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Immigrant
Struggles
Welcome to our
Immigrant Struggles webpage.
We’ve set up this page to post materials on this very important question.
We welcome your feedback. Below is a list of articles and resolutions
from Socialist Action, as well as a collection of links to other websites
with information about the immigrant rights stuggle, Chicano liberation
movement, and the struggles of Latinos in general. We also encourage you
to check out our Latin America page and our Spanish
language page. We welcome
your feedback on the materials on this page.
Immigrant
Struggle News & Views:
 Immigrants Caught in Nationwide
Round-Up: On
the same day that President Bush delivered his State of the Union address
urging Congress to overhaul federal immigration policy, federal agents
conducted one of the largest immigrant sweeps in U.S. history. Democratic
and Republican lawmakers responded to the raids by reopening the
immigration debate that sparked a mass upsurge of immigrant-led
opposition last spring.
continued
Victory at Smithfield Packing: In
mid-November workers brought the world’s largest pork-processing plant,
that of Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, North Carolina, to a halt for two
days in a winning fight against mass firings of immigrants. The same two-thirds-Latino workforce
that shut down the plant during last spring’s immigrant worker general
strike turned their power against their own boss. Their battle took place
at the crossroads of several key struggles—for immigrant worker rights,
to organize the South and reorganize meatpacking nationally, to rebuild a
weakened labor movement—and even the fight against denial of civil
liberties in the “war on terror.” continued
Homeland Security Operates Sting on
Migrant Workers: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security snatched 11 Ecuadorian
day laborers from a public park here in a sting operation on Sept. 19. An agent from Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), posing as a construction contractor, lured the day
laborers into an unmarked van with the promise of work. He then drove
them instead to the parking lot of the Danbury police station, where
a team of federal agents awaited to arrest them. continued
Taking
Sides on the Guest Worker Debate: The
wind behind the movement for immigrant rights had reached gale force by
May Day 2006. Millions of immigrant workers and students took to
the streets and dealt the first direct blow to U.S. capital in recent
memory. But the hand on the tiller -- belonging to a coalition of
unions, churches, and nonprofit advocacy groups -- has steered the boat
into the shoals of bipartisan immigration "reform" and
collaboration with capitalists in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Stern's union of mostly immigrant workers finds itself in the perverse
position of supporting a bill to turn back the clock on immigrant rights
more than 40 years. He is joined in this questionable endeavor by
the Laborers' International Union of North America and UNITE-HERE, both
unions in industries that employ large numbers of undocumented
workers. continued
Interview With a Chicana Rights
Activist: We recently caught up with one of the immigrant
rights movement’s Chicana youth leaders, Tanya Vogel. Tanya is a student at Tennyson High
School in South Hayward, Calif.
She talked to us about her experience as an integral component in
the organizing of 5000 demonstrators there—mostly working-class
Latinos—and young peoples’ perspective of this new immigrant-rights
movement. continued
Immigrant Walkout Rocks Nation on May
Day: The
outrage and determination of millions of immigrant workers turned El Gran
Paro Americano 2006—May Day’s Great American Boycott 2006—into the first
nationwide political strike in U.S. history. continued
Mass Upsurge of Immigrant Workers: Seemingly overnight, a mass movement
of immigrants demanding their rights has sprung up in the United States.
It is mass in the real sense of the word, bringing millions into the
streets—striking workers, students walking out of schools, grandparents,
babies in strollers, all with their relatives and neighbors in tow. continued
 Immigrant
Workers & the Split in the AFL-CIO: On July 18, the week before the AFL-CIO split
convention, John Wilhelm resigned as head of the federation’s Immigration
Committee. Wilhelm, president of the hospitality industry division of
UNITE HERE, led the committee at a time when the federation had changed
its long-standing opposition to the rights of the undocumented. continued
In Memory
of Corky Gonzalez: Urban civil rights and Chicano
cultural movement leader Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez died from complications
of congestive heart failure at the age of 76 on April 12, 2005, at his
home in Denver. continued
Bush’s New
‘Bracero’ Program: A
very pretty piñata with nothing inside. That’s how the leader of one
Latino immigrant organization characterized the immigration reform
proposal presented by President Bush on Jan. 7. Hearing Bush speak, you
would have thought those fighting for full rights for immigrants had won
a new ally. continued
Transitional Program 4 Chicano Liberation: Since the Chicano
people are oppressed as a nationality, they have the right to fully and
unconditionally determine their own destiny, including the right to
establish a separate state if they so decide collectively.
It is a democratic right of Chicanos to control all institutions in the
Chicano community. These should be administered by democratically elected
councils representing the masses of La Raza. These local councils
representing the masses of La Raza. These local councils should join with
others on the state and national level on the basis of elected delegates
subject to immediate recall. continued
Archived
Articles:
Immigrant
Rights & Fighting Racism:
Victory at
Smithfield Packing
Homeland
Security Operates Sting on Migrant Workers
The Basic Contradiction in U.S. Immigration Policy
Congress Debates 'Reform' Bill on Immigrant Rights
Walkout by Immigrant Workers Rocks Nation on May Day
Solidarity actions in Mexico
Work in factories, fields, ports at a stand-still
Mass Upsurge of Immigrant Workers
Immigrants & Their
Supporters Protest Against Bigotry in CT
How to
Fight Racist Groups
How Not
to Fight the Klan!
United
Farm Workers:
Immigrant Workers and the AFL-CIO Split
UFW
Reverses Itself on "Guest Workers"
Bush’s new ‘bracero’
program: Temporary work, starvation wages
UFW Marches
Again - but Toward What Goal?
AFL-CIO
Backs Amnesty for Undocumented Workers
The
Struggle 4 Chicano Liberation:
A Chicana Activist Speaks About Immigrant Rights
In Memory of Chicano Leader Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzalez
Toward a
Transitional Program for Chicano Liberation
Film Review
of "My Vida Loca"
Who is
Murdering the Women of Juárez?
Body Count
Rises Along the Border
Uprising in
Indigenous Mexican Village Overpowers Cops
Historic
Documents:
The Forging
of an Oppressed Nationality
The
Struggle for Chicano Liberation: Adopted at the 24 Convention of the SWP
Chicano
Liberation Report to the 1971 SWP Convention
The Crisis
of American Capitalism and the Struggle for Chicano Liberation
Chicano
Liberation Report to the 1976 SWP Convention
Immigrant
Links & Resources:
Immigrant Solidarity Network
Bay Area Immigrant Rights
Coalition
MEChA
National Network for Immigrant & Refugee
Rights
Chicano/LatinoNet @ UCLA
Center for Immigration Studies
National Chicano Moratorium Committee
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