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It's Time for a United Front to Take on Billionaire Rule
The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead.
Last week, the Guardian published an article exposing how Immigration and Customs Enforcement is re-releasing decade-old press statements with new dates to give the impression that ICE was ramping up deportations close to Trump’s inauguration. In the 1930s, historian Greg Grandin notes in The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, anti-Mexican nativism allowed President Herbert Hoover to run for president on the promise of expulsion of Mexicans from the country, with intellectuals openly fretting about “racial replacement.” The head of the unemployment office in Los Angeles at the time wanted Mexican workers eliminated from the workforce, saying: “We need their jobs,” and offered as a solution deploying cops to set up high-profile raids “with all publicity possible and pictures,” a “psychological gesture” meant to “scare many thousand alien deportables.” Our approach needs to be similarly multifaceted — narrative shifts through storytelling, lawsuits, direct action on the shop-floor, sabotage, mass strikes, boycotts, political education, large nationwide marches — adjusted for the present context.
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