The History
- Immigrant struggles are not new, and historically, newly imported labor forces fight for better conditions
- Capitalists bring in new immigrant groups with low social power to further divide the workforce
- Between 1860 & 1910, 34 million immigrant workers flooded the U.S. population
- Every new immigrant population was driven to the U.S. due to harsher economic conditions in their homeland. Those conditions were often created by the ruling class (e.g. The Irish Potato Famine)
- The same arguments against immigrants have been used historically: immigrants drive down wages, theyre a threat to jobs, etc.
- Immigrants not only brought their labor power, but they also brought along revolutionary socialist ideas from their homelandunions, etc.

How does the recent wave of Latino immigration compare?
- Latinos are driven across their homelands borders because of desperate and poor conditions there
- These conditions are created in part by a continuous political/military/economic attack by the U.S. with the aim of capturing a cheap immigrant labor force and natural resources
- Now we are beginning to see unrest in the Latino immigrant population in the form of mass demonstrations

What is needed?

The immigration movement itself needs to begin to organize a leadership from below with the teeth to get better conditions for workers and to spread the ideas of workers rights among the workers. This movement should consider what fighting for a $15 minimum wage and health care, etc. could bring to the fight.

Things to consider

- European immigrants brought socialist ideas, what do the Latino immigrants bring to the fight in terms of political traditions and awareness?
- How do we, as revolutionaries helping in the fight, broaden it to workers not solely immigrants?
- Considering our own limited resources, what is the best & most strategic way to intervene?