It should be clear now that there's a whole lot more to the problem of what it will take for the AFL-CIO officialdom to make good on its promise to embrace the struggle of documented and undocumented immigrant workers and help them and the working class as a whole make headway toward a better life. So let's go to another side of the problem that will arise if we confidently assume that the American labor movement will sooner or later mobilize on a massive scale behind the struggle by immigrants for their rights. That would tend to give an impulse to the struggle for a living wage by Mexican workers as well-and so on from country to country. To sum this all up, the struggle by any section of the world working class is organically linked to the global class struggle between workers and bosses. Thus, class solidarity among workers in one's own shop, or industry or country should not stop at any point along the line.
Every partial struggle is part and parcel of the global class struggle.
Solidarity in one plant or one industry or one country is incomplete without international class solidarity. Neither does it stop there-if we are to gain a more rounded conception of the essence of an effective and comprehensive working class strategy. We need to also understand that as great as is the intrinsic power of the working class based on its strategic location at the points of production, distribution, and communication inside the global economy, even that is not enough for the workers of the world to realize their full revolutionary potential. A necessary component of international proletarian solidarity is the indispensable responsibility of the international workers' movement to embrace and champion the social, economic, and political interests of all the victims of capitalist exploitation and oppression. Finally, as can now be better understood, the problem is not about whether or not the working class is capable of accomplishing its historic task-there can be little doubt about that.