And of course, our government won't do that. Ten thousand, and the refugees
have to go through all sorts of screening before they're allowed in. Some
groups are demanding that sixty five thousand people be allowed in. Even
that would be just a drop in the bucket, especially when you think about the
numbers being welcomed by much smaller countries.
Miriam
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Vol. 79/No. 33 September 21, 2015
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Open the borders to refugees now!
The Socialist Workers Party demands Washington 'Open the borders!' to the
hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and elsewhere driven from their
homes as a result of capitalist exploitation, competition and war. The SWP's
sister Communist Leagues in the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere are
initiating and joining protests demanding their imperialist rulers do
likewise.
We salute the proletarian response of tens of thousands of working people in
Europe who reject chauvinism and welcome the immigrants, demanding the
governments where they live do the same.
The deadly turmoil in the Middle East and Africa today is a result of the
coming apart of the imperialist-imposed order headed by Washington, as well
as decades of betrayals by Stalinist and nationalist misleaderships that
claimed to speak for the toilers of the region. It is a product of the world
crisis of capitalist trade and production, which falls most heavily on
toilers in the semicolonial countries.
The Socialist Workers Party has a proud history of demanding Washington open
the borders to those seeking refuge - from Jews fleeing Nazi concentration
camps in the 1930s to Kurds and others following the 1991 U.S. assault on
Iraq.
"Crumbling borders weaken the employer-fostered competition between workers
of different nationalities and widen the cultural scope and world view of
the working class," SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes wrote in Capitalism's
World Disorder. "This process strengthens the fighting potential of labor's
battalions and brings new experiences and militancy into the workers
movement."
Widespread working class solidarity and aid to the fleeing toilers stands in
stark contrast to the response of their rulers, who block fleeing refugees
with border fences and naval flotillas and paint immigrants as terrorist
threats. Workers can see more clearly the need for our class to act - to
take a revolutionary course to break from the capitalist parties, to build
labor parties based on the unions on the road to overthrowing the
dictatorship of capital and joining the worldwide fight for socialism, a
society based on relations of human solidarity, not me-first dog-eat-dog
capitalist values.
Related articles:
Europe: Refugees break out of camps, win solidarity Thousands face cops,
say: 'We are human!'
UK rally protests gov't attacks on immigrants
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