An Attack On Migrants is an Attack On The Working Class
International Workers Brigade
10/22/20252 min read
Over the past year, the United States government has launched an especially brutal attack on the working class, conducting workplace raids and neighborhood sweeps to capture and deport migrant workers across the country.
The U.S., alongside other industrialized nations, enforces immigration policies designed to create a pool of cheap labor. This system deliberately keeps a section of the working class in a state of illegality, allowing capitalists to blackmail migrant workers into accepting abhorrent working conditions, inadequate pay, and to deter worker organizing.
As migrant workers begin to recognize and defend themselves not in isolation but as a section of the proletariat class, the capitalist state strikes back with periodic waves of deportations to enforce this condition of vulnerability.
For these workers, who often fled due to the complete inability to survive in their home countries, deportation is a life-or-death matter. In response, hundreds of thousands been protesting across the country to defend their survival, only to be met by the capitalists’ state machinery—including the U.S. National Guard.
This confrontation reveals a fundamental truth: the capitalist state, its constitution, laws, and courts exist with the sole purpose of annihilating all working-class efforts to escape exploitation.
In the system of capitalism, both “democracy” and “fascism” are merely interchangeable methods of administering class rule. Today, the state shifts between them seamlessly. The “left-wing of capital”—social democrats, progressives, and others—secures minor concessions that create the illusion of victory. In truth, these are capitalism’s temporary retreats, designed to prevent genuine class organizing.
When democracy is no longer sufficient to maintain control, the capitalists centralize power and resort to fascism.
Understanding this, the International Workers Brigade heeds the call of the First International from 1871:
“the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves...”
Workingmans International Association - Provisional Rules
Therefore, we do not limit ourselves to slogans like “Abolish ICE.” These demands, while righteous, are impossible under a system that will always recreate its oppressive machinery. Instead, our call is revolutionary:
“No War but Class War.”
We must organize the political rule of the working class, to dismantle all exploitative apparatuses: the state, the businesses, the prisons, the borders, in a cohesive and general attack against capital.. Migrants, and all who are forced to labor under this system, will never be free until we destroy capitalism at its roots through international communist revolution.
As Rosa Luxemburg heads;
“As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism”
Rosa Luxemburg - The Julius Pamphlet
Our isolated struggles for higher wages and better conditions must be united into a broad struggle against capital itself. The task of the proletariat is to organize into a class movement, separate from opportunistic “yellow” unions, to become politically independent from the capitalists, and realize their class interests for revolution. This movement must be led by the world communist party, in a war against capitalism itself.