In the latest Militant newspaper, the organ of the infinitesimally small
and monumentally bizarre SWP, there’s a swipe at a position defended in
last week’s edition:
The labor officialdom in the United States and the different capitalist
countries in Europe have refused to carry out the fight for
working-class unity over decades, instead joining with each of their
bosses’ governments in advancing a nationalist and protectionist course.
Workers everywhere have to chart a new road forward.
It’s different than a general call to “open the borders,” as an
editorial in last week’s Militant put forward. That’s a utopian demand,
and, if adopted under capitalist rule, would lead to increased
competition among workers, unemployment, lower wages and social misery.
This is not the first time such a correction has been made. Usually it
can be attributed to Jack Barnes reversing himself on previously held
positions. This never happened when I was in the SWP in the 1960s and
70s and probably reflects the descent of this sect into ever more
increasingly uncharted waters with an unstable cult figure at the helm.
full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/09/20/open-borders/
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