{"id":393213,"date":"2019-01-17T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexican-strikers-show-working-class-answer-to-capitalist-reaction-at-us-mexico-border\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T18:24:10","slug":"mexican-strikers-show-working-class-answer-to-capitalist-reaction-at-us-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexican-strikers-show-working-class-answer-to-capitalist-reaction-at-us-mexico-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican strikers show working class answer to capitalist reaction at US-Mexico border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Mexican strikers show working class answer to capitalist reaction at US-Mexico border<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    17 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>At the US-Mexico border, the two chief social classes under capitalism\u2014the capitalist class and the working class\u2014are demonstrating the two alternatives for the future of mankind.<\/p>\n<p>The capitalist class has mobilized thousands of heavily armed US soldiers, who are stringing barbed wire across the desert and shooting tear gas at refugees asking for asylum. Immigrants who chanted \u201cwe are international workers\u201d as they marched thousands of miles from Honduras as part of last year\u2019s migrant caravan are now huddled in disease-ridden tent cities just yards short of the US border.<\/p>\n<p>To protect the nation state and block the flow of workers seeking to escape poverty and violence, border agents are grabbing the children of immigrant workers from their parents\u2019 arms and locking them up for months, with fatal consequences for some. The bodies of thousands of people lie scattered in the barren desert.<\/p>\n<p>The US government shutdown centers on what the Republican and Democratic parties call \u201cborder security,\u201d with both sides pledging to build barriers, fly drones and arm more agents to keep immigrants out.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are missing paychecks because the two parties say they have differences over how many billions to spend fortifying the borders and how many hundreds of miles of wall to build. Trump\u2014the most degenerate representative of US finance capital\u2014has threatened to shoot immigrants on sight, declare a \u201cnational emergency,\u201d and eliminate due process and the right to asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The working class, on the other hand, is beginning to advance its opposition to this repulsive reality. In the Mexican border city of Matamoros, 70,000 workers have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/17\/pers-j17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mexican strikers show working class answer to capitalist reaction at US-Mexico border 17 January 2019 At the US-Mexico border, the two chief social classes under capitalism\u2014the capitalist class and the working class\u2014are demonstrating the two alternatives for the future of mankind. The capitalist class has mobilized thousands of heavily armed US soldiers, who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}