_{The demand for universal human rights, like the demand for open borders, is premised on the goal of structural transformation within existing legal frameworks. Anarchism, distinct from ultra-leftism in theory, but similar in method, opposes institutional forms on principle; both advocate direct confrontation with police and accept violence. Renee Good’s and Alex Pretti’s killings in Minneapolis, a storied center of 1930s labor struggles, resulted from confrontational tactics and unrestrained lethal force by federal hired guns. The labor movement has seen these hired guns before. ICE is not the National Guard. Washington does not trust the individual states’ National Guards despite their support role in Iraq and Afghanistan. The role of the National Guard on the southern border should be a subject for investigative journalism. King wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail on the charge of parading without a permit. He broke a city ordinance and wrote a treatise on the mutability of social laws and the immutability of natural law just as Trotsky writes about the immutability of the syllogism. The first name belongs to a national holiday, the second name universities forbid to read although Our Morals and Theirs may need more Spinoza. To be fair, Letter from Birmingham Jail needs more Trotsky. Or does it? King wrote that segregationists like Bull Connor state where they stand while a white moderate does not know where to stand. Too often, as with the leaders of the Second International, they stand with their nation. Malcolm X at the Militant Labor Forum, April 8, 1964: “Black Revolution Is Part of World-Wide Struggle.” Both Civil Rights leaders were working from the middle. Only their definitions of the mass movement’s center differed. Both Civil Rights leaders respected the due process Fred Hampton was denied. Both Civil Rights leaders were working for structural transformation within the existing State. Both Civil Rights leaders recognized that structural transformation of the State is impossible without internationalism. The United States’ Civil Rights movement sets the legal precedent for a global movement for universal human rights.}

“We are fighting for human rights in 1964.”

Malcolm X, April 27, 1964, Militant Labor Forum

_{“As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods or tactics or strategy to reach a common objective” (5).}

_{“We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights” (5).}

_{“The civil rights struggle involves the black man taking his case to the white man’s court. But when he fights it at the human-rights level, it is a different situation. It opens the door to take Uncle Sam to the world court. The black man doesn’t have to go to court to be free. Uncle Sam should be taken to court and made to tell why the black man is not free in a so-called free society. Uncle Sam should be taken into the United Nations and charged with violating the UN charter on human rights” (5).}

_{“America is the only country in history in a position to bring about a revolution without violence and bloodshed. But America is not morally equipped to do so” (6).}