Capt. Rodríguez, however, bases his whole persona before workers on the promotion of Mexican nationalism, even denouncing companies for hiring foreign workers. “They are stealing the jobs that a Mexican could have,” he said during a forum last month. He also focused his attacks on all foreign operators that sail in Mexican waters as a threat to “national sovereignty.”
As another example, Los Mineros, the so-called “independent” union led by Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, a legislator for AMLO’s Morena party, is affiliated to the United Steel Workers (USW) north of the border and works closely with the Solidarity Center.
In July, Los Mineros isolated and sold out a 55-day strike at the ArcelorMittal steel plant, the most important company located in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas. The main demand of workers for fair profit sharing was simply dismissed through vague promises of an “audit.”
The union apparatus refuses to organize a genuine international fight because it serves the companies and American imperialism. For decades, the union bureaucracy has responded to globalization by looking after the competitiveness of its “own” capitalists and integrated itself fully into the capitalist state and management.
This was most clearly demonstrated by the US International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) order to continue moving military equipment being used in the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the expanding war in the Middle East and the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
This maneuver also highlights how much impact workers in Mexico, who produce and transport many of the components for the US war industry, can have in the struggle against the expanding world war between nuclear powers, which threatens to end human civilization.
In another critical measure to secure supply lines, López Obrador has given the military oversight over all customs and ports in the country, with the ability to impose martial law against any disruptions.
His administration also created a National Guard, whose military character was emblazoned in the Constitution as his last act in office. It has been deployed against migrants as an extension of the US border patrol and has already been used to violently clear protesting teachers who had blocked the train connecting Lázaro Cárdenas with the United States.
The strike of dockworkers is an international, political and revolutionary struggle that poses the need to break from all parties of the national bourgeoisie like the Democrats, the Canadian NDP and Morena, which are innately subservient to Wall Street and imperialism.
The question that arises forcefully from this international struggle is which class controls the globalized chains of production and distribution: the capitalist class on the basis of maximizing profits and serving imperialist war at the cost of the livelihoods and lives of countless workers, or the working class on the basis of ending poverty and all human needs.
Make your voice heard! What do you think dock workers should be fighting for? What are conditions like at your work place? We will protect your anonymity.
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