The talons of capitalism reach far and wide, digging deep into the minds of every government of which are all bourgeoisie and willing to sell all their countrymen for a sliver. The current vicious attacks of US imperialism on the immigrant working class to extract even cheaper labor in inconceivably crueler ways are done with assistance from the Puerto Rican government, where they provided the information of 6,000 people who have state-issued drivers licenses to ICE in July 2025 due to a supportive immigrant law from 2013. This has led to the kidnappings of 500 workers in Puerto Rico, 75% of them being Dominican. Historically, the Dominican and Puerto Rican communities have been close and share cultural roots all the way back to pre-European contact times. This was an abhorrent trap set by the government of Puerto Rico: attacking the workers to serve the interests of their colonial bosses on a silver, blood stained platter.

Puerto Rico is neither a US state nor an independent nation, its status allows the Puerto Rican bourgeoisie to most ruthlessly exploit the Puerto Rican proletarian even though they themselves are more directly tied to the big bourgeoisie in the United States, they enjoy their subsidiary status and elect pro-Trump governors for themselves. The minimal access to wealth and resources the working class of Puerto Rico has is being siphoned into the pockets of both the Puerto Rican bourgeoisie and those in the United States. Neither Gonzalez nor any Puerto Rican governmental representative who supports this is gaining more than the illusion of having a spot in the American elite and a fraction of the capital they robbed from the workers. Gonzalez, dropping any false pretense of Puerto Rican national liberationism also green-lighted a US military takeover of the island as the United States war machine continuously targets Venezuela after detaining President Maduro on January 3rd 2026, and now potentially Mexico and Colombia. In turn, American workers suffer from increased taxes (indirectly a reduction in wages) to fund this in times where one sudden expense will lead to homelessness which keeps us jailed in wage slavery and forces us to fund the suffering of our fellow working class members.

The International Communist Party rejects this escalating attack on all workers as we have watched over and over throughout the decades how treacherous bourgeois pigs of colonizer and colonized countries collaboratively exploit, plunder, and pillage beyond all borders which they created to trap us in this cycle. We urge all workers everywhere, whether in the heart of the empire or in the depths of its colonies, to take your rage of seeing this long-lasting injustice to organize and strike back. We need to recognize that no bourgeoisie of any nation acts in the interest of “their people” and extend our hands beyond these falsified borders for our liberation through building the class union of the working world!