The Internationalist No. 57 September-October 2019 50¢ Against Trump and the Democrats – Build a Workers Party Impeachment Crisis: “Deep State” vs. Bigot-in-Chief OCTOBER 30 – So the Dems finally did it. secution of immigrants in the U.S., of white- After months of agitation by liberals and the washing anti-Semitic fascist killers, the list Democratic (Party) Socialists of America, goes on and on. But that is not what Trump and months of resistance from the Demo- is being charged with. The Democrats are Internationalist photo cratic Party establishment, on September wrapping themselves in the flag, vituper- 24 House of Representatives speaker Nancy ating about national security, inveighing Pelosi announced that the lower house of against Russia and complaining about the Congress would open an official impeach- Republican “dirty tricks” against them, the ment inquiry against U.S. president Don- other main capitalist party. Both are parties ald Trump. The charges being investigated of U.S. imperialism, of the system of war, would be “betrayal of his oath of office, be- poverty and racism. If Republican Trump trayal of our national security and betrayal is immigrant-basher-in-chief, Democrat of the integrity of our elections.” The presi- Obama was deporter-in-chief. The presi- dent, who always relishes being the center dent incites racist terror against black people of attention, crowed that this will be “a posi- while across the country Democratic mayors tive for me.” The New York Times (25 Sep- preside over the racist killer cops who gun tember) foretold “an epic struggle that will down black people in the streets. test the limits of the Constitution and the The impeachment investigation has balance of power in the American system.” certainly thrown Washington politics into Donald Trump is certainly guilty of nu- crisis. It goes right to the heart of the state merous crimes, of sadistic murderous cruelty apparatus. But class-conscious workers, de- against refugees at the border, of vicious per- continued on page 6 Internationalists at Washington, D.C. protest against Trump inauguration. Defend the Kurds! Drive Out U.S./NATO Imperialists! For Workers Action Against U.S./Turkey Attack on Kurds! OCTOBER 14: An agreement has been an- canton of Afrin in Janu- nounced between the Kurdish-led Syrian ary 2018, forcing tens of Agence France-Presse Delil Souleiman / Democratic Forces and the government thousands of Kurds to of Bashar al-Assad for the Syrian army flee. to take border positions in the face of the On the first day of Turkish invasion. This does not presently the invasion, the Turk- change the fundamental character of Tur- ish military carried out key’s occupation of northern Syria, with 181 air strikes against the backing of the White House, which is targets in Syria, in ad- directed at the Kurds. We also defend Syria dition to pounding the against the U.S./Turkish attack. border towns of Tel The long-expected Turkish invasion of Abyad and Ras al-Ain northeastern Syria began on October 9, two with heavy artillery. days after U.S. president Donald Trump gave Some 100,000 people Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Kurdish-held ter- the go-ahead. The immediate target of the ritory have fled their attack is the Kurdish YPG (People’s Pro- homes, according to tection Units) militia, along with the Syrian the United Nations. Democratic Forces (SDF) led by the YPG. In The YPG/SDF vowed reality, the entire ethnic Kurdish population to resist the Turkish at- of northeastern Syria, about 2 million people, tack, and returned fire, is threatened with mass expulsion and mas- sending rockets against sacres. Exactly that occurred when the Turk- the police station in the ish army occupied the northwestern Syrian continued on page 16 Syrian Kurds in Ras al-Ain demonstrate against imminent Turkish invasion on October 9. For Workers Revolution from Turkey and Syria to Iran and Egypt For a United Socialist Kurdistan in a Socialist Federation of the Middle East “Workers Struggle Has No Borders!” Defeat U.S./Mexico War on Immigrants As Democrats and Republicans gear A highlight of up for the 2020 elections, both capitalist the speak-out was the parties have been attacking immigrants. speech of a comrade Xenophobic president Donald Trump did a from the Grupo Inter- repeat of his 2015 campaign launch (when nacionalista, Mexican Internationalist photo he demonized Mexicans as “drug deal- section of the League ers, criminals, rapists”), appealed for rac- for the Fourth Interna- ist votes and sent waves of fear through tional, who spoke about immigrant communities with threats to how the new president round up “millions” of undocumented im- Andrés Manuel López migrants and immediately deport them. In Obrador, who cam- response, as they did last year, liberal pro- paigned as a popu- Democratic