No Human Being is Illegal

The Fight For Immigrants’ Rights

In this print edition...

• No One Is Illegal: The Fight For Immigrants’ Rights, by Emile Schepers
• Made In China? The Crisis of US Imperialism, by Gerald Horne
• Recognizing Indigenous America in Times of War, by Susan Gooding
• Driven to the Brink: A Discussion of the Crisis in Auto, by Tony Pecinovsky
• Why Class isn’t just another ism, by Joel Wendland
• Current Letters (updated 5-25-06)
• Current Poetry

Undocumented and documented immigration to the United States is at a record high in absolute numbers. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that there are as many as 12 million undocumented.

Recently, Francesco Sisci, Asia editor of the popular Italian daily La Stampa, wrote an article entitled “Why the West Must ReOrient” for his mass audience: it no doubt sent shock waves through Europe.

I speak without hesitation in asserting to you that the US cannot be located in a global scene in these times of war without reference to the inseparable, irreducible geopolitics of indigenous America.

I’ve worked at the Chrysler plant here in St. Louis for almost 42 years. It has about 3,500 UAW members. I currently hold the position of shop chair of UAW Local 110, and have been involved in the community for most of those 42 years.

What is class and what role does it play, if any, in the US in the 21st century? These are two questions raised in a recent book titled Class Matters compiled by a handful of New York Times journalists and other commentators.