Re: [CrashList] Re: Communist Internationalist Position on Immigrationand Travel

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou Paulsen wrote:

> I consider Ken's response to be a textbook example of what happens when one
> attempts "socialist" theorizing while ignoring the fact that in order to
> actually change the world, rather than merely interpret it, one has to go
> out and mobilize among the actual working class, that is, actual people with
> life histories and homes and relatives and actual struggles with La Migra.

The current issue of *Labor Notes* has an important article, "A Union of
Immigrants Wins Minneapolis Hotel Strike."  The union speaks 17 languages, and
produced leaflets in Amharic, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, and French (for the
immigrant workers from Togo). Local 17 had been preparing for years, and a year
ago participated in a local campaign which forced Holiday Inn to apologize and
pay damages to union activists it had turned into the INS.

Carrol