NGOs (non-governmental or- list, has been acting ganizations) called protests against family as a border guard for separation, but meanwhile Democrats in Trump, escalating de- Congress voted to increase funding for the portations and harass- I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforce- ment of Central Ameri- ment) police. can migrants to keep In the midst of the anti-immigrant them away from the hysteria, a white supremacist went into U.S. border. We print a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas and below a lightly edited opened fire on Latinos, killing 22 and version of her remarks. August 29 “Speak-Out Against Racist I.C.E. Raids” at California State University, Los Angeles. injuring two dozen others. As a pretext have united the repressive forces on both immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala for this mass murder, the shooter posted Immigrant workers today face a situa- sides of the border, that is, to join the and Honduras from 2015 to 2018, while a racist manifesto on the Internet vitu- tion of extreme urgency. I.C.E. police with [Mexican president] Mexico deported 436,000 migrants from perating against a supposed “Hispanic A stark example of the rapacious- Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s border Central America. invasion” that would “replace” the white ness of imperialism can be found in the police, deploying the full force of the state Completely counter to what the re- population. “Replacement”? In all the immigrant-bashing hysteria whipped up against its victims. formist left in the U.S. and Mexico think, coverage of this heinous crime there was by the Trump government. The image of a Both militarism and the catastroph- bourgeois democracy can only be in the hardly a mention of the fact that Texas girl crying for her father who had been ar- ic economic and social conditions in service of the bourgeoisie. In reality, was part of Mexico until it was invaded rested by the I.C.E. police and the images Honduras and all Latin America are the capitalism cannot be reformed, it can’t by white supremacists from the Southern of children locked in cages in deplorable product of U.S. imperialism, and it is be made into a “lesser evil.” This is not slave states, who swamped the Hispanic conditions, aroused the indignation of these that have led to thousands of poor about “developing democracy,” because population, staged a rebellion, instituted thousands of people. people, including entire families, to mi- it is the capitalist state that puts that car- slavery (banned in Mexico), joined the This gave rise to the idea that the grate. Those who produced the political ries out bourgeois “democracy” with its U.S. as a slave state, and then triggered openly racist bourgeois Donald Trump was framework for the social and economic weapons, its police, its government and the 1848 U.S. war on Mexico that stole to blame. But it must be said that it is not crisis that has devastated Honduras are its political parties. half its territory. only his fault: the bourgeoisie is acting as to be found directly in Washington and We are opposed to anti-immigrant In this context, with immigrants ter- a whole, and the supposedly “lesser evil” Wall Street. repression and fight for full rights of citi- rorized by the U.S. government and by parties of Mexico and the U.S., that is, the In Honduras, Trump’s right-wing zenship, not just in words but in deeds. In mass murderers incited by the white su- Democratic Party and MORENA, are de- puppet government is the result of the Mexico we called to welcome the caravan, premacist in the White House, the Revo- fending the interests of the capitalist class coup d’état that the Democratic govern- in conjunction with the combative Section lutionary Internationalist Youth at Cali- against immigrants. ment of Obama staged 10 years ago, which XXII of the CNTE (National Coordinating fornia State University, Los Angeles, On one side of the border, the U.S. was approved by the State Department Committee of Education Workers) to orga- with support from the L.A. local of the government orchestrates the largest raid headed by Hillary Clinton. As a result, the nize a solidarity mobilization in Oaxaca. Internationalist Group, held a “Speak- in one state, splitting families, launching caravan of migrants headed north, fleeing We demanded asylum for refugees and full Out Against Racist I.C.E. Raids” on Au- a racist, sexist and xenophobic campaign the desperate misery and violence of their citizenship rights for all immigrants! And gust 29. Speakers related RIY’s experi- that emboldens fascist groups that attack countries of origin. we called for workers actions to defend ence in organizing to defend immigrants immigrants, and attacks the most op- My point is that the root of the migra- Central American immigrants.