Latinx Workers Are Organizing Fierce Resistance to Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda
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Armed state attacks and ICE escalations against immigrants in cities like Los Angeles are largely responses to democratic movements from Latinx workers following the 2024 election. Historically, immigrant workers have threatened capitalist authority through organizing and labor internationalism. The current hostility against Latinx workers is aimed at instilling fear and maintaining their powerlessness. Moreover, Latinx workers have actively resisted anti-labor policies after the election, mobilizing protests across multiple cities. Their leadership in these movements is crucial for both labor rights and broader democratic safeguards.
The recent escalation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and armed state attacks on immigrants in Los Angeles and other cities is a reactionary response to democratic insurgencies led by Latinx workers.
From the antebellum period through the Haymarket insurrection of 1886 to the present, immigrant workers have presented grave threats to the rule of capital by engaging in labor internationalism, union organizing, and coalition building.
Today's war on workers is a renewed effort by capital and the state to keep Latinx workers in a state of abject terror and powerlessness.
Understanding that Latinx workers have been in the vanguard of the struggle to save democracy is a necessary step.
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