International Cycle of Struggles!

We need not demand the right to work, but the right to a decent life!

“Extensively, the common is mobilized in communication from one local struggle to another… the geographical expansion of movements takes the form of an international cycle of struggles in which revolts spread from one local context to another like a contagious disease through the communication of common practices and desires.”

-Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Multitude

We need not demand the right to work, but the right to a decent life! Capital chooses when it needs one’s labor, when the opposite should transpire out of our struggle, we must gain control over our labor and lives. The government and businesses are in business with one another, nation-states and supernational organizations are the collective think tanks and enforcer for capitalism. Two consequences: the illusion of business not wanting illegal labor, in turn for cheaper wage labor and successfully eliminating workers being able to dissent and demand their rights, out of fear of deportation and prison. The opening of borders for corporations to freely move across the globe but walls, borders, and death await those who want to move freely. Throughout the world a contradiction keeps money and profit circulating without static but detains the very element that makes this profit possible, the worlds working population.

Attempting to create a chasm between the struggling people of different geographical regions, neutralizing the threat of an already existing true international class war where workers with common desires for freedom from poverty, boredom, wage slavery, border laws, and from work itself will fail because of our unity and creativity. Taking it upon one self to move, freely, without abstract interpretation, we stand in solidarity with the idea that no matter what the reason, the freedom to move without consequence should undoubtedly exist. Not only to describe the notions and paths of the multitude (the North American housewife, the student, part-time worker, Mexican free-trade zone laborer, migrant worker, Palestinian refugee, Indios, illegal immigrant, peasant, teacher, nurse, cubical wage-slave, homeless, youth, elderly, material and immaterial laborer, etc…), but to support human liberation from restraint in all its forms. Neutralizing the “multitude” is impossible, thus our presence nation wide today.

No matter the tactics of capitalism: from racist minutemen, nationalist politicians, reactionaries, propaganda machines, spectacle driven news corporations, to neo liberal free-trade capitalists, people continuously resist border laws and capitalism, thus a dis-rhythm is presented. Reorganizing society to benefit business and not people is not in our interest, we must struggle against capitalism to obtain true global human liberation.

A paradox exists in the encroachment of mobility and human freedom. It will never be tolerated. Proof of this exists in a migrant and non migrant proletarian gathering, in the streets, in solidarity, in revolt. Resistors, workers, and neighbors must unite, are uniting, in common desires, to demand freedom from the market, not a free market.

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