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est improvement be gained in working conditions, wages, job
security, and so forth. Whenever a struggle breaks out, workers
in unions and other progressive people from the community
will come to the aid and defense of the workers who have gone
out on strike, occupied their factory, or taken other decisive action,
in order to strengthen the class struggle against the bosses.
This solidarity of the workers is the biggest threat threat to the
capitalists.
The bosses attempt to break up and destroy working-class
solidarity by dividing the poor and working people against each
other. They use sexism to turn men against women workers.
They try to break the multinational unity of the working class
by dividing white workers and people of color, and further attempt
to pit Black and Brown workers against one another. Using
xenophobic hysteria, bosses attempt to turn U.S.-born workers
against immigrant workers. Bosses will also try to divide
straight and lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer (LGBTQ) workers.
Nonetheless, the solidarity of the world working class and
oppressed peoples has often defeated the attempts of the capitalist
to trick working people into fighting against one another.
U.S. workers showed solidarity with the people of Iraq fighting
against U.S. imperialism when, on May Day 2008, workers
from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union went
on strike to protest the war on Iraq. Similarly, Greek longshore
workers blocked a shipment of U.S. arms and munitions to Israel
during the U.S.-Israeli siege on Gaza in early 2009.
The boycott of Mt. Olive pickles by millions of people in
the U.S. who support the Farm Labor Organizing Committee,
when workers were struggling for higher wages and better
working conditions, is an act of working-class solidarity.
Real working-class solidarity can only be achieved, and real
unity won, when solidarity is based on the liberation of all people
from the shackles of capitalist society. This means, for ex-
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