You Can't Build a Wall with Bayonets

So, President Trump has now (not for the first time) made a mockery of his Constitutional oath of office, by declaring a totally phony emergency in order to get his border wall built without having to deal with all that checks-and-balances nonsense.

This is an attack on America's working-class majority in two different ways. First, notwithstanding its imperfections, the US Constitution embodies major democratic conquests of the Revolution of 1776, made possible by the laborers, artisans, and farmers who fought for a republic.

At the same time, this  move is part of an ongoing effort to undermine any possibility of solidarity between US workers and our class brothers and sisters abroad. By demonizing and dehumanizing those divided from us by imaginary lines drawn by political representatives of the capitalists, the aim is to keep us from making common cause against them. It's the old strategy of divide and rule.

But we don't have to passively accept it. Workers' unions still have millions of members and play key roles in the econopmy. It will be difficult for Trump to build a wall without our cooperation, and we shouldn't give it to him.

Organized labor should proclaim that, in the name of our Constitution and of international working-class solidarity, it will boycott Trump's vanity project and will not assist in any way with its construction.

You can't build a wall with bayonets!