Migrants

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Racism, Resistance, US Government Action, US Politics, War on the Poor

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2024 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis”

March 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, CIA, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Mass action, The War at Home, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action, US Politics

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, February 23, 2025 The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple[…]

As Trump’s War on Migrants Transcends Borders, Resistance Grows in Latin America

February 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Imperialism, Latin America, Migrants and Refugees

by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, published on Truthout, February 2, 2025 Colombia, along with Mexico, Brazil and Honduras, are already resisting the Trump administration’s neo-imperial regional aspirations. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former political prisoner who played a leading role in Colombia’s revolutionary movement, is the first head of state both in the region and globally who has challenged Donald Trump directly,[…]

Is It Nicaragua That Is ‘Weaponizing’ Immigration? Or Is It Washington?

October 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Latin America, Migrants, Nicaragua, Political Analysis, US Borders

by John Perry, published on Popular Resistance, September 16, 2024 Claims that Nicaragua is “weaponizing” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the U.S. border have been appearing regularly in the media over the last twelve months. The claim was made on NPR in January, in the Associated Press last October, in El Pais last November and by the[…]

US Government Exploits Animosity Towards Migrants to Demonize Socialist Countries

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Cuba, Global South, Imperialism, Monroe Doctrine, Nicaragua, Peoples' Movements, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, US Hypocrisy

by Jill Clark Gollub, published on the Orinoco Tribune, July 9, 2024 The Republican party has been waging a blatantly racist campaign to criminalize migrants. Instead of pushing back on that narrative, the party that purports to be for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Democrats) is exploiting this racist anger to discredit a country it has targeted for regime change—Nicaragua—apparently for[…]

DeSantis Declares War on Mexico

September 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Legislation, Mexico, Migrants, Migrants and Refugees, Militarism

by Charles Pierson, published on CounterPunch, August 29, 2023 There’s a new sheriff in town and he’s going into Mexico with both six-guns blazin’. Asked during the first Republican presidential primary debate on August 23 whether he would send US Special Forces across the US-Mexican border to interdict fentanyl smuggling, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis barked: “YES, and I will do it on ‘Day[…]

Biden Launches New Campaign Against Immigrants

February 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Deportation, Haiti, Migrants and Refugees, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, The War at Home, US Borders

by Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, January 19, 2023 On January 5 President Biden “announced a far-reaching crackdown on people who seek refuge at the border with Mexico, dramatically expanding restrictions on asylum in the most aggressive effort of his administration to discourage migrants from crossing into the United States,” reported the New York Times. He expanded a Trump-era[…]

A Sign of Capitalist Decline: Pink Slips Hit Tech Workers Hard

February 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Labor, Labor Struggles, Migrants, War on the Poor

by Otis Grotewohl, published on Workers World, February 2, 2023 You can buy a paperback copy of this book on Amazon for $298.99, get a Kindle copy for $15.98 OR read it for free online here: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/marcy/hightech/index.html [jb] In a vulgar display of capitalist greed, indicative of the system’s state of decay, high tech companies have laid off more than 58,000[…]

US LABOR DAY: Central American Migrants & US Labor History

September 4, 2022 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Migrants and Refugees, Organizing

by Elizabeth Oglesby, published on Consortium News, September 3, 2022 Tech workers, warehouse employees and baristas have notched many victories in recent months at major U.S. companies long deemed long shots for unions, including Apple, Amazon and Starbucks. To me, these recent union wins recall another pivotal period in the U.S. labor movement several decades ago. But that one was[…]

Trump Escalates Fascist War on Migrants with Indefinite Detentions

August 31, 2019 UNAC Editor Migrants, Prisoners, Refugees

By Teresa Gutierrez posted on Workers World, August 29, 2019 Despite overwhelming U.S. opposition to President Trump’s ongoing attacks on migrant workers, on Aug. 21 he announced plans to detain migrant children and families for even longer than they are incarcerated at present, using a new “indefinite detention” rule. Furthermore, plans are for detention centers to be run exclusively by[…]