This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by

Haymarket Books, which is currently running its annual holiday sale. All Haymarket Books are

40% off until January 3rd, including gifts for all the reds on your list. One book that you

might like is The Border Crossed Us, the Case for

Opening the U.S. Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacon. Contemporary North American capitalism

relies heavily on an interconnected working class which extends across the border. Cross-border

production and supply chains, logistics networks, and retail and service firms

have aligned and fused a growing number of workers into one common class, whether they

live in Mexico or the U.S. But while money moves without restriction, the movement of displaced

migrant workers across borders is restricted and punished.

Trans-border people face walls, armed agents, detention camps, and a growing regime of repressive

laws that criminalize them.

Despite the growth in violence of the police state dedicated to the repression of trans-border

populations, however,

migrant workers have been at the forefront of class struggle in the United States.

This timely book persuasively argues that labor and migrant solidarity movements

are already showing how and why in order to fight for justice and rebuild the international

union movement, we must open the border.

As Harsha Alia puts it, the border crossed us is a meticulously researched manifesto on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Justin Akers-Chakon masterfully exposes how capital mobility necessarily criminalizes the movement of labor,

and, with radical and urgent clarity,

he calls on all of us to strengthen the movement to open the border.

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