March May 1 for driver’s licenses, amnesty!

Vol. 83/No. 16 - April 22, 2019

The following statement was issued April 8 by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey State Assembly. The immigration raid in Allen, Texas, April 3 was aimed at intimidating all “unauthorized” immigrants in the U.S. The raids and…


Workers protest gov’t raid at factory in Texas

Demonstrate against ICE arrest of 284 workers
Vol. 83/No. 16 - April 22, 2019
Protesters outside factory in Allen, Texas, during April 3 immigration raid. Immigration and local cops surrounded plant, detaining 284 workers, in largest factory raid in decade.

ALLEN, Texas — Two hundred Immigration and Customs Enforcement police and local cops surrounded the CVE Technology Group factory here April 3 and arrested 284 workers. They were accused of not being authorized to work in the U.S. It was…



SWP campaigns for ‘Amnesty for immigrant workers!’

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
SWP campaigns for ‘Amnesty for immigrant workers!’

SEATTLE — When Henry Dennison, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council here, and supporters were campaigning Feb. 18, they knocked on the door of 28-year-old Katrina Schmitt, who works two jobs as a house cleaner and a caregiver. “My…


‘Amnesty for immigrants is key question for working-class unity’

New book discusses why it’s vital to build labor movement that fights for interests of all workers
Vol. 83/No. 6 - February 11, 2019
Rally in O’Neill, Nebraska, Aug. 8, 2018, protesting arrest and deportation of workers without papers at nearby factories and farms. The source of anti-immigrant prejudice is not the working class, Róger Calero notes, but the bosses, who benefit from discrimination.

In Defense of the US Working Class, by Mary-Alice Waters, is now off the presses. It features the talk by Waters at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized by the Cuban History Institute and the Central Organization…


Amnesty for all immigrant workers, unite working class!

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The capitalist rulers in the U.S. and the Democratic and Republican parties that serve their interests agree that immigration policy should be built on the needs of the bosses. They turn the spigot on when the bosses need workers, and…



Honduras immigrant caravan shows depth of capitalist crisis

Vol. 82/No. 41 - November 5, 2018
Honduran and other Central Americans march through Mexico Oct. 21 on way to U.S. border. Honduran toilers face crisis of both imperialist pillage and exploitation from native capitalists.

Thousands of Hondurans, overwhelmingly workers and farmers, have traveled through Guatemala into Mexico, and are making their way toward the U.S. border, hoping to enter the United States with or without permission of U.S. authorities. The size of the caravan,…


Demand amnesty for all immigrants in the US!

Vol. 82/No. 41 - November 5, 2018

The following statement was released Oct. 24 by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York. The capitalist economic crisis is taking a heavy toll on workers around the world. And the imperialist plunder of the semicolonial…


Amnesty for immigrants! Unite, organize all workers!

Vol. 82/No. 39 - October 22, 2018

The following statement was released Oct. 10 by Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California. “I’m not the immigration police,” the head of the Carpenters union recently told the press. The union doesn’t ask painters where…