of capital, lock, stock and barrel.
Bonafide workers organizations expose poverty, unemployment, and
anti-immigrant chauvinism as the product of the domination of capitalist
social relations, wage slavery, class rule and production not for human
needs, but instead for sales and profits.
The AFL, in its long history of hostility to the undocumented workers was
driven mainly by its interests as a negotiator of the price of the
commodity labor-power. In the past the AFL considered the undocumented
workers almost like lepers. It thought it had more fertile and profitable
fields for its "organizing" in industries that did not have significant
numbers of immigrant labor. But in the last 20 years there have been big
changes in the world capitalist economy. There has been enormous
privatization of industries, contracting-out to small
non-union shops by huge previously unionized firms. Now there is vast
globalization of capitalist production and the movement of big companies to
other capitalist and state capitalist countries where the costs of
labor-power are much cheaper , raw materials close by & available to
plunder, and workers controlled in even more slavelike conditions than
in the "free" USA.
The unions have pleaded poverty for the bosses and have shoved many
concessions contracts down their own members throats. Unions accepting
concessions to
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