The following leaflet was distributed by the Party to graduate student workers in New Mexico who were engaged in a labor dispute with their employer:

The International Communist Party commends your display of strength for the struggle of better wages, benefits and better working conditions. The necessity of this fight is something endemic to our exploitative mode of production: capitalism. Despite being a public institution, the University still exploits its workers like any other capitalist enterprise, state owned or private. There is no better demonstration of this than the bosses’ clear interest in keeping your wages low and making you work more hours even while inflation rises; in a word, increasing immiseration.

It is only through the power of striking indefinitely that the capitalist class, in this instance UNM admin, is forced to give concessions to the working class. This is why the bourgeois state collaborates with the bosses and actively sabotages your freedom to strike by making it illegal in the public education sector to abandon the no-strike clause in your contract. The bourgeoisie fears the strike and will do anything it can to reduce its power.

Our power to strike does not come from bourgeois “rights” enshrined in their constitutions. It comes from our shared material interest as a class and our will to act. The Government, whether Democrat or Republican, will always take the side of the bosses when push comes to shove, i.e. when the state or the bosses are under serious threat from combative workers. The Democrats have clearly shown this during the 2022 rail strike and through their promotion of class collaboration and submission to the bosses instead of worker combativity. If the Democrats truly had the interests of the working class, they would repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and support the freedom to strike at all times in every sector.

UE has a history of worker militancy that we can draw inspiration from! Despite the changing landscape of United States employment the fact remains - you are a worker. Take inspiration today from workers in the University of Minnesota who got the admin to extend an offer despite their last best and final offer after showing their strength through the strike. Or from the public school teachers at Evergreen, Washington who struck despite it not being legal.

WORKERS! To further your struggle, to extend it for even higher wages and a shorter working day made even more necessary by the rising cost of living and the depressing reality of having to work more than one job, means to UNITE AS A CLASS. Practically, we must work towards aligning contract expiration dates, striking in solidarity and at the same time as other workers, and unifying our trade unions across occupation and country into a genuine CLASS UNION.
     AGAINST SUBORDINATION TO BOURGEOIS PARTIES!!
     AGAINST LIMITATIONS ON STRIKE POWER!!
     AGAINST COLLABORATION WITH THE BOSSES!!
     FOR INTERNATIONAL AND CROSS SECTOR SOLIDARITY!!

Comrades, workers,

Our trade union struggle and the formation of the class union is the essential step in the process of eliminating capitalist exploitation. To that end, the authentic working class communist party is necessary to direct the unions towards revolution and proletarian dictatorship. It is only in this way that capitalist society can be overcome with communist society, one without classes, without wage-labor, and without the state. Only after this necessary and monumental leap forward for the human race can we finally GIVE according to ability and TAKE according to need.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!