Dr. Duane E. Campbell,
April 19, 2017
In spite of the economic boon for the wealthy, working
people in the U.S. have yet to receive a significant improvement in their
standard of living for over 30 years. At
the same time, democratic forces are once again confronted with anti immigrant
campaigns- this time fostered and promoted by a President of the U.S.
As socialists, we stand with and among the US working class
in opposition to the rule of the transnational corporations and their
exploitation of the economy and their despoliation of our lives, our society
and our environment.
We are currently experiencing a
major restructuring of the global economy directed by the transnational
corporations to produce profits for their corporate owners. The impoverishment of the vast majority of
people in pursuit of profits for a small minority has pushed millions to
migrant in search of food, jobs, and security.
Global capitalism produces global migration. Along with wars NAFTA and other “Free Trade” deals each produce a
new waves of migration.
Socialists support the rights of working people to organize,
to form unions, and to protect their rights and to advance their interests.
Unions have always been an important part of how socialists seek to make our
economic justice principles come alive.
Working people- gathered together and exploited in the capitalist
workplace-are well positioned to fight their common exploitation.
Current immigration laws and practices, imposed upon us all by
the corporations and their control of our government, often prevent working
class unity by dividing workers against each other and by creating categories of workers with few
rights to organize and thus to protect their own interests.
The neoliberal capitalist
economic system now being created by the relentless merging of the world's markets also impoverishes the majority of U.S.
workers. The
average U.S. worker has experienced a decline in their real wages since
1979. Quality industrial jobs have moved
to low wage, anti union areas in the U.S. and to Mexico, China, Singapore,
Vietnam, India and other nations. At
present the U.S. has no significant controls on capital flight. Indeed, the US government subsidizes some corporations to
move jobs to Honduras, El Salvador, and the
Caribbean.
