Scholars Denounce Killings in the Philippines and Calls for a World-Wide Action

The US/Cuba Labor Exchange points out the inherent hypocrisy in the Bush administration’s policy on travel to Cuba. While threatening trade unionists with fines and imprisonment for attempting to exercise their freedom of movement, the administration has fostered an environment in which US companies freely move jobs, technology and investment overseas without a second thought.

How should the left and left-wing labor movement approach the immigration debate? First off, labor needs to unite to repeal NAFTA, raise the minimum wage, and fight corporations instead of attacking its third world proletariat counterparts in an act of cannibalism.