Carrol wrote:
Clearly in both the U.S. & Europe defense of migrants (documented & undocumented) will have to be at the center of any developing mass resistance to the capitalist offensive now in its 40th year or so. While we are not of course going to get formal (embodied in law) Open Borders, we have to fight for something very close to that de facto. Not to toot my own party's horn, but DIE LINKE has a programmatic point that is very good on this point. In section IV.2 of the party program, there is a heading with the formulation "Migration and Integration as a Social and Democratic Question - Open Borders for People in Need!" The key here is that "in need" is suitably open to interpretation, but when you read the text under the heading, the demand is much better and unconditional: The section proceeds: "Germany is a land of immigration. DIE LINKE rejects any immigration and integration policies that grants social and political rights according to whether people are "useful" or "useless" to capital. We want political and social participation for all people living in Germany." And it goes on: "All people living in Germany, regardless of their immigration status, should be guaranteed health care. Those looking for protection cannot be rejected. We demand open borders for all people." That last sentence indicates more than anything else that whatever compromises the party might have made in some local government coalitions, it is nonetheless worth staying in and fighting for. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